The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-08-31
What the Papers Say.

Cuban-Americans was held yester-
day in the Office of Ell Tribune ca
banO, at which it was resolved to
cast the influence of this class of
voters id favor Of Tilden and Hen.
bricks. There are twelve thousand
voting Cubans in this country.
N. 7. Herald: The republican
party has been in power for sixteen
years. Had it been true to the
country the reform question could
not have become one Of paramount
urgency. The reform professions
of the republican party belle its
record. Had it done its duty during
it's long tenure of power there would
be no urgent need of reform.
Cincinnati Enquirer The Ger
mans are Democrats this year. They
have, In round numbers, twenty
thousand votes in Indiana, fifty
thousand in Ohio, fifty thousand in
Wisconsin and sixty thousand in
Illinois. The vote will exceed this
estimate in each case. These are
decisive States. Ohio and Indiana
are specially potential.
n. Y. Herald The real question
on which this Presidential election
Is to turn is whether official honesty
and administrative reform be more
important than the protection of
negro rights in the South. II the
country regards the negro question
as paramount it will elect Hayes; if
it regards the reform question as
paramount it will elect Tilden.
Cincinnati Enquirer The Demo.
cratic party has the Hotse Of Rep
reseDtatives. There are one hun
dred and seventy-four Democrats
in the House to one hundred aud
seven Republicans. It has posses
sion Of q majority of the State Gov.
ernments. A majority Of the Gov
ernors are Democratic, and ma
jority Of the State Legislatures are
Democratic.
N. Y. Sun Republican news
papers may assail the Democratic
House AZ much az they choose, but
they cannot get over the fact that,
though opposed at every step by
the Republicans, and hindered by
extrayagant Republican Senate,
they have yet saved about thirty
millions in the appropriations. This
is something on which they can
proudly go before the country.
B0stox Post i: Read the platform
of the South Carolina Democrats,
Mr.. Blaine, and then blush for your
self. Here in Boston We happen to
know something about those south
Carolina men. We have eaten salt
with them on Bunker Hill, and We
know they are q honest ID what
they say as Boutwell, and Redpath
ruled together and Grant and Nor.
ton thrown in. What they declared
yesterday in the State Convention,
at Columbia, will find the sincerest
welcome in the hearts Of every Mas
sachusetts man who loves the Union
and wishes its happiness and pros.
pcrity.
Neso York Herald: The Presi.
dents letter reads more like an in.
tlammatory political appeal than
the calm, we'll considered words of
the head of Q great government.
The Hamburg affair was q cruel pro-
ceeding, but the President wrongs
the Southern people when he says
that it Is only . repetition Of what
has been seen in the Southern States
within the past few years. There
have been riots and outbreaks and
murders, but the people Of the
South-the honest, conservative
pe0ple-are no more to blame for
them than the people of the North
are to blame for the Native Ameri.
can riots thirty years ago or the
draft riots during the war. The
President should remember that
society in the South since the war
has been governed by exceptional
influences. There was . race sud-
denly transformed from slavery into
independent citizenship. There was
proud, valiant people. who had
staked everything on war, who had
been beaten to the dust and all
their hopes destroyed. Not only
were they defeated, but industries
were ruined, commerce was destroy.
ed, and communities once memora-
BILE for wealth, splendor and all the
accomplishments, Of refined and
ancinkv waro nur0ofof1