The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-09-24
a VOICE FROM THE COUNTRY.

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Congress at Carrollton Saturday.
Judge Houston appears not to have
gone before the convention, as was at
first intended, because, we suppose, OF
some alleged innovation In the man.
ner of selecting delegates and the call
ing of the convention for day said 10
be carly. Judge Houston announcer
In advance. however, that his ohjec-
tions should not culminate in bolt
but that regarding the matter Ms one
,o.,,t;natclv under the direction of the
people, he would leave it with them.
Papers as late as Monday, do not con-
tain ANYTHING tending to show, either
nv public meetings or editorially, that
any serious dissatisfaction exists with
the action of Mr.. Ellis's friends or the
convention, and we infer that his
nomination will be heartily sustained
and his past brilliant course in Con-
gress and in State emergencies tri-
UNI phantly endorsed by big majority
over his competitor, Judge Hahn, the
father of Radical reconstruction in this
State and one of the especial admirers
of Gen. Grant, Louisiana's oppressor
and unfeeling prosecutor.
1t is proper now to recall to the
minds of the prominent one hundred
lcitizens of New Orleans who were, at
a certain critical period in the States
history, about to journey to the Capt.
, tai to see Gen. Grant, the curt and In
sulting dispatch sent them, telling
them they might as we'll remain at
home-the Presidents mind is made
up! 1t is more than probable thai
Judge Hahn-seeing that he was hon
ored with a special call from the ex
President during his visit last spring
to New Orleans-helped to compile the
brief of charges upon which Gen. Grant
was able to come so readily to a con-
clusion, at once false as to facts and al
most insoleut in it's transmission.
] We are aware that Judge Hair
makes pretensions, and with some
e FEASIBILITY, to being of the bette
class of Republicans-if you admit de
grees of comparison but we are no
e aware of any relaxation, save of hi
= facial muscles as he blandly smiles, {
= his adhesion to Radical heresies or an
?. vigorous denunciation of the lon
% loathsome train of abuses following i
n their blighting wake. When, there
II fore. he comes before the people n
n presenting nothing but the bitter pas
n none of his sins repented of,-an
has for a competitor John Ellis, the1
T. would seem to be double incentiN
h for soothing Judge Hahn with a goo
~ licking. He has no claims, and II
1t him be relegated to the privacy of IL
e. Bench and the rinktum of the Ledge
his party Is ueAu-aye, ~
l. and he has not the poor plea for SUI
;c port of having ssinfiuence, you know,
l. with the ruling party.
On the other hand, John Ellis-tl
plain, blunt name of the man com
most natural-is identified with Il
!. people in memories of wrongs intiict'
l. by his opponent, with them in the
r struggles in which he never Prov
wanting or weak, who has earned
70 his district and himself a national |
va putatioh, and, advancing their ma
j. rial and political interests, is still r
r. ing in influence and fame, with
future almost assured as one of
leading lights of the incoming Dem
cratic administration. The sol
claims and undoubted advantages he
of shown should not be thrown ava
de Indeed, it would be little short
nj madness and base invratitnCee in [