The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-06-01


MON ROE. LA, JUNE 1, 1877.
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INvEsTIGAFIONsAF THE CHANGE
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not be revealed /; neither hid, that shall not
be known.-7st. Lake, chap. Xii, va. -
- An investigation is going On into the
affairs-books, entries, &c.,-of the
State Land Office, Of which Col. John
Ray was Register The investigation
is by legislative committee. The
New Orleans papers give US no clear
idea of what is likely to be brought
to light, but hint strongly that there
has been some very curious transactions
in the management Of the affairs of the
Office, and promise to keep the public
posted in reference to expected dis
closures.
We know nothing of the State Land
Office, but it would be something
worthy ofspecial wonder il, upon in
vistigation, there should he found a
single State Office, heretofore held by
Republicans, in which the general sys-
tenn of plumber has been accounted an
offense. 1t has been a loose, devil-may
care game, predicated upon the invinc-
Utility of Radical supremacy, that our
late rulers have played, and played
with the same apparent unconcern as
to future exposure of hands that an
honest player would feel in II game of
cards for a penny. We can. remember
when our Republican friends wilted
their shirt collars on the hastings and
wore their types blunt in professions of
official = integrity Their ~incorrupti-
bility was widespread, deep and i'm
movable. 1t reached to the heavens
and spanned the armament like the
rainbow, where it Wns set as u sign that
all men and all women should be incor-
ruptible and strictly honest.
We say we remember, such profess
sions, because the change since has
been so great and stunning, and the
time intervening apparently SO long,
that it comes but natural to express
ones self with an effort Of memory.
We seem to have passed from one
existence to another-from troubled
dream of rest into actual rest itself; or
as the clergymen express it very
rarely, from darkness into light. The
lapse Of time, we are prepared to say
to our Radical friends, since the change
began to work, is, viewed as a matter
of duration, but a small portion of IA life
time, but 1t is the change that has set
Cav. tIo~
Der, too, how it was with them, not
later than last Fall, in respect, to their,
standing and in respect to that Of tho
Democrats. Out in the bitter cold
shivered the Democrats, comfortably
housed We're the Republicans. -,,,u. !
AS the change is, the searching rays
of the summer sun now shine with
splefsdor 'upoh'tte Republicans and the
honest record they have made; while
the Democrats sit In the shade, aud
with II spectrum analyze the various
colors and degrees of light making up
the Sun of Republican integrity. The
dissolution goes on slowly, but surely,
and the record made by the Republi-
cans begins to exalt' itself as sign, in
deed that all men and women should
be incorruptible and honest. ....,
We take no pleasure AS journalist
in the progress or results Of the antici-
pated exposures Of Republican thievery
aud plumber. I'VE should be untrue to
what we believed, poor as has been our
opinion of Radical honesty, were we to
say we imagined the corruption and
rascality was so great in the Radical
party as current developments give
reason to believe it has been. We
have, we STE, not allowed for hidden
vices and for that degree ofgmornl tur-
pitude which hesets all men, and es-
pecialiy the man who, like the lending
Radical, would govern Il people of in
telligencei against their wish and will,
and for the purpose of Il mean, selfish
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The fault has been
ours, not that of individuals who would
defy public sentiment and barter their
regulations and character for the base
privilege of accu nula iur ducats and ofl