The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1884-07-26
The Authorized Pictorial Lives
Of Cleveland and Hendricks.

| &0e &AuTnorlZed pictorial Lives
Of Cleveland and Hendricks.
| Announcement is made of the rapi(
completion of Pictorial work com
prising the lives of Presidential Candi
dates on the Democratic ticket, writer
by the veteran author, Col. Frank
Triplett, and published by N. D
Thompson g. Co. St. Louis, Mo-, ani
New York This work is sold through
! agents exclusively. 1t is designed moi
only to serve the popular taste ani
want i'll giving, exhaustively, the facts
Ill boyhood and manhood of the Can,
didates-their Private Lives and Pub
| lie Services-but to have a more endur-
ing interest than the ordinary cam
paign book. To this end the publish
ers have engaged OH the work corps
OF skilled designers and ensravers to
elegantly and profusely illustrate the
| scenes and incidents in the lives OF
these eminent men, now so prominent
ly before the people. Personal 'anec-
dotes and "reminiscences will constitute
leading and certainly most enter
tanning and instructive feature of this
timely work.
Col. Triplett has marked ability, and
enjoys especial distinction as bio
graphical writer While exhaustive in
the recital of facts, his powers of analy-
sis, and his keen Insight into the phi
losophy Of events and measures, give
him special prominence amoug Ameri-
can writers of personal history. 1t is
not too much to say that he is better
prepared for the work in hand than
any other American author.
The books from his pen, of which
several have been published, have met
the popular taste and been more than
ordinarily successful. They have given
him high rank among American au-
thors, and the public men of the day.
This has given him unsurpassed facili-
ties for procuring all the material for
the work now in hand. As book of
fascinating interest, beauty and pro-
fuseness of illustration, and of COM
prehensiyeness of fact, it will commend
itself to eUery Uotef.
To the book agent this rare combi-
nation of authentic history, pictorial il
lustration and brilliant authorship, will
at once suggest the universal demand
.it3will create, and also the advantages
pin iterest it has over the ordinary cam
paigh book, and the grand opportunity
it offers for profitable agency. We ad-
vertise it in another column
-ae . 90.
Special to the Times Democrat
WASHINGTON, July 90. The Sunday
Herald speaks thus enthusiastically of
the Democratic ticket 1There is gen.
eral satisfaction with the ticket of
Cleveland and Hendricks. Every day
brings fresh evidence that Gov. Cleve-
land is exceptionally strong. His cleo
ton is advocated by such sterling Re
publican journals as the New York
Times, the New York Evening Post,
Harper's Weekly and the Springfield
Republican, as well as by the inde-
pendent New York Herald. During
the twenty three years of Republican
ascendency no such potent agencies for
influencing the popular mind have
ever been allied with the Democracy.
The course of these great and 1nf1uen-
tfal journals is significant of a popular
movement in favor of Cleveland and of
the reforms which he represents. Such
journals as the Times and Post could
not afford the step they have taken
without many of their patrons were in
accord with them, nor would their
proprietors take such step unless they
felt convinced of popular approval.
But this, though the most striking
evidence of the demand for change of
administration, is by no means the on
~ one. From number of quite in
dependent sources we hear of Repuli-
cans in New York who have an
nouced their determination to vote for
Cleveland. These declarations come
from business and professional men
who think the times demand change
of men and of methods at the head of
national affairs, and who believe Cleve-
land, as Mayor and Governor, has
shown himself an executive deserving
OF the confidence of honest citizens.
1t is known that the opposition to his
nomination came from the worst ele-
ments in his party--a fact that is in
itself his best possible recommendation.
The hour and the man for the De-
mocracy seem at last to have come to-
gether. We have never before had
such strong faith. in the result of an
electoral contest, and, believing that
Gov. Cleveland will be the next Pres
ident, the prospect chiefly gives us
pleasure because We feel that he is al
genuine civil service reformer, and
that he has both the wish and the will
to conduct that great office as in the
highest sense a public trust
The Atlanta Constitution says Esthe
fact that the Blaine campaign is to be
managed by the star route thieves is
restoring confidence to the Office hold
ers. This class knows what corrup
tion can accomplish at the North
,-ap---
There lives in the Cheniere in Cam
eron parish, a Mr.. Placide Labauye, a
veteran of 1879, who is now 103 years
old. He can now catch, saddle and in
a gollop ride his pony across the coun- !
try as nimbly as a young man.
The new mayor of Monroe refuses
to accept his salary, and has converted
it back into the treasury. The city at
torney has followed his example, and
is serving the corporation without
price.