The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-06-27

approaching fall election prevails
among the democracy of the cOun-
try precincts. We regret to ac
knowledge this, but it lis a fact, tile
serious Significance OF which cannot
too soon nor too publicly be pro,
claimed. 1T the success OF regis
trars of voters in the other demo
cratic parishes, iii the matter freq
Iistration, lis no better than that OF
our registrar up to this date, and
if the same indisposition TO register
prevails there ash here, it's q tOregOne
conclusion that Louisiana nil eject
nect JaH a republican n,qjority Of
senators, representatives and con-
grcssme,l, and possibly a republican
State treasurer!
| is it possible that after all the
evils Louisiana has suffered from
republican party nisrllle, and after
she has 80 recently emerged from
the worse than Egyptian bondage
of radicalism, that her democratic
hosts are about to lay down their.
arms, and surrender to a defeated
foeY Is it possible that they will
hand over our beloved State to the
lcowardly vampires who sucked her
life blood almost all away, and who
were solateIy driven from her pros
trate and bleeding formg lsitpos
sible that the Kelloggs and Pack
ards and Andersons are again to
rule and ruin Louisiana, and that
competency and intelligence in our
State Legislature are to be supplant
ed by ignorance and venality? Is
it possible that in addition to this
foul picture we are to witness the
revolving spectacle of republican
majority in the next House of Rep
resentatives at Washington
Yes-all this is not only possible,
but absolutely certain, unless the
democracy of Louisiana arouse from
their present Indifference to a sense
of the necessity of thorough reg
istration, and of a full and straight
democratic vote at fheneXt election.
The saddest thing about this ter
rible Decentralization in the demo
cratic ranks, is the fact that the
Very cause which mainly produced
it is advocated by many dem
0crats as the only hope of de
mocratic victory, and that is the
ruinous system, or rather want of
system, of independent candidacy
for Office. The blind leaders of the
blind cry out now as they didwhen
they or their leaders were TRYING to
capture the republican vote, 1.-The
more candidates the better; they
only can wake up the people, and
bring out a full voter These men
in their mad thirst for office, have
broken up and ,dem0ralized the de
mocratic party by steadily setting
their faces against democratic or
ganlzation, and democratic nomina-
tions, and now, when the party
must be organized, and disciplined,
and united, orIbemost ignominious-
4 ~ routed by the solid phalanx Of
republicallism, they insist that a
host OF independent candidates is
necessary to bring out "a full voter
4 In the name of common reason and
OF common safety, what is the use
OF "a full democratic vote if ii lis split
| up and parcelled outam0ng a crowd
OF democratic candidates for the
same office, while the republican
vote is cast solidly for a single re
publican candidateg
lake our senatorial district, fo,
example. lit hasa clear democratic,
majority of one Thousand votes
pronded the democrats register AMI
pote. Suppose they do, and Nots
4 their full vote, and divide that yot.