The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-26
POLITICAL NOTES.


We should not grow angry amidst
testing and bantering, for we make our
selves enemies thereby; nor in discus
sions, because they then change into dis
putes nor in instructing, because in
struction then becomes our antipathy
nor in prosperity, because it adds to the
envy with which others are flIed.-Pll-
tGrch.
We push away all stories of governor
Tilden's railway wrecking and perjury and
dislOyaIty as utterly unworthy of notice.
He has been one of the first lawyers of
the country, his services were in constant
demand at his own terms, and he doubt
less charged no more for them than other
lawyers would have taken, if 50 much
Daily GrGphic, Rep.
This warfare on the south thus in
augurated by Blaine has been taken up
and echoed by Wheeler, Frye, Morton,
Edmunds, Chandler, Carpenter, Colfax.
Sargent, Booth and Sherman, not one of
whom ever shouldered a musket and
marched forth to the succOr of the gov
eminent in the hour OF peril. Dallas
Commercial.
=. Ben Butler takes his place on the
platform of reform that governor Hayes
has laid down for the party of Grant.
He was nominated by the irrepressible
reformers Of the seventh Massachusetts
district yesterday, and proceeded with
Characteristic impetuOsity to lay onto the
press. The general never had a good
opinion of the newspapers since he dis3
covered in them a forty-jackass-mud-
throwing power, which discounts him by
a good deaI.--Chicago Times.
Col. David Friedlander, one of the
most influential German citizens of Al
bany, n. Y, late republican, writes:
II have faith that the election of Samuel
J. Tilden will carry terror to the hordes
of dishonest government officers at w ash
ington, and may cause the emigration of
some of them to Europe to Join Tweed
and Connolly and company, whom Tilden
helped more than any other man to drive
out of place and power in New York city
and bring to Justice or exile"
In St. Albans, w., at the recent
election, the republican vote was seven
hundred and forty-seven, against nine
hundred and one in 1874, and the demo-
cratic vote was four hundred and eighty
Seven against two hundred and fifty
three in 1874. St. Adams is the place,
be it remembered, where Mr. Wheeler
made the mistake of Haunting the bloody
shirt. This might be said to be signif-
can't Indianapolis Nsl0s.
The amiable Washington Chronicle
puts the sum and substance of radical
campaign venom into this characteristic
paragraph: "The honest men of Maine
will prove by their votes tomorrow that
they do not believe reform can possibly
be found in an organization engineered
by peUurers, swindlers, prize-fghters,
cut threats, thieves and men who tried
and are willing to renew their attempt to
destroy the union"
Gould the people witness the cold
blOOdedness with which a blOOdy-shirt
political campaign was chalked out by
the republican managers, simply because
it would tend to distract public attention
from the pressing question of reform and
prevent business from urging its present
claims to consideration, the symptoms of
their indignation would be too numerous
and prompt to be withstood. Yet this
very programme was written down as de-
liberatcly as an architect draws the plan
of a house.
Grant has under him an army of
ninety thousand Office-holders. Zach
Chandler, the head devil of the admin
istration and of the radical party, bleeds
them freely to secure a corruption fund
for the canvass. just think of it.
Ninety thousand at AL average assess
ment of $50 each yields four million fire
hundred thousand dollars; and yet the
cry of the radicals in Indiana, is "mOre
mOneyw-RjchmOnd Wing.
This demonstration at Charleston is
but a legitimate OutgrOwth Of the in