The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-07-25
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
" AsHINGToN,
July l6, 1914


The National Republican is silly
enough to say that the President ex-
poets the Republican party will here
after carry several Southern States
BESIDES those which were last Fall
counted for Hayes. AS there is
hardly corporal's guard Of white
Republicans in any of them, and
Fred. Douglass says the colored men
left to themselves will inevitably 90
with their old masters, the Republi
cans assertion or Mr.. Hayes belief
would seem to be in direct opposition
to facts and probabilities. In sober
truth there is no little hope among
intelligent supporters of the Admin
istration that any Southern State can
be carried this Fall, and the most
that is looked upon as possible is to
prevent the humiliation of its sup
port in some Of the Northern States.
Already the triumphs of Hayesism
is put, by its more judicious friends,
in the far off time, vaguely des
cribed as "before the end of the
term"
The programme of Southern travel
of Mr.. Hayes and members of the
Cabinet, now includes, it is announc-
ed by authority, many short excur-
sions North and South-headQuar-
tiers in this city.
A trial closed here yesterday which
has excited great local interest,"
Two men had been arrested on the
charge of keeping a gambling house,
and the place broken up by the pc
lice. This was the result of an at
tempt made year since to put q
stop to gambling. Yesterday the
jury returned a verdict of not guilty
and as the accused could probably
have been convicted if any of the
profession" could have been, We
may consider it certain that punish
ment for gambling with cards in
Washington IS played out. On
Monday Mr.. Hayes pardoned the on,
ly person ever imprisoned for "sell
ing policy"
While these two facts are to be
considered as the end of legal inter
ference with gambling, the stir made
has had the effect of causing tho
gamblers to be more guarded in
their manner of conducting business
Various clubs have been organized
10 which lovers Of games may enjoy
their misery without police surveill
ance or any interference whatever
There have been publishec
throughout the country, of late, re
ports of epidemics in this city
These, it is certain, are gross exag
gerations. Our death rate for this
summer is large, but, while it seems
wrong to raise trace question" OF
such a subject at sucl time, a few
facts ought to be published. The
mortality among white people here
is less than among white people il
any other city of equal size on the
continent. Deaths of negroes, espe
CHILLY young ones, swell what woulc
otherwise be low rate to what i.
certainly large one. A reading o
very carefully prepared and full re
port of our Board of Health for The
month of June will show this. Thu
lower class of colored people die of
like sheep, owing TO causes not per
haps fully understood, but partly
because of the filth, inequality anc
vice of their manner of Twin /
the more intelligent blacks here, who
adopt the habits of regularity anc
cleanliness which prevails among the
whites, be classed alone, or with the
latter, all that is left--the contra
band negro who came with the war
may be said to be dying out in this
city.
General Howard does not seem to
be just the commanding officer tc
fight the Northwestern Indians. In
the first place, the General is consti
tutionally unable to believe anything
bad of any one. He can find more
virtue in an Indian or an American
of the lowest class than history re
cords of all the Indians and Africans
who have lived. Neither has he had
experience in Indian warfare. Il
the war is to continue, the Govern
ment will probably find its advantage
in sending some other commander to
the front. MEMO.
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