The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-08-19
GUlTEAU'S BULLET IN THE MlSSIS-
SIPPI DEMOCRATIC CON-
yENTION.
shreveport Standard

VENTION.
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About the first anecdote we ever
heard "a coming from Mr.. Lincoln, be- !
foro he had acquired national reputa- |
tion for s.infinite jest" and for some
other things, came about in this wise
Gen. James Shields was shot through
the body with musket ball in the
the Illinois Legislature was about to
elect u United States Senator in place
of Judge Sidney Breese who had made
an able and unexceptionabte officer.
Gen. Shields went into the contest
against him and, on the strength of
his wound, was elected. Mr.. Lincoln
jocosely said the the ball which went
through Shields killed Breese.
The bullet which Guiteau shot |
through the President of the United !
States has been circulating through the |
country and playing sad havoc with
politicians of both the rival parties. 1t
friends in New York when they We're
apparently in the full vigor of a heal
thy manhood. 1t killed off most of
Charley Fosters enemies in Ohio and
raised his stock above par when it was
apparently below zero. 1t gave Ma
homes opponents in Virginia the only
dangerous wound they have yet re-
ceived, and revived his spirits which
had begun to droop after the Riddle
berger fiasco at the extra session.
And now it has been playing some
mad freaks in the Mississippi Demo-
cratic Convention and has inconti-
nent1y laid out every old line Democrat
in the State from JEFF Davis down to
Jim Chalmers. What we mean to say
is this, that the Mississippi Democracy
are so much afraid of hurting the sem
sitive feelings Of the wounded Presi-
they dare not nominate q man whose
Democracy is above suspicion; that
they dare not nominate man whom
the Presidents friends might stigma
tie as "Bourbon," or who might be
tainted with suspicion of trying to
keep up the "Solid South,' against
which the whole power of the admin
istration is leveled.
The lines were distinctly drawn.
Col. Ethel Barksdale was put forward
as the representative of tho old line
Democracy. Gov. Stone was put for
ward as tho representative of the dish
clout, namby pa,nby Democracy, which
finds its utterance in Grant pensions,
| III oullulci culOSleS NuN "HlCH AS
afraid Of the very shadow Of "our
Northern friends.'' Col. Barksdale
was defeated. 1t is true that Gov.
Stone was defeated also. Moreover
we are free to admit that Gen. Lowry
the nominee, is an abfe man and
q good Democrat. He may be as
good Il Democrat in fact as Barks
dale. lie could not have been ac
ceptable to Stone, since that gentle
man retained a full vote to the last.
But the point is, that Lowry did not
run on the same grounds as Barkslale.
In fact he did not run at all. If the
same issue had been made around him
he would have shared the fate of Barks-
dale. The slight doubt as to his posi-
ton saved him with men who did not
want Stone and who were afraid to
vote for q man whose opinions had
become too well known and too pro-
nounced.
| And all this comes of Guiteau's bull
let. The President, forsooth, would
not like to have Il Bourbon, solid
South Democrat beat the Conservative
Stone. He would not like to see such
q "ConserVative'' as Mr.. Lucius
Quinctius Cincinnatus Lamar, slaugh
tered in the house of his friends
eaten up, like Act:con, by his own
dogs. And if you do not nominate
Stone, say the timid ones, why, all tho
"Conservatives'' would 60 in with AL
corn, and Lynch and seveIs, with Rad
icals, Greenbackers and weak-kneed
Democrats, and defeat your ticket. 1r
the name of all the gods at'once what is
the difference between AlcOrn's party
and such Democtatic party as these
men would make it?
} Gen. Lowry will doubtless be elect
/ cd Governor, as indeed he ought to be
Col. Lamar will doubtless be elected
, Senator, as indeed he ought not to he
. But il is beginning to be time that tn
J Democrats of the South should learn t
, make nominations to suit themselves
t instead Of going out of their way t
make nominations to suit their oppC
nents. If the principles of the Demo
. cratic party have to be abandoned i
order to satisfy the demands of tn
p Republican leaders, whether woundc
: or otherwise, then the whole part
might as well be thrown into the la
3 of the Republican party at once.
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