Louisiana capitolian., 1880-09-02
wARMoTH's BROTHER LAN1ER,
TIE RADICAL HOUND Or A TAX COL
LECTOR WHO SAID HE WAS ROB
BED of$l3,WO, AND FfLcHED
THEsTATE THROUGHTIils
FLIMsY EXCUSE.

THE STATE ETHROUGHTIiIS
FLIMsY EXCUSE.
For some time back the shameless
scoundrel and scalawag, LAN1ER,
who edits the North Louisiana Rep"b-
,ican in "Black East Carroll" as he
himselfstyled that unfortunate parish,
i'll which he and other yulturcs Of rad
icalism have been plundering the
people without mercy, by every ruth
less contrivance imaginable, started
and continued u campaign against
the Democratic party by publishing
most barefaced lies against General
Hancock and uttenng the yilest SIAN
ders against the Southern people, one
of whose lowest renegades he is. In
addition, he permitted himself to take
up some Of the editorials Of tho CAP
1roLIAN, as the butt Of his servile
criticisms. '
Weary of the brazen effrontery Of
this cur. we deemed it proper to url-
mask him by reproducing the charge,
openly made in the Constitutional
Convention, last summer, by Gov.
Warmotl, the elect Of the very party
which Lanier has been serving as q
tool, and for which service he has
lately been rewarded by being ap-
pointed to a deputyship in the Inter
nal Revenue Department, to the dis
grace Of the Republican administra-
tiOn:
This is, in substance, what Gov.
Warmoth said Of Lanier, in connec-
ton with the charge referred to:
"My Democratic friends lay much
stress on these er porte at,lorits, expe-
ciulty the one subscribed to by a Rcp"b-
lican (?) 'BRornER LANIER.' With
this in the most contemptuous tone,
he snecnngly added: "You all hno"
who Brother LANlER is. The samt
man, who, as d tar-collector, on his
way to make his settlements mith tn.
| State Treasurer Was robbed ~ on tht
truin IN some mysterious woy Of th'
sum of Thirteen Thousand Do'''rs
That's the R-e-e-pub'icun 'rhosc tesf'mo
ny carries so much ,rciyht against Mr.
Benham! :"
Thus was Lanicr proclaimed 4
THIEF by the Governor elected by hi
own party. Instead Of holding Gov
ernor Warmotll to a personal accoun
liability for 50 publica denunciat,ol'
like a couar1ly car Lanier resorted t.
the contemplate method usually pur
sued by scoundrels Of his species, il
pouring forth the coarsest tlenials o
an accusation entailing the wearing
of the striped clothes Of the conric'
A course which his ex-GOvcrno
treated with the silent contempt
deserved.
From good authority we hav
learned that in addition to his con
duet as u renegade Southerncr, he
Lanier, sank so low, as to admit ne
grocs at his home on - footing q
equality, thus bringing a blush on tn
check Of his worthy lady, who belong
to a highly respected family Of thi
parish; causing by such conduct, hi
estimable mother in law, to estrang
herself from her daughters roof an
= establish her residence in this city.
Were he possessed with singl
. spark of manhood he would hav
sought to encounter us, in resentmer
of the unmasking Of his vile cl,arat
ter through the columns Of the CArl
; ToLfAN.
But he has again resorted, while j
, search of notoriety, to the device I
addressing such miserable epithets
his p,,trid soul could suggest to hin
Lanier is one Of those beings, ~h
L arc dead IN public estimation" and
would bc i'll q manner reviving til
I, carcass to adopt towards him metl
: DDS usual amongst gentlemen. w
will not therefore descend to ayswt
his tissue Of lies. We could only, "
II would do, we're he to cross our patl
. lash him with the cowhide; the onl
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