The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-11-18

Looking for Peg to Hang Upon.
The Republican party will go into the polit-
ical contest this fall with one great advantage.
distinctly reviying. A degree OF stagnation
which few were disposed to recognize did. in
deed. follow the partial failure of crops last
year. The worst of it has been felt this sea-
son, even after it had become certain that the
yield this y, ar would be iarge.-N. T. Tribune.
In looking around for q peg upon
which to hang reason why the Repub-
lican party shouldremain in power, and
control the destiny of the Republic, the
organs and bosses of the party, driven
from every hole and den in which they
have taken shelter, having had every
refuge of lies battered down by storms
of facts and figures. seek to hide them
selves from the wrath to come by point
ing the people, 10 the abundant crops
which a benefcent Providence has sent
! as the rewards of toll; they declare that
owing to such favorable surroundings
1.-the Republican party will go into the
political contest this fall with one great
advantage" Such highfaluten hypoc-
risy is really very suggestive. 1t is q
combination OF ignorance and ignominy
in about equal proportions. 1t is Idiocy
and Infamy. each with pickax and
spade, digging hole for the remains Of
the Republican party when the Demo-
cratic party shall have bruised its head
and slenced its rattles. The Republic-
an organs and bosses do not ask the
people to support the candidates and
policy of the Republican party because
candidates and policy are patriotic
and pure They dare not do that
because the record of the party is
black with pertdy. The New York
Tribune sees the point distinctly, and
invites the country to contemplate in
the magnificence of the harvests the
wonderful things the Republican party
has done for the country. The Repub-
lican party goes into the fall campaign
of 1882 with ''one great advantage"
says the Tribune. What is this lone
great advantagew Simply this: The
country feels certain that the crops will
be large, and the Republican party pro-
poses to enter the "political contest
claiming all the credit for the crops II
in the future the Democratic party es-
tablishes beyond all controversy that
the Republican party has foisted upon
the country curses without number, it
will reply: Look at the corn the Re-
publican party has produced. /" If it is
charged that the Republican party has
been guilty of Infamous waste of the
public funds, it will claim to have re-
stored it all by the abundant crop of
scieat. If a word is said about blacknaI
the bosses and organs viii refer to ele-
vators full of barley, to breweries and
beer, and claim all as the result of Re-
publican policy. As against any Repub-
lican rascaiity in the catalogue of ruin.
the bosses will claim they are all wiped
out by the abundant crop of rye which
the Republican party has bestowed
upon the country. When the Demo-
cratic party charges that Republican
officials. are guilty of violating their
oaths. they will demand verdict of ac-
quittal, because the Republican party
has raised all the oats. When the Re-
publican party is charged with foment-
ing sectional hates, fierce as hell, it
will ask to be exculpated because but
for the Republican party there
would have been no hay. II we
point to its perjusies it will come back
and demand credit for all the potatoes
from Maine to Oregon. If Republican
crimes are piled up mountain high
from Returning Boards to Robeson's
wrecked navy-the bosses will say:
look at the cotton crop Republicanism
has garnered for the good of the world. -
Against its Satanic centralizing policy
it will claim credit for all the sorghum,
and as an Offset to its cut-tltroGism at
the polls twill claim credit for the crop
of cabbage, and against all its frauds,
it will point to the crop of fruit.
Against its manifold corrupfions it will
claim credit for all the cattle. If Hub
BELLS named. hogs will be counted to
obscure it, and the crop of asses win be
made to balance Hubbel's assessments.
In this way. according to the Tribune.
the Republican party is to go into the
political contest with great advantages.
1t proposes to claim all the credit for
tine big crops of the year, and will
claim credit for sunshine and shower,
and all else that has contributed to
make 1882 year for great harvests-
Here in Indiana the Republican bosses
viii talk of parsnips rather than of
platform or prohibition; of corn stalks
and cantaloIpe rather than Constitu-
tons. The Republican party has at
last fecome so sublimated by slime, so
etherealized by iniquity. SO angelic by au-
da.ity, that tits ready to claim credit for
the crops, to ask the people to continue
it in power on account of its control Of
the seasons. indiana State Scnfinei
PROF. Riley. our national entomol-
ogist. tried an experimental upon crick-
ct The other day. which came ont queer
ly. He cut the animal in two amid
ships. when the forepart turned upon
the hinder part and devoured It. Thus
the divided cricket was again united