The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1876-11-03

With a much longer acquaintance with |
hem and their acts, than he could pos
IDLY have, it has neven struck us that
Judge Ray, Judge Baker, Mr.. Dink-
grave, Hamlet or his deputies were OBJ
loxious to these charges. They have
simply done all they could to uphold
.otten, weak and imbecile State govern
nent and to advance the interests of the
party. We condemn them
but not for cowartlice or want
Of loyalty to the government, State and
Federal.
But Capt. Hale did not, it seems, en-
tirely exhaust his stock of knowledge
in regard to affairs in this parish, in the
report just reviewed. In another re-
port, dated October 10, two days pre-
ceeding the one noticed, he says rela-
tive to the murder of DR.. Dinkgrave:
Referring to the murder of Bernard
H. Dinkgrave at this place, in August
last, and to assertions made by the par
tisan press and by people that his as
sassination was the result Of a personal
feud and done from motives of revenge,
they privately express utter disbelief,
and say that Dinkgrave had maintain
ed great influence over the cOlOred peu-
pie, and that had he been as prominent
and influential in the Democratic as he
was in the Republican party he would
not have been killed. From careful
observation I am induced to believe
that it is the determination of the ma
jority of the white people here, as else
where in the State, to elect the candi-
dates of the Democratic State and par
ish tickets at all hazards, and that the
SUCCESS of their candidates on the
national ticket is to them only a matter
of secondary Importance.
Capt. Clayton Hale is monstrous
knowing man, 80 much so that it is
with fear and trembling we assert that
he knows nothing whatever about the
ssutter disbeiief' of the people or of the
Bipartisan press" in the cause mention
ed as leading to the murder of Dink-
grave. He was not here ut the time,
nor for several days after; he has not
mingled with the people to any great
extent, and we can say for the "parti-
san press" he not only. knows nothing
Of its private expressions, but that he
has deliberately. falsilied ours, if the
TELEGRAPH he tho press to which he
refers. We do not know Capt. Hale
he has never heard our private views.
What views we have of the murder We
have expressed publicly, and to the
effect that DR.. Dink grave was murdered
because of II "personal ~feud," and W.
believe we have Investigated the occur
renee more thoroughly than Captain
Whether we have, or not, however,
such is our opinion, and Capt. Hale
ISLANDERS the TELEGRAPH when he
states otherwise.
We can say for the people with whom
we assOciate-perilaps more numerous
and equally as Intelligent as those for
whom Capt. Hale speaks, if not for the
same class-that their opinion of tho
murder agrees with ours exactly. Ii
Capt. Hale has other and better
and can fix the bloody deed upon the
guilty parties, it is his duty, as an
American citizen, to do it; but it is no
part OF his duty, as an officer, acting in
Al double capacity, to misrepresent Il
community and to SANDER the press.
The uniform of an officer of the U. S.
army was not designed for such work.
1t may be true that it is Capt. Hale's
conservation" that n majority of the
white people intend to elect the State
and parish tickets at all hazards, re-
CARELESS of the Presidential election :;
but what is the .sobservation'' of a man
worth who will be contradicted by
nearly every white man referred to?
From our observation we are satisfied
that the white people generally and
almost universally would give up the
State and parish offices in order to Sc
cure the election of Tilden. The ma
tional question, by all thinking leading
Democrats, is held to be paramount.
The reasons are patent-no need to
specify them; but Capt. Hale has fur
nished one we may mention, which is,