The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1883-03-10
FOR GOVERNOR.

of our contemporaries, as we have
shown by extracts in previous issues,
have entered their champions in the
lists for the various offices to be then
filled, that of Governor especially. In
addition to the names of ex-Gov.
Nichols, Allen Jumel, State Senator
Kernochan, and Of others mentioned
for that position, that of Major +. A.
Burke, the present State Treasurer and
versatile editorial manager of our man.
moth contemporary, the Times-Demo-
crat, is brought forward by the Nor
gan City Review in the following COM
plimentary terms
A number Of Louisiana newspapers
have been expressing themselves as to
the next State ticket. We are not
now considering the balance OF it, but
if it is in order, we'd like to name
head for it, and that is Hon. f. A.
Burke, the present State Treasurer and
managing editor Of the Times.Demo-
Graf. We fear he cannot afford to he
Governor, but that does not prevent
us from wanting him or cure F.ouisi-
ana OF needing him.
Major Burke is not a Bourbon, but
liberal and broad in his views, abreast
of tho age in thought and action, and,
more than all, possesses:(and exercses)
that North American energy-that
"get up and 60 'long''-that we ad-
mire and think becoming TO the man
and wholesome for the people. That's
all.
To the increasing list of gubcrnato-
rial entries, the Morehouse Clarion of
last week promised to add this week
the name Of a gentleman whose claims
and fitness-with that journal at least
outweigh those Of any favorite yet
maine by Our brethren of the quill.
We're a-mind to guess that the Clarion
will name our staunch old Democratic
friend, II. b. Todd, Of Morehouse, now
one of the Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court.
Tho name--Govcrnor TOdd-we ask
leave Of Blair to say, reminds us that
Ohio had a Governor named Tod(d)
during the war. 1t was of him, bias
phemous Methodist preacher Of that
State said, upon being elected Colonel
ola regiment
In the name Of God.
And Governor Tod,
will boar this flag TO Dixie.
Old Camp Chase prisoners will re-
member tho poet as the redoubtable
Col. Granville Moody, whose war
notes resounded around that prison
and around there only as long as we
kept the run of the sanity old hypo-
critic. Only the name, and no similar
ity whatever in character or bearing.
recalls this long-forgotten war episode
to the mind of the writer.
We are not prepared to say--return-
ing to our subject-what are the eX-
pectations or wishes of the present &C.
cupant of the Executive chair, -Gov.
5. ID. McEnery,-withr reference to n
continuance in Office during the next
term, but it will not be denied that he
will receive a strong support, should
he offer for the nomination. Nor will
it be denied that, at u time when pub
lie affairs demanded sound discretion,
tirmness and ready executive abilities
more especially as there are only
biennial sessions of the legislature
Gov. McEncry has not, almost within
himself, managed the business ofState
with great prudence and with happy
results, when all around him was con-
fusion and doubtful Of safe solution. |
With even high estimate of the legal |
and scholarly attainmcnts OF Gov.
McEnery, it is but truth to say, as we
do without sycophancy or partiality
engendered by personal ties, that Gov.
McEnery's administration as II whole
has brought us pleasurable emotions
and unanticipated qualification. If, as
some weak pens have sneeringly writ
ten, he is Governor by accident, he is,
II may be more appropriately and
,ruthfully said, Governor in purpose,
act and effect. His future plans for
himself, as we have said, are not
known to us, but, for one, we shall be
content with an Administration no
worse than Gov. McEnery's, and we
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