The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-04

mnnnpolies that have tlroitlrh indus.
try, preyrd upon the cnrithits of the
people. and paralizrd the energies of
both white and black such as tht.
Slaughter Hnnse Company. The L"nisi-
ana State Lottery aud the Levre Com
pany it faithfully account for and
indici"nsly expend the public revenues
and then it may lay claim 10 the priv
llrSe OF being called the party Of re-
form.
He told the negroes that he would
rather thes would vnte the Democratic
t'rket than not vote ut all, and he
won't be- disappointed we can assure
:'Im when the votes are counted. His
"nly praise of Hayes and Packard was
negative. He said he was cnntented
with the fact that We had brought no
charges against their personal honesty.
That we would have done so if we
could. 1t has been 50 long since they
have had man who was not open to
charges against his personal honesty
that they parade Hayes and Packard AZ
curi"sities. because, fnrsootI,, they hap
pen to he honest. The quoted extracts
from what he called Democratic IN
papers to show what his friends t4iiik
0 Gov. Tilden, and his extracts were
nom the New Haven Union, Cincin-
natl Enquirer, Br"oklyn Argus, Eas.
tern Democrat, Toledo Democrat. Iron
ton Democrat and the Steuhen. lille Ga
zette. He forgot to give the dates of
his extracts from the Enquirer, which
would lave shown them to be before
his Illumination, and he forget to state
the pnlitlcs OF the other papers. Our
space forbids any further notice Of his
assertions. On the whole we think
that Judge L-visee's effort WAS a poor
one for the crowd and did, mighty little
good for his cause.
Tho Judge, omitted TO explain his
connection with the "party 0f reform"
and pr'bably f0rgot to tell his Hearers
the reason of his sudden conversion to
radiralism in September 1874. lust
ah"nt the time he tried to'sell proper
ty worth in cash S., 900 to the Police
Jury OF Caddo tor $50, 600, Vide. His
testimony before the Congressional
Committee Report Of Test. Cross
Elk. page 367. Before tile war a Bell
e. Everett Wing, during the war a Sc
ces>'nnisi, after the waran independent
aud in 1874 Il radical, Judge Levisee
has record that should commend him
to his auditors of Saturda, over
the left
The next and last speaker vas a
young man 10y name, John B. Keuned, !.
and by blood a Gloss between the
white and Indian, or mnlattU and In
dian unless his features belle his oriuin.
He said he had been in the employ of
the U S. Senate since he was fourteen
and would EAST his first vote this time
for the Republican party and he pro
posed t" tell them why he was impeil.
Ell to cast his fortunes with that part,.
We did not hear all he had to say, hut
did hear that one reason was that that
party had advocated tue rights %, the
negro before the war, had fought tor
hem dining the war and protected
them since the war. The Hau allan
treat, had something to d., viii, i. but
"e failed t" catch the connection.
After the speaking there was a bar
b-rue, which We imagine was til. prln
cipal attraction tor the lew colurpd
people there, and then the "grand raj
~ was over. Disapp, intDent and
cflagriD sat upon the 5cnuntenamces OF
the managers aud visitors, and that re-
publican majority from this parish is
NON EST INvENTUs. There was not a
good hearty cheer thnons h"u' the
speaking, and Vic Portergwas cnnpel :
Q to admit the want IF eu,husiasn,
Thus ends the first chapter of r,.i,c;..
defeat III Rapides. W.'ll double the
bet that we GET 700 majority.