The Opelousas courier., 1885-05-09
The Test of Democracy.

4. q. daily ceaeos'
The Picayune, in its refer
4 10 the appointment of Mr..
TarnocElan to the Naval Office
4 This city, seeks to reopen q
controversy which was sufficient
ly discussed, and finally closed
II the election last November,
of member of Congress for the
First Congressional District.
We do not think that our
neighbor will succeed in the at
tempt to prove the superlatlVe-
ness of Mr. Kernochan's Demo
cracy by this revival OF the is
sues them made and determined
hv the Democracy of the First
Congressional District. 1t will
only succeed iii bringing out
/ more distinctly and sharply the
facts of that contest, to-Wit :
that MI. Kernochan was one of
the leading organizers and man
ayers of the most indefensible
bolt from the Democratic party
ever made insthis State a bolt
made upon a palpable and
proven fiction, by which it was
sought to defeat, with the aid
of Warmoth and other Radicals,
and their large negro following
ID Plaquemines and this city,
the regular candidate of the
party, against whom there was
never a suspicion or imputation
j of any association with any ring
or faction, and whose record of
sound Democracy was without q
Jaw or Flemish. Not even the
high Endorsement of Gov. Mich
oils can condone such an act of
infdelity to party as that of Mr..
Kernochan in this contest. 1t
II made more conspicuously un-
iustifable by the fact that Mr..
Kernochan's own boiling can
didate. sought a compromise in
which he should be given the
very nomination our eontempo-
rarv denounces as a ring nomi-
nation, and that the regular
nominee Of the Democracy was
as free from any connection or
sympathy with the faction to
which Gov. Nichols and Mr..
Kernochan were opposed as
they were, that he had warmly
supported Gen. Ogden for the
nomination Of Governor, aud
that his nomination was. effect
ed in the same manner, by the
same methods, and by nearly
the same persons who had pre-
piovsly5 nominated Mr.. Hunt.
We reafirm that there was
never q more indefensible bolt,
and that the bestowal of the
best Office III the gift of the
President upon the principal
manager of this bolt, even to
crafty a Senator's personal ne
cards, cannot, and ought not,
10 have the approval of the true
Democracy.
Should 4 war between Eng
Iand and Russia be avoided, i
VIII be d victory OF the men IN
eharge of those governments
over the people of the Two coun-
tries, who really wish for war.
There is ever an earnest, enthus.
iastic public opinion in England
fOr war whenever an opportu-
nity occurs. In that country
there are always great multi
6naes of ~half-employed people,
Who willingly become food fol
poWder, and it is from this class
hat much of the rank and hlt
English armies are recttlted
na III Russia there is u strong
sas9nent iii favor. of war. !
Gladstone aud De Giers should
Id spite Of this feeling, compos'
their differences, they will ac
complish something that vii
redound to the benefit OF civil
cation. and their own glory an'
renown.
The new Kansas license lay
ig already beginning 60 max
gin-milIs Of the drug stores, &C
cording to d correspondent 2
The Springfield Republican, VIII
says that Oh looking over
druggists register the other da1
he found that liquor was want
III for neuralgia, headache. sou
stomach, the baby, the wife
nolic. swelling Oh thesknee. bow
u complaint, hernia, and fft,
other causes, but the most pop
Mar use was for collie Th
probate clerk receives Q fee 9
xe cents each for recording th
RsscriptT0ns III which liquor /
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