The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1875-10-07
Political Pitil.

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1t really seems as if this year the
people of Mississippi would have to
be let alone to vote as they please.
IN. Y. Tribune.
Massachusetts, Republicanism has
become debased, violent, course
and disreputable, and the people are
growing more and more estranged
from it.-[St. Louis Republican.
- Grant knows Delano is thief,
and yet gives him a certificate OF
good morals, as he has done to other
eminent public plumbers who have
been forced to retire.-N. Y. Sun.
I1hink the course pursued by the
Democratic party to be very unwise.
II. n. Marks. But not half so bad
as the course the unifiers and the
advocates of social equality attempt
ed to pursue.-N. o. Delta.
Our national capital has be-
come such dollhouse of corruption
that it seems impossible to hold
0mcial position within its limits and
escape the universal contamination.
-[St. Louis Republican.
The people, as it happens, before
they can get control of their own
financial affairs, must first put the
Radical r0uges out of Office. That
is where the financial issue comes in;
and that is what the people will do.
-fPittsburg (Pa.) Post.
Let officials quit stealing; let those
who are elected to Office by the PEG
pie assume the responsibility there
of and enter upon its duties, and
not be driven :herefrom by force,
and our State will prosper and her
paper be worth more than four bits
on the dollar.-( Richland Beacon.
Nineteen Democratic States are
for hard money, and yet the Repub.
licans who made our paper money
and who appointed two judges of
the Supreme Court expressly to de-
eide in favor of paper money, are
bold enough to say that the Demo
cratic party of tho country is for
infation.-[New York Sun.
Packhard's aim is not to make
his party honest, but to make polit-
ical rascality respectable by identi-
flying with it respectable men. This
he cannot do, however; honorable
men will not sell themselves to him
and he had best turn his attention
to other acknowledgements
Times.
The unwillingness of the Repub-
licans to have the Democrats get
good, in fact, reminds one of the old
Connecticut deacon who told the
young scamp who wanted to reform
and join the church that there
"wasn't any vacancy in his church
just then, but that when there was
he'd let hin know.1Nation.
This autumn is full Of political
portent. Let every honest man, dis.
carding party prejudices and the
habit of the past, where these inter.
fere, attach himself by his vote to
the party of the people, which now
bears the name OF Democrat, and SO
assist in pushing forward the work
Of reform.-N. Y. Sun.
In Wisconsin, where Democrat.
ic Administration has in one year
reduced the expenses of the State
Government by some 20 per cent,
while it has increased it's efficiency
in every department, the Democrat
ic Attorney General, who is can.
didate for reelection, is prosecuting
the Republican candidate for the
State Treasurship to recover $40,
600 belonging to the State.-(New
York World.
Our friend of the Telegraph
should not permit the comments OF
the New Orleans Republican upon
our party differences to disturb the
evenness Of his temper. The Re.
publican is a mouthpiece Of as I'M.
scrupulous ring Of political scoun.
drels as ever cursed any country
Its utterances are of no consequence
and its disposition to magnify differ,
ences Of opinion among Democrats
and Conservatives upon a question
Of policy into a division of our PEG.
pie, will do no harm.-(Shreveport
Times.
The only chance for success is in
making square fight betwixt De.
mocracy and Radicalism. This is
the issue that has been made IN