The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-09-28

the State of millions of dollars, and
read the following table, as the
showing made by Grant parish for
the past seven years, saying it was
a sample of the other fifty eight
parishes in this State
Year. Tdr-Collector. Paid in.
1871 Bullitt, Republican 1890 $500 90
1872 Graysvn. Democrat. $500 90
1873 Wells, Republican ...... nothing
1874 Radetzki, Republican 1853 90
1875 Mumford, Democrat -. $500 90
1876 Gray, Republican ...... 1853 40
1877 Nash, Democrat. 1907 81
The assessment of Grant parish
for the above seven years under
Radical rule was So. 43O 90, and
that is the amount each one of the
seven tax-collectors should have
paid over to the State. In settling
the tax-collector is credited with
the amount owed by delinquent
taxpayers, which ranges from ST.
500 to $1,000, by which it will be
seen that the three democrats on
the list made a good settlement,
while not one IN four Republicans
made eUen respectable sho,ciny. In
the matter of retrenchment this
year, 1878, the assessment of Grant
parish has been reduced to 1882
by the Democrats. whereas up to
last year, under Republican rule, it
was $8,430. The Democr tic Leg
islature has reduced the expenses
OF the State OUer too millions IF
dollars, or i'll exact figures, 81, 1885,
AS. The Radicals used to have
but four colored schools in Grant
parish; under Democratic rule the
colored children now have seven,
and in two months more two others
are to be started, making nine in
all. They are Zion Church, Raven
Camp, L. X. Smiths, Randolph's,
Forenza, Smithfeld, New Hope,
and the new ones will be Mirabeau
and Liberty Chapel. The RAIDS
used to employ incompetent white
teachers to teach the colored
schools, and never employed color
ed teachers. If he is competent,
the Democrats always give color
ed man the preference to teach the
colored children. Here ''Fat" Tom
signifed that time was up, and the
young man was requested to take
his seat.
Mr.. Gray informed the "club"
that the CHRONICLE man had edited
a Radical paper in Arkansas.
The CHRONICLE man replied that
MIR. Gray's statement was not true.
He worked on Radical paper in
Arkansas, as printer, ten years
ago. He WAS Democrat then as
now, and made no bones of ex-
pressing his sentiments, and the
editor trusted him because he was
an honest Democrat. Sometimes
the editor of the paper would go
around attending night meetings,
Just as Radical Office seekers do
nowadays, and he would request
the printer to get out a good Re-
publican paper for him while he
was gone. The printer never be-
trayed his trust, and the editor.
was always pleased with the paper,
and wondered how it was Demo-
crat got out such a good Republi-
can paper. The printer knew the
Radical editor usually published
arrant lies; so When he came upon
anything in Radical paper that
would make his blood boil in in
dignation, and which he knew to
be an infamous lie, he would cut
that article out and publish it, and
it always suited, for those chaps
up there we're exactly the same
class of thieves and dirty workers
that have plundered Louisiana
But he never edited Republi-
can paper, nor any other paper,
until he took charge of the CoLFAx
CHRONICLE. If the Independent
neutrality-suspicious. anything-to-
get-office party of Grant parish can
make anything out of these facts
they are welcome to them.
MIR. L; E. TORY was called on
for his views. He was a Republic
can and gloried in it, but just then |
was not prepared to make talk. |
He had some corrections to make |
In regard to some statements Mn
Jeter had made at Forenza about |
the public schools, but expected to |
make them at Forenza, and wished |
for MIR. Jeter to meet him there at |
a given time.