The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-31

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lidate of our choice will receive the
when the Convention
meets.
acknowledgements
Save the Court House.
Many persons, attracted to the
of the Court House by
the session of Court now in it's fifth
week, have called our attention to the
levee and river bank Immediately in
front of it. The bank has caved un-
til nothing now intervenes between
the River and the street but the levee.
The water washes the base Of the
levee when it is up, and it is evident
that the street will soon be invaded,
and the square on which the Court
House stands will have no 'front.'
That building is new, has been built
since the war at IN expense of TWEEN
ty thousand dollars or more to the
Parish. The Police Jury are the
guardians of the public property, and
must look to it's preservation. Will
that Body wait until the bank has
fallen in again, and half the street
is gomez
The front of the Court House
Square can be saved by the same
means that the ground on which the
warehouse occupied by Mr.. John A.
Williams has been saved. Years ago
when all the ground, outside of the
present levee, was fast going in the
River, the owner of that ground had
strong piles driven around it, which
broke the force of the water, and has
preserved the lot until now, and will
do it for many years to come. 1.-THE
same thing is done in front of the
Court House, that property will be
saved to the Parish.
Of course we know there are scores
of wiseacres around town who before
they have finished reading this arti-
Gle, will insist that the Police Jury
have nothing to do with it, because
the street is between tho Court
House and the river bank, and the
street belongs to the Town, and the
Town ought to do the work, and so
while learned discussions are going
on very much to the edi6cation of
the town loafers, the bank will fall
in, the street will be impossible, the
Court House Square will have moth
ing in front but the river, and then
everybody will swear that he predict
ed that same calamity years ago.
Our excellent Police Jury need
only to have their attention called to
this matter to take the proper action.
The Returning Board organ, in
it's last issue, shows its dirty teeth
in its dirty fling at the unassuming
rally, improvised a la hate for Scott
Gordon, the colored Democrat. The
shoe already pinches and the organ
can't understand, or rather don't
want to understand, how the colored
voters here can become anti-radicals.
That little meeting was the first of
the season, was presided over and
organized by gentlemen, the peers of
the stool pigeons and strikers of the
fraud, who are the first to spit it's mas
| ty venom at this good beginning,
which must necessarily end in con-
signing its infamous party to the
shades of retiracy. We shall have a
heap more or such "farces" and warn
the pap-grinders that we will make
the cane crack under their heels more
than once before the ides Of Novem.
Der. We will make them deaf with
the shouts of colored men, which
will ring from the old Town Hall, as
they array themselves with thei,
white Democratic friends to put down
the sharks and bad men who have
nearly ruined US all. We are all in
the same boat now, and intend tt
take the safety and victory trip to-
gether.
Crossing the desert is generally
an eventful episode in life; whether
it be as pilgrim to worship thu
prophets shrine at Mecca, or as /:
part of a caravan of merchants. Th,
dangers of the destructive simeon
attacks of predatory robbers and th'
agony of dying from thirst are dissi
pated on reaching one of those gar
! dens Of the desert, an oasis. Parta
king of that which recuperates, the,
meet their future difficulties with re