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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

"A TEXAS editor has been cleo
ted to the Legislature Some men
are hung, and others have great
ness thrust upon them.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

VINO will compose Cleve-
lands cabinet is getting to be as
much of a mystery as "who struck
Billy Patterson"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22
sECTIoNALIsM.

The Independent Republican ell
ement to whose patriotic labors the
country is so much indebted for the
defeat Of Blaine and the restora.
ton of good government should
preserve its autonomy as a political
factor.
The vicious TRADE of Mr.. Blaine
against the peace and good name
of the South and malicious lies and
abuse he has hurled at her show
the bitterness of spirit that ami
mates this desperate demagogue.-
The whole country, and particular
l!y the Southern people, have ac-
cepted the restoration of Democrat
lc administration as harbinger of
peace aud good will and fraternity
between the North and South
There can be no doubt that the In-
dependent Republicans of the
North felt the necessity of reform
in every department of tpe govern
ment. 10 secure this they allied
their strength, in a spirit Of patri-
otism, on the side Of the Democrat
ic standard-bearer They have
now the wisdom to see that sec
tionalism, as represented by Blaine
and his fanatical followers, cannot
but be disturbing element to the
prosperity and peace so much de-
sired by all good citizens.
Their mission, therefore, is not
yet complete. The better class of
Republicans of the North should
maintain their organization, and
strive to throw their great moral
support in aid Of the Democratic
President in his endeavors to re-
form abuses that have brought so
much oaium upon Republican adj
ministrations and hampered the
prosperity and progress Of the coun-
try. They should use their patri-
otto influence in suppressing the
vicious and sectional teachings that
are still preached and prated about
by Mr.. Blaine. The country de-
sires peace and unity between the
sections, and peace can best be
achieved by burying the bitter
memories Of the past. This is the
doctrine that every honest patriot
will approve.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22
" TURN THE RAsCALS cUTw

| iClCuCC ~ ClSlI HCt iCC lSlOI ale "
are lovers of the Jacksonian prin
ciples of Democracy, and sincerely
believe that "to the victors belong
the spoils." Does any one for &
moment presume to think that i
the Republican party had been sue.
cessful, that civil service reform
would have prevailed as Republi
cans now wish it, and lukewarrn
Democrats are in favor of it? No
Every man, no matter were he
competent or not, if Democrat
and holding an office, would have
been summarily dismissed if the
! Radicals had elected Blusterer
Blaine.
"Turn the rascals out" then, down
to single man, we say, and let a
close scrutiny be made of the pub
lie books and true amount of the
s.ealings which have been carried
on for the past twenty-four years,
with a brazen efflontery never be-
n"
fore eqnaled in the history of any
country. About the only cases in
which an observance should be
made of the Civil Service Reform
Is in instances of deserving widows
OF needy orphans who hold office
under the present rotten regime.
We, as Democrats-as Demo-
Gratis of the South, have no favors
to expect of the Republicans. We
ask none, nor would any patriotic
Southern man, who loves his sun
ny home, and despises the traducers
OF that home, accept favors at the
hands of a party whose stock in
trade has been a vile misrepresen-
tation Of the South and Southern
people. No, we expect no favors.
But in the victory which the South
has been so instrumental in GIVING
the Democracy, we should share
alike with our Northern Democratic
brothers.
"Turn the rascals out" of the Of
fees which they have held so long
under Radical rule-held only to
prostitute them-held only for the
purpose of tightening the grasp of
the Republican party's hold around
the neck of the United States trea-
sury-held for the purpose of boil
STEERING up gigantic monopolies and
for the indirect means of impoyer-
ishing the South.
Honesty is word not known by
the average Radical Office holder.
and the higher the office the more
gnorant is the occupant of the po-
'ition of the word honesty. If any
should think we are violating facts.
We have but to point to James Gil
espie Blame. He stands convic-
ed to-day before the American peo-
'le--before the enlightened portion
If the world as a liar, a thief, a
rlckster, q schemer, a man who,
ime and again prostituted his va
lous public oifices-who in the
irst stages of the campaign spoke
n honeyed words of the South and
southern people and Southern mea-
ures. But now this vile dema-
,ogne-tlis ''tattooed man" this
nblic thief and pejjured person
ames Gillespie Blaine. in q recent
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

The first Lord Ashbnrton, so
a foreign exchange says, used to
place a blister on his chest when he
had a great speech to make. This
no doubt gave him burning ideas.
Our statesmen do nothing of the
kind. They get some other fellow
to write their speeches, have it print
ed in the Congressional Record and
then send four or five thousand cop.
les to their constituents who prompt
ly use the books for kindling wood
and think the Congressman a amug-
wump," and they are right ten times
in ten.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

The lock makers in New Ha-
ven, Conn, are on a strike. Just
how long the lockout will continue
no one can say, ss the proprietors
hold the key to the situation.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

JOHANNESBURG Day should be
observed by all good Democrats
The Republicans are not expected
to participate.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

EIGHTEEN carat gold is worth
SIG per ounce. As soon as we
save up sixteen or eighteen pounds
we'll purchase ''lightning calcu-
lator' and digger up our pile.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

The fact that John Logan's
senatorial term expires next March,
and the Illinois Legislature is Dem
ooratic, some papers are wondering
what John Alexander will do. He
pight be sent in search of the North
pole, and take the late National
Republican Executive Committee
along as an escort. The rank and
ME of the Radical party would wish
item Don royege and a permanent
Ieaidence.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22
Henry L. BiosSat, Business Manager

Henry L. Biossat, Business Manager
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"A MEDICAL paper says feather
beds are not healthy. That paper
must be edited by a boarding house
keeper.
-THANKsGIvING Day should be
observed by all good Democrats
The Republicans are not expected
to participate.
VINO will compose Cleve-
lands cabinet is getting to be as
nluch of a mystery as "who struck
Billy Patterson"
"A TEXAS editor has been elec-
ted to the Legislature. Some men
are hung, and others have great
ness thrust upon them.
The lock makers in New Ha-
ven, Conn, are on q strike. Just
how long the lockout will continue
no one can say, rs the proprietors
hold the key to the situation.
EIGHTEEN carat gold is worth
I SIG per ounce. As soon as we
save up sixteen Or eighteen pounds
we'll purchase a "lightning calcu-
lato" and "fgger" up our pile.
blaine hears the "rebel veil"
in the expression of the people that
they wish an honest man as their
next President. Blaine's hearing
is like his honesty, very defective
in fact it is n. 8.
The English eat four times
a day. II this information gets in
to general circulation, and the walk
ing should be good next summer be-
tween this country and England, |
the tramp problem would be solved. |
The Times Democrat has an
editorial on "1'he Music of the Flu
ture." We don't care about the
music of the future a picayune. 1t
is the music of the present we SIGH
ior-the tinkling and rafting of
the "dollars Of our daddies," as de-
lInquents pay up.
AS curiosities, authorizations
OF nature and other oddities are de-
sired for exhibition at the EXPOSE
ton, how would it do to exhibit
Blaine as the man with monu-
mental cheek, or DIR. Burchard, the
man who defeated Presidential
candidate with three RS?
The Denison TEX Gazette,
which, by the by, is a very nice
and well edited paper, says that "a
young lady who can't cook and a
tallowed fiddle bow are about the
same-so far as usefulness is con-
cerned." We think the editor of
the Gazette should bow to the inev-
table and hire a Chinaman to cook t
AN exchange describes one of
Henry Ward Beecher's sons as be-
ng a Steamboat captain on the !;
Pacific coast, and a man who is I
Feather-beaten and wears an old
straw hat" Henry ought to send
us son an army blanket, anyhow. :
The weather is beating towards the I
line when it won't do for a man to .
Re Knocking around "weather-beat- 5
N Ind wearing straw hat" /,
.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

BLAINE hears the "rebel yell"
in the expression of the people that
they wish an honest man as their
next President. Blaine's hearing
is like his honesty, very defective
in fact it is n. <.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

His conduct since election day
has strongly confirmed the opinion,
formed from his previous acts, of a
majority of his fellow-countrymen,
that Mr.. Blaine is not a man of the
stamp that should preside over the
government of the United States.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

The English eat four times
a day. If this information gets in
to general circulation, and the walk
ING should be good next summer be-
tween this country and England,
the tramp problem would be solved.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1884-11-22

The Timcs-Democrut has an
editorial on ''The Music of the Fu-
ture." We don't care about the
music of the future picayune. 1t
is the music of the present we sigh
ior-the tinkling and rafting of
u dollars Of our daddies,' as de-
linquents pay up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
BLAINE AS A WRITER.
Difiere.i1e Between Debating to Secretary
and Speaking to an Audience.

Washington letter.
Mr.. Blaine, the other evening, gave some in
teresting information about his habits of work
ing Before entering public life he was trained
writer In Congress he acquired great skill as
an orator, and developed an extraordinary ability
for expressing himself in the best possible man
ner upon the very shortest notice. One would
think that his skill as a ready talker ON his feet
would make his work easy in preparing his book.
With good secretary, one might imagine that
he could readily dictate every one of the chap
ters of the book.
Mr. Blaine says, however that he is able to
dictate to an advantage only where the chapters
IN his book partake of the narrative form. For
anything beyond that he is obliged to sit down
and labor with his brain and his good right hand.
He says that he does not believe that any work
OF high literary excellence can be accomplished
by dictation He says that in writing there are
three sentiIfcls standing guard over the BRAIN
The two eyes and the hand are between the
brain and any crude form of expression These
restraints nave constant tendency to check
faults and to polish meritorious sentences. When
a writer dictates there is special stimulus to
high effort and there is restraint
Mr.. Blaine was asked how he accounted for
the fact that in his speeches his English was
always of such high order Under excitement,
and speaking apparently without restraint, his
sentences are clear. vigorous, and models for
their clean simplicity. Is not speaking of this
kind dietation! Where is the restraint as to the
choice of forms!
Mr.. Blaine said that there was all the differ
ence in the world between speaking to an audi
ence and debating to a secretary The audience
was in itself a restraint upon speaker That
mysterious something. known as the magnetic
influence, existing always between man who
can move an audience and those addressed, is
the controlling influence which shapes thoughts
and forms sentences. No man can produce Il
real impression upon an audience without es
tablishing this magnetic sympathy The ab-
sence of this sympathy betrays the dali speaker.
man who is incapable of moving an audience
could probably dictate well as he could write
But, after ALL it would be the outpouring of
mere words.
Mr.. Blaine said that he never hoped to attain
in his writing anything like the excellence of
of public speaking. In his work upon his book
he does not average over one thousand words
day. He thinks this is all that any man should
try to do who aims at excellence in purely liter
arY work Some days he has gone much above
this. but he is quite content if he can only main
tain his average
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
a Little Russian Boys Long Walk.


The other day little boy of thirteen arrived
in St. Petersburg, after travelling about l,500
miles on foot in order to obtain instruction on
the violin at the Conservatory. The boy comes
from a Cossack village, Vladikavkaz, where
from the age of six he has given village concerts.
Hearing by chance, of the st. Petersburg Con
servatory, he bravely set out alone for the cap
ital, travelling along the railway lines and living
by the charity of others. Sometimes % good
natured guard would give him a lift in a cattle
van, but this was a rare exception.
lie slept in the open air, and was only now
and then compelled to seek shelter in barn or
sentrybox From Moscow to st. Petersburg he
Travelled by the rail ROAD and arrived at his des-
Il fortunate chance he met NJ Pobedonostseff,
the Procurer- general of the Holy Synod, who felt
a lively interest in the boy, and took him at once
under his protection. The long journey, how
ever, had exhausted the little fellow, and he is
at present lying in hospital dangerously i'll of
tVDhOid fever.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
THE FASCINATING KIDDER.
An Ohio Woman Who Narrowly Escaped
Being Wife Number Four.
Steubenyille, o., Spectral.

Steubenyillc, o., Special
One Colonel Walter E. Kidder, recently ar
rested in New York, is receiving considerable
He is now wanted at Peru. Ind, to answer a
charge of bigamy. In lS79-S0 this individual came
TO this city With his faultless dress and man
of young lady here. Her fam
was without sin. TO satisfy himself rela-
tive of the girl wrote to the Colonels employers
who, while commencing him as a gentleman, gave
the information thai he was married and had
children. On the letter being shown to the Col
onel he denied his marriage and continued his
attentions. The girls confidence in him being
still mistaken, his wife in Brooklyn wrote her,
with the additional information that he had
wife in Corning. n. Y. Here he married Miss
Ferenbaugh, at the same time living with his
wife in Brooklyn, from whom he was afterward
divorced.
In April, 1880, he married Miss Todd, of Peru,
Ind. who is now seeking vengeance. About the
time of this marriage he woed and won the con
sent of the young lady in this city, contrary to
the appeals made to her TO dismiss him. The
wedding arrangements were proceeded with, and
with wedding supper and tTOusseau prepared
she awaited the expected groom. He came IN
toXicated. and when notified that he would be
prosecuted for higamy, he suddenly disappeared,
and long afterwards he was looked upon as a
prosecuted man by the girls family. To day the
young lady remains in single bosscdncss. She
believes now that he is aconsummate rascal How
many more victims there are to his string cannot
now be known.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
A "starp Opinion of the Star system.

Interview with Clara Morris in Detroit Times.
is the present star system injurious to actors
and actresses!7
ut is most decidedly, or rather the system of
combinations is proving fatal. 1t is worse on
men than on women. At the present time lead
ing men are such a rarity that if you were to
tell New York manager that you knew where
one was to be found he would leave at a mo
ments notice TO secure him. 1t is this combiua-
ton system which is proving fatal Formerly
young girl, say of twenty, entered a stock com
pany. and had a chance of rising after few
years. She learned by seeing new plays and
new actors Now she enters combination to
play one piece during the season. and
never has chance to learn anything else. You
can see it is worse on men than on women, be
cause we have to-day more women ON the stage,
and in all the plays which have been written
during the last ten years the strongest charac-
ters have been given to women. There will be,
think, return to stock companies, and then
there will be chance for training. Another
thing, the combinations are running themselves
Look at the tremendous amount spent in adver-
Using and lithographng. Does anybody heed
pictures i'll the huge posters any more! Then, in
the days of the old stock companies, there was
an interest taken in the personality of the mem
bers. Now attractions succeed each other so
rapidly that nothing can be known of the mem
bels If the star system dies it will die slowly "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
MAN ALWAYS the Same Animal.

George Ticknor Curtis, in February Manhattan.
The most splendid specimen of the Caucasian
race that the civilized world can show too day has
more organs, bones, muscles, arteries, veins,
or nerves than those which are found in the
lowest savage. He makes adifferent use of them,
and that use has changed their development, and
intellectual and moral, and many other at
tributes-as climate and habits of life have
modified complexion, the diseases to which the
human frame is liable and many other peculiar-
ties But if we take historic man, find that
in all the physical features of his animal con
struction that constitute him n species, he has
been essentially the same animal in all states of
civilization or barbarism. And unless we boldly
assume that the prehistoric man was an animal
born with coat of hair all over his body, and
that clothing was resorted to as the hair in sue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19

now He has had good fright and, of. course
will now take no more risks. He is taking such
good care of himself that doubt very much if
he attempts to make any more speeches. He
has two children, a son and daughter. The
Judge is very proud of his daughter She is an
rather, of the political economical system of
which her father has been so long an earnest ad-
vocate. Last spring she and her brother made
visit to Europe, and made walking tour through
Germany and France. The Judge, like all men
who have hobby, rides it to death. He talks
and thinks about nothing but the tariff. His
reading is all directed to that end. His daugh-
ter, the pride of his heart, is perhaps the one
woman in America who thinks at least, that she
knows something about the tariff question.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
ndon Letter to Manchester Examiner.

u
One of the results of the London census the
various returns of which are now being collated.
Is to show that Bombay, the second city in the
British empire, is more crowded than London
in the most densely peopled parts is less than
the density of twelve most crowded sections of
Bombay, with population of nearly four hun
bred and thirty thousand people. These sec
tions have an average population Of ASS. 81 per
sons per acre. In Bombay the average popula
ton is about fifty two peracre in London. forty
nine. The extreme in London rises to Do per
acre, whereas in Bombay it rises to 1850 The
population of the sections in which the crowd
the total population, but the area of these sec
lions is only 3 ID per cent. of the island. In
other words 81 per cent. of the population are
crowded on IL per cent. of the surface of the
land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19

In some notes upon an exhibition of anti
quities, which was opened in Toxic ON the LIST of
November, the Japan Mail writes: There is
one room, the contents of which alone will amply
repay a visit. Its walls are entirely covered with
pictures of the old Chinese masters Two of
them, gems from an antiquarian stand point,
hang inside a case which stands at the entrance.
They are by painters of the Sung period
Baian and Riushomen-and, apart from their
merits as works of art, one of them established
the fact that reels were used by Chinese anglers
in the eleventh century. What is there that
Chinese civilization did not possesssp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-19
THE BARrHOLDI STATUE.
A French Canadian journal Expresses Its
Opinion of the Yankees.

A French Canadian journal Expresses Its
Opinion of the Yankees.
La Mnerve of Montreal.
The Bartholdi statue affair threatens to be-
come a genuine international scandal. At pres
ent it looks as if the Americans would never be
able to make up eirpurse for the pedestal of
that statue which France, ever generous and
enthusiastic, has presented to them in the inno-
cent belief that they are worthy of 1t. 1t is
simply pitiable to witness what is going on in
regard to this matter among our neigh6ors. A
disgusting spectacle is this rich people too mean
and too ill-bred to conduct themselves with com
mon decency on such an occasion. Americans
even carry their cVnicism and iugrattude so
far that they donot hesitate to jeer at their ben
efacress. One of their journals declares that
this affair is somewhat ridiculous, and that the
statue if put up, might not satisfy the artistic
taste of the country And so France has simply
rendered herself ridiculous in the eyes of these
people who are largely indebted to her for the
foundation OF their country. because she has of
fered them a present. And they have the indie
cency to criticise the gift itself, which may not
satisfy the artistic taste Of the country The
artistic taste Of Americans! Did anybody ever
hear Of such a thing! IfAmericaus had the sim
plest taste, the thing that is commonly called
good taste, they would admit the fact that
in matters OF art their knowledge is but
little developed. and they would abstain from
criticising anything they would also remember
the old French proverb, that one should not
look gift horse in the mouths 1t is perfectly
revolving to fine an American journal speaking
of the statue offered by France rs "A theatrical
and lUdcrous gift OF doubtful proportions and
utility
Even if that were the case. Messrs. Yankees,
YOU display low vulgality by saying so, and you
conduct yourselves in IL manner unworthy even
of savageS toward France that has certainly not
deserved such treatment from your hands But.
since she knows you of old, She ought to be well
acquainted with your artistic taste