The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1877-12-12
THE DEMOCRACY.


and We always knew these foibles
be base ISLANDERS. At the time tbs
Judge Spofford was elected U. S. Ser
ator from Louisiana, and kellogg
the sneak thief, claimed to be electe
we stated emphatically and wit
certainty, that when the case cam
up before the Senate, that none bu
the solid Democracy, led by MI
Thurman, would be found battlin,
for our rights, and that solid radical
ism, aided by Mr.. Hayes, and hi
trimmer, Stanley Matthews, woul'
oppose our Senator.
Well, it has all come true to til,
letter, and as proof of all this, ",
give for the benefit of our rea ders
the conclusion of a graphic letter, OF
the late contest in the U. S. Senate
from the gifted pen of A. C. Buell.
the Washington correspondent Of. oul
New Orleans namesake:
At 3 o'clock a. m. the galleries
were deserted and at 4 not more thar
a dozen Senators were in their seats
and they nodded. Another motion
to adjourn was sprung and came
within an ace of carrying. 1t was a
critical moment. The little pages
too were tired, and the Senators
sleeping in the cloak-rooms were
hard to arouse. But
FIELD MARSHAL THURMAN
was on the alert; out came that ia
nous red bandanna with q flourish
and the marble halls resounded with
a blast like the bugle horn of Rhode
rick Dhu.
"One blast upon that bugle-horn"
OF Thurman just then was worth a
seat in the Senate for the six hun.
dred times a thousand people who
live in South Carolina. And the
somnolent Solons staggered out, rub.
0lng their eyes in the gray dawn that
streaked down the sky-lights, to cast
again that invincible vote 80 to %.
Cocktails and mutton chops in the
restaurant below were again in re-
luisition, and by 9 o'clock the gale
lies were full. But it was plain that
The Radicals we're giving out. Their
speeches against time were becoming
mechanical efforts, and their motions
o adjourn were fewer and farther be-
ween hour by hour. At last they
ave in. The last speech had been
made, the resources of delay had
'een exhausted and sixteen years of
supremacy collapsed in that same
ote of 80 to %, by which the com
nittee was discharged and
THE BATTLE WON,
Now the question comes on a mo-
ion to swear Butler in. 1t may be
etated as long as the Republicans
are to make speeches. But it can.
OF be swanped with amendments or
taved of BY roll.calls, because it is a
nestion of the highest privilege,
hlch must be disposed of before any
Iher business can be transacted. It
lay be done before this reaches you:
ut whether it is or not, NJ. C. But
r is Senator from South Carolina-I [
syond any resources within the ,
over ofthe Radicals to prevent; and
is all the result of the best ar
nged, most skillfully managed and |
cest calculated parliamentary bat ]
known to the annals of the Senate. t
Field Marshal Thurman is, of
urse, the Wellington of this Water t
0 of Radicalism, and in nv minds r
e l can see Edmunds standing, g
< feet high, solitary enough, and t
'king only the melancholy grandeur a
its Cambronne. There will be f
eaty of Thenardiers. i
lHE WoRLD.-Time and again
we've asserted, in these columns. :
at the New York World was a real :
wspaper in every sense of the |,
I'd, and time and again, have we 4
'ven all these assertions by verv .
en- clipping from the columns of
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