The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-15
Hitting Back.

eliciting any reply from the latter; but
since the spoils of office have been dis
tributed, and the loud mouthed ants
have gobbled up nearly all the Federal
"pie," the Administration papers, gOad
ed by the iucessant taunts, jeers and
outrageous charges of the II am holier
than thou combination, have double
shotted their guns and are entilading
the lines of the self-styled Reformers
with Il spirit that would lead strangers
to believe that everybody i'll Louisiana
who has any connection whatever with
politics is II deep-dyed scoundrei the
antiAdministration press having al
ready created that impression abroad
in reference to the State Administration.
Senator Eustis was for long time the
target of general attack, but now Gen.
Gibson, Gen. King, ct ais, will have to
face the onslaught of the opposite side
and the disgusting family quarrel will
afford the keenest qualification TO the
discounted Republicans, who are quiet
ly looking on and calculating how
bright will be their chances for a new
lease of power should the present stu
alton culminate in it's logical outcome
IA split in the Democratic party of the
State.
Below we give few specimen bricks:
[Ouachita Telegraph
There must be some authority and
some discipline recognized by the lead
ers and the members of the Democratic
party in this State, if the people are to
pursue the path which led them outof the
jnngles of alien and African domination /!
We are not satisfied that President
Cleveland really comprehends the great
perils, aud sacrifices equally as great,
which were gone through with to snatch
Louisiana from the grasp Of corrupt poll
tical rulers and their british followers.
If we were, we should not have the duty
of reminding the President that it was
the Bourbon element (which he seems
to place at the FOOT which really reyoiu
tionized Louisiana-holding the party
organization solid, while others went
wlloring, sky larking, or stood to sea at
the self-same hour Nor, wonld we
have occasion, just here, to remind those
, who use the word Bourbon ia reproacE,
that it WAS Bourbon and a Bourbon's
queen who gave liberty and freedom to
the United States.
Mr.. Cleveland is not TO be censured
for his appointments in this State /; since,
in the main, he has to make his selec.
tions, in common phrase, from hearsay ;
! but the trouble is, that he appears to
have ignored one element of the party
for the benefit of the other. There has
been no equitable division of the re-
! .5,,,,lI II fsNllnEV
vices equally meritorions. He has rec
| ognized split in the party in this State
/ by his appointments, when in the best
! interests Of a people, imperilled by dis
i sensions, he should have stamped it out
This paper has taken no part what
| ever in the factional war among oul
partyfs prominent men. We have per
sistently condemned it, aud we cauno
now encourage this fratrieidal strife
i It is proper, however, we should say
that the integrity Of the party organiza
ton and its perpctuity we believe 10 b'
the political salvation Of our people. II
this. we are both Conservative ant
Bourhon-not Mugwump.
[i.ake Charles Echo, August s..
tt seems as though the happy tamil.
composed Of the Reform Democracy o
Louisiana, familiarly called the 'Gih
son group are about to kick mp "a wa
in the family camp. Col. Railey, here
tofore d prominent factor in the Refari
! element, seems to have been an aspiran
for ii Federal appointment in the Me-
) Orleans Custom House, and as IA matte
of course, hied himself to Washingto
CITY to solicit the aid of the "group'i
his behalf, which was readily promise
= by Chief Gibson. But it turns out no
that tile 'sgroup" was playing donbl
J, game with the Colonel, for no soont
! had he left the National Capital tina
the office to which he aspircd was give
J, to another. So now the Colonel
: sqnealing like pig III a butcher sho]
= and measures up the 1'group" III the fo
!, lowing more forcible than elegant lal
Y guage: 81 am in possession of fac
which would damage him lGibson)
the estimation of all respectable peopl
{ lind that instead of dealing with gentl
! men was in the hands Of raseals.
y lCincinnati Enquirer Special from Washin
% ton, August 81
The New Orleans Picduu,e has be,
9, little bantering in its tone, on SO &
g Eustis men have imagined, and the fet
!, ing has grown very bitter.
Q: During the visit of the editor of th
% paper to this city, short time ago,
I dispatch, dated Washington, appear
e in the paper, which said:
Of sThere are two sets of rascals to tn
out in Louisiana, and the Cabinet kno
ii. To have turned out one set OF "a
e Gals and turned in another set upon t
er Customhouse, would have been a s
Y. blow to Louisiana"
W The Eustis men accredited this q
o. patch to tile editor of the paper, aud
ss Chairman of the Democratic State Co
q mittee wrote d card over his own 8
~ nature, mentioning the names of seve
81 unsuccessful candidates for Federal
g yors, and said that If the writer OF
oe dispatch intended his remarks for a
nr II of them, he branded.him as "a miseral
=. = liar"
Gov. McEnery has issued his proc
nation in behalf Of the North, Cent
IL and South American Exposition,
be- nuesting the State and municipal g.
st ernment and all citizens to actively
nd terest themselves in said Exposltl
as and to add to the exhibit heretof
On made and now in possession Of the Z
mt isiana State University and Mechanl
II College at Baton Rouge, such artl.
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