The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-07-31
STILL AT 1T.

We took occasion in last week.
| issue of the DEMOCRAT to tell oul
readers, in plain, unvarnished words,
that the Rapides Gazette, the pro
prietorship of which is vested in the
President of the late Returning
Board, had been revived, and though
under the garb Of independence was
nothing short of the same old organ
of Radicalism, Louisiana Radical.
ism as practiced by the old regime OF
that remarkably corrupt and infa'
nous organization, and especially as
known, taught and practiced here by
the leaders and masters of the Rap
ides ring and wing of the old hulk
We knew fully we'll that we
couldn't quit" all ct once on our
old foe and must, as in duty bound,
clinch the last nail in its coffin, but
we did not think that under thirty
days at least, that the new organ
would show it's cloven foot and I'M
furl it's nasty bloody shirt, and take
the witness stand in favor of our
then assertion.
For the special benefit Of our read
ers, the most of whom are the true
people of Rapides, and who have all
along asserted and swore, that "the
country must and will be ruled by
the people" we clip few brochures
from the last issue of the so.called
organ of Independence, which will
convince our people more understand
ingly than any words of ours; and
here is q specimen one:
Hard times, under the Democracy,
were to rapidly disappear in revival
Of general prosperity. Business was to
revive, productive industry to be stimu-
lated, the idle were to be employed, and
distress and want were to be banished
the land. Now, the Democracy have
been In majority in the House for two
Compensation three years. How have
these pledges been fulfilled! By q
multitude OF acts all hostile to revival
of trade. By its reckless war upon the
tariff and currency, and by its revolu.
tionary projects to Me1icanize the Re-
public. All confidence has been ban
ished from business circles, capitalists
dare not invest, and idle men and fam.
tiles multiply daily, with increasing
distress and want.
We beg our readers to read the
above TRADE attentively, and ther
tell us, if the worst of our foes and
the dirtiest Returning Board dema
gogue in the land ever spewed more
falsehoods, more ISLANDERS and more
bloody shirt slang against the Ma
tional Democracy, than every line Of
this Independent diatribe contains2-
Please notice the choice and radical
ly patent expression to mexican
ize the Republic" and reflect that il
comes from the home organ of the
Returning Board, who stole the Pre-
sidency, and now AYERS that it is rev.
olution, because the people dare in.
quire into the mode and manner the
foul decd was done.
In another portion of the socalled
Independent journal and organ of Ra.
pides Radicalism, all blended and
fused into hatred and venom against
the Democratic and Conservative ell.
ements of this Parish and which has
been revived for the sole purpose Of
waging its old war and dislikes
against our people, and who are mar
shalling their clans into one com
pact consolidation, under a new
name, and are again on the war path
for power and plumber, we Gull
the following choice moroccan, which
again endorses our opinion that we
were right in our premises Of the ma
ture of the organs independence"
and that Eve can't quit" yet awhile
to sound the alarm to our people, our
Rapides constituency, and if "the
Court knows ITSELF" it won't soon
quit:
The unfortunate Glover, in his des-
perate endeavor to earn his pay as Grand
Inquisitor for fraud, developed the fact
that General Banning, the mountebank
Democratic military reformer of the
Confederate House, pocketed double
pay as an officer Of the army. o, DEM
ocratic reform! truly thy name is hum
bug!
A GREAT CAPTURE" The negro,
Cotton King, who murdered a white
man in Limestone County, Texas,