Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-11-01
THE BEATTY FIAsO0.

THE BEATTY FIAsO0.
On Wednesday, after three hours of
active drumming, the Beattie combi-
nation drew a crowd Of about two
hundred spectators of all parties at
the State House grounds. Anthony
Benjamin, a colored republican, called
the meeting to order by suggesting
the name of John s. Chapman for
president and sundry others for vice.
presidents.
1t will be gratifying to the good men
in Maine to hear that '4ong John" has
re-ascended the rostrum, eager once
more to serve his country as our peo-
pie will remember he used to do in
the halcyon days Of carpet-baggery,
when he, Chapman, carried East Ba-
ton Rouge in his vest pocket. No
doubt the old trooper must have
dreamed of the November election of
1870, when he sat at the Courthouse
for nearly three days and nights until
fifteen hundred Radical majority were
figured up.
He must have remembered the time
when he ran through the commons
while sticking to those precious ballot
boxes like grim death to q decaying
carcass, and how Capt. Myers came
to the rescue with his bayonets, and
how sixty men from Baton Rouge
were penned up on revenue cutter
and from thence transferred to the
Parish Prison, at New Orleans, there
to be tried for their lives. And how
cannon were planted on our streets,
and the people driven home at night
fall at the point of the bayonet.
The good old days when he and
Allison, and Van Ornum and Lane,
and Slim Jake and all the other tel-
lows "drank the plague" mirthfully
to the people Of this parish, who have
not yet recovered from the "whitc
bleeding" that was given them by
himself and his associates.
Yes, it'll all come back again, won't
it, brother Chapman7 Beattie who
at that time, as a furious knight of
the White Camelia that he was, want
ed to draw straws to pick out men to
assassinate you aud yours, is now with
you on the same platform. Glory,
glory, hallelujah!
After Chapman's Introductory, Be-
attic talked to the boys to let them
know what a good friend of theirs he
was, and how it was that the new
constitution was not good because the
legislature would have no right to 60
in for Improvements, such as the Lake
Borgne canal and the Chattanooga
railroad and all those things that
turned out the warrants that the tax
payers have been saddled with, while
2l4 mills of taxes were being collect
ed. Such improvements as our Court
House and the Capitol, we suppose,
too. Then he limited that it wouldn't
be bad idea to try and break up the
Democratic party by voting into office
a few enterprising fellows. Well,
anything to make things agreeable
all around.
He was followed by Burwell, who
was seconded by Kennedy, who was
himself aided by the irrepressible J.
Henri.
1t was a love feast, in fact, but a
very weak revival; such an one as
denOteth that the old tactics are COM
pletely played out, and that our col
ored people are unwilling to listen
any longer to those appeals that
brought nothing but lawlessness, riot,
bloodshed, race conflicts, animosities
and the wholesale plumber Of the en-
tire people of the State.
After "the blessed Burch who Office
gives" came his ancient toaster, Col.
Smith, our patriotic and sclf-sacrific-
ing postmaster, who introduced a set
of resolutions as long as the moral
law, from which we extract the fol-
lowing in regard to our independents
| one that contains the milk in the
cOcoanut.'
Resolved, That the Republicans of
East Baton Rouge, in mass meeting as
scrubbed, do hereby endorse the action
of their Parish Committee, at meeting
held on Tuesday, October 18th, 1879, in
giving their hearty support to the can
didates on the Independent ticket, who
in turn promise free ballot and fair
count at the polls for our candidates on
| the State ticket.
After which the very enthusiastic
meeting adjourned.
| A little girl about four years old
and a little boy about six had been
cautioned not to take away the nest
| aor. Int ono mOrninO when <hav