The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-09
POLITICAL NOTES.:


Henceforth consider every statement
from republican sources designed to pre-
judice the campaign to be simply the
desperate resort of interruptions profit
gates, and press the issue upon the main
question. The main question now is:
Shall the profigates be turned out Of
power?
The business community have justly
become alarmed over the unprovoked
revival of the war against the south, by
the rump OF the republican party now
left in possession of the once powerful
organization. The verdict of the New
York Herald, that if this crusade is to
be the result of republican victory,
then democratic triumph would be far
preferable, is the verdict of every con-
scientious and intelligent man in the
entire country.-NeTburgh Register.
Somebody has well said that "the
bloody shirt has pockets" so it has,
They are filled with commissions to plum
der the people, in the future as in the
past. It's vigorous and ceaseless shaking
in the republican campaign means, in
English, that the plundering ring-men
want their commissions renewed for four
years more. The people have the power
to grant or refuse such renewal. If the
people calmly scrutinize the issues of
the campaign there will be no renewal
of those commissions, and they will ex-
pire on the 4th of next Narch.-Mi-
eCauEee NelCs.
Claim agents have traversed the
south for ten years, bringing up claims
both real and bogus, until the business
of this dubious court (of which the no.
torious George H. Williams is a mem
ber) has grown so extensive that it will
take two years to clean up the present
calendar. If the people have anything
to fear from southern claims it is
through the existence of this republican
court. Claims which are openly dis
cussed in congress are not dangerous, for
an unjust award would be straightway
exposed and universally condemned by
the voice of public opinion. Utica Oh
serUeT.
The national canvas now going on is
really conducted by the newspapers.
Stump-speaking is a mere accessory.
The magazine of facts is furnished by the
press. and it is to be feared that the
magazine OF falsehOod is furnished
largely from the same source. 1t may
not be an unmixed good that the press
really does shape public opinion and is
constantly controlling it to so great an
extent. But there is no substitute for
it. Everybody reads in these last days.
The newspaper enters nearly every house
and cabin. Those who profess to be
quite superior to newspaper opinions are
continually affected by their expressions.
San Francisco Bulletin.
Commenting on the disclosure con-
corning the " American alliance" the
World says: "The open purpose of the
republican leaders is to disfranchise the
white voters of the south, as a means OF
gaining complete and permanent su-
premacy over the whole country. Their
secret purpose, as we now see, is to dis
franchise at later period a great pro-
portion of the white voters of the north,
by using the native majority against the
foreign minority in the country, pre-
cisely as they are now trying to use the
northern majority against the southern
minority in the country. The party OF
avowed sectional prescription is the
party also Of secret religious race pro-
scription, and everywhere and always,
openly and secretly alike, the party OF
diabolism and of the stirring.up of
strife"
Since the letter of Judge Sinnott
generating Governor Tilden was pub
lished, the income-tax form of campaign
literature has been gradually sinking be-
low the horizon, and is now almost out
of sight. There was a disposition to
take Governor Tlden to task for allow
ing the government officials to assess
his income instead of making return Of
his own, but this line of attack has also
been dropped on the discovery that
many prominent republicans are dwell,
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