The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-03-03

mise is responsible in a special man
ner for this betrayal of trust, for as
the majority was only one, a different
vote by any Of them would have de-
feated the scheme. Thus has bar
gain been struck with Kellogg the ma
ture of which will not be long in be-
ing unfolded. The people of Louisi- |
ana are no party to that compact
But few days will elapse before it,
will be repudiated throughout the
State with the same unanimity as in
New Orleans last Friday night
The disapproval of the people has
been manifested In various ways, and
the Representatives who voted for it
cannot plead ignorance of the senti-
ments of their constituents. They
chose to vote for it in defiance of the
wishes of those they were elected to
represent, and they will find this out,
but unhappily too late for them to
remedy the evil.
Some Of the harm that might 9th
erwise come from it will be averted
by the discovery that this surrender
to Kellogg is the act Of the Caucus
and of no one else. The majority Of
that Caucus may drag themselves
down into the filth of recognizing
Kellogg and taking the oath of office
from Hahn, but they will get very
few to share the odium Of those acts.
They will stink back into the Hall,
from which they were ANONYMOUSLY
expelled, and such of them as Mr..
Wheeler flor whom Kellogg has tel
egraphed) shall approve will take
their seats. When they ask for re.
organization of the House, Michael
Hahn will rule out of order all mo
tons to that effect and he will remain
Speaker. Bills will be introduced re-
pealing part of the bad legislation Of
years, and some of them will be per.
mitted to pass the Senate and become
laws, and then the compromise Re.
representatives. will grow jubilant and
point to these good results of theil
very. patriotic conduct, but presently
the bill for the repeal of the Return.
ing Board or some like infamy will
be defeated by the Senate, and Kel
logg will swear he is in favor of its
repeal, and protest that he can't con
troll the Senate, and then the dupes
who have made themselves ridicu
lous by trusting the good name and
honor ofthis State to such liar, vii
begin to understand their folly, anG
bewail it. They will wish then they
had not fallen into the snare, pre-
pared for them by the willy usurpe1
who had long ago despaired of being
able to sap the virtue or exhaust the
endurance of the least of louisiana
Representatives, but who now
through their surrender is able to
faunt his Executive robes in oul
faces and sheer at the insincerity oil
those who called themselves "the
people" Te
You boosted, Mr.. Kellogg may now
say, in your pretentious platform at
Baton Rouge that you embraced "the
Democratic party, the Conservative
party, the White Mans party, the
Liberal party, the Reform party, and
all others opposed to the Kellogg
usurpation," and all this omnium
gatherum solemnly resolved "that
W. P. Kellogg is a mere usurper,'
but the Representatives elected by
the same constituencies that made
that platform have now accepted the
usurper and agreed they will not try
to terminate the usurpation.
Amid this detection, so deplorable
in itself and so pregnant with future
evils, the protest of Speaker Wilt
and his fellow members who signed
with him, afforded great gratifica-
ton. II protest." says this manly,
courageous and true-hearted gentle
man, against paying for the privi-
lege of returning to the exercise of a
right and the performance of func-
tions in which we have been elected
by a free people at fair election by
any concessions whatsoever.
1 cannot consent to become a party
by any such arrangement as you have
made, involving what I consider to
be recreancy to the duty owe to a
free people in a trying emergency"
There is nothing we can communi-
cate more gratifying to the citizens
Of Rapides than the fact that the
names of James Jeffries and R. L.
Luckett, two Of their Representa-
tipaa are annendad 70 this nrotast