The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-10-30
THE PAPER QUESTION.

subject again about the paper he
Struggled through the Quarantine
lines, and said the DEMOCRAT got
some at the same time, but he forgot
to tell that it was sent out by the
present Editors without waiting for
the Board Of Health to order it done.
He concealed the fact Of having any
paper, and it, perhaps, would not
have been known to the Board of
Health, if Archie Williams had not
have told it when he was on trial for
going into district declared infect.
ed by the Board of Health. In Civ
ing his reason Tor going he told that
he went after paper for 1--WE the
People"
The Chairman Of the Board OF
Health waited on the Editor and
asked him to fumigate the paper,
and next morning, when the Town
Constable waited on the Editor and
inquired If it had been done, he (true
to his instincts, told the Constable
to tell DR.. St. John { Chairman Of the
Board Of Health, to go to hi!
We do not know what constituted
a gentleman where he Was raised,
but that kind Of language, to one
clothed with authority, was not one
of the requisites where We were
brought up.
So far as We are concerned we
wanted him to have paper; fot we
are satisfied that his froth and foam
will, at least do no harm, If not ben
eft our cause. Besides, his pine
woods correspondents written in
Town, would burst il they could
not let of steam, which We did not
want to happen here.
Tar writer in "We the People
Of the 26th inst, headed in the pine.
woods and signed Democrat wants
people to believe he is really q Dem
ocrat, but he cannot fool any one.
He must be the same man that pitch
ed into the caucasian in eve the
People" of the 10th inst. Why don't
he date his communication in Alex
andria, where it was written2 He IL
sharp, but we happened to know him
by his ear mark. We believe he has
the Democratic ticket every
election for the last six years, aud
yet he calls on q few old stsunch
Democrats, who do not lend their
names to Radicalism, and ask them
If Jim Wise has not gone astray.-
He thea talks about the present Ed
itors Of the DEMOCRAT furnishing
substitutes in the Confederate army.
What does he know about them-at
least some Of them? Because be
Joined the "Home Guards and was
armed with niger shooters and chi
Ma berries, and acted very gallantly
around the camp Gres when there
were 20 yankees near, he thinks no
one has a right to claim to have be-
longed to the army but himself. We
do not question his bravery, Of
course not. All brave ~ men write
under a fictitious name. Let your
name be known, and see il jos. An
drews, w. L. Sanford and others will
regard you as Democrat.
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jim WISE and jim BIossAT"
have the record politically on "Dem-
ocrat" the herculean writer for Mad.
Wells paper. In the famed "ten
mile NATTER ofl855, in this Parish,
they were both side by side battling
with democrat" in good cause,
and Mad. Wells was then the prime
leader and mover against them and
Democracy, and now, after q long
lapse of twenty three years, the said
Jim Wise and Jim Biossat'' are
still in line of battle in the ranks Of
Democracy, but they regret to know
and see, that Democrat" has long
since broke ranks with them, and is .
now actually engaged in open war
fare, against Democracy, and is in
covenant, in our present canyass u
With that same old Mad. Wells, and
IN behalf Of radicalism, npholding
and supporting . ticket of most nm
loubted political repute, against .
sound and pure ticket, headed by
Tim Wise. And no two men. and 7
Democrats, more than "Jim Wise !,
ind Jim Biossat" regret to see this
*. &. . {.1 + : u r.
Ind know that their old aHotspnrs
'pur is cold,' and that they will :
Miss him at the Democratic banquet
# next Tuesday, and will be forced
march to victory with one vote less.