Middletown transcript., 1876-08-05
The Contrast in Louisiana.

The report Of the Congressional Com
mittee which Investigated the manage
ment Of the New Orleans Custom House
will, we are told, not only convict
CASEY and PACKARD of unblusbing
frauds and illegal interference with
State elections. but will also impeach
the President for retaining Casey in Of
fee when his resignation was demanded
by the committee which first discovered
and made patent his rascality. The
President has been consistent in his
support of the LOUISIANA gang. He
ordered Federal bayonets to sustain the
unlawful KELLOGG Government, winked
at the employment Of Federal patronage
and the use Of the peoples money to
control elections; and Packard man
aged to secure the Republican nomina-
tion the other day by giving out among
the negro delegates that the President
so desired it and would support him
with money and use Of the army. The
promise touching the soldiers has al
ready been made good by the military
order to which. we referred yesterday.
and it is not matter of doubt. We be-
lieve, that all the influence Of ths Ad-
ministration will be extended Packard,
to secure his election. ..s.s a
The contest in LOUISIANA, by the
Baton Rouge nominations, pre,snts a
square issue between the better people
of the State and the rascals. Doubt
less it would be difficult to find worse
man than is this ex-United States Mar
shall and present Republican candidate
for Governor. Packard is a carpet
bagger from Maine, who came to New
Orleans poor man, but has managed
to steal large fortune in his few years
of official life He has been the head
and front of all the villainy which has
characterized the rule of the Custom
House in Louisiana Astute, unscrupu-
lous and ambitious, he has successfully
whipped into the traces bis rebellious
associates in crime. who envied him
the lions share of the spoils. Casey,
who is good-natured manner Of
scoundrel, has been the supple tool Of
this master-spirit. by which he secured
the support Of the President as well as
the revenues of the Custom House. At
last he found the times ripe for MASTER
stroke and made himself the nominee
of his party for Governor And this is
the man who represents the party Of
reform, and is indorsed and sustained
by the Executive Committee which is
managing the canvass for the obscure
Mr. Hayes and proposes to manage bis
should be be elected.
On the other hand, the Democrats of
Louisiana have nominated candidates of
irreproachable private and public char
acter. General Nichols, the nominee
for Governor, is graduate of West
Point and lawyer Of pronounced
ability. Mr.. Wiltz, the candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, is a substantial
business man Of New Orleans, and both
are gentlemen who will commend them
selves by the purity Of their lives and
the ability which both unquestionably
possess, as fitted to administer the affairs
Of the State. Against them the Re-
publican managers at Washington have
arrayed the army and the use Of public
funds. and in support Of a candidate
who has no proper place outside the
walls Of penitentiary, but by whose
election it is hoped to secure the elec-
lion Of Hayes. We commend the con-
trast to the attention of all thinking
people, of whatever party World