The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-07-22
TO the Voters Of tho Fifth Congress
sional District of Louisiana.

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Floyd King the following dispatch:
"Boatner's friends propose that there
shall be canvass, between you and
him, in the different parishes no cleo
ton of delegates to be held in any par
ish until after the canvass of the par
ish; time and places to be fixed by
agreement; you to be here by 22d in
slant. Answer here Qo Monroe), if
you accept. Authorize some friends to
make appointments for YOU"
To this proposition my friends have
received no reply. In the Times-Dem-
ocrat of the 18th, however, appeared
dispatch from Gen. King to Messrs.
Moore and Young, from which 1 am
led to believe that he declines the in
vitation.
In view of the fact that it is impossi-
BILE to make thorough canvass of the
district betweeh now and the date at
which the Executive Committee has
advised the election of delegates to the
Congressional Convention, I avail my
self of the press as means of inform-
ing you of the matters of public i'm
portance which, in my opinion, will
demand the attention of your Repre-
sentative, and which will receive my
support if you honor me with nomina-
ton and election.
The Mississippi ievee question, and
Congressional legislation to prevent
the introduction and dissemination Of
yellow fever and other infectious dis
eases in the country, are subjects OF vi
tai Importance to a large portion Of the
people of this district, and your pres
ent Representative claims to have de-
voted great deal of his time and at
tention to them-in fact, his renomina-
ton is urged principally in consequence
of his activity and energy in support
ing these measures.
These, however, are not the only
questions of great public Importance
which affect our people. The PROPOSE
ton to appropriate, from the overflow
ing National Treasury, sufficient sum
to enable each Southern State to MAIN
tain an efficient system Of public cdu-
cation is one of the utmost and great
est importance to the whole people,
and in case of my election shall be
ability.
The present tariff rate was estab-
lished during the late war, and cnor-
NOUS duties were laid to provide for the
tremendous outlay incurred in its pros
ecution. While the necessity for these
extravagant import duties has ceased to
exist, the influence and power of the
great manufacturing corporations has
been sufficient to defeat all efforts in
the direction of reform, and reduction
of these duties, thus imposing upon
the masses of the agricultural commu-
mites enormous taxes, in the increased
price which they are thus compelled
to pay for all manufactured articles;
in other words, the producer is robbed,
in order that the manufacturer shall
grow rich. In the event of my cleo
ton, l should favor, earnestly and
zealously, Il radical revision Of the tar
if, and reduction Of tho rate on all
articles of necessary consumption, to n
strict revenue basis.
The growing power Of the great cor
porations, and the immunitics which
they have been granted by Congress
and the several State Legislatures, has
been a just cause of alarm to all lovers
of constitutional government.
1 favor, earnestly, the passage OF an
Act of Congress by which the Govern
ment will assume sufficient control of
Interstate railway corporations to pre-
vent fraud in their management and
oppression of the people, by unjust dis
elimination in freight rates, and the adj
vancement of rates beyond reasonable
bounds, as the consequence of combi-
nations of parties toavoid competition;
and will also insist upon the revocation
of all land grants to companies which
have failed to comply with the condi-
tons upon which the grants We're made.
The navigation of the Ouachita river
is of the greatest importance to the
people of North Louisiana, on either