The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1875-07-21
on WATCH.

Faithful ana DOld To the ias'' "'
rays in the true interest of our true
people, the Democrat, now that peace
here seems to. reign, and the relns OF
,ur cause have been slackened too
Ieniently, has kept itself on WATCH
on duty. And in that watchful duty
we have been very attentive anu
close an observer of the movements,
and combinations OF
our common enemy, nor at the same
time have we been unmindful of the
sly movements of certain ones, least
who for the life of them
can't cover we'll their tracks. AS we
run along with these pensiye remarks.
let us assure that people that they
must at once and from this out rest
and sleep with one eye open, and be
more attentive lookers-on in Venice,
or else they will be swamped before
they can strip for the fight. That
fight, though a long ways off, is still
worth little attention, and. should
be early nursed. A movement is now
on foot, and managed by an old sta
ger, who stops at nothing, to reorgan-
ize the Radical party here, to revivify
their organ here, to enlarge it, to
further endow 1t with pap, and to be
edited by one or more right here, who
! for office sake would rather rule in
hell than serve in Heaven. Our good
people need not be surprised at any
thing these days, and we deem it to
our interest, their interest and oul
duty, thus early to sound the alarm
and to ask them to be vigilant, watch
full, and heed not the charmer, charm
he never so sweetly. These Radica
leaders here, with their prospective
pap-coils entwined around our timid
but ambitious patriots, must b
Hooked to, as well as their -conspir
ators in this new departure. We asl
our people to be on the alert, and b.
dubious of these fellows and Civ
them no quarters, and above all shu1
them as they would a rattle-snake
| We are too old to be alarmists, kno1
what we are writing about, and de
mand attention in this matter, fror
a people whose true cause we hay
always defended, and one which W
still hold dear and sacred. A littl
attention and watchfulness on thei
part, and our word for it, they ca
easily detect what we have alread
fathomed.
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SIMULTANEOUSLY on t he sam
> day, nay at the very same hour, ths
Mccoy shoots down Radetzkie, i
! Colfax, the confrere of both thes
men. old Jayhawker Hawthorn:
New Orleans, is arrested in the yer
/, act ofselling State Licenses or.Wal
rants, which he had stolen or neye
accounted to the State for, and
lodged in jail. Surely here agai
comes in retributive Justice, and .
, these ticks the people of Grant wi
be purged of all the miscreants, ii
at least Mr.. Kellogg appoints IN
sends them a fresh supply. On
thing certain they can't be worsted-
Phillips fed, Radetzkie dead, Hav
thorn in prison in New Orleans, an
Mccoy here in the same sad fix, an
though last, not least "Sweet Willie
reformed to a better man-this break
the ring and defunct is the clique
N ~ S>~~As--~oe,oI~~
4 e. B. WHEELocK, President /
the N. 0. P. Railway, who has bee
with US for a week on business of b
Road, addressed the meeting on Sa
urday in a few, plain and bushes
! words, and riyited the attention {
; his audience, who, like him, NEAR
business, by the frankness and luci'
ness in which he laid his errand b
; fore them. He talked to the poll
and by the card, and, we are glad
know, convinced most of them pract
cally of the entire feasibility of h
projected work. We were presel
during the whole time, and never b
fore in our long experience attende
a meeting so devoid of buncombe an
clap-trap oratory, and so full of goo
sound, practical sense.
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1T is running into fashion he,
, for some persons to call at this Off
and ask for a copy Of the paper, ha
ing no idea that it costs us none
7 and hard work to buy and print Il
Z paper. We would remind all, polit
ly and in all kindness, that there
no business in which there is NOR
or even as much financial risk, as
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