The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-10-18
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Judge Ludeling, Radical candidate
for Congress from this district for the
46th Congress, has been on the stump
In the hill parishes west of this speaks
to-day at louisville, this parish, and
tomorrow In Monroe. What will be
the outcome of the stumping tour Of
our illustrious 5ex-Chief Justice, we
know not; but we can say, with salts
faction and with sincerity, that we are
glad he has gone into the s'mountains"
of this district, and shown the people
out there a living personification Of the
almost-forgotten wrongs and injuries
they have suffered under Radical igno-
rance and tyranny. Whether 1t was
the devil Of Radicaltsm, or the good
angel OF Democracy, that possessed
Judge Ludeling to 60 into the strong
hold of the Democracy Of this district,
we know not we are perfectly we'll
satisfied that he has been there, and
with the fact that the people have had
an opportunity to see and hear the
Judge. 1t has revived, we dare say,
recollections necessary to survive all
the hancied grievances Of the present,
If this people would be free! A more
eloquent expounder of the sufferings
of Louisiana could not be found than
Judge Labelling; his very presence Is
eloquent, and we arc glad, we repeat,
he has entered the canvass and gone
among the people. ,s'la 81: 400 = Il
;y What has been the subject of Judge
Ludeling's speeches, we are not in
formed but we will not do history the
violence to assume, even, that he has
pretended to have made q single effort,
although long in power, to lift the
struggling white people of this State,
SO sadly in want, out of a long contest
with distress and ignorance. We will
not assume that, SO far as his political
record goes, he would say there is
aught in it, since in 1868, to commend
him to any virtuous, honest, intelli-
gent Democrat. He has much to ex-
plain to satisfy the people whom he
has been addressing. That we admit.
But what Judge Ludeling can explain |
in, his record since 'Gs, that does not
explain itself, is more than we can sur |
misc. He has shown a sovereign con-
tempt for explanations - when no
knew his acts were seriously arraign-
ed and an equally sovereign contempt
for the wishes of tho very people whose
suffrages he now seelSS In fact, when /
In office, Judge Ludsiing seemed to be |
as Indifferent to theA Enlightened public |
sentiment of this State as an inhabitant |
of Greenland. No one, seeing and !
knowing him then, could have sup
posed that that man would have asked |
the people for their votes; or would
not have thought he scorned the
vulgar herd upon whom he then looked
not only with indifference but with
apparent contempt.
But the whirligig of politics and of
time makes wondrous changes in this
wooden world, which has, now and
then, its ages of iron. It is not our
purpose to taunt Judge Ludeling with
his fall, nor to commend to him the
dying reflections of Cardinal Wolsey.
He is familiar with the quotation, no
doubt, and his contact with the people
to whom he has appealed for support
will supply him, if we mistake not,
with undying reflections over his past.
The TELEGRAPH has let Judge Lude-
ling have his quiet run, much as the
party of which he has been the real
chief has injured us and outraged the
people. We have never considered
Judge Ludeling running-except, from
his own shadow. He has not stood |
before us a giant, but simply a dwarf,
the gaunt, harmless spectre of by-gone |
usurpation. The wonder is that Judge
Ludeling, the petrificd monument of
Radicalism, should pretend to breathe.
That he does, is very wholesome po-
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