The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-01-24
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81 pUllticluuS VINO remain h6f,
have been discussing to-day tw,
rumors which lpointlin directly OPP
posite directions. The FIRST rumol
asserts that Mr.. Evarts and Mr.
'Conkling are getting rsconciled
the Secretary of State and.the Sen
ator from New York mean here.
after to act in accord, and that
they have agreed that the Secreta-
ry of the Interior and the Post
master General shall be offered up
as sacrifices on the alter of peace.
The second runner asserts that
Mr.. Evarts will soon resign his
place in the Cabinet, because he
finds it inconvsnient to sacrifice
his law practice and not practica.
bic to combine it with the duties
of the State Department. Both
rumors are probably false, but
both attract a good deal of atten-
tion here To-day.
Gen. Buffers speech before the
Middlesex Club, in Boston, has also
been atopic of conversation among
anti-Hayss Republicans to whom it
isvery acceptable. Aneniment por-
son of this faction who was here a
few daysago, being asked his opin-
ion of the political future, gave the
following forecast, which differs
from Gen. Buffers address only in
that it more definitely lays out q
programme: tine silver bill will
passs" he said, land will become a
law, bat with the reservation that
silver shall not be used to pay off
bonds or to pay duties. For all
other purposes it will become a
legal tender for all amounts"
do you not think this will so
alarm capital as to cause still
greater depression and prevent
new enterprise being started?'' he
WAS asked. i
"Not at ali he replied" on the
contrary. it will give us a period of
renewed good time. All business
will feel the stimulns of this infa-
lion, and capitalists will give way
and go in with the rest. But what
i think of more Importance by far
than this is.that the passage OF the
silverbillwill pntthe currency ques-
ton out OF politics. On that both
parties are split up. When it be-
comes q law the Republican party !
will once more be a solid army, and I
will Immediately tnrn it's attention !
to the South to inquire what 1
has become of the Southern Re- ,
publican party. That inquiry it
will prosecute to the end. You c
will see that all our platforms next u
fall will talk only of the South, and p
will demand to know what has be- ?
come of the Republican majorities p
in those States. They will insist "
On the use of every law on the
statute books and of every power ;;
by the Federal Govern q
nent under the amendments, to ii
'e-establish and TO maintain the = Z.
Republican voters in the South; lii
where as 10 Mississippi and other E =
States, these voters have disap- ca
,earsd. This will be taken as pt
proof of intimidation, and where, W.
rs ia Louisiana and South Carroll
IA, the Republicans elected their. :
Governors, it will be demanded
hat they SHALL be reinstated by II
he Federal force and maintained
y the same" M
''iDo you not believe that other
md new questions will occupy the =
'ublic mind?"
mo. This question takes pre-
edence of all Others. On it we a.
an arouse the North and ssolidify
be Repubiican party, and you will
90 that this will be the Issue in
$50. A. TO the President, he fads q
imself in An untenable position.
t is q mistake to think that be can
OF along withouta party. He cam
OF, and he will! have to surrender.
he few supporters he now has I'll
mong Republicans will be forced
abandon him unless he does,
nd be CAD not stand alsne. Hell =
not Q strong man, and he will
nd that his seivii-scrsice -reform m
lsas and his Southern policy are