The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-17
EXPLAINING,

The last few weeks have been re-
markable in Congress for personal
explanations on the part of Republi-
can candidates for the Presidency
First come; Mr.. Blaine, of Maine,
and makes long personal explana
ton, supported by numerous docu-
ments, to prove that he had been
COMPOUNDED with his brother rs own
er of an interest in the Kansas Paci-
fc Railway, and now proceeds to
show that he was not his brothers
keeper and disclaims all knowledge
of or connection with the matter
This is the second explanation that
Mr.. Blaine has made in the House
within week and he has yet failed
to touch upon the most vital point at
issue. When he asked the indul-
gence of the House to make a per-
sonal explanation it was supposed
that he was about to demolish the
damaging statement of Mr. J. c.
Harrison in regard to the Arkansas
Railroad Bonds said to have come
into Mr.. Blaine's possession by some
mysterious means not within the pale
of a legitimate financial transaction.
The great explainer, however, found
it inconvient to allude to this deli
catessubject and passed it over in 81.
lence. The real object of this last
explanation dodge was to get an op-
portunity to publicly state that he
would make no more explanations
He set up a man of straw that he
could easily knock down and in flu
ture complications he will retreat be-
hind his public declaration that he
has donewith explanations. Blaine
is smart. In fact the crest trouble
of his life has been that he is little
too smart.
| Next comes that other would be
President, the hero Of the bloody
shirt and principal agent in the North
for the great Southern Outrage Man
ufacturing Company, 0. P. Morton,
of Indiana. Morton is another
shrewd one, more shrewd even, in a
quiet way, than the clustering Blaine.
He plays with cunning hand upon
the baser passions of the ignorant
masses, and nearly every dirty, rag
ged, lazy negro in the South tosscs
his greasy, sinking cap in air for 0.
P. Morton as his choice for Presi-
dent. He is large man whose Meth
er limbs have almost given way un-
der their weight Of demagogueism
and he drags his diseased members
after him by the aid Of two stout
canes. All the vitality of his dead
ened extremities seems to have gone
to his scheming brain, and being
compelled from the nature of his in.
firmities 10 spend the greater part OF
! his life in an easy chair he sits and
broods over deep laid plans and in.
! trigues to accomplish the one object
Of his hearts desire-the Presidency
Unlike Blaine he has not sold his in
fluence for filthy lucre, but over and
over again he has traded his princi
Piles for political capital. He saw
his opportunity lately to stir up the
embers of the civil war and yentilate
his record as the "war Governor" OF
Indiana. He arose in his place in
the Senate to make personal expla-
nation in reference to a charge made
against him Of failing to account for
$3.50, 1000 received by him during the
war to equip Indiana troops; he pro-
ceeded to deliver q blood curdline
speech full of the dead issues of the
past. His text was from the gospel
Of hate and his words were full OF
passion and prejudice. 1t was a bid
for the nomination at Cincinnati and
we would not be sorry to see the
empty honor knocked off to him. Sc
we'll did his remarks chime in with
the pure sentiments of honest Simon
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, that the
aged patriot arose and congratulated
the Hon. O. P. NJ. and heartily en-
dorsed his war record. Simon, hay
ing been turned out Of the War De
partment by President Lincoln on &C
count of some financial complications
during the war, knows how it is him
self. If this endorsement would con
tinue in force at Cincinnati it would
: be good thing, but it is probably
only an empty compliment born of f:
desire to use Morton's delegates ii
the interest Of Cameron's candidate
RIGHT FAcE.-The black hosts O.
, Radicalism, marshalled by the Whit
Potprpinr Rnor1 opI Tho poc% n03oo