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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-08-24
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is altogether too purile to notice
were it not for the unfair way in
which he tries to cover up his own
hideousness by throwing mud and
then calling on the public to look
Mt deforlnity of his own creation.
He takes advantage of courtesy to
do this dirty work. Knowing full
well the business of the cause we
advocate, and having implicit con-
fdence in the judgment and right
'eous decision of the citizens of
Grant parish, we give his entire
article, that they may Judge of the
man by his own language.
Because we referred to him as a
member of the ''tea party" which
he attended in the capacity of
Grand Mogul" Of the Republicans
of Grant parish, he grows exceed
ingly indignant, and offers it as an
excuse for his vilifying and abuse.
1t was true, and that was why it
CALLED him. AS Democrat, pub
fishing a Democratic paper, we
commented on a fact, and any allu-
sion to individuals was perfectly
legitimate and without personal
aspersion, good rule, which "Mac"
comes much nearer violating when
he claims that he was bulldozed
and swindled out Of an Office, and
that, too, when he had two Rspub-
hcan commissioners in his favor to
the Democrats one.
We do not claim to be an oracle,
nor to be entitled to any more con-
fdence than any other good citi-
zen, bat we do claim a right to an
opinion and the privilege of ex-
pressing it, and hold to the proud
boast that we represent the senti-
ments of nearly every advocate of
good government and common
honesty in the parish, be they
white or black.
His charge of "itineracy" we are
glad to admit. 1t is this that gives
us broad claim to the State of
our nativity. Our worthy Sire is
well known in all the land, and we
have neither kith nor kin that we
are not proud to own. It is not
desired to parade family ties, and
we only mention the fact for the
reason that our correspondent has
shown disposition to belittle us
with an inuendo. He talks of in-
termeddlers, tools, hirelings, etc,
IN q way that shows perfect un-
derstanding about them, but we
deny that they apply as used by
him. We use our own discretion
In any and every case, and have
taken issue with the proprietors of
this paper more than once, as is
well known to every one. We nail
any assertion to the contrary as
false In every particular. We are
an intermeddler because we rep
resent the claims of the majority
OF the people of this parish in OPP
position to Republican sschemers.
The Democratic party is ridiculed
because in two years it has not I'M
done the rascally work that the
Republican party was twelve long
years in consummating.
We have always been accustom-
ed to speak of the negro race as
such, and no sensible black man
objects to it in this sense. The
term ''nigger' we never use, and
the nearest approach ever made to
it by us is. when we speak of "nig-
gardly' white men, and, we are
sorry to admit, it has to be used |
in this sense quite frequently As
to that little game of "spider and
fly,' in regard to the ward officers,
..AIsc" will find that it viii be ac-
ceptable to nearly every sensible
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To the Delegates elect 10 the Democratic
Nominating toaeentioa for the Parish
of Grant:
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15

her constitution permitting the money Of
The State 10 De loaned to banks. The other
.iay Ihc Masiiu bsrk Ct Kansas City failed,
owing :hat State nearly 100000 deposited
by the State Treasurer. What the State
Constitution OF Missoari permits, Gov. An
thony would do by Law. The re-
su!t would be all the same.
After debluchipg the political
morals CT the Sta.e, ami building up a bub-
BE Of false credit, then would come a col
lapse and a total loss OF all the State funds.
No, no, Mr.. Governor. By your speech
Is last summer in New York and elsewhere,
you are slid to have made all Wall Street
happy. You proposed that Congress should
no: meet Tor the Lext ten years, not even to
repeal the bill jemoEetizing silver, not to
arres. the burning of greenbacks at the
rate OF three or four millions p,r month in
n crazy effort tOwards iorc>d r,suri y,ion
You now, in view OF the c1uye:..ion, throw
a very small tub TO the whale. You are
willing TO loan on. the tax-money, tit
trust money OF the State 10 Your pet bank.
to N IKE money plea.isr. That money
Governor il already devoted by law to 9th
or uses. IL can only return 10 channels 0
cumg.,ice a.t,r it shall have served tn,
purpose Tor which it was collected. 7;
loan it creates fi-s. false credit, next :
collapse. The country doah,less need
more money, but Congress, and not tn
State Treasurer iau-t nroyide IL.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
SiEl.I. ON Top.

The Cube DeMOcrot thinks Mr.. Tilden's
''bail money" is not yet exhausted, but is
still "on top and is the moving cause OF
the Potter investigation and the fraud
howls. The GL.Jc-Demo1dt says:
They are poorly gifted with political wis
dom who think the Fotte: committee was Or
ganizei 70 investigate facts, or TO ascertain
anything not already known 10 the public
Its mission was 10 keep ali-c the Claims of
Mr.. Tilden to the Democratic nomination.
'only this and nothing more" The frantic
fraud" shrieking of the New York Sun Is To
the same effect. Mr.. Tilden, with the Presi-
Dental bee still in his bonnet, and singing
more sharply than ever, coald not afford TO
allow himself to pass through four years
eclipse il he wished TO be before the people
in lSs0. so he relllied his historic "bari of
money" and has had IL on top since the deci-
sion of the Electoral Commission. From his
standpoint he has done wisely. He could
not hope TO entirely rekindle the fires OF
enthusiasm in his behalf in les0, so he con.
cluded 10 "IaIk them up" keeping heat
enough in them TO make them blaze out
fiercrly when they Sre stirred up two years
hence. For this purpose the Potter commit
tee, the New York San, an occasional letter
from Mr.. Manton Marble, and other such de-
vices, serve very well. They announce in
pretty emphatic tones that Mr.. Tilden sill
considers himself Presidential candidate
and that he VIII renew his claims III 1850,
backed by the pathetic story OF "fraaa"
which is now being worked up for him.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
An Incident of the Re bel Sr,ny.

\ tennessee paper, recounting some OF
the experiences OF Southern soldiers during
| the civil war, narrates that Edward Cooper
an artillery-man belonging to the Army OF
Northern Virginia, received letter from
his wife saying that provisions were so
scarce in her neishborhood that, unless he
CAM home, she and her children should
all starve to death. He tried in vain to
get furlough, and finally went to his suf-
tering family without leave. His wife, who
reioiced in his loyalty 10 the South, was 80
shocked when sine learned how he had come
TO her, that she begged him TO rejoin his
command. He did so as soon rs he had
relieved his family, and was duly arrested
and tried for desertion. lie declined coun-
sci and produced no witnesses; he merely
handed his wite's letter to the President OF
the court, who read il, ard, IN common
with his officers, was moved TO tears. New
srthe!ess, the court-it could not do other
erwise found him guilty Of desertion, and
sentenced him 10 death. Cen Lee review
ed the case, ard approved the sentence :;
but pardoned the prisoner, and ordered
him 10 report at once to his battery. 4
better soldier than Cooper, Lees army
did not contain. He went through the
war safely, and is said 10 be still living, in
dus:rious and coLtented, in the bosom OF.
his family.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
HEAVILY IaVOIyrD

ID. X. Abeel, Esq, manager of the Kan
sas City Journal, publishes a statement ovel
his own signature, to the effect that the in,
debtedness of his paper is now ten housanc
dollars! We knew the Journal was badly In
debt, burwe had no idea it was involved &c
that extent A debt OF ten thousand dol
lars, steadily becoming heavier, presents a
very discouraging prospect for these time:
when all losing institutions are being driv
en- to the wall. Judging from the number
of assessments that have been levied on the
stockholders, to make up DEFICIENCIES, we
had no idea that the Indebtedness of the
Journal could be more than FIVE thousand
and even that sum, without any prospect
OF ever reducing it, is very heavy debt OF
carry.
The best thing Mr.. Abel can do now is
to levy an assessment of about fl
ty per cent. on HE stockholders
and pay off the debts of the Journal. 1t is
nominally worth twenty thousand dollars
fifty per cent. on this would relieve it of
debt, and then by careful management, it
might be able to pay its way. We sympa-
thize with the Journal in lis financial diff
culties, and are willing to do anything we
can to help it along-for We believe tina,
Kansas City ought 10 support Republican
paPer-but the stupid and laundering
manner in which the Journal has been con-
Quoted renders its prospects almost hope
lsss
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15

diences. He repudisted the very though.
Of such humiliation; affirmed his deter
mination to be guided BY pure, unaduItera-
ted Sand-lot inspiration. To the cons. =
nation Of his admirers, his speech in Hos-
ton comes over the wires radia.orv w,-h
science ard eloquence which Is ps.i.ciiy
bewildering. His grand cuicgv cf Gep,r.
Butler was taken teztualiiy from Ton,
Fitch, the silver-tousued orator ard -
Congressman from Nevada, on the occas;o-
Of the ratification meeting OF Hsyss and
Wheeler, held on June p, 1876. To con
sole the wourisd spirit OF Speaker Elaine
Fitch said
LET NE give brief utterance 70 Tia
feeling CT many thousand of earnest repre-
senta;ives. And send message O.
love and greeting TO him who is lesser thar
Macbeth, yet greater; fiery, yet upconquer
able-t Rupert OF debate, the chivalrous
white-plumed Navarro Of the platform. s
sagacious statesman, great-hearted leader
gifted, gallant, glorious Blaine"
Take out Blaine and pu, in Butler, ana
there you have Kearney's eulogisu, in Fan,
I euil Hall.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
sraIE.oNNENrInN.

We give blow partial list OF the dele
gates 10 the State Convention, classified ac-
cording to ihcir preferences for the three
mos; prominent candidates. In this list
we give only those counties that have in
slruc;.d their delegates, or that are conced-
cd, By all parties, to go as indicated.
This list gives Col. Martin, one hundred
ard forty nine delegates, four more than
enough to nominate All OF these votes
are certain for Martin, the most OF them
having been instructed TO vote for him.
and in addition to these there is every
probability tha, he will &c; at leas; hall
of the counties not here reported.
We have left Leavenworth county among
the unknown, while there no reason TO be-
liove that more than two Its ten votes will
be against Martin, but in order to give none
but those tha: are SL We have left il out
Wyanjotte, also, is lett out Of The list, be
cause George 1's friends have claimed it
Col. Cobb is at the head OF the delegation
and will support George about a. much a:
We would, nevertheless, We have left it out
Of the lis, and still there is majority o.
the whole convention for Ma lin.
The 10 votes here given are certain ior
Martin, and in addition 10 these we ere
confident that he will get at least tSeniy'
FIVE Of those no; here reported, giving him
clear majoriiv, on first ballet, Of abou.
thirty votes over all competitors:
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
From Lincoin County.

LINCOLN CENTRE, Kan, August 4, '7s.
EDITOR TIMES oh for lodge in some
vast ice house. Oh for ten minutes OF the
day We froze both our ears, and every pump
in the town froze and busted On, these
doggoned dog days, A kingdom for a
chill or rafting, roaring, fresh and frisky
Polar wave. Alas that we are short OF
kingdoms, 4 little of this weather goes a
great ,ys. 1t goes for the butter and con-
verts it into liquid in the shortest possible
time it goes for paper collars at the rate
of two a minute, and the perspiration rolls
Of hot enough to melt cold chiseI; COM
fort is out of the question.
Come tell me. Oh we gentle breezes
That fail tonight 10 stir the tire, ses,
Is there not some spot, some place or nook
Where the heat does not completely cook
Poor, sweltering mortals, and echo an
swers, not in Kansas.
DIR. Il. +. Bryant and Samuel Bartlett
were elected delegates to attend the con-
vention at Manhattan, and Mr.. w. y. Ad-
ans and Capt. W. w. Andrews to attend
the Topeka convention. The Phillips par
~ got away with the baggage slick. Poll
tics is beginning to warm up live.
An old man named Spencer died and was
buried here on Sunday.
A couple Of heavy weight fruit tree ped
oilers had knock-down on Sunday, the
one accused the other of slandering his
wife, the accused refused to take back what
he had said, when the ruction went on till
the party with the slandered better-hslf
sent the other to grass, leaving him with a
badly demoralized countenance, whilst be.
the knocker, skipped out in hurry.
The iron bridge built across the Saline
river near here BY Mr.. REESE is causing
considerable dissatisfaction, some how. en-,
igrants claiming they have been compelled
to pay fifty cents for crossing with q two
horse team. The county should buy the
bridge if it can reasonably.
A drug store is offered for sale at this
place a good site tor some one.
Green and Jackson are about to build an
addition to their livery stable, which Is con.
sidered the hest building of its kind in this
part of the State.
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Talk to the gold-bug newspapers abou
appropriaung money Tor great public i'm
provements, thus opening up field Tor the
unemployed. and they set up howl tina
reverberates through the land.
Talk about getting up a war with Mex,
| leo, where hundreds of millions would be
expended for war purposes, and where
hundreds of millions more would be de-
stroyed, and they announce, as did Chica-
80 gold-bug paper yesterday, that "there
popular one. Thousands of idle men
throughout the land would welcome il
with Joy"
No hesitation in expanding government
money to kill people and destroy property
That's all legitimate and praiseworthy. 1t
is only the upbuilding of the land, the saw
ing OF human life, the appropriation of
money for the purposes of peace and ma
tional development that is vicicu., un-
worthy, unconstitutional, and every way
despicable
The blinded and crazy communist asks
Government appropriations to put the poor
above want, and the idle at work in living
paths. For this he is denounced, rallied at,
dubbed, and shot, ii need he, as danger
Gus and incendiary lunatic. But here is
Chicago newspaper-and it is only . type
OF hundreds OF Others all around us-that
halls with joy the prospective expenditure
OF the public money for purpose the most
dreadful and terrible known 70 humanity,
the slaughter Of men, the beggaring of fam
lilies, the orphanage of children. 1t clasps
its hands in glee at the prospect. 1t gloats
over the cowardly tact that the United
States is the stronger, and can, therefore,
get up war with safety. 1t discusses not
the justice OF such war, it cares little for
that necessity the absence of which makes
war the highest crime on earth. 1t only
knows that war would make times coed,
and so it favors hostilities, at the same time
it turns around to kick the poor tramp who
suggests that there is cheaper and more
civilized and enlightened way of lifting the
burdens that oppress the people. Which
is the wiser? which the Drawer? which the
more humane? which the most Christian
like-the editor or the tramp?
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
ALL RIGHT NOW.

EDITOR TINES :-Leavenworth is now
all right. The thing is fixed. A Leaven.
worth man sure.
Coney, Shreve, johnson and Miller have
been reinforced. Besrdsley has arrived
with headquarters at the office of the p p,
and under the immediate CONN., and Of ex-
Marshal Miller.
Beardsley, the fraud and dead beat, has
come to Leavenworth, as he says, to send q
Leavenworth man to Congress.
He was formerly a resident of Montgom-
cry county, and was forced to leave that
county on account of his various attempts
to swindle the county. He now claims to
be resident of New Mexico. Come 10
give US a Congressman. Bah,
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
40 Levy in Douglas Conni,

Last week peremptory writ Of mandam-
us was served upon the County Commits
sioners ordering them TO make levy, on
the first Monday in August, TO pay railroad
bond coupons. The Commissioners did not
make the levy and there are sure oviden-
ces that the people will stand by them.
The expressions that came from the mas
meetings held at Clinton and Eudori show
the s.uiimen, Of the people in The county,
aud as for this city it is well known fact
that the sentiment Is strongly against lc-
w There must be an crd 10 this bond
business either by compromise OF hy fight,
ing it out. An end whatever it may &c is
desirable as the present condition OF things
is in;oierable. Now comes the tug Of war,
bat the people and their commissioners are
bound To I've triumphant.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
te,rC snMr;Tri,rs.

The crsziest phase OF communism that
has been developed il this country is that
which has lately shown itself in California
in the destruction CT grain stacks. We
can understand the motives OF men in de-
slroy ing agricultural machines 10 thus
make work for themselves, but what ED
they can hope TO accomplish by destroy
lac he grain after il has been gathered,
We are 1t loss 70 Imagine. The st. LOUIS
ReggJlis1n Of the 9Th says:
The discovery o what appear 10 he traces
OF an oTginizcd conspiracy in California 10
bum the grain stacks in certain regions has
created intense excitement in that state.
Threats were made as long ago as last sint6r
that rs soon as the present cop in Santa
Clara was harvested i; would be destroyed,
but Il the time little attention was PAID 10
them About ten days ago fire broke out In
a grain reid, near san jose, which burned
stacks wo.; IA about soc L was regarded as
an accident. y few dsys a:ter|ards a grain
clipper cove rcd with siTa| and standing IN a
field in the same neishbOrhood was fired ami
burned. Two hours later the stubb!e in the
vicinity of the thrt shin g.mach!ne on the
same farm caught fire, but the flames were
extIngu:She7l before Tuuc!I damage WAS done
\ fcx days afIerward, eight o'cio k in the
morning. the workman on 4 arm IN the
sans neighlnglIOUI PAW fire fash up i'll Il
distant quarter of the field; they hastencd TO
the spot and b, gan Ia cNtinsuish the flames
and while doing 81 three other flies broke
oct AT different points in the field. Blu; for
the prompt rXaT iO..s OF the IaboTerS, who
finally put the fires ont, they would have
extended to n district miles in length cover
cd with uncut but ripe grain. Ga making an
ilycs;ig cation il was found that each FIRE had
been caussd by a lighted candle stuck on
SIN wire thrust in the ground in the midst
OF heap of dry SHAW. The apparatus had
evidently been set At night and trimmed so
that the candles would burn down to a GER
tain point and set the Held afire about the
same instant, the iucenIiaTy making his es.
cape in the III. awhile. The farmers of San
Ia Clara county are greatly exaspcraied at
these plots, and have organized to detect the
iEccndiaries, If possible. II one should be
found hc would be lyncicd on the spot.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
GOV. aNTHONY,S DEVIL FISH.

Gov. Anthony had scheme before the
last Legislature to parcel out the monies
of the State Treasury among five banks to
be selected by himself and one or two other
State officers. The number Of banks was
afterwards, We believe. enlarged in the bill
to ten. But the Legislature killed the
bill.
Th5se ten banks-pets of the Governor
would have been centres of political inllu-
cnce. They would have bestrode the State
like COLOSSUS. The Governor in his Law
renee speech still laments their loss. He
would doubtless revive hisdanserouss scheme
ii reelected. Every bank in the State will
have the promise of being made deposit
tory, ii by that means votes can be secured
to the measure. The era Of "will-cat" will
begin.
The Governor gives as reason for the
measure that now there are from $3.50, 600
to $3.50, 900 tied up in the State Treasury,
practically contracting the currency to that
extent and always an invitation TO burg
lars.
A tax ridden people would naturally sus-
gest 10 the Governor tina. the money had
better be left little longer with the tax
payers. 1t will be safer and will do more
good.
The loaning OF the State money By the
State Treasursr-o or by five or ten pet banks
is no. TO be tolerated. The present system
of requiring State and county funds to be
held BY the several trcasurers is the only
true one. To loan them endangers their
safety. Political influence would control
in the designation of the repositories, and
favoritism would wink at the taking of
straw bonds. The State would soon be in
the hands Of financial ring. A false sys-
tenn of credit would be created, and when
the State would need her money ii would
be missing some pleasant morning.
The State Of Missouri has proyiuon in
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-08-15
kear Eey AT IaEsniI II all.
INu,t- Nnrh Ir.rnIll

Mr.. Ke.rney disappoints us. He ma
not yet learned the difference between
scolding and reasoning. Moreover he i.
too full of himself-too self-conscious, and
his fsiends ought to tell him tina, this is al
ways sign OF weakness. Whatldifference
does it make to him whether the pres.
or the telegraph misrepresents him? To
take up part of his evening in Faneuil
Hall with a defence of himself was to
make his opponents laugh and his friends
blush. Practical men do not get up before
an audience OF three thousand people 10
talk about themselves.
He remarked that Of the sixty thousand
words in the English language he had pos
sessed himself Of few hundred; but il
must presently have occurred to a good
many OF his audience that he had m ade a
very poor selection. "Leche,ous. thieyiny
bondholders," railroad robber-," "rancor-
Qua, villisnous political bummers," "cu,-
throats,' political bilss," "midnight as
sassins," Lying scalawag-," Classical
there's" illegal pirates" -feapitalistic
thieves" and LAM rob5ers'-these are the
favorite words in his vocabulary; and 4
public speaker is out a tyro who thinks he
has to use such strong language to make an
impression. We recommend TO Mr.. Kear-
ney the advice which it is said Wendell
Phillips once gave TO an energetic Young
speaker: "Never call man a liar" he
said prove that he is one; tina: il ten
times more effective