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Itry followea by half our people.
It costs the people five times more
thanit produces to the Treasury, ob
Estruets theiprocesses of production, and
wastes the fruits Of labor. 1t promotes
fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches dis
honest officials, and bankrupts honest
merchants. We demand that all Gus
TOM house taxation shall be only for
revenue. sse3a y
Reform is necessary in the scale OF
public expense, Federal, State and mu-
nicipai. Our Federal taxation has swol-
len from 100000, 900 gold, in 1850, to
S500,000,000 currency, in 1870 Our
aggregate taxation, from Sl50,O0O, ,00C
gold, in 1860, to $4,000, 900 currency
in. 1870, OR in one decade from less thar
| S5 per head to more than Sl8 per head
Since the peace, the people have paid tc
their tax gatherers more than twice the
! sum of the National debt, and more
than twice the sum for the Federal Gov
s|ernment alone. We demand vigorous
| lfrugality in every department, and from
every officer of the Government.
! Reform is necessary to put stop tx
the, profigate waste of public lands, ant
their diversion, from actual settlers by
the party in power, which has sAuander
ed. 100000 of acres upon railroads
alone, and out of more than thrice tina
aggregate has disposed Of less than /,
sixth directly to tillers of the SOIL
| Reform is necessary to correct th'
Omissions of q Republican Congress
and the errors of our treaties and ou
diplomacy which have stripped our fel
low-ciiizens of foreign birth and kin
dred. race re crossing the Atlantic Of tn,
shield Of American citizenship, and hav'
exposed our brethren of the Pacif,
j coast to the incursions Of race no
sprung from the same great parent stock
and, in fact, now by law denied citizen
i ship through naturalization, as being
! neither accustomed TO the traditions o
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

New ORLEANS DEMocRAT.-Now
that we are approaching the end of
our campaign, it is due to the Editor
of that paper, that acknowledgment
be made of the efficiency and vigor
with which he has conducted it.
New Orleans has seemed distrustful
of the ability of her journalists. A
large number of it's citizens few
years back bought the Picayune to
make it the organ of home interests
and sent to South Carolina for an ed
itor. When the Democrat was in
embryo, another importation was
made and this time from Alabama.
Every one isglad to welcome South
Carolinians and Alabamians to our
State, but in these two instances they
were sent for to do a particular work,
and notably failed in it. Maj. Hear
sey took hold Of the Democrat when
the failure of its management had
sunk it beneath contempt, and the
extraordinary vigor, ability, tact,
pungency and vitality he has infused
into it have created what the Demo
cratic Party of this State have long
needed in its chief City.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
The Rapides Fair.

The Fourth Grand Fair Of the Ra-
pides Agricultural Fair Association,
has come and gone and we regret ex-
ceedingly to record 1t as partial
failure, and are forced to the belief,
that our people are yet dead to the
protection and welfare ofsuch under
takings as are calculated to aid and
assist them in the true developments
Of the material interests of their
cherished Rapides. There can be no
use of our wasting words Of COM
plant at this not unexpected mishap
to many of us, there is no use blam-
ing any one in particular for it, for
suffice it for all to know that the late
Exposition and Races close the ca
reer of that Association. AS a friend
of it from its very incipiency we
have watched and fostered it with all
our editorial might, nor have our per-
sonal efforts in it's behalf been weak,
but yet the hour of its sad demise has
come and we tenderly strew violets
and daisies on its grave.
But our people here should know,
and we feel glad TO let them know it,
that the stockholders and managers
are men who have not printed in their
vocabulary, that evil word fail, and
they are now more firmly resolved
than ever that their beautiful and
valuable property shall never be de-
serted or turned over to base uses
The public will hear from them as
soon as the temporary fogs of their
faar pas have cleared away, and our
word for it, the management that we
have followed and praised in sun.
shine, and whom we yet cling to with
"faith, hope and charity in this
their hour of tribulations, will soon
be found equal to the emergency and
The future redemption of their most
cherished hopes. We are yet fol
chem, of them, and will cling to them
now stronger than ever.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
~~-.-O>..---

THE contrast is striking, as may
be seen every day by the most casual
observer of humanity, on our streets
and highways; some walking briskly,
talking gaily and laughing heartily,
the living representations of good
health; whilst others appear languid,
tired, disturbed, cross and unkind.
He naturally reverts to the cause of
such difference, and finds that the
latter suffer from some lesion of the
liver, kidneys or spleen, or from
some of the other internal viscera,
producing an Indifference as to what
becomes of them; whilst the former
bloom in health, and have smile for
life's troubles by judiciously using
the HOME STOMACH BITTERs.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

The young man shouts that
gnews comes from Ten Mile that the
mass meeting held there on Saturday
was rousing affair."" Wrong again,
young neighbor, your informant was
self interested one and imagined
his fzzle what he asked you to write
about it. Twenty eight human be-
ings all told made up the "rousing
affair."" and among them exactly elev-
Ell voters, ten Of whom will vote
against your ticket, and especially
against your interested informant.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
A CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS,


Whenever a man has to get a friend
to help him fight his battle. whenev=
er a nation has to ally itself with
some other nation to fight a common
foe and Whenever political party
seeks the aid of and forms an alli-
ance offensive and defensive with
protested enemies to do battle with a
sworn antagonist, the man, the ma
ton and the party, all alike confess
their weakness. In the days Of the
arrogance and power Of the radical
party here it was their boast and a
matter Of pride with them, that they
would neither endorse, support nor
vote for any man for any Office, who
was not a simon-pure disciple of
their peculiar faith. They have Wig
orously adhered to that policy until
this year as a party. Those who
came to us in 1874 came over bodily
to us and voted our entire ticket,
and are of course not included in that
statement.
What then shall we think in 1875
when we see them as party deviate
from this strict rule and profess to
60 outside of their party for candi-
dates for Judge, Clerk and Sheriff?
1t is true that they took up our leav-
ings, SO to speak, and assumed the
right to adopt the disaftected orphans
who had repudiated their parentage,
but still they protested to go outside
of their own party, and to give those
gentlemen the benefits of their
claims, they did go outside, and in
doing so, the radical party of Rapides
has confessed its weakness and &C.
knowledged that they could not win
unaided and unsupported by their
new allies. They wanted back bone,
and they look to those gentlemen to
supply their needs. If they, the
adopted orphans, render no other
service to their new friends and po
litical associates they will have given
the quid pro quo for their support
and if victory should perch upon the
banners of the allies, after the con
fession of weakness made by thu
radicals, we will know who helped
the enemy, and it will boot these
gentlemen but little to claim an out
side relationship to that party. I
is question of results, not simpl.
claims.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

DEMOCRATIC colored voters can
be seen in numbers in all portions of
the Parish and some of the most in
telligent and influential of their lead
ers are working with US for the good
of both races.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25


TOTAL NEGRO VoTE.-The whole
negro vote in the United States is
|S7s,11o. OF these 81, $40 are in the
Northern and Pacific, or non-slave-
holding States. Nevada is the only
State that has no negro voters. Or
egon has only 60, New Hampshire
100, and Minnesota and Nebraska
lao each. Virginia has the largest
number, $4,000, and Georgia next,
LOO. Pennsylvania has II 900 and
Ohio 1880, while the largest South
ern State in area (Texas) has only
1e, 100 and West Virginia only 5000.
The comforting Of suffrage on the
negroes increased the representation
of the South in the lower House Of
Congress, and consequently in the
Electoral College, and made it pos.
sibility for the Southern States to
elect the President with the aid Of
New York and another large State, or
two smaller ones. And there is
where the shoe pinches.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
TOO THIN.

"Our young man. of the Gasett.
put his foot in it when he announces
in the Republican Official journal
that "Col. R. A. Hunter, oar candi.
date for District Judge, is hunting
Democrats to their holes." The
date of that number Of his paper il
the 14th, and the next number con.
tains letter protesting to have been
written from Vernon Parish on the
18th, complaining of the injustice
done by the paragraph. The paper
of the l4th could not have been sent
to Vernon in time to have permitted
the letter from there to be written
the next day, The device is too
thin and "many Hunter men" dis.
solve into one who writes the sham
letter and who is no doubt q Hunter
man in literal truth s
You were coraect, young neighbor,
when your party organ called Col.
R. 4. Hunter your candidate. All
the labored efforts to disguise that
fact are Of no avail. He is yours
and nobody else's, and you are vel
come to him. Neither Democrats
who follow the lead of their party,
nor Democrats who proclaim their
independence of party, look to Radi.
calls for political sympathy. Fellow
1ship with Radical leaders is not the
sign by which Democrats Of any
stripe are known, and when the Ca
zette's candidate for District Judge
is known to have visited Packard
when he was in this Town, andTcon-
, ferred with that vile persecuter Of
our people, and is equally known to
have absented himself when Gen.
Nichols was here, not much difficulty
will there be in reading what that
means. s tts
There were some Democrats who
until this recent development had in
tended to vote for the Gazette = can.
didate, but their eyes are opened.
The confidant Of Packard can never
be the elect Of Rapides, for even the
3 humblest place.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
NOTICE.

n ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS AN IN.
| DEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR
CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT,
AT THE ENSUING ELECTION TO
BE HELD THE COMING NOVEM-
Der. j. ii. RANSDELL.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

The C. II. Durfee is once more
afloat--she is now fixing up-in q
few days will be here again as our
regular Packet. Every one here
will be glad to see her once more in
her home place.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
TIE BARBECUES.

There were three Barbecues last
week, which shows that our candi-
dates are alive and at work. On
Wednesday there was one at the
Camp Grounds on Big Creek, in
Grant Parish. The rain probably
prevented many from attending, but
nevertheless there was a goodly
crowd present. Messrs. Blackman
and E. G.. Hunter, candidates for
Judge and District Attorney, and
MIR. w. w. Wilmington, Jr., candi-
date for Parish Judge, spoke on the
occasion, as did also Mr.. Boatner,
of Catahoula, candidate for the SEN
ate from that District. They ali
bearded Parson Bryan, the 1ndepen-
dent so-called, in his den, and routed
him.
On Friday there was satisfactory
meeting, composed largely Of colored
voters, at a Barbecue short distance
below Cheneyville. Addresses were
made by w. W. Wilmington, Jr.,
Capt. James Jedries, Robt. P. Hun
ter, w. F. Blackman ambition. Lewis
Texada, in the order in which their
names are mentioned. Marked at
tention was paid to them throughout
and at the close of the speaking
many colored people, who had never
been with US before, openly announ
ced their determination no longer to
support the corrupt and incompetent
men whom they had been putting in
Office. The meeting was presided
over by Thos. B. Helm, Esq.
i On Saturday there was large and
enthusiastic meeting and Barbecue
at Spring Hill Church, near Lecomte
This was in a thickly settled neigh
borhood, and we do not exaggeratt
in saying that there were two hun
t dred voters present, more than hal
of whom were colored. The meeting
r was not opened until two o'clock
: and the speeches made were necessa
e rily brief. This, however, was com
' pensated for by the feryor, earnest
t ness and pithiness. The following
b gentlemen spoke in the order il
: which they are named: Hon. L. Tex
: ada, Capt. James Jeffries, K. N
: Clark, W. W. Wilmington, Jr., Gee
s W. Stafford, E. G. Hunter and w. +
v Blackman. The Chairman Of tn
e meeting was DR.. s. G. Compton.
d Barbecue was provided, which wa
# relished by the crowd.
8 Both the Barbecues at Cheneyvill
k and Lecomte were provided by th
n citizens, and for their good manage
d ment, profusion and completeness i
l. all their details, did great credit
d the committees, as we'll as to the Ill
d erality of the public. E
II The lower portion of the Parish
TO thoroughly aroused, and on electic
s. day will send US glad tidings Of GOO
re work we'll done.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

MIR. John A. Stephens has built
up large business at Lecomte and
besides his we'll filled store has a
steam gin and grist mill in opera
ton. He knows how to dispense a
generous hopitality when his friends
come to see him.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

"A REGULAR SANDER is going the
rounds of radical circles, that Ten
Mile is going to vote the Radical
ticket. All the bells of that infa-
NOUS party can't bulge the unterri-
fed Democrats of that Precinct
they have heard it thunder before to-
day, and only wait for election day to
prove their slanderers the biggest
of liars.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

The last radical lie is to tell the
colored people that if the white PEG
pie win the election they will put the
women and children in the fields.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

JUDGE TALIAFERo, Assistant
Justice of the Supreme Court, died
on the 10Th inst. at Harrisonburg,
Catahoula Parish. He was eighty
four years of age.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

Two weeks more in which to
work for Louisiana and Rapides.
Hit 'em heavy ticks from this out
and hit them fast.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
OUR HOME TICKET.

For DISTRICT JUDGE,
W, F. BLACK NJ AN.
For DIST. ATTORNEY,
EDWIN G. HUNTER.
For SENATOR,
LEWIS TEXADA.
For REPRESENTATIVES,
JAMES JEFFRIES,
X. NJ. CLARK,
GEO. W. STAFFORD.
For PARISH JUDGE,
W. W. WITHIN ON, JR
For SHERIFF,
D. G. PAUL.
For CLERK,
J. G. P. HOOE.
For RECORDER,
MIRES ROSENTHAL.
For CORONER,
ISAAC ROBERTS.
FOR POLICE JURORS,
B. G. DUKE,
G.. W. BOLTON,
j. A. CALHOUN,
@ C. l.. ROBINSON,
S. A. DOWTY. +.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
SOME FIGURES.

AttlOCC ~ ~ ~ - S~
10Th expatiated at length upon the !
question of the public debt and
claimed great credit as due the Re-
publican administrations of Warmoth I
and Kellogg on that score, but more
particularly to that of Kellogg. We
have some figures taken from official
sources that will demonstrate con-
clusively how undeserved is this
claim of credit.
In July, 1868, when Warmoth took
charge of the State Government the
State debt as fixed by Kellogg in his
testimony before the Congressional
Committee, Report p.
2e5, was $1O,o00,000; on page 977 it
is given in actual figures as follows:
1888, 5e2,3s.
During Warmoth's administration
the deficit on the general fund ac-
count alone was $s,657,95e. His in.
crease of the bonded and floating
debt is put down at $l4, 50,6S5. 10.
And in addition to this they put
down what they call contingent
Debt" of SIG, ,6S3,33, contracted
during his administration. We pre-
sumo that this o"Contingent" debt is
for the bonds sued to the railroads
of which we find in the statement a
list amounting to $ll, 100000.
If we add up the items of the in
crease of the debt under Warmoth's
administration as follows: -
General Fund Deficiency$ s,657, 1922 90
Bonded & Floating Debt. l4,25O, 6So,ao
Contingent. ....... lo,292,ooo,oo
We find the total to be 1883, POI 1904
If we add to this the debt at the
beginning Of Warmoth's administra-
ton SO, $50, 562,s3 we have the whole
debt when kellogg came into sffice to
have been $40, 34,922,S1. The item
charged as the deficiency on the Gen
eral Fund account may be covered
by one of the other items. If so, it
would leave the debt at that time
$40,376,93O,S1. This agrees nearly
with the report Of the Committee ap-
pointed to ascertain the amount OF
the debt which fixed it at $40, 900,
1000. It must be remembered that
this is their own showing. How in
the face of it they can claim as they
do, that the debt when Kellogg took
the reins of the government was
1923, 1888, 4O7,9l is more than we Can
fathom.
Kellogg says in his testimony that
the total valuation of the property Of
the State is $2Oo,O0o,000. During
the four years ls7l-72-73-74 The
; total receipts from all sources is re
ported as $lS,459,9 go. If we as
sumo the receipts from both taxe'
and licenses for the years 1S6S-69-
70-75 and 76, to have been SIS, 900,
600 in round numbers-and we hav
u no statement for those years-we fin'
that in eight years of radical rul
: they have spent $33,459, go, go il
d money, besides making debt Q
r $39, POI, 360,4S and that altogethe
b they lave handled $72,661, 262,0S c
n the peoples money! This takes n
v account Of the parish taxes. In til
j. face of these astounding figures is ]
b any wonder that the times have bee
a and are hard, and that want and DEF
a. titution stare us in the facet Whe
IS they have in eight years spent nea
,e ly one-half Of the valuation Of tt
al entire property of the State is it su
prising that the other half has d
" preciated in value and lost it's prit
,r in the market2 Who will vote for
10 continuation Of this extravaganza
of Who can dare to defend such
o. record2
Ill o~ :;
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

WE return thanks to the chief
clerk of the Belle Rowland for late
New Orleans papers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

-CHENEYv1LLE has thriving ap-
pearance just now and is doing con.
siderable business.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

BALLOTS VS.. BAYoNETs.--Grant has
issued his proclamation to the Gin
surgents'' in South Carolina to dis
perse, and justities the outrage by the
lie-'it has been satisfactorily
shown TO me that instruction and
domestic violence exist in several
counties of that State. This will
not accomplish what the Radicals
hope and expect. 1t is a trick that
will turn and plague its inventors.
We do not believe that South Caro-
lima will be hindered by it from cleo
ting Hampton, but the bold and bra
zen attempt to use bayonets to con-
troll ballots will injure the Radicals
in the national election, and help to
swell the majority that is now fast
increasing for Tilden. There are a
great many acts that depend for their
success upon the circumstances
which surround the actors, and dra-
gooning Southern people into voting
against their wishes is one of them.
A few years ago the North would
have bounded on the President by
shouts of approval. A different spir'
it now prevails.
|
THE Democratic-Co Conservative Par
ish Committee met last evening ant
held joint session with the COMMITTEE,
of Seventeen on Assessments, appointed
by the Convention. The report Of tht
Finance Committee showed that all o
the candidates had come to the from
with their assessments and it was no
found necessary to drop single nam
from the ticket.--[N. o. Picayune.
Not found necessary to drop sin
| gle name from the ticket. Their
would be frightful locking skeleton
of our local ticket, if the rule wer
enforced here Of "no preach, no pay
| After the election is over the Execu
tive Committee will be cursed 70
doing nothing, but as we are on tina
body and know why it don't do NOR
THAN it does, we can publish at an
time the list Of contributors.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25

-THE Registration office closes on
Saturday,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
Adams and Butlersen Republican,
Corruptfsl. Il

Charles Francis Adams supports
Tilden; Benjamin F. Butler supports
Hayes. Charles Francis Adams says
that "from the days Of the Credit
Mobilier down to the latest expo
sures Of the last Congress, there is
only one conclusion to be drawn, and
that is, the prevalence Of corruption
almost everywhere in the Repub-
lican Organization Benjamin F.
Butler characterizes the one poor lit
tie attempt at Civil Services Reform,
made by the Republicans four years
ago, as "a political trick sprung on
the country by the opponents OF the
dominant party" Civil Service
Reform says this exponent Of Re-
publican principles, sis always popa-
lar with the outs and never with
the 'ins,' unless with those who have
a strong expectation Of soon going
OUT Gall this kind of trouble"
says Butler again, ''has always origi.
mated in the Senate Of the United
States, just before q Presidential
election, when there are never more
than seventy-four candidates among
seventy-four Senator's" Charles
Francis Adams, 8 leader of the ranks
of Reform, declares that there is only
one conclusion to be drawn, "from
the days Of the Credit Mobilier down.
and that is, the prevalence or corrup-
ton almost everywhere in the Re
publican organization" Benjamin
F. Butler. a leader IN the Republican
ranks, who will be the Republican
leader in the next House, should no
be elected, characterlzes Civil Ser
vice Reform as "a political trick" Mr..
Adams is pure, conscientious In
dependent, and holds ct this day one
of the most prominent nominations
in the gift of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Butler is an unhung scoundrel,
and holds one of the most prominent
nominations in the gift of the Re-
publican party. They represent the
two parties in the same State, and
each is symbolical Of the tendencies
and ideas Of the organization which
he serves. Honest mesa can take
their choice between them and be.
tween the candidates which they
support.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-25
Our Agents.

Parish Executive Committee
JNo. A. WILLIAMS, JOHN l.. WALKER
q. r. BIOssAT, -. WISE
JULIUS LEVIN,