The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-09-24
JUDGE LUDELTNg As A CONGRESS
g1OHAL CANDIDATE.

hUl1OSEy WHeA tIl5AE SoFtEA~
mental administrations cursed this State, has
been resurTected after eighteen months burial
in the newspaper graveyard Shortly utter
the conservative Democracy obtained possess
| sion Of the State government in the beginning
| Of 1917, the Rep1rbican died for want OF that
party support which alone enabled it's man
ayers to publish the paper, and 1t was hoped
| by all respectable men here that 1t would stay
dead, not so much on account OF any poison
ous influence emanating from Its columns for
after about nine years efforts to OBJ
tain O. foothold in this State by @
circulation and advertising patronage
sufficient to support the expense OF Its publi-
cation, 1t was compel ed, when Our present
| State government came into power (which
| lost It the State and city printing!, to dis
| charge It's working force and close its doors,
| but it was hoped 1t would not again appear,
| because 1t had shared in and defended by
specous and dishonest argument the mis-
deeds Of Warmoth and Kellogg and their
| partners In the speoulations and monopolies
| and downright robberies which marked the
| government Of Louisiana from 1868 to 1876,
and, further and more particularly, because
1t defended and upheld the vile judicial ad-
ministration of the Supreme Court of the
State whose chief seat was occupied and dis
graced by one of the narrowest-minded and
most unprincipled men that ever sat on the
| bench of justice In this or any other country,
| and whose name goes down on the judicial
records of the United States stamped with an
| ineffaceable brand Of judicial censure and con-
domination, as the engineer and planner of one
| of the most dishonest and scaDdalous at
tempts Illegally to appropriate to himself
| and few other persons combined with him.
the property Of absent parties without paying
| O. fair equivalent for 1t and In fiagrant viola
ton Of those principles Of law and equity
| which every one clothed with O. trust for
others Is bound to observe and uphold And
one Of the first uses to which this
resurrected Republican organ Is put Is
| to pronounce erlogium on John T L,1de-
ling, late Chief Justice Of the Supreme
Court Of Louisiana ON the occasion Of
his canddature for the representation
in Congress Of the Fifth Congressional District
Of Louisiana Had 1t been only a eulogium
that the Republican had made upon Mr. Lude-
ling it might have been passed by without
notice, but the article referred to contains so
many misstatements Of fact in connection with
its illusions to q celebrated litigation In the
United States courts in which Mr.. Ludeling
was the principal defendant and largely fig
| ured, that We have thought it might be as
| we'll to expose OF once the downright false
hoods to which the Republican has just given
utterance In Its attempt to whitewash
it's candidate for Congress from the fifth
district and commend him to the voters
| for their support Another reason why
the Repubhcnn's falsehoods regarding Mr..
Ludeling and the litigation referred to should
be at once exposed Is this: That individual
we regard as q very dangerous man on ac-
count of his secretiveness and astt1teness of
character, and his utter want Of moral prin-
| eiples, quality for which he has an infinite
contempt And we might add another reason,
which is that Mr.. Ludeling is by far the
ablest, boldeRt and most determined man In
Louisiana connected with the Radical party.
He has natural gift for planning and schem-
ing, and for pulling secret wires. You detect
hts movements only by their results. He
was the virtual Governor of this State
from 1868 to 1876, as we'll as the head Of
| it's judicial department; for without his con-
currence and cooperation In the execution Of
the policy of the two de facio Governors they
| could not have carried into effect their prin-
cipal legislative and executive measures g.
notable one being the Slaughter House mon
opoy, The funding act of 1874 might also be
named, for in the execution Of this act Mr.,
Ludeling had large personal interest as we
may hereafter show by incontrovertible evil
dence. That one or more Of the judges Of the
Ludeling bench speculated In Slaughter
/ A. T. 4
cision OF the court in that celebrated litiga-
ton was common talk upon Carondelet street
at the time.
The Republicn1, with characteristic audac-
| ity, tells It's readers that If everybody had
his rights, John T. LudelDg would still be
Chief Justice Of our Supreme Court" This
opinion and assertion Is so very harmless that
| 1t may be dismissed with smile at the sense
| lessness and cool assurance of him who has
given utternnce to 1t. The organ then pro-
ceeds to pronounce upon the mental calbre
of Mr.. Ludeling, characterizing him as " one
Of the ablest men in Louisiana-the equal of
the ablest men In any State and adds ''that
| his election to Congress would reflect an
| honor upon Louisiana not to be achieved
by the success of any man the Demo-
| CfAtS GILL llLlu Ill LuS FLtu DISLTICG
to run against him. The Republican is OF
course entitled to It's own opinion OF Mr..
Ludeling's liability" We ourselves have net
denied that he possesses a certain Kind Of
ability, but it Is not the highest. We know
him to be @ sharp lawyer, well read in the
civil Jurisprudence ofE'rance and OF this State,
but we also know that he makes use of his
learning not to promote the cause of justice
but rather the cause of Injustice. He is
apt In the perUels$on Of the law.
He pleaded before the Supreme Court Of
the United States through his counsel, VIM.
II. Hunt that a Judgment under the 'smoni-
tion' law OF Louisiana cured fraud That is
to say that even were the -sherif's title in his
(Ludeling's) favor to the Nicksburg, Shreve-
port and Texas Railroad O. fraudulent title,
yet that, having sued out & Judgment in 3
"monition" proceeding, all llirregularities and
even fraud were cured. W5aen Mr.. Hunt
I , br,f In, khn