The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-02
TIae ohio Campaign.
From the sunday Delta.

tunately true that, IN this cTlSls OF
our affairs, as a State, there is no
outspoken daily journal in our
metropolis. The Bulletin, with a
record so glorious, up to the mid
die of last wintef, seems to have
fallen by the wayside. Those who
love liberty aud resist usurpation,
search its columns in vain for
those bold, and spirit-stirring calls.
which reused the energies and re-
Viyed the hopes of our oppressed
people in 1874, and read with dis
gust the platitudes and criticisms
which it seems to delight in
launching against the platform Of
the Ohio democracy. Not that the
views of the Bulletin upon the
question of national finance are
erroneous, for the democrats gen
orally approve them, bat because
the question of finance, as an issue
in a State election, or even In a
national election, sinks into utter
insignifcance in view OF the mighty
issues involved, which are no less
than the liberty of the citizen and
the existence of our system of gov
ernment.
Suppose that the financial plank
of the Ohio platform is not sound,
does the Bulletin not know that
the radical platform is equally so?
Does it not know that national
finances have no rightful place in
State platforms? Above all, does
it not know that, theoretically and
practically, tha republican party
is the author and advocate of our
greenback and national bank sys-
tenn, and that the democSatic par
ty has ever been the champion of
y hard money system H.".
But strange, that while assailing
the Democracy of Ohio on this Is
sue, the Bulletin is silent as to all
the other questions involved, nei-
ther commencing what is unexoep-
tionable in the democratic plat
form or attacking the imperfec-
tiohs and heresy of the radical
platform. Does it not know that,
on the vital issue of States rights,
as opposed to force bills, Kellogg's
usurpation, the attempts against
Arkansas, and the general inter
ference of Grant and Williams,
with the affairs of the States, that
the Ohio democracy are sound to
the core, and that the Ohio rad
icalism is rotten to the core? Ihe
Bulletin and PicayUne have joined
hands on the Ohio platform, for
the latter published, with infinite
gusto, the slanderOus statement
that Governor Allen had offered
troops in September, 1874, to aid
Grant in crushing the people OF
Louisiana, thus seeking to iniure
Allen as the democratic nominee,
while the former, seeing nothing
to commend in the action or prin-
oiples Of the Ohio democracy,
seems bent on defeating their nom-
inees BY railing at the financial
Of the platform.
This is beautiful work for Jour
nails which boast of their devotion
to Louisiana. In Ohio the rad
ioals indorse Grants administra-
ton, which includes the Kellogg
usurpation, the Arkansas infamy
and the force bin. In Ohio, Nor
ton, the arch enemy Of Louisiana
and the South, is par excellence
the expoundor and advocate Of
radicalism. In Ohio radicalism at
lacks freedom Of conscience and Of
religious opinion, for in portions
Oh the State "anti~ Catholicism
and no Popery are its rallyiug
cries.
On an oi these issues, so fear
fully momentous to the State and
the citizen, the Ohio democracy,
led by Allen and Thurman, and
Pendleton, take high ground for
the civil and political and religious
rights Of The citizen, 8nd the rights
81 the States. They strike not only
for Ohio, but for louisiana. They