The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-11-25
THURMAN AND REAGAN.

? THURMAN AND REAGAN.
: Commenting upon the recent Dem
ocratic victory throughout the land,
the New York Justice, weekly news
paper published in the city of New
York, and devoted to anti-monopoly
principles, civil service reform and the
downfall of the Republican party as
il exists to-day, hoists the names Of
Allen 6. Thurman. of Ohio, and Jno.
II. Reagan, of Texas, for president
and vice-president in 1884 The JUS
tice says the Democratic party claims
to be the peoples party, and if it is
really in earnest, let it give the peo-
| pie in 1884 Thurman, of Ohio, and
Reagan, Of Texas, as the Democratic
candidates for president aud vice-pres-
ident.a There is no question as to the
fitness of the honorable and widely
known gentlemen named. Thurman's
public and political career has been
such as to command the respect and
admiration of not alone those of his
own party, but Republicans as well.
He enjoys the confidence and esteem
of all classes of people, regardless of
political belief, faith or creed. That
Allen G. Thurman would make an able,
non-partisan president, one who would
do much toward restoring uuanimity,
kindly feeling and brotherly affection
between the north aud south, as it ex-
isted in times past, finds not the
slightest shadow of doubt IN the mind
of the writer. There are others, how
ever, Hendricks, of Indiana, Carlisle, |
of Kentucky, Bayard, of Delaware,
who would be equally as acceptable to
the country; and the time has scarcely
arrived when preference between
them could be judiciousIy made. or
John II. Reagan, of Texas, the readers
of the Echo are already aware in what
esteem, regard and admiration he is
held in the estimation of this journal.
Before now it has had occasion to refer
TO him as being among the ablest men
in the country; statesman, whose
ability, fixity of purpose and steadfast
friendship for the people, as against
the combined influences of the great
moneycd corporations throughout the
land, scarcely finds parallel in the
past thirty years of our political his
tory. ltcan be truthfully said of him
that his efforts to regulate interstate
commerce, by means of what is known
as his Interstate Commerce bill, has
made his name a household word
throughout the land. With the com
bined influences of Gould, Vanderbilt
and others like them, together with
the different railroad, steamboat and
canal corporations arraycd against him,
that he has been enabled to success
fully hold his own, and even to score
partial victory, stamps him as a man
Of unusual sagaeity, brains and will
power In Texas, his adopted state,
i.
no man stands ahead of him 10 the I
estimation and confidence of the peo-
pie. In bis own district, he is uni G
yersally loved and reyered by all cIas- q
ses. No purer man lives than John :
II. Reagan. No greater statesman has '
ever graced the halls of congress He i
IS the peer of such men as jackson,
Lincoln, Webster, Calhoun, Clay, n
and others living or dead. 9
Still, there may be men within the Il
'ale of Democracy better calculated r
o unite the different elements and b
actions Of the party, north and south,
md therefore better fitted, at this i
ime, to receive the endorsement of b
he party as their standard-bearer for '
be second highest position within the .
lift of the American people. AS to 9
hat, we are not now prepared to say. !
But we know, that shonld John Ii.
Reagan be the choice Of the next Dem c.
'cratic National convention for the .
ice presidency, there is not a man Iiy- y
ug whom the EcHo conld support c'
With more earnest and determined Il
'urpose. "
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