The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-06-08
CURRENT OPINION,

Il j nkna-
ism. It's q pity he doesn't trv zen q
tate some Of their sterner y;, y
Boston Post. '4'ue'
IT so happens that most of tbaso 6
ite sons are of the Grant class ~, lsV
Grant political family. They 'I u
perpetuate his line and his NIT Ou
has been plain for long time nv.
! people do not desire and win not J"' !
q president of that sort. Witbin . H5
months it has become almost so a
clear that the republican party vii ip.
nave any such candidate. Iftbs u,
try owes these gentlemen or apv NJ "
a debt Of gratitude for great gervios y
saving the nation, let them put IN ,' 4.
for salvage. The presidential ofFcs :
not be used in payment for such sey r
any more. The country is LOOKING :,
man fit for the place, not for a fSSo.
upon whom to bestow it.--Nsw " Y
| Tribune.
OUR advice to the democrats ia II NJ,
their investigations in all dirocfi,
where there has been expenditnro
money. Take up the Mullett and 81.
herd contracts in public buildiDo, \
into the Indian supply business
quire into the Alaska fur monopOIv .,
the failure Of civil service. InvestiSo
the attorney generals office and
moiety business. Do not be led M
republicans to investigate the sunn,
sion of the rebellion and the suppress
of raud.--NelU York Herald.
The average Arkansas republican
so much blood to spare that you can +
him in a dozen places and he won't Al
but if ysu steal his demijohn you \
him of his vital fuid-and that fatal
Brooklyn argus.
PITTsBURG PosT: Morton slaD3s
Blaine, and the whisky ring is Al
RristOw, while Conkling throws dirt
the other three; and all this time 1
radical organs are blaming the democn
for the row in their own camp.
"REBEL hate" says the Buffalo Col
mercial, "has not yet got full swing
congress-" The exposure and pu6h
ment of the BabcOckely and BelEnape
of the administration is what the Con
mercial calls "rebel hate" To esca
the wrath of the Commercial and 4
party, that "rebel hate" must cause
efforts to bring republican thieves
justice.
THE only real live issue of the day
reform. Its urgency is admitted on
sides. The republicans, for the mo
part, no longer deny that the demand
it is imperative, but they claim that d
only hope for it lies in a reformation j
side their own party. They admit th
the civil service has gone to the dog
that every branch of the national 60
eminent is rotten in stem and leaf; an
furthermore, that the administration
alone responsible for that state of affair
but they hold that it is worse than US
less to look to the democracy for alleVi
ton. The democrats, for their part, CO
tent themselves with making good d
charge of universal corruption again
their opponents, and are apparently
tempting to convince the country th
any change would be for the better.
sum up, parties are so evenly divide
and stand upon platforms 80 nearly ide
tical, that the election will probably
determined by the established chaact
of their respective candidatGs.-NeU y
leans Picay0aas.
The testimony of Miss Ada @. SWee
the Chicago pension agent, yesteFda
before the committee Of civil service
form, unfolds another repulsive chaP9
of radical Matchmaking. Miss Sweet
evidently been living a very qnoO3lo
table life, her silence in regard to Ms
shall Campbell and Dave Blakely PEN
an enforced one. The dispatches tell q
story from Miss Sweets own testimony
that Blakely left the pension agency
detaulter to the amount OF ~, wv: \
was compelled to pay him ~, l0O iof Y
appointment, make up his dehclH Y
pay his large Indebtedness to manI "
Campbell, which she had not origlaaal
agreed to do. These two men tl
fieeced Miss Ida but of all her earning
and the whole transaction appear,
have been known to commissioner DUN
Dave Blakely il now one OF the prop
tors Of the Sc. Paul PiOneer.Pres$
Tribune, editing the temperance coLun
of that paper, while Baker is survey
general Of Minnesota. 1t is true y
Miss Sweets testimony contradlc@
letter to Blakely, published some v
since, to the effect that she paid no.aa
to that gentleman, but the staten,
was probably made under threat
the Fleeing process having become
supportable, the young lady eVlasp'
determined to tell "the true ssolS
whatever the consequences migas
Marshal Campbell Ii connected WIZ