New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-07
ELI PERKINS WAKES ZIP.

Our reporter found eli Perkins in sui
ferng state at the Palmer House yester
day. He was bordering on insanity. Hi
table was covered with dozens of letters
and in his hands he clutched as man
White League editorials.
"What is the NATTER" asked our reporter
as he gazed ON the frenzied lecturer from ;
| distance.
Matter, sir!" Matter! Why, I've gon,
and told the truth, sir-gOne like a darne(
fool and let the truth all out about thu
Louisiana bDsiness-gone like an idiot and
told how the bandits murdered the al,
Coushatta plsnters-gone-"
But why did you do it, Mr.. Perkins z
asked orr reporter.
"Well, Sir, it was in me, and had to come
out The truth must have been in me. II
never came out before, but now it's out
and I'm ruined man." and Mr.. Perkins
buried his face IN his hands. moment
| atterward he rallied little and remarked
"But l couldn't help it, young man. 1t
was so near the twenty second of February.
In nay minds eye l saw the memorable
| Ratchet. l had been making arrangements
for Washington dinner, and with the
! father Of his country before me. in an un-
| guarded moment, l told the truth about
! Coushatta and the murdered Republicans
| in Louisiana. l deeply regret INV rashness
l
| How too late, Mr.. PerkinsW asked our
reporter.
why. young man, don't you see the
newspapers-hOw they all want to kill me
| for telling the truth? just as they used to
want to kill Owen Lovejoy when the old
rebel lords threw his free press in the river
and just as they wanted to kill Sumner and
Buringame and Greeley. It's the same
thing over again, my boy. The noble Dem.
ocrats and honest, weak kneed Republicans
OF the North are bowling down to the South
and its beautiful tyranny and sweet limo.
cence and brigandage just to get their votes
at the next Presidential election-and
Strengthening every man who is fool enough
to tell the truth. Oh, I've done it-done it
k!lledn'
How killed, Mr.. Perkinsl How -"
"Wby killed by the newspaper, young
man. Look at the Shreveport Times. See
here's a whole page-dreadful tire-eating
stn1-and all because l was stupid enough
70 tell the trnth. Read that" and Uncle
Eli thrust the Shreveport Times into our
reporters hand:
1.-THE TOURNAMENT OF LIARS.
"The President and his politicians have
dragged all the Stun and pools of moral in
fanny and degradation to find creatures in
human shape to lie up a case against the
Southern people, and if they had scraped
HI with tine-tooth comb they could not |
have gathered a crowd of dirtier scoundrels |
than those they have fished up. The Presi. |
dents first message ON Louisiana affairs is q |
model OF beastly lying, and it is the official |
dnty and personal ambition Of K adical Jour
nails, Radical politicians, Radical army Of
hcers, and Radical correspondents. To rival
that consummata and symmetrical work Of
political shame, official turptude, and moral
lnfalny. Phil Sheridan has come nearer the |
mark than any other man, and is ccnse. |
Iuently higher in the confidence of the
President than his fellow brutes. But the
!nte'': ocean Is close up with him, and Dog
Merrill and two or three of his dirty little
lieutenants here, have done their level hest
aud accomplished some very clever thinos
n the way of. lying about the Southern
1eople., Scrubs nave natural antipathy
% gentlemen, and the President has direct. |
q that antipathy into channel where II |
AN develop most full and freely: and there.
ore the rivalry among the rascals is eager.
intense and progressive, rand the Hter.
Icea' closes upon the heels of Phil Sheri
an' ana closely followed by Dog Merrill
nd his dirty little scholars in intamy-
iodgson, Mcintosh. Wallace and Gerlach-i J
as enlisted in its aid a new recruit.
Not many days ago the editors of this
aper received visit from Melville ID. |
'and0n better known in journalistic circles ;
Ell Perkins," This man has obtained :
otollety as humorist lecturer and as
ritter of burlesque.
He was received by us with kindness ora
ltroduced to several gentlemen of this
lIy; no bore about him all the marks of a | :
entienan, and he gives evidence of asso
latlon with cultivated people, a
being funny man and somewhat nOto- | =
ous Tor his burlesque writings, Eli was
'fdlally received BY the editors of this 4
aper ana several of their friends, and II
Gated with the utmost kindness. He told -
> he had realized a competency nv his ~
rulings and was now independent of regu- v
+ service on the press; that when he wrote | 4
lyfhing he sent 1t to the New York SIM n
III received a large price for it, He asked -,
, read the history OF the COushatta affair ia
hlch appeared in the Times, and it was &c
ven him to peruse. He talked not AT ali
'ou' Poiltlcs, saying he was not poll II
Ike neither side, else the journals Of tba "
her would ruin him in his lecturiue busi, to
ss. etc. ""'i o,
This man perkins" was treated baro h
lth the greatest kindness, and we narted |
th MN believing him cultivated gentle. n.
an ana genial, good -natured and very T.
u Using ieliow. who had run down here. D
he said, Just to see what sort of conntrv w
Is was and how Phil Sheridan's banditti to
,ked. '"Aul''i l.;
Our surprise can, therefore, be better so
agined than described, when we read a Dl
Ter from TINS Northern mud sill to the Il
licago Inter- Ocean, written in the 81
RESCUE style, but as full of venomous di
. as II could stick. We submitted the go
yer 10 other gentlemen who had met the | yo
i ~" mere and their expressions were ev
iced, we affirm that Eli Perkins N,
ter to the Inter. Ocean about of. "
re- In North Louisiana is as vile hi
" ana shameless connection of false. ca
Jus as any yagabOnd scOundrel ever an
g'haled. Hc has misrepresen,ed every tu
!; anu misstated everything that was said ha
age of the White Leaeners he met and IN
ais mess of jargon that is as strange 20
Ine gentlemen he imposed npon as the mc
90 OF Ethiopia, or as honesty and manIi. Ne
- are 80 his character. There are several | cri
ne oahdlttl IN this city whom the dirty in.
eal speaks OF, but none desire to xiii are
}, though it would afford any one of yO
u inhnlte pleasure to give him such a at.
Sc whipping as would deter him from ! us
IN lntruding himself into the comnanv de-
decent men. company
mas Deen suggested that as Curtis. the tur
respondent OF the Inter Ocean. was lie,
rged with having visited this citv in TIL
= anu with mingling only with negroes Co
Dog Merrill, this scoundrel, mud sill an.
rklns had been sent down by that dc. till
able sheet in the capacity Of spy and the
'esp,opsdent, that it might be said he thr
lieu !reeiy with the whites and got his tiol
4 "nS'ion from them. Our own opinion str,
ia' he Is vile, INSCRIPTIONS, thieyiny. the
81 gauolng puppy; that, being in Chi ! tra
,, the inter- Ocean made him an offer Tn | Y
Q series of lies about the people among no.
IN he had been, and that he would have ostl
as willingly and fuently written the The
~ r way and told the truth, if the Chica- pills