New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-01-18
Congressman Grape in Ouachita.

EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
In to-day's Picayune's evening edition
there is an article about Mr.. Grape and
the subcommittee at Monroe. As have
been for the last three months up there q
quiet but minute observer of everything
that has happened there, would like to
say few words in response-not as the
champion Of Mr.. Grape, because that would
be great presumption on my part-but
merely to correct the Picoyune.
In the article above referred to, it is
stated that Mr.. Grape said the investiga-
tion at Monroe wasn't fair" and that
Ouachita parish was one of the worst bull
dozed parishes; when the Picoyttne Gays.
the entire testimony taken in Ouachita,
from witnesses of both parties, established
the fairness of the election.
Now, cir, we all know by this time about
the fairness of the election in Ouachita
parish, and Mr.. Grape said nothing but the
truth. All the whitewsshing establish
nents of this country can not prevent the
American people-nay, the whole world
from getting at the true inwardness of the
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election down here in Louisiana.
This sub committee at Monroe selected as
their meeting room, the "Bulldozer Head
quarters" thinking, perhaps, they would
feel more comfortable there, instead of
holding their sessions in a moFe neutral,
and to Republicans lees odiOus place. There
the committee met, and the hall was crowd
ed day by day by the rifle club gentry,
holding up their hands and swearing, in
company with their persuaded brethren of
African descent, to the perfect peace and
loveiness of the campaign on their part,
while at the same time dozens of poor Re-
publicans lay buried in the ground, who
came to their death because they would not
fOrsake their instructive political creed, and
other dozens were still smarting under the
wounds and the .inhuman treatment re-
oeived by the Democratic reformers.
Under those circumstances it was at once
clear to Mr.. Grape that it would be of no
use to bring forward any Republican wit
nesses at Monroe, and consequently not one
Republican witness was examined. Be-
sides, most of the Republican witnesses
were still bere in the city, and Mr.. Crapo
intended to have them brought before the
committee here as soon as their labors we've
finished at Monroe; but after arriving here
this was not permitted, as it would have
hurt the splendid Democratic case" made
up in Ouachita. So it was all one.sided
affair.
The Pic gives Mr.. Grape little credit for
ingenuity. The rifle gentry of Ouachita, 1
am sure, think different. Mr.. Grape has
done yeoman's service to the Republican
cause up there. In his quiet way he did
illustrate the best of them considerably,
to the great discontinue of the Democratic
counselors. By his acute cross questioning
he got out of them all he wanted to get.
"That Massachusetts fellow is sharp as
STEEL" was an expression l have heard
many time, and he was considered by
friend and foe the smartest of the trio, any
how.
In conclusion would say that the less
the Democrats wOuld mention the name
Eliza Pinkston the better it would be for
them, as the very name is and will be an
everlasting shame on Louisiana Democrats;
and hereafter to civilized people the syno-
nym for everything that is cowardly,
brutal and barbarous in treatment will be
"PInkstonizsd." E. BOEDICKER.