The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-05-09
A Difference.

government at the marshaEs sale,
and saws, in view of the refusal
of Congress to appropriate money
to enable the Secretary OF the lnte-
rior to continue the log war, the
proposition of agent Adams to sell
us the logs, and remove she troops
and government officials from Cai-
casieu. is a nice arrangement to en-
able the Secretary to escape res
possibility for the outrages on our
people. In the same connection
the Democrat reminds our people
that they should vindicate them
selves from the charges OF the adj
ministration press that they are
thieves and outlaws, by refusing to
make any compromise with the gov
eminent, and advises them to im-
tate the example of the Caddolum-
bermen, by refusing to accept amy
terms other than an unconditional
surrender of their property.
Now if there were anything like
q parallel between the Caddo and
Calcasieu cases, the advice OF the
Democrat would be very appro-
pirate. The misfortune with us is
that last September all our logs
were sold at marshal's sale, and be-
fore the present investigation com
menced, by far the greater part OF
those bid in at the sale by Carter,
in the name of the government, had
been sold by him, and by virtue Of
a compromise, nearly all the defend
ants in the log suit had confessed
Judgment, and all the intervenors
therein but two had abandoned
their interventions, on the govern
ment paying all costs. And the
owners of the remnant OF logs
bought in for the government at
the log sale, being mostly unable
to buy them again from Garter,
were forced to suffer them to be
bought in by other parties within
the last and present week.
The Calcasieu people then--ex-
cept the few litigating their rights
i'll New Orleans-have no property
left to contend for. They are now
engaged i'll proving up, before the
special agents here, the scoundrel-
ism and diabolism with which the log
war was wased against them, and
that is the only thing they can do.
The State Central Committee
of the Democratic Conservative
party met in the city of New Or
leans on the LIST inst. and adopted
the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the convention
of the Demoeratie-C onservative
party of Louisiana be held on the
first Monday of August, 1878.
Resolved, That II convention of
the Democratic Conservative party
of Louisiana be held at Baton
Rouge for the purpose of nomina-
ting a candidate for State Treas
1urer and members of Congress for
the various congressional districts
of this State.
Resolved, That the apportion-
ment of representation 10 said con-
vention shall be one delegate for
each two hundred votes east for
the Democratic Conservative can
didate for Governor in 1876, and
each fractional number less than
200 and exceeding 100 shall be
entitled to enc delegate.
Resolved, That inasmuch as in
certain parishes dissensions exist
ed during the last campaign,
whereby opposing factions nomin-
ated double sets Of officers, which
resulted in the loss ofseveral men,
bers of the Legislature; and mas
much as these dissensions, if con
tinued, will seriously leopard the
Democratic prospects in certain
localities, that the President of the