The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-05

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one of spencer's friends in Alabama,
He swore: 81 shot hole in my hat
and reported that I had been attacked by
kuklux, ana sent troops to arrest the
mythical assailants. I kept the troops
as long as / could use them as political
machine" We suppose Perrin is some
where in the south now shooting holes in
his hat, and calling upon Zach Chandler
for troops.
IN regard to political assessments, so
soon as a case can be made out, at Wash
ington, warranting prosecution for con-
tributing money for campaign purposes,
it will be sent to the grand jury when it
meets next month. Zach Chandler has
said he will stand by any clerk molested
and he shall have the best counsel. All
the judges being tools of the white house
and servants of the republican PARTY,
no successful prosecution, it is said, need
be feared by the timid clerks.
IT was not stiRginess of the "confed-
crate house" that retrenched and econ
omized and reformed dear old Judge
Taft out of his telegraPhing, stationery,
fuel and lights. 1t was the clerical error
OF the engrossing officer. He omitted
from the bill the appropriations for these
purposes; and the president signed the
bill as engrossed, and thus the appropria-
tions for the department of justice were
retrenched. This is very sad. We do
not see very well how dear old Judge
Taft is going to write his war proclama-
tions against the south, or "Opinions"
about the. duty of United States mar
shals to call in troops to control cleo
tiOns, ETC., unless he is allowed fuel
Baltimore Gazette.
NEW YORK Sun: Among the many
reasons why the republicans intend to
use the bayonet in the southern elections
is the determination to resort to the
most desperate expedients to preserve
the majority in the senante. There
are ten seats to be filled in eight
states, where, on some manufactured
and lying pretext, troops may be used.
The states to which we refer are Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, South Carolina and
Texas, the four present senators being re-
publicans, and there being one vacancy
in Louisiana; and Georgia, Tennessee,
Virginia and West Virginia, the four
senator's being democrats, and there being
one vacancy in West Virginia.
THE campaign has not opened yet in
Pennsylvania. A correspondent writes
from that state Ammunition is 60 |
ing to be dreadfully scarce this fall, and
will have to be used very sparingly by
both parties. The men who pass around |
the hat seldom find anything in it but
the lining. A thousand dollars were
raised in 1871 with fraction of the eff
fort it takes now to get a hundred. |
Rich partisans who used to hand in
their checks with three ciphers and II
digit in the corner can scarcely be |
coaxed out of ten dollar bill, and often
button up their pocket and chill the APP
plicant's ardor by saying that they don't
take much interest in politics this year,
while the noble army Of Oficeholders,
feeling the pinch of hard times, try to
beg off by paying only half CT their as
Without money the political
mare can not be forced out OF a jog
rot"
THE destruction of the color-line
which Gov. Hayes so confidently asserts
lfords the only road to return to per-
nanent peace and prosperity, seems to
AVE been accomplished in Alabama with
thoroughness beyond his most ardent
Dr. Redfeld, the rerubli-
AN correspondence the Cincinnati Com
nercial the strongest Hayes and Wheel
II organ in the west, in q review of the
ield after the late election in that state,
some striking and gratifying
igures bearing ON this point, and con-
ludes that not only has the time passed
when the republicans can WELD the ne
,ro vote as a compact mass, but that the
democracy viii carry Alabama for Tilden
nd Hendricks by not less than 5000
majority.
wuY TIE COUN3 RVS pOOR.