The daily gazette., 1876-12-21

rhANh ION EhS IN Iuf SENAIE.
If the moral cuticle of the Republican
party has not hardened beyond sensibili-
ty of any kind, it must redden at the con-
fession which Senator Bayard compelled
West, the Senator from Louisiana, to
make last Friday, in the Senate, respect
ing that terrible regulator and bulldozer
Of the Felicianas called Frank Powers.
Mr.. Bayard had put this inquiry to the
defenders of Kellogg and Packard:
''As the aflidavits were only to be known
to the persons who made them, scaled up
and put in envclops and conveyed inconf-
dcncc to New Orleans where was the differ
ence in the amount of danger between the
man who makes his affidavit secretly in
De Soto, for instance, and the ono who
makes it openly in New Orleans? In either
case New Orleans was to be The only place
where publicity occurred"
Senator West replied that the 'regula-
tors" did persecute those who made the
aflidavits. But who are the REGULATORS"
asks Mr.. Dayard. Is not Frank Powers
the chiefest among them, and who is heP
Is he not murderer whose crimes and
infamies were not only condoned by Kel
logg' but the felon himself made tax
gatherer! West was driven into confess
sion in these words:
"Now we take tho case of Powers. The
Senator from Delaware was particularly
severe upon the Governor of Louisiana for
having appointed noted regulator as tax
collector. That was the Governors method
of making terms with a bulldozing Demo-
crat He sought the peace of that commu-
nifty when they had expelled the legitimate
officer, and made terms with an outrageous
murderer.
"Mr. Bayard-Is that the customary ac-
tion of the Governor?
"Mr. West-I will come to that / am
perfectly willing to admit that if we give
the murderers of Louisiana; yes, sir, and
perhaps if we give the lawless Democracy
of this country the offices probably we shall
have no trouble. There was small exam
pie of it in that State. What does Mr.. Web
er say? The tcstimonity goes to show you
that this man Powers was at the head Of
these regulators. He confessed that he was
their chief; he stated what their organiza-
tion was; and if you will read the testsmony
you will find that all the while he was hunt
ing office that If he could only get an office.
he would stop numbering.
20. Didhe apply through you for office
under that party? A. Ycs,sir
20. How often did he apply through you
80. Did he finally obtain it: a. Yes,
sir
II desire to state right here that IL was a
matter of impossibility, almost, TO get Il re-
sponsible collector to collect taxes. Among
those that the Governor was considering
WE recommended Powers. Of two evils
we chose the least
That is, "we"-which means West, and
the Administration party in Louisiana
actually recommended this felon Powers
for an important office that he bulldozed
the Felicianasl Kellogg can call for and
get Federal bayonets at elections and to
sustain all the daily partisan deviltry of
his ring, but he cannot or will not sum-
mon energy or force enough to arrest, try,
convict and punish the red-handed muir
derers of unoffending black and white
men. He and his prefer to use on elect
ion days the crimes of these murderers as
| an excuse for throwing out honest Dem
ocratic ballots! What has Mr.. Eaton to
say about this way of "disgracing the
name ofmen?"