The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-11-22

"Nus wv bt vs. ~ ~
for tear of bringing want and
misery to their homes and on |
their wi, rs ana children.
We have charged. and we re
peat it, that the pretended cleo.
ton OF Vim. Pitt Kellogg to the
United States Senate was a fraud,
a crime, a job ~rivaling even this
pretended convention in andacity,
because enacted under the forms
and soIemnities of law.
He il a weight OH the Repub
lican party they cannot carry,
nor shall the party have our as
sistance while he is Endorsed and
recognized az the head or even II
leader in it.
In our first address, and in our
reports to the President aud to
Secretary Sherman, on the man
agement of Federal affairs in New
Orleans, We showed that Kellogg
had eighty persons appointed
by his direct influence that he
had thirty-Onc members OF the
Legislature that elected him all
in Federal positions in New Or
leans, and that the Returning
Board :.had thirty nine, besides
themselves, in the Custom House.
These are the men who advO
Gated the resolution indorsing
Kellogg, nominated the ticket
and fixed the new party machine
~, and carried it through by
their votes all holding lucrative
positions in governmental service
by the direct advocacy of Kellogg
and, Notwithstanding his col
lar and bound to bark when he
pulls the chain.
We dcnounce the pretended
convention as fraud. we de
nOumce the ticket nominated as
an insult to Union soldiers and
the Union cause, II reflection Oh
our service in the Union army
and ennobling .hat for the Con
federacy, a total abandonment Of
the principles OF OH party. and
leading us in Il Scrub-race for
place aud power, made by two
COnfedcrate %Brigadiers. where
eacl, tries to outbid the other for
the votes of those who tried to
destroy the Union.
This ticket is destined to be
overwhelmingly defeated at the
polls and in the returns: and that
convention knew .it-kmew their
nominations were u farce.
Therefore, friends, neighbors,
Union suldiers and soldiers and
aad sailors, Union men and Re
pnhlicans. I've advised: stay al
home! DO NOT VOTE! Wait till
We complete our organization ot
brave old Union soldiers and sail
"rS to give you projection and see
il fair count.
Wait till until We drive this in
famous Kellogg aud his dupes
satellites and harlnes from thri'
official POSITIONS and pretended
leadership in tho patty. Thel
will We ask yUu tn join us in the
Union Republican party whicl
has been redeemed. r.cncrate,
and diSrmthralled from its corrupt
leaders, and, madei pure by it,
Affections, shall shine, an thu
morning sun in the glory of its az
Movements and its prot. elton Il
American citizens wherever thu
flag floats, and fulfilling the il
junction OF David, "That he VIII.
rules men must he inst, ruling il
the fear OF God"
Your committee also call attei
iiOn to the fact that since Oul
former reports were made, show
ing the fact that Kellogg hat
thirty one members in teh LegisI;
ture that elected him, appointed
to lucr tive pDSit oas in the Fed.
raj service, We have reinvestjgatet
the subject matter and find thu
number has been INCREASED to ii
ty.six. aud yet there are 10 vacal
cies for Union soldiers
Your committee cannot, in jus
tice to this association, close this
report without calling attention
to the serious attempt, made on
two different occasions, to assas
sinate yOnr commander. We r.
probate, ip the strongest man
ner, such conduct rs unworthy al
manhood and tue civilization ia
which We live.
But when we remember the
foul murder of Perkins, Long aud
Bradley aid the attempted assas
simation of Wilde and others.
while laboring to bring to justice
the parties guilty Of the most stu.
pendOus rObbcrles, acting us loca|
rings, but whose at1inities aud
connections with the political