The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-10-09
THE LOUISIANA DE MOCRAT.

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An article In the last issue of We
the People assails this paper and its
Editor without cause and for mali
cious purpose, and with unblushing
impudence born Of the courtesy
which has heretofore been extended
to a stranger, whose antecedents are
wholly unknown and whose proclivi-
ties are too well known for his good,
the Editor of that paper presumes to
advise the Democratic party of this
Parish as to the requisites of a pro.
per organ to give expression to its
views. We are sorry that we cannot
return the compliment and say that
it is our opinion that We the People
and its Editor are not fiji representa-.
tions of the thieving Radical party
which stole and robbed US of our
money and of the Returning Board,
which falsifed and swindled US out
of successive triumphs at the ballot
box. Ofthat party and of the Return
ing Board, "We the People, is a
suitable and proper champion, and
when it seeks to force its advice up
on the Democratic party of this Par.
ish, we deem it but right to say that
the party spurns the advice as it
contemns the source from which ii
emanates.
Under the new management of the
paper, as announced elsewhere, it is
but just to the former editor of the
DEMOCRAT that we should avail our.
selves of this first opportunity to say
that his paper throughout the whole
ten years of our struggle with the
corrupt Radical party has always
been for, of and with the people Of
this Parish, and that in the darkest
days and in the hottest of our con.
tests with Radicalism, it has always
been to the front waging battle foa
our rights and encouraging us with
the hopes of victory in spite Of swim
ding Returning Boards and the bay.
onets of United States soldiers. The
DEMOCRAT has never wavered, and
when "We the People, attacks it be.
cause of unwholesome truths it has
in the past told of J. Madison Wells,
the owner of that paper and the boss
Of it's presuming young man, who is
we'll known to be only a figure head,
we deem it to he our simple duty in
the premises to say, that the charges
brought against the DEMOCRAT in
said article are false and give our ties,
timony to the fact that said charges
are unwarranted and without founda.
ton except in the fertile imagina'
ton of the Editor of that paper
AS to what the same article says
in reference to John DeLacey, that
has been sufficiently answered in an
other part of this paper.
In conclusion, we have this to say
to the Editor of "We the People"
that as he seems to be boiling over
with anxiety to End somebody who
is responsible, that be can at any
moment, any time and at any place
find some one who is entirely res.
ponsible for whatever appears in Che
columns of this paper, aud for fea,
that he may not be pleased with the
first he comes to, we hereby give
him the privilege of selecting any
one of US who have signed the docu.
ment published in another column
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j. MADISON WELLS and his sat,
elites are trying hard to deceive the
unsuspecting honest white man with
'Workingmen's party" "Greenback
party" and independent party
Where is there man that will &C.
knowledge that he is so Ignorant
that he can be duped by Wells?-
Where has the old Returning Board.
er been since the war9-always with
the enemies of the South. Can it be
possible that he can deceive any one
in Rapides Parish? We think not
We claim that the Democratic party
is the Workingman's party, but We
do not mean to take ignorant ne.
groes and corrupt white men and
ask the honest voters to elect them
but have placed before the people
Elan, Wise, Jefiries, Thornton and
Paul, all honest and capable. Car
that ticket be defeated by such 8
mongrel one as is thrown together BY
Wells and his Custom House pimpsi
We appeal to the few white mer
who have strayed of to return ant
assist your friend, in this election