The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-02
POLITICAL N OTES.


The demand for reform is now un-
heard in the republican ranks.-Balh-
more Gazette.
Howell wrote the life of Hayes in
four weeks. There wasn't much to do
the last three weeks.-Detroit Free Press.
You may vote for the blOOdy-shirt
if you want to, but you should under
stand that there is a pocket in it which
will hold unlimited steaIing.-S. LOuis
Times.
Every vote cast for the republican
ticket at tina state election is a vote for
Hayes and all the swindles and gwind-
lers of Grants administration Cairo
Bulletin.
1t is plain to all observing men that
the southern radicals are deliberately at
tempting to get up race riots in the
south. At Senatobia, in this state, and
recently in Louisiana and South Caro-
lima, their intention is made so plain
that no fair person can longer doubt it.
Vjckaburg Herald.
The politicians who affect so much
affection for the boy in blue love him
only on condition that he will vote on
their side, and not because he risked his
life on the field of battle to preserve the
union. The sooner the blue uniforms
and the gray disappear from our national
politics the better will it be for the
country.-New York Herald.
The peace and good order which
have attended the late elections in Ala
bama and Arkansas gives the lie direct
to all the allegations of the outrage
mongers, and we greatly mistake public
sentiment in the south if, in the future,
the same peaceful and orderly spirit is
not maintained Memphis Appeal.
An educated and inquiring foreigner
writes of the American system: % This
seemingly complicated system reduces
itself to a beautifully simple and sym
metrical formula. The ofice-holders
elect the congressman, and the congress-
men appoint the oficer-boIders. This is
the real American constitution in a nut
she'll"
1t should be remembered that if the
democrats had been in power in the
senate, the expenses of the government
would have been reduced S40,O00000
instead of $50, 1000, 900. So that the peo-
pie have gained $3O,OO0,0OO by eIecting
a democratic house, and lost S10,000,00O
by not having a democratic senate
Peoria Democrat.
This sudden and general determine
ton to carry the campaign on the south
ern issue shows a deep and uncomfortable
alarm among the republican leaders.
They are evidently panic stricken.
They have by this time compared notes,
and their conclusion appears to be that
on a fair and honest canvas, on the real
issues of the year, they will lose the
country.-Me,c York Herald.
1t is hard to take in the fact that in
a civilized land, among christian PEG
pie, thousands of men can meet, as the
so-called "boys in blue" have met this
week, to indulge in the old war feeling
against millions of their Countrymen,
who were defeated in war and who are
submissive in peace; but so it is, and the
fact does no credit to those vino called,
or those who participated in, the meet
ing at Indianapolis.-Ne10 York Express.
A correspondent of the New York
SUN gives the names of six soldiers on
each side in the impending political
campaign:
For Ttllen, Hendrics For Hayes, wlhesIo' and
ten. G as j. McGlsusu. Gen. VIM " Beicnap,
cen Wm. r Bartlett, ten Benz. J. Butler
Cen. Jo, Hooker, zen. o. E. Babc0ck,
zen. }. Vi. Palmer, Gen. Gso. =. Spencer,
Gen. Franz Sigel. Gen. Carl Schurd.
These are only specimens taken at
random. Both sides can easily be ex-
tended with names of the same general
character as those given in the respec-
tive columns.
This government is union of states
of equal states-if it be any union at
all. There can be no union in a despot-
ism. There can be no union of states
and provinces. If our southern people
expect to receive any of the blessings
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