The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-10-23
uNPnUNDEn CHARGES.

Our respected contemporary, the
Tlibodaux Sentinel, has persisten.|y
| enaeaynrea to create the impression,
during the present campaign, that
Dr.. Darrall, tile Republican candi-
date for Congress from this district,
favored the closing of Bayou La
fDnrcle when he was a member Of
the National House Of Representa-
tives.
The facts are simply these: A petit
ton sig,ed by citizens Of the La
fourc'ie parishes, asking that the
bayou he closed, accompanied by the
draft of a bill providing for the ac-
complishment Of that object, was for
warded to Dr.. Darral), during his
term of service in the Forty-Fiftb
Congress, and on his motion the doc
nments were referred to the Com
mittee on Commerce, q courtesy due
any petition from his constituents.
Before taking any further action in
tles premises Dr.. Darrall consulted
with several prominent citizens Of the
parishes affected by the proposed
measure-notably with Judge Taylor
Beattie, one Of the largest aud most
intelligent planters on tile bayou
who deprecated the scheme as detri-
mental to the extensive planting in
terests Of the Acknowledgment. The.
views Of these gentlemen were duly
represented to the Committee on
Commerce Ky DR.. Da,rall, and upon
his motion the petition and bill were
tabled.
We understand that these facts
have been stated by Judge Beattie
and Dr.. Darrall in public speeches
made recently at Napoleonviile and
Thibodaux, aud we arc surprised that
q journal of the Sentiacrs usual fair
ness fails either to withdraw the erro-
neous charge or accord any notice to
the refntation.
A second charge against the Re-
publican nominee for Congress that
is met with flat denial, is contained
IL a communication from Mr.. Thns.
E. Grace of Plaquemine to the Iber-
vile South. This gentleman, upon
information received, taxes Dr.. Oar
rail- with using language in his
speeches i'll IberviIle that was calcu-
lated to array the working people
against their employers and eucour-
age conflict between capital and
labor. We have sought an cxplana-
ton from Dr.. Darrall and his en-
phatic rejoibder is that he did not
say a word about labor contracts in
his 1berville speeches, nor did any of
the other speakers who addressed the
meetings he attended in that parish.
There were number of Democrats
at the meetings, and the Doctorg is
confident they will bear out his de-
NAL.
From what We have heard Of Mr..
Grace, we believe him to be too con
scientiOus a gentleman to willingly
misrepresent any one; hence we are
constrained to believe he has been
misled by incorrect information.
The CHIEF is 50 thoroughly indie
pendent with reference tu the Con-
gressional contest-as indeed it
claims to be in all things-that we
stand ready to deprecate any matcri-
al error Of the Republican candidate
as freely as the most outspoken of
our Democratic contemporaries but
the same spirit of independence and
impartiality prompts US to repel any
misrepresentation of his words or
actions, just as we should feel our
selves bound in justice to do in be-
half Of the Democratic nominee
should he be mal;gped and misrep-
resented.
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