The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

The radicals are pursuing their old
tactics. Negroes are crossing from
Kentucky into Indiana, where pre-,
sumabIy Fitzpatrick is ready to meet
them with bloody shirt apiece, a mule
and forty acres.
Mr.. Seymour, in his letter declining
the nomination for governor by the New
York democratic convention, says: "For
some months my health has been infirm,
and a recent illness has untitled me for
mental and physical exertion."
After careful canvass of Indiana
by congressional districts, the New York
Herald has come to the conclusion that
the democracy will carry that state, and
by majority that will leave no doubt
of the success there in November OF
Tilden and Hendricks.
"A suggestion from the New York
Express: "Having accused Mr.. Tilden
of all the crimes in the calendar, the
radicals should now direct the energies
of their mud machine against his wife.
It does not matter that he has no wife
they can easily invent one"
o.. The widow Butler is progressing IA
vorabIy with her canvass. The Massa-
chusetts papers are fussing away against
her, but the Establishments Of the lady
who knows what's what are beating
them. The radical papers want the
widow defeated by bolt, and are too
miserabIy tied down to party to advocate
the election of Mr.. Tarbox, the present
democratic incumbent.
The democrats, almost to a man,
have been working theoretically for
Hampton, and coIored men in all parts
of the state, defying intimidation by
radical DULLES, have asserted their right
to hear both sides in this campaign; and
accordingly, under pledges of protection
wherever necessary, they have listened
to democratic speakers, and thousands of
them are to-day ready to vote for Hamp-
ton, reform, prosperity and good wages
Charleston Journal Of Commerce.
The Charleston IS. O. News and
Courier addresses several questions to
the colored men Of that state, the last of
which is as follows (the italics are its
own): "Your party is about to make
nominations. If men are named whom
the state can trust, your hands are clean;
but if the old story is repeated, and
swindlers, cheats, or incompetent per-
sons are put forward by your party and
you cling to them, do you think yOssr
employer can trust yow NTH has interest ?
Ought he?
Chicago Times: All the big drops,
both as to men and numbers, seem to be
on the Tilden side. In Massachusetts he
has won the Adams family, Gen. Bartlett,
one of the most brilliant of the New
England soldiers, Prof Sumner, David
A.Wells, and college men of high and low
degree. The Springfield Republican,
counting the Tilden gains in that state,
remarks with resignation that though
these squads don't elect Tlden, they go
a good ways toward it. Wherever the
political conditions are best understood
the leading minds gravitate naturally to-
ward Tilden.
Cincinnati Enquirer: A dispatch
in the Enquirer some days ago announced
that the Buena Vista pOstOfice, in Mis-
sissippi, was discontinued because no re-
publican life was safe there. The BueAa
Vista postoffice accommodated nearly ten
thousand people An Aberdeen, Mis-
sissippi, newspaper, says that the real
cause for the abOlishment of this post
office was that the postmaster was a
democrat, and no republican could DO
found in the place who was intelligent
enough to conduct it. The citizens who
patronized the postofice are seriously in
convenienced by its disCentinuance.
Lieut.. Gov r. B. Hubbard succeeds
Gov. Coke, of Texas, who has been
elected to fill Morgan Hamilton's place
in the United States senate. Gov. Hub
bard is Georgian, distinguished for his
eloquonco and literary attainments. He
is, too, a wonderful speaker, by many
deemed the peer OF Lamar, also a Geor-
gian. Hubbard is endowed with great