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


almost absolute license to subYert the
integrity of the ballot by violence as well
as by fraud. This may be and will be
the influence of attorney general Taft's
instructions in Louisiana.- World.
Whether Dir. Adams is elected gov
enOr Of Massachusetts, or not his nomina-
ton will have an inspiring effect in the
democratic national canvass. His COR
sent to be put in this position is a con-
spicuOus and emphatic Endorsement of
the leading name on the democratic
ticket by the most eminent, capable and
experienced of all our public men. Mr..
Adams Endorsement will encourage and
strengthen the democratic party in every
state where it has any chance of success,
and it will do more than any other event
which has yet occurred to attract the sup
port of independent voters.-Herald.
Canadian Ponies on Sable Island
measures were first taken to
furnish Sable Island with means of sus-
tenance for shipwrecked sailors it was
found that the solitary shrub which that
mass of shifting sand produces could not
support life in any of the animals placed
there, except the small shaggy Canadian
pony. After a time this species grew
wild and could only be caught in trench
es Overlaid with boughs and straws
Their method of procuring water was
peculiar. They followed their leader, a
to the strand and there dugwells
with their hoofs in the sand near the
water. The water which gradually oozed
through was perfectly fresh.
The Times charges were completely
answered by the full records on which it
raided with its familiar "sham sample
trick" 1t was shown that in 1862 Mr..
Tilden paid the full reveneue tax on all
that he earned in 1862, and that was all
that every Other citizen did or paid. At
the same time, it was shown that the
Times inspirers were the same dirty
gang that put up a job of perjury on
speaker Kerr-a Job which was exposed
so as to blister its authors with everlast-
ing infamy, but which, all the same,
FASTENED Mr.. Herr into his grave. Since
then the Times continued investment
in the SANDER has only been important as
evincing the bondage under which a
journal is held, by the necessities of the
case, when once it surrenders itself to a
career of calumnv, SANDER, forgery and
lying. Brooklyn Eagle.
1t is significant and startling fact
thatin this canvass the re, ubHean leaders,
stumpspeakers and newspapers have ut
terly ceased to discuss the general char
acter and conduct of their party since
1865. OF what it's courts, its congress
and its executive have been doing since
the latter date, they are silent. On not
a single official act of Hayes since the
war do they ask one vote for him. Who
ever reads the New York Times sees
in the canvass but political
calumny against governor TildeD's pri-
vate life and character. Against the de-
mocracy nothing material is charged but
in respect to the dead issues of the war,
or in respect to the relation which
the democratic party is alleged to
have borne to the southern states from
1860 to 1868! The little that a
few republicans now and then say
of civil-service reform is a confession
that their party has been incompetent to
deal with it. The republican canvass is
confined to 1.-THE bloody-shirt" and
vile abuse to governor Tilden.- World.
Senator Bayard in bis recent speech
at the New Jersey democratic conven-
ton made the following telling point:
When the expenses OF this government
are paid, by whom are they contributed?
Look at your lists--see where your in
ternal revenue comes from in 1875:
Virginia ,54S, 249
Kentucky ......... 6,SSl,OOO
Missouri 1,ISU,J+4
while from the whole five New England
states the internal revenue is only s.
771,Ol4. Upon these states the govern.
ment relies for the means TO meet its
just obligation to the creditor. Are you
50 rich that you can disregard these