The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-10-19
POLITICAL POINTS.

gain of thirty.four percent, and that
notwithstanding the efforts Of the adj
ministration in state that has been
radical ever since the birth of that
odious party. Good enough for one
day, we think.
1T must not be forgotten that the
republicans who objected to reducing
the salaries of government clerks ten per
cent, for the benefit of the people, have
not scrupled to assess them twenty per
cent. for party PurPoses.-@' LOUIS
Times.
The republican papers are smitten
with silence as to the charge Of wholesale,
repeated perjury Of their candidate Tor
president, in his annual assessment lists
Il is we'll enough for them to wait bit
before they pull down his name from the
masthead, but they ought to let their
readers know the factS.-Mit'oa"Gee
Neaos.
Little did the radicals think when
thew started out on the smirChing and
mud-throwing business, that their own
candidate was not at all the spotless crea-
ture they pretended he was. The out
rageous and indecent attacks upon Gov
Tilden has forced the democrats to ex-
anime Hayes character, and the result is
they have found real dirtspot8 upon the
T6s,sp
These charges-and there are more
of the same sort where these came from
are quite as ugly and quite as specific
a. the New York Times celebrated
charges against Mr.. Tilden. We dare
say they are entitled to quite as much
credit-that is, to none at all. 1t will
require as it ought to require, the most
unacceptable evidence to convince the
public that either Mr.. Hayes or Mr.. Til
den is rascal.-,Sprtnqfeld Republican.
The disgraceful nonsense talked by
the New York Times about Gov. Til
denis income tax, should have been re-
served until the end of the.campaign. 1t
might not have set the Ohio people to
looking up the official records of Mr..
HAYES financial relations with the state
oxchequer. From Toledo we get this
morning a story not at all pleasant to be
printed about a presidential candidate.
What with Thurlow Weeds silver bee
hives presented to Miss Tweed in honor
Of her father, and ex-governor Morgan's
railway and whisky operations, and Mr..
HAYES obliviousncss in the matter Of
taxation, the party OF republican reform
is in sore need of a surgeOn.-Neao York
World.
We have gone into this "charge"
(of Tiden's railroad wrecking) at con-
siderable length, because it illustrates
the straits to which the republicans have
reduced themselves for campaign powder.
In the present campaign, all the benefit
that can be extracted from "charges" y
will be reaped by the democrats, who
can prove by undeniable evidence cor
ruption in the dominant party OF the
most gigantic extent, widespread through
out all the departments of the govern
ment, and practically encouraged by its
head. The republicans are perfectly en-
titled, if they can do it, to show that un-
der Hayes this sort ofthing will come to
an end, that he will elevate and purify
the public service, aud redeem the repu-
tation of his party, they have a perfect
right to show, If they can, that he will.
notwithstanding the bitter opposition of
all the chiefs of his own party, reform
the civil service, and that he will bring
about resumption in 1879, and that the
democrats have the disadvantage of
struggling with an imitation element in
their own party. But they will do we'll
to be very cautious in their use of
"charges," because, if the campaign were
only IA question of these, there can be no
doubt in any honest mans mind that
the party would be driven out OF power
in a storm of disgust Nation.
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