Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1889-02-09
Il POOR RFW4RD FOR HONEST
FRIENDS.

Gov. Nichols found it very, very
convenient to appoint some of his
family to Office down in Acadia par
ISL, and persons who did not care
whether he was elected dog killer or
governor. But up in these "diggins"
where his fight for the Office which he
now holds, was bitter and hard, where
his friends were few and far between.
he has ignored them. The Herald
was for Nichols, body and soul, and
we'll, wait until the next campaign.
Such ungrsteful actions of the Gov
ernor toward this parish, would turn
heart Of stone The Crowley Signal
commenting upon the damnable act
IN Acadia parish SAYS:
Gov. Nichols has shown himself a
weak and Enthusiastically man. a
man whose public pledges have proven
worthless. The Signal has heretofore
expressed 10 choice in the matter of
assessor, but We now regard it as our
duty to defend an insulted people
against an official hyrocrite who has
uisgraced his common manhood by
not keeping good his promises and
who has brought shame and reproach
upon the first Office OF our great COM
monwealth.
The ADORE we clip from the Herald,
one Of the strongest Nichols papers
in the State We suspect the Gov
ernor had too many friends to re-
ward, and also too many enemies to
punish" especially when it is a fact
that to a large degree his success
was due to his former political APP
ponents, that he carried the State by
such large vote. We do not put it
as enemies-they were simply oppo-
nents, but Governor Nichols seems to
regard them as enemies.
Senator Gibson in one of his speeches
in the United States Senate, said, be-
fore the nominating convention, that
Louisiana had two factions in the
Democratic party, but that Nichols
conservatory course had cemented the
party. In another speech the Senator
brands the McEnery supporters as
Radicals; of course he did not mean
Republicans, but ultra in their poll
tics.
We copy the following from the
Shreveport Times, and our neighbor
is mistaken about Mr. Pearce being a
supporter Of Governor Nichols. He
was Moncure man:
Mr.. Pearce, of the Ruston Caligraph,
was another of his Gov. Nicholls)
last-ditch and able supporters, but,
after calling attention to the fact that,
although at a primary election in
Bienville parish, Mr.. A. D. Crow.on,
"a worthy and popular young man of
Sparta, received a plurality of the
votes cast for assessor. Mr. w. B.
Prothro, also a worthy and competent
gentleman, secured the appointment.
After stating these facts, the Caligraph
comments as follows, more in SORROW
than in anger, and with the saving
hope that things are not as bad as
they appear on the face of the papers:
IF Governor Nichols did .iot in
tend to permit the people to have
voice in the matter of choosing the
various appointive officers of the par
ish, he ought not to have said so in
his campaign speeches He ought to
have the grit--and it was thought he
did have-to comply with his prom
Uses, if it takes all the hide off.
Although this is no funeral of ours
in the interest of harmony" we ven
ture to ask our contemporaries to for
get and forgive. In consideration of
the fact that the governor during his
first term redeemed the pledge the
friends who nominated him grieved
to see him make, and nominated Rad
icals and negroes to office; and in con-
sideration OF the further fact that,
during the last campaign he wore
upon his bosom red and a white rose,
as seal and sign that the houses
of York and Lancaster would bury in
his sacred person their fierce hatreds;
that mild-eyed peace would as dove
settle upon his placid brown view
of all this, it is true, those who had
sublime faith in the governor felt
justified in the hope that he would
redeem his reiterated pledges, would
bring peace and not the sword. But,
then, in their sore disappointment
they must reflect that he is doing the
very best he knows how. Moreover,
what boots it now for them to criticize
unrssisting imbecility?
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