St. Landry democrat., 1886-10-02

Some of the State press are COM
menting on the Lewis Steele Duson
controversy. The Homer Journal (anti-
Administration says:
Now comes Senator Lewis, of St
Landry, and says that our much praised
State Auditor has failed to do his duty
and violated the law by failing to in
struct the district attorney to proceed
againss the tax collector of St. Landry
for a defalcation in 1884 Of SS3G3 1t
seems that the Auditor permitted this
sheriff and tax collector to go on and
enlarge his defalcation again in 1885.
And the Shreveport Times, which
gives the Administration two ''digs in
the ribs" for every good word it has to
say for it, retorts as follows:
The Times knows nothing of the
facts in this case, but it does know
that Senator Lewis is the old maid of
Louisiana politics, always dissatisfied
and always assuming that he possesses
monopoly of political virtue, while
political vice. Sheriff Duson, of St.
Landry, is Mr.. Lewis pet aversion,
and it is antagonism to Duson rather
than sincere love for the people that
actuates him. The growIer in politics
is as disagreeable as the growler in the
home circle. Senator Lewis growled
over the land grant, he growled over
the creation of the new parish OF Aca-
dia. and he now grOWls over the action
of the State Auditor &c.
The above is from the Opelousas Cou-
rier of Sept. 25th.
The first we ever saw, or heard, or
read on the subject came from the Au-
d:tor. If the Times knows nothing
Of the facts,'' why does it slop over
about irrelevant matters?
Judging from the Capitolian-A Advo-
cate, the Times is the greatest growler'
in the State; and the Courier says it
gives "two digs in the ribs for every
good word it has to say.
But we also know some things: If
Senator Lewis is growler" against
that swindling railroad land grant,
every occupant of that land in this
parish is greater growler than he, and
there are many of them; if he is a
growler over the creation Of the parish
of Acadia, the great majority of the
white people Of this parish are still
greater GROWERS, and the colored peo-
pie are doing the smiling.
But one thing we do not know, and
we want to know it: what is an "old
maid in politics." The editor of the
Times is young, and has recently
launched out into politics is he young
maid in politics If he is, he may have
a good deal to learn. Ordinarily, an
" old maid' is considered a decent un-
married woman beyond the age at
which ladies generally like to be mar
ried. IT being an old maid is cause
for reproach, God help many of the
best young ladies now in Louisiana,
with the gloomy matrimonial prospects
before them.
But, if we have read Alright the many
able editorials of the Shreveport Times,
Louisiana politics has been so debauched
by political strumpets that to be a "poli-
tical old maid" among them ought to en-
title one to be ranked with the Vestals.
Senator Lewis may have his personal
faults, (and who is without them y
but as Congressman and State Sena-
tor he was steadfastly against that po-
litical brigandage which robbed and
would rob the people of their rights
and property. The mass of the better
class of the people Of this parish, those
who pay taxes and want good govern
ment, have confidence in him; and if he
should ever betray their confidence, and
Join hands with their oppressors, he
will become something infinitely worse
than political old maid"