The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-04-28
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appointed dyspeptic in the land feels
it to he his privilege as free Anne
rican citizen to rail at his particular
Legislature whenever his liver be
comes unusually sluggish or new
potato sits especially heavy on his
stomach. II is not surprising, there
fore, that since the adjournment
some days ago Of the General AS
sembly of Louisiana there has issued
from certain quarters of the State
howl of rage and Reproduction, loud
rather than forcible, spiteful rather
than intelligent. OF course the Leg
islature has not done everything that
was expected Of it or everything that
it might have done. No Legislature
ever did do this. But at the same
time there is no sort of justification
for the hysterical abuse which has
been lavished upon 1t by certain
newspapers and individuals in differ
ent parts of the State. Take the
Coushatta Citizen, for instance, OF
the Baton Rouge Capitolian-parlic-
ularly the latter and one will seek
in vain to- findthe provocation for
the wrath and denunciation. The
only inference is that these are the
voices of the professional grumblers,
with, perhaps, an extra touch OF per-
sonal bitterness thrown in. We
have been peculiarly edited by the
Capito.ian. Never, no never, in our
lives have we seen so much civic
virtue compressed into a small com
pass as in this case. Nothing seems
to have pleased the Capitalism
Nothing at all. Its expectations were
so large, its tastes we're so delicate,
Its demands were so comprehensive,
that the result seems but the Dead
Sea fruit turning to ashes upon its
lips. And so, with husky voice and
FACILITATING chest, our neighbor turns
loose breeze of protest, cGndemna
tion and invective which would
sweep us all before it but for several
reasons. No need to mention those
reasons; we merely desire to observe
' that if the Capitolian don't stol
J bowling so loudly the intelligent vo.
tiers of Louisiana will begin to infer
that that great and good journal wa,
after something and didn't get it
As for the Capitolian's talk about
: the late Democratic Convention, tha
is palpabIy pretext for tiinginl
abuse at the dominant element o
the party 1t is mere nonsense tt
insinua,e that the city delegation il
;" that Convsption controlled the pro
V ceeiings. 1t is not only peryer
:, sion of fact but q SANDER on tn
country delegates who voted wit
the majority. The truth is that III
Convention was composed OF abo,
" $40 members, Of whom the city cor
,rihutcd l25. To say, therefore, thy
'. these 125 influenced in all improve
ic manner The 3S5 country members
/: simply bosh. The Capilolian find
great fault with the failure Of til
;, Convention to elect Governor +. I
Nichols and General Zehulou You
y as delegates at large to Cincinnati
One would suppose to resd the al
/" surl tira'les Of our contemporar
- that the Convention had disgrace
itself forever by this failure. I'll
fact is, however, that the delegate
9 elected were Governor John MrEl
:" cry, Senator Parlange, Secretary {
~ State Strong and Hon. p. Mealli
= The FIRST three Of these are from IL
&c Parishes and the last named or
from the city. If the Capitolis
- means to say that the Conventic
= covered itselfwith odium and prove
. recreant to decency in electing the
gentlemen, why don't it say SO gu
right and let it's position be unde
!, stood2 If it don't mean that, b
something else, why don't it st,
It, making comments and dispersion
of which admit of that construction?
be To be sure, the Capitolian doesl
e. carry the State in its pocket, or ma
e. sufacture public opinion TO order; b
y it is painful to us to see good De-
g, ocratic paper making such spec1
he Gle of itself--a Democratic pap
D. with nice, inoffensiye outside, te
IRE = N. 0. Democrat. Il, ,t..
In
be We regret to state that Capts
We George c. Hamilton, the chief Gle
he of the Packet, Jesse X. Bell, is
lot tie indisposed and not able to atte
IN to his usual and onerous duties.