The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-11-29
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1t is our sad duty to announce the
political death of VIM. Pitt Kellogg
which took place on Nov. 4, 1884 at
6 O'Clock P. NJ. The following lugu!
extracts are clipped from our
weeping exchanges.
In this, Third District. the people
have declared in positive tones that
they have had enough of Kellogg, and
hat he had better take up his carpet
bag and go back home.-Lafayette adj
vert User.
Judge Beattie worked with might
and main for Kellogg, whom he denou
|crd two yea RS ago a ''liar, a thief and
>coundrel''. Lut he got left all the
same.-Louisiana Standard.
At last the Third Congressional Dis
trict is relieved If the odium of being
represented by the most corrupt v,Ilnin
that ever disgraced u seat iu the halls
|of Congress.
A Republican journal soi;loquizing or!
the situation says: THAT there is this
consolation: Kellogg is certainly dis
posed Of and for that blessing let us|
be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Democrat.
Good by Billy Pitt. You will have
plenty of leisure in the sweet by and.
by, to repent IN sack cloth and ash es|
for your many shortcomings. May
your repentance be sincere, and may
the Lord have mercy upon your
miserable carcass.
ale hears
On all sides. from innumerable tongues,
A dismal univ ersal hiss, the s0und
Vi pubic scOrn."
D,rriue South.
kellogg's defeat is highly gratifying
Ito all honest men, Natchitoches Re-
view.
Kellogg is beaten. Praise God from
whom all blessings flow. st. Mary Her
aid.
The defeat Of William Pitt is a blessing
to the State and its people.-Houma
Courier.
We met him at Phillippi and endorsed
him. His corrupted Frauduieucy is no
more. Tia tn, Kellogg, Ia ta.-St. Mary
Herald.
Every paper in this State, with but few
exceptions, are yieing with each other.
in seeking language strong enough to
express their qualification ut the defeat
of w. p. Kellogg. in this Congressional
District. Even Northern papers Of
y strong Republican nroclivities. are chi
ming IN to swell the chorus. 1t would
: seem that orr ~deliverence is not felt OIL
: " by our people. But Kellogg has cut
I such a figure in Louisiana politics, his
acts, have been so besmeared with
wrong-doing, that he has invited the
merited contempt and disgust heaped
upon him. Hence, let us sing paen'
that he d~isappears-it is sincerely tobe
hoped, torever-in that maelstrom Of
oblivion. which is destined for such
oharacters.-st. Martin Reveille.
KELLo0a's FuNERAL.-As Iberia par
ish, on last Tuesday, administered to
the Satisfactorily infamous carpet bag
ger Kellogg, the coup de grace which
ids the Third Congressional district 81
the most g~rievous Ut all ito burdens. il
was iittingly appropriate that her ped
pie should make q suitable disposition
ofthe victims'remain.. This it was dec
ded to do by giving him a funeral. Ac
cordingto previous public notice, u largs
crowd assembled at Weeks' Grove last
Saturday evening, and at 8 o'clock,
headed by the o I Brass Band, the pro
cesslon slowly moved DIP Main street.
Following the band came q wagon
mounted. on which was a large rough
deal box, painted black, bearing on ira
1ldes i. white letters the siaple yet in
pressive legend, "Wm. p. Kellogg
three ne with torches walked eithrl