The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-27
CURRENT OPINION.

/ expulsion Tor setiAug bNAb GhuebouAp
the iron-clad perjury Of Lawyer Lilly
who swore positively that he kept tn
three thousand dollars, and that Hay
never kept 3 cent of it. The COMMITTEE
has been unable 10 disproYe this, al
though every member Is of the mora
conviction that Hays received some o
the money. Nashville american { De1n).
A correspondent Of the Boston Glob,
saws that there Is an anti-bOurbon demo
cratic movement on foot in Washington
Tor the nomination either of Supreme
Judge David Davis, of Illinois, or O
| General Winfield s. Hancock, for the
presidency, with ex-governor CASTOR, O
| Massachusetts,, as second ON the ticket
| AT the present time General Hancock
holds the second place in the affection o.
young democrats.
THE Harrisburg Patriot shows that
the carpetbaggers of the south area two.
edged calamity. They not only rob their
| immediate constituents, but the unraV-
cling of their credentials is tax on the
excheuuer of the nation. 1t is estimated
that it may cost as high as fifty thousand
dollars to unwind Senator Spencer, so as
to expose him in the original cocoon con-
dition in which he undertook to buy his
way into the senate from the state of AL
ALBANIA.
BY a decision of the United States
supreme court, the election law under
which Federal officers have been ena-
abled to prosecute and intimidate white
voters of the south-under pretext of
furnishing them for interfering with the
cOlored populatiOn-has been declared
unconstitutional and void. The deci-
sion is likely to seriously cripple the
administration in its endeavOrs to car
ry the southern states this summer in
the interests of the carpetbaggers and
senegambians.--ChiOagO Times [ Ind.
IT ia denied that Senator MOrton's son
receives twenty-five thousand dollars
year as secretary of the Alaska company,
which holds the seal contract illegally
awarded by Boutwell, and Richardson,
when those worthless engineered the job
berry of the treasury department. The
young man, it is said, receives only the
modest salary of twenty-five hundred dol
lars a year. Who, then, it may be per-
tinently asked, gets the remainder of the
twenty thousand dollars p Chicago
Times Ind.
BRIsTow towers head and shoulders
above all republican competitors to-day,
and, as consequence, is drawing the fire
of the whole squad. He will be a strong
man if he cultivates the assaults now in
preparation. Blaine has another broad
side ready for him, and Morton claims
to have a mortgage upon the whole |
negro vote of the south; Conkling swears
he shall not have New York, and the |
rest of the pack, "Tray, Blanch and
Sweetheart" yelp in unhappy and I'M
concert.-PhjLddelphiG Cbron-
icIe Dem).
WE wish the republican party could
be disabused of the erroneous impression
hat its fortunes are indissOlubly linked
With those of the vulgar, dishonest,
drunken reprobate who Pollutes the air
# the white house. This country has
uttered too much from bull-puppetry in
Ugh places. And it isn't such a diff
ult matter to shuttle off a president, after
Il. The wings did it in the case of
'yler, and the republicans did it with
andrew JOhnsOn-a much better and
5ronger man than Grant ever was. -
Herald (Rp).
UNDER the head of "The Garbage
leap" the Cleveland Plain Dealer pub
shes the following interesting list Of re-
ublican shortcomings:
BELKNAP