The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-12-03
NE HEAR FROM KELLOGG.


WE HEAR FROM KELLOGG.
Under date of November %, the
Enquirer, Of Cincinnati, prints the fol-
lowing, a part of an Interview held
with Mr.. Kellogg by ssGath," the
Washington correspondent OF that
paper:
nwell, where is the disorder in Lou
jsiana Pr
1T is in the cotton districts, up in
North.,.L louisiana, and over the Ark
ansas line. I will tell you all about
that. There are nearly sixty per cent
OF the white people, the planters, who
are Indifferent about the elections, and
hardly ever go to vote. You see we
have got the negroes docile and rational
as to office-holding, and they don't
push forward as they did and the
planters are not, therefore, excited as
they were. But that other forty per
cent OF whites who do vote-geuerally
young, worthless, dissipated, reckless
fell0ws-they must have the Offices.
Louisiana is saturated with office seek
ers. This forty per cent mounts, rides
over the negroes, carries terror and
does the whole mischief. They are
such jndomitable, fierce men that ten
of them in many cases can stampede a
hundred or two negroes. Now the
quiet, respectable planters, rebels or
otherwise, are sick and tired of that
kind Of bull doing and dragooning.
During the recent presidential can.
vass the readers OF this paper wsn-er--
member we sent out an anxious e
quiry for w. p. Kellogg. His disap-
pearance from the borders of Louisi-
ana, of which State he is nominal
Senator, had attracted our attention.
It may be remembered, also. that ii
expressly stated that we would
call on the metropolitan press forl et
formation, at the time, as ,!e
whereabouts of Mr.. Kellogg, SOM fines
called in euphony aBrindleN BILL"
There was, at the time, something
striking in the fact that the Senator
from this State could. not be heard of
in the state, nor out of it, and our re-
collection is, that we traced Mr.. KEEL
logg entirely out of Louisiana, and
2id not find him, high or low. He
hsV it then seemed, wholly disap-
peared-like busted fundegus.
There was, just then, some reason
why Kellogg should have lost his resi-
dence, and did not know where to find
It. 1t was then that Kellogg was in
doubt whether Hancock, or Garfield
would be elected President, and Mr..
Kellogg was conscientiously in doubt
whose man he was. The Radicals of
Louisiana could not hear OF him, and.
to all intents and purposes, Kellogg
was dead.
We We're never, for moment, in
doubt of Kellogg's existence in the
flesh. We were just as certain he was
living as anything could be, and
whether Hancock, or Garfield were
elected President, we were equally as
positive that Kellogg would be among,
those who survived. Mr.. kellogg is
one of the slost links" He is not of
the genus that any known cause takes
care of, or in any logical view of the
present, or future, any known cause
would. When we say he exists, and
ioE ito cause known, and exists inde-
pendent of cause, we have slightly
approached the idea. He comes into
Louisiana without reason, and leaves
the State whenever it suits him, and
sometimes before early breakfast. He
springeth forth like hopper. grass.
Mr.. kellogg is, in short, inevitably
around. The dogs may bark at him
in Louisiana, and he will at the same
time be In Illinois. The dogs in iii.
nois may yelp on his track, only to
find that he is expatiatIng on sugar in
Louisiana. Mr.. Kellogg is a very
wild. nnsusceptible man. He is, also,
a member of the U. s., Senate, and
from this State, of which august body
he is one of the most distinguished
members. He enjoys the reputation,
a8Aio other Senator does. of being the