The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-10-23
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democrat in Calcasieu parish, and tel
him just how much depends upon his
own vote on the second day of Novem
Der. Previous to the late elections in
Ohio and Indiana the republican party
managers realized that their party was
carrying a fearful load in the shape Of
Garfield and Arthur, and it was an open
secret that they were aiming princi.
| pally to capture enough congressman
and State legislatures to give them the
control Of the next Senate and House
of Representatives, SO that iuthe event
of Iiancock's election, which they CON
sidered probable, they could at least
control the national Legislature and the
national treasury.
Their unexpected success in Ohio
and Indiana has given them strong
hopes of Garfield's election, and now
they arc straining every nerve, and
raising every possible dollar, to restore
the Federal government in all its de-
partinents, executive, Legislative and
judicial, to the control of their party.
If they do that The southern states
wiH no longer be recogntzed as having
any rights which the republican party
is bound to respect.
We arc no alarmist nor fanatic. We
are neither Bourbon nor conservative.
We are simply democratic, nothing
more nor less, and we speak calmly,
deliberately, sorrowfully. The one
great aim of the republican party in
this campaign has been to arouse in
| the minds of our northern, eastern and
western brethren q jealousy and dread
of "thc solid SOUTH" Shamelessly
ignoring the fact that the most glorious
period in the history of the Union was
that when southern statesmen and
southern presidents had a very large
share in the management of the gen
eral government, the republican party,
born of hatred to southern institu-
tions, has made the civil war Of nearly
twenty years ago the prctext for an
endless political crusade against "thc
south"
And now that the south, in addition
to its other high crimes and INSIDE
meanors, has been guilty of treason to
the republic by becoming .isolid" for
the democratic party, the republican
party leaders point their northern au-
dicnces to the 1873 solid electoral votes
of 'tthe south" for the democratic can
didate for the presidency, and say
'The south needs only As more votes
from the loyal states to elect demo
cratic president, and when that is done
the men who fought for the Union
must go to the rear, and .rcbelahriga-
diers' will lord it over the intelligence
and the wealth and the patriotism of
all the other sections of the Union, and
general prosperity will be succeeded
by anarchy and ,utterrruin.''
Therefore they cry ont for solid
north against this insolent and mis-
chicvous solid south, and just so surely
as they succeed in making the north
solid against the south, and get re-
publican president to execute the will
of a republican Senate and House Of
Representatives, and republican Su-
preme Court to back both, they will
take one step further in their mad
scheme of Capitalization of power, and
enact and enforce laws to crush s.tlie
solid south, in comparison with which
the reconstruction acts, and the Mill
tary despotisms Hereunder, will be
looked back upon by southern men
who are alive to-day as among the
mildest forms of republican party OPP
preston. sa
The democratic majority in the SEN
ate and House Of Representatives has
beenthe only obstaclesto the terrible
evils we refer-to. Let every democrat
in Calcasien parish know Of surety
that upon his individual vote depends
the question whether the republican
party can count on the vote of g. B..
Darrall insthc 47th Congress on the
question Of whether that party shall
make, as has been threatened, an 1re-
land ofthe south.
To-day the democratic partyin the
Third District is united on Hon. John
S. Billiu, its nominee for Congress.
To-day the republican party is divided
ID this district, and has two candidates,
Darlall and Landry. Weeanelect our
candidate if VIC will register and cote
for him. We can defeat him by not
registering, or'by staying at home on
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