The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-07-16
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will soon have 10 select delegate
to the Congressional Convention
l ask space IN your columns t,
suggest a few pertinent AMI
practical questions:
What did Gen. King ever d.
for the success Of the party prio
to his nomination? Did he no
secure the nomination two year.
ago, by making the impression
that he was very wealthy. and j
nominated, would be able to con
troll several hundred voters who
were laborers upon his planta;
tons in Concordia and Tensas
Did he own any real estate OF
pay any taxes? Ii so, how much
and where can the assessment be
found? After his nomination did
he lead his personal friends to
victory or to prison? Since his
election, has he not proved to be
a demagogue, instead of states
man? Do not his acts, letters
and kilograms, together with his
presumptious address prove that
his dearest object, and highest
aim is to secure a denomination?
Has he not labored more zeal
ously to impress his constituents
with the idea that be was great
man than he has to represent
them in Congress? Are the tel
egrams sent from Washington
City true. Does any sensible
man believe that upon Lis arrival
at v ashington he bulldozed the
Attorney General /; that within
less than week after his arrival
he had more influence than such
men as Eustis, Ellis and Gibson?
Is he entitled to any credit for
the passage of the bill creating
the Levee Commission? Was not |
this bill introduced before King
was known, and had not the
Democrats in caucus agreed that
they would vote for the bill be-
fore King was sworn in as
member of Congress? After the
Commission was appointed did
Gen. King go before them as a
sensible, practical man and give
his views upon the important
did he not publish 40
address in pamphlet form, send
it to nearly every leading citizen
in the district; also a copy to
every paper in the district, with
, letter under his signature, re-
luesting the different papers to
publish the address and forward
heir bills? Whether the papers
made out and forwarded their
title bills or not, Is it not true
hat every paper in the
district that published this ad- !
lress, has from that day to the 9
present hour, pulled Gen. King r
nd urged his claims for renomi- t.
alton? On 18th May King tel a
graphed "got appropriation on d
siver aud Halbor Bill for the n
urvey and permanent improve e
,ent of Bay Gus Bartholomew, p
Jason and Tensas ?" Will King t.
L some of bis fliends inform us "
ow much was appropriated for tt
le Improvement Of those n
.reams? Do not all reading n
len know that over 125 other u
vers and bayous are included "a
said bill that the whole thing e.,
left to the discretion of the -,
ecretary of War, and that not + s
ae dollar of this money will ever W W
3 expended upon any stream in m
lis District? Has a single dol u.
r been appropriated for the in 50
rnal improvement of this dis B,
lct, save an insignificant sum fe'
repair the levees near Delta in
i'd Vidalia, which Was secured to
the united effort of the La. B.
I'd Miss. delegations :? Does L.
It Kings sublime. idea of estab- ia:
hing parish libraries composed of
most exclusively of Patent Or an
9 reports conelusively estab. to
b his superior judgment and to
lined literary taste? Do we not !.
applaud and admire his ex- e1e
me modesty in claiming for pa pa
nself credit for all that has p pa
en accomplished by the last a na
ngress? Why, who dares de- n NJ
that it was Kings personal a at
that carried every re- he
m measure through Congress, for
l that it was his national rep Ola
.tion and influence that secur- ane
the nomination of Hancock. tro
lat friend or admirer OF his dul
0 would stoOp to point ma to the