The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-08-07
State Affairs.

The recent legislature failed TO
wipe out tue present infamous cleo.
ton Law and this iniquitous measure
is left upon the statute books TO en-.
able the ring to count itself in and
amend the constitution at will
Louisiana needs an election law
which will give the State ga free
ballot and fair COUNT somethinp
which it has not had under fha
present law. A law which permits
the fundamental law of the land 70
be amended by fraud is itself worse
than fraud. But then affairs IN
this State are in the hands of a DIES.
perate, INSCRIPTIONS, and utterly
corrupt machine--one which wa
fear it will require revolution "a
overthrow, and 50 long as the grin
OF this machine is maintained the
people need neither look nor hope
for any measure of reform. When
the purity Of elections is DESTROYED
and the ballot box becomes only a
farce free republican government il
a failure. How far are we from this
condition in Louisiana! Is it any
wonder that Radicalism has lost
something ofits odium to the people
of this State Claiborne Guardian
AS the result of legislative action.
our judicial district is to be provided
with another judge, although one
Judge for the last fifty years has not
only been sufficient to perform the
judicial functions of the district, but
until the change i'll the constitution
the parish of Terrebonne also con,
stituted part of the district, and
even then there was no complaint
that the course Of justice was DELAY,
ed for the want of another judge
1t there were any good ground for
the change we should be the last
one to object; but under the circam.
stances we look on it as taking from
the State Treasury the sum of three
thousand dollars per annum Which
should be used for other purposes.
Our State is in debt, and it is din.
cult to make both ends meet. III.
creased assessments have been
recommended to force the tax payers
to take from their scant earnings y
little more money to meet the obi.
cations of the State. Yet, in clio
face of all this mouthing about
economy new office is created with
q fat saIary.-ASsampti0R Pioneer,
The Parlange bill bias be, u do.
feated in the SeBate, and the lessee
can still go ahead making his $780,.
| 900 year out of an enterprise,
the management of which by the
State, according to the assertions OF
the watchful patriots who opposed
the bill, would result in certain and
great loss. This Penitentiary job
was too big, and its manipulators
were too powerful to be successfully
withstood by the Legislature; and
it, like Howard's lottery, may hence.
forth be considered as much a part
of Louisiana government as thecon'
stitution itself. Like Towards lot
terry, too, it is going to stay its tine
out unless some other means than
through Legislature are used 70
get rid of Catalonia Meas
| If the nominations are any ipdlca'
ton, national Democratic politics
are in healthier condition than
Democracy in Louisiana. Cleveland
was nominated simply and solely
upon his record as vigorous 70
| former Monroe Bulletin.
"Brower Vassar," says the Hart
ford Courant, ''gave the young
/ women of America the first college.
i Not so. The people of Georgia gave
the women not only Of America 0us
Of tho world fhaip Il tst anflapa. INC