St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-06-08
current opinion.

Ererv man has made up his mind
ohont The election of 1876, and no fur
ther testimony can add force to the
record which has already gone into
history Mobile Register
Haves, visiting statesmen and con,
fdential bargain makers, may as Wen
he spreading their umbrellas. lt IS
going to be good deal more OF a
shower than they have peen counting
for.-[New York Sun.
From, the very first Hayes and Sher-
man have been busy buying the silence
nf tha little scoundrels who did the
d;rtv work of the iniquitous conspiracy
ana,nst the will and rights OF the
eopIe.-TMontgomery Advertiser.
The North doesn't think it much of
frand fmu TO to cheat the South, and the
North knows that the South elected
Mr. Tilden. The North rather enjoys
the swindle. and doesn't want to be an
moved nov about it any more.-[Vicksburg
Herald.
IT, is a. very long headed old gentle
n,au aI iS ybo = Wa HAVING gone out of politics,
sits sits watching the course of current
no1itical events from a bay-window in
Gramercy Square. He has waited and
| still waits patiently. No one can afford
Il better than he.-[New York Tribune.
From the days of the Credit Mobilier
down through the Custom house frauds,
whisky and District ring lnyestlgatlons'
to the Returning Board and real-estate
pool committees, the Republican party
have feared, dodged and resisted IN
estigations.-ILynchburg News
The attempt of the Republican mi
noritv in Congress to frighten the peo-
nIe bv charging the majority. with
Revolutionary designs in proposing an
nvestigation of the Florida and Loul-
siana frauds, shows how completely the
minority has lost it's wits.-lDetrolt
Free Press.
However great may be the public IN
crednlitv as to Mr.. Hayes absolute lg-
norance of the preparation OF the
frauds in Florida and Louisiana, there
is no doubt that he can now afford to
"sit on the stile and continue to smile"
at any attempt to unseat him-[Chicago
Times.
The Northern Democrats should, and
we expect will, do better than IN 1870.
We anticipate, despite the nationals,
clean Democratic majority ID the next
House; but this of course presupposes
harmony among Southern Democrats,
and energy at the NOrth.-L Atlanta
Constitution.
If a great national crime has been
charged, those who participated in it
have no better right to throw obstacles
in the way of an investigation than
parties to minor otfenses have to bar a
grand jury from proper inquiry, and
presentment. The more exalted the
accused the stronger is the demand for
inyestigation.-[B Boston Post.
Mr.. William A, Wheeler, Vice Presi-
dent Of the United States, expresses
the hope that the recent action OF the
House will cure Mr.. Hayes of his fond
ness for Democrats, but beyond ap-
pointing Key to the Cabinet and smil-
ing occasionally on Wade Hampton and
Senators Lamar and Gordon, where
does Hayes fondness for Democrats
come in +? Even Grant had his Mosby.
[Chicago Times.
Cutting loose from the Northern De-
mocracy, the South alienates her only
friend, and the past shows what she
has to expect of Republican Congress.
For twelve years the Republicans have
bounded down the Southern people.
Drunk with power, and wild with sud-
den wealth, dishonesty made they
were ready to hang, behead, disem-
bowel and quarter the people they COM
menced robbing.-[Memphis Appeal.
Mr.. Hayes title is different thing.
There is nc. purpose to disturb that.
The forms of law thoroughly protect it.
f5,n fhn Tan nfa nj
frauds, by which the ballot-box was
polluted and the people defrauded of
their votes-and which constitute the
greatest political crime of the age
should be unfolded to the world, and
the authors banded with eternal in
famy.-[ Richmond Wing.
Suppose that the conjecture of the
Republican caucus prove correct, and
that Mr.. Potter and his fellow -maleon-
tents convict themselves of falsehood
by attempting to make the stale story
of partisan committee a pFetext for
assalling Mr.. Hayes title, we think
that the country may be relied upon to
crush the plot as summarily as it would
have crushed revolution in the March
OF last year.-[New York Times.
1t Is idle to dream Of third, fourth or
fifth parties. The Republicans have
held power too long TO disband and
surrender 1t without struggle. The
Democrats have waited for nOwer too
long to commit the folly Of throwing
away their advantages The new party
movements are devices of the Republi-
can leaders to regain lost party ascen-
dency, or OF worn out political hacks
TO recover their standing, - Little Rock
Gazette.
When a cold -blooded assassination is
fresh in the minds of the populace, for
three days they are in favor Of lynch
ing the murderer; for the ten days fol-
lowing they are willing to have him
hung by law. Then they gradually
forget all about it, until the criminal
comes up, eleanly shirted and sllayen,
for trial. His confinement has made
him pale, aud meditation has made him
sad. Sentimentalism comes to his aid,
and If by some unusual combination OF
circumstances he is SO unfortunate as to
be sentenced, q thousand pens lean
from their scabbards to sign a petition,
for the commutatIon of his sentence.
indianapolis Herald. i
The alarm that the Republicans
say has been created through the ceun-
try by the passage of Potterss resolution
exists exclusively in the ranks &c the
II Il @Dr1ers ,HNI~