The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-11-25
9 AlKLEN,S PATE 3

0KLEN, ssssA PAT
Tho reputation which the Defeated
Democratic candidate for Congress from,
this district bears for activity and as.
tutencss as a political wirepulser led US
/ from the first to eliscre1it the published
rnmors that liz Was apathetic about the
result Of the election and was bobbing
back and forth between, Baton Rouge
and the district on legal business aloue.
To be candid, we attributed these reports
4 to the fertile brain Of Mr. Aeklen himself,
and we now feel confident that they
were started Or instigated By him, doubt
less with view Of diyerting attention
from the efforts he has been making to
circnmvent the will of the people Of the
Third District as expressed at tho polls
aud secure for himself the position to
which his Republican competitor was
overwhelmingly elected.
A man of a more retiring and modest
disposition, after being sat down upon
so heavily, not only by his political
opponents but by. his owa party as we'll,
would have a natural inclination to
withdraw from the public gaze for {.
Season, while a really sensitive candidate
who had been SO treated might wish to
crawl into a hole and draw the hole in
after him, but our Acklsn il made of
l Al -
alloy Of copper and zine-and be does
not propose to give up his fight for 4 seat
in Congress for such trif1e as an adverse
popular majority Of something like 5000
votes.
| Mr.. Acklen is after the certificate OF
election which belongs to Senator Kel-
logg, and failing in the effort to secure
q plurality Of the votes cast in the dis
trict, he evidently hopes either to induce
the State compiling officers to destroy
the Republican preponderanee by reject
ing certain returns, or to obtain the
| ground Of Senator Ksliogg's alleged
/ ineligibility. No DOUBT Mr.. Acklen at
tached peculiar significance to the nm
seelnly declarations made in Lis interest
to the people Of tho Third District by
Governor McEnery during the recent
canvass. Probably there is not another
instance on record liz this country where
the acting Governor of a State has gone
! So far or said 50 much in behalf Of Que
candidate or against another as did tue
| Chief Executive of Louisiana with refer
ence to hessrs. Ackien and Kellogg IL few
weeks ago. His ahiuration to the people
to remember that they have Democratic
! Governor was susceptible OF q coistruc-
ton that does violence to the general
estimate of what shonld constitute an
impartial and honorable public official,
and it is quite probable that Mr.. Acsien
has been encouraged by this very remark
t" solicit 1T the hands Of the Governor a
certificate Of election which under every
consideration Of Law, precedent and right
should be given to another man.
The frivolity of the claim that Senator
Kellogg is ineligible on the ground of
non residence i'll The district becomes
einubfy apparent when urged by his
| Democratic competitor. According 10
our information hIr. Alex len has been
almost continually out of the district
the past three years. He has one Law
sliingie hanging out at Franklin, another
at New Orleans aud third at Washing
ton, aud if he hasn't spent any more of
| his time ii, the New Orleans and Wash
! ington offices than in the one ct Franklin,
precious few clients have ever been able
to consult him ut his professional hcaa
quarters, so to speak.
However, Governor MeEnery, who is
known as bitter partisan and II mai
whose fir,nness is often mistaken for
obstinacy, may reconcile it with his ideas
of right to give certificate to Mr.. Acklen
who wasn't elected. Prominent Demo-
Gratis here and elsewhere in the district
asserted just after the election that
Senator Kellogg wonld not get the Ger
titicate, aud perhaps they spoke author;-
tatively-we don't care TO discuss that
matter just now. Our present purpose
! is to demonstrate that Mr.. Acklen is
working like Il beaver to get into Con-
gsess on a minority vote, and that it is
Il libel to cal! him apathetic. The attei,-
ton Of our respected contemporary Of the
Picayune is particularly called to this
point, and we beg leave to suggest that
"Acklen's Activity" or "Ackle.'s As
surance may be appropriate when an
alliterative headline is desired, but
"Acklen's Apathy" when any thing at
fectiug his own Interest is concerned,
never! t,.*
! The existence of d prelensle tree iE
certain islands af the Pacific is reported
by Lieut.. Houg!lton. The branches of
the tree send ont long, slender tendriis,
which touch the ground without taking
root and twine abont any objects within
reach. These tendrils contract after a
| time 80 that they do net touch the
ground, and i'll this way they often lift
objects Of considerable weight around
which they have become coiie;i. The