The Daily telegraph. (Monroe, La.) 1870-1886, 1883-10-20
THE LATEST ISLANDER.

bitter aud Inscriptions personal
assailants. 1t is needless for us TO say
that at his old home in Ouachita-in
fact wherever he is ACCOMPLISHMENT d.
McEnery needs no defence from such
vile ISLANDERS as this latest one, pro.
duced through the columns Of the
Bugle Call, and really published to
the world by the Picayune.
THE CAMPAIGN OF DEFAMATION.
Since the opening of the present can
vass for the Democratic nomination for
Governor the enemies and opponents
of Gov. McEnery have ransacked the
administrations of Governors Nichols
and Wilt and that of the present exc
cutive himself, and the record of every
official in the State, and every irregu-
larity, abuse or malfeasance that has
been discovered has, by the most tortu-
Gus logic or Misrepresentation, been
laid upon his shoulders,
1t is simply astonishing that sensible
men should think SO poorly of the in
telligehce of the people as TO revive
Anticipated ISLANDERS, errois and crimes,
circulated or committed, before Gov.
McEnery dreamed of being Governor,
and then, by bowling his name in
connection with them, expect TO create
the impression that he is little better
than an unconvicted felon. This policy
of persecution and defamation has,
however, done the Governor.no injury
while it has raised up hundreds of
friends and supporters amongst men
who rebel against such IA system of
political warfare. Every charge so far
made against Gov. McEnery, touching
his honor and integrity, has been fully
met and refuted. The latest one has
been quietly and, in the most dignitied
manner, exposed by the Governor him.
self in a statement made last night to a
reporter of the Tine1-DeInOcrat, and
reproduced in another column of the
States this afternoon. This latest
accusation was to the effect shat, Col.
FremauX, ex-Registrar of the Land
Office, on resigning, or a short time sub
sequent TO his resignation, warned
Governor McEnery not to appoint J. G..
Richardson at his successor, and at the
same time furnished the Governor
with documentary evidence proving
that he (Richardson) was a dishonest
man, and had forged certain warrants
on the State Land Office, and that in
spite of this proof of Richardson's cri-
minality, Governor McEnery appon-
ted him to the important Office of
Registrar of the Laud Office.
This charge was made specifically
and in detail by coi correspondent of
the st. James Bugle Call, aud we are
satisfied that the editor of that journal
was fully satisfied of It's truth, else he
would not have given it publication.
Gov. McEnery's simple statement OF
the facts, however, has completely de-
molished the SANDER, and, while Col
FremauX has declined to make any
full and complete statement, his re-
plies 10 the reporter of the States,
which will befound in another column,
in connection with the Governors
statement fully bear out the latter.
In brief, the facts are these: The
warrants alleged to be fOrgeries were
altered, not by Col. Richardson, but
by Mr.. Bres, "A clerk in the State Land
Office, when Col. FremauX was regis
trar. The forgery was committed in
1850, and yet Col. FremauX retained
Mr.. BreS in his employ until ne
(FremauX), resigned in 1882, or two
years after the forgery was committed
and discovered. Col. FremauX is a
gentleman of unblemished character,
and he certainly did not regard the
matter as very heinous one, or he
would have discharged and prosecuted
the forger. The act, in fact, from the
statements made, seems to have been
done in ignorance of its grave crimi-
nality, and no doubt Col. Fremaux, as
did Auditor Jumel. took that chart.