The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1883-11-24
HARDWARE.
We admopIsh the people to remem.

Der the aid 30 cheerfully given them by
his Excellencv, Gov. s. D. McEnery
during the high water of 1882, and d.
all in their power to elevate him to thu
high position for which ho has dis
played such marked ability. Sinct
taking the reins of government his sol,
aim has been to work for the interest Ol
his people. Sam'l D. McEnery has
been tried and not found wanting. He
knows how important levees are to u.s.
and having ''shied his castor" in the
ring, as strong aud true friend to our
levee interest, we are in duty bound to
support him Even at this writing,
while those who are out and want to
get in by assailing him on every side
with slanderous charges, he, with that
calm, gentlemanly demeanor, is busy
studying how best to build our leVees
and prevent the occurrence of such dis
asters as appalled, the nation in 'S2 and
sent up such q cry of distress as waf
never before heard in our fair Louis
lana.
We do not believe there is an un.
biased, sound Democrat in Louisiana
who will not endorse the following
from the Peoples Vindicator:
The campaign of defamation waged by
the Picayune, and her handful of coun.
try satellites, has, instead of injury, nd
vanced and helped the cause of Gov.
McEnery, and he stands to-day before
the people. with IN open record,
through which they see him in every
phaze, and they (the people, feel that
much more proud of him.
In answer to an editorial in the Plea
yune of the 18th inst, in which the
statement is made, 1--WE declare, there
fore, there is no leyee issue at all in
voIved,' that ably edited and thor
oughly Democratic paper, the New
Orleans States, says:
On the other hand the op-
ponents of the governor, while they
profess to be the friends of levee build
ing, offer no plan of their own except
the old plan under which the leVees
have gone to everlasting smash and
millions of property left to the rage of
the devastating floods, and conGne their
Arguments on this great question to
efforts to dIsparage the governors plan
and TO poison the public mind against
him b. alleging that he is violating the
laws and misapprOpriating the public
funds. This is the levee issue now be-
fore the people-and say what the Plea
yune may, it is an issue of the greatest
importance to Lnuisiann-Gov. Nc
Emery is going straight ahead rebuild
ing the levees, and his opponents are
d Jing all in their power to cripple his
efforts and to enhance the cost of the
work If this be not levee issue we
should like to know what an issue is.
II McEnery is reelected this work will
go straight on, year Of safety, abun-
dant crops aud prosperity will be Sc
cured, and, 80 far from interfering with
aid from congress, this will inspire
many members of that body now op
posed to as, with disposition to come
to the support Of q people who thus
help themselves.
The Louisiana Sugar Bowl, paper
which has all along bitterly opposed
Gov. McEnery, and endorsad the war
waged upon him by the Picayune,
pays its favorite organ a dubious
in the following:
Last week the Picayune offered to
put up forfeit of $4,000 or double that
sum, if it fails to give documentary
evidence supporting all the charges it
has recently made against the present
state officers. The Times Democrat
took up the challenge for
$40. 900, the same to go to the Charity |
Hospital, but the Pic seems to have
backed ont.
The Picayune was simply cornered
and mailed to the wall" as it has
been in every solitary instance since
the opening of the campaign.
Especially do we commend the fol-
lowing from the Shreveport Standard
to the attention of the readers of the
Echo. The Standard has never been
a partisan sheet, and reiterates its in
LentiOn of supporting the nominee,
whoever be may be:
Gov. McEnery, in our Judgment,
hNs made o good governor. His ad-
will compare fagorably +
with that OF any chief magistrate Lou
sians has bad either before or since
the war. Personally he is above re-
oroach. Those who know him most
recognize him as pure. in
,orruptible, and patriotic man. Be it
said to his credit and to the credit OF
lis supporters, that they have not at
tempted to elevate him BY dispareging
0gden or Nichols, or any one Of the
aspirants for this high
olice. On the contrary. they have each
md all been treated By him and his
with the most marked re-
ipeet and courtesy. Contrast this with
he manuer in which McEnery has
oeen misrepreseutsd aud naligned;
sharges brought against him without
he shadow OF foundation; accused Of
running the goyerDmentir il his own M
.erest Of q corrupt ring, backed by the
Louisiana Lottery, 10 which, il is said, J