The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-10-08
A CARPET-BAG CANDIDATE,
IN. o. States.]

IN. ". SCICeS.J
The following article appeared in
the States of last Saturday, which edi-
ton was suppressed in the postoffice
here without the proprietors of the
paper being Informed of the fact. AS
we have the best of reasons to believe
that the suppression of the edition was
the result of our editorial exposure of
the career in this State Of H G. War
moth, we reproduce the article to-day
SO that it may reach our readers in the
country.
Warmoth, as everybody knows, was
ever thrifty thief.
Unlike his fellow carpet-baggers
who wasted their booty as fast as it
was wrested from a people held in
hopeless bondage for years by the Re-
construction laws, enforced Ivy Federal
bayoaets, Warmoth saved and buried
his share Of the pelf against the storm
until better days had dawned upon
Louisiana.
When his deeds of rapine were be.
come old, and almost forgotten, the
arrant knave-there being no more
public treasury to burglarize -,e,
sumed the mien and tone of the provi-
dent husbandman, and turning bis
jimmies into pruning hooks, he invest.
ed his swag in sugar plantation, and
with all the FEASIBILITY and assurance
of the confidence man, songht and cu!.
.ivated the society Of respectable men,
and talked of cane raising and sugar
making as glibhly as any honest hard.
working planter.
A community of interest in sugar is
the only credential TO decent society
which Warmoth ever bore, and in a
limited measure he was admitted to
some business meetings of gentlemen.
In the beginning he was quite modest
and wan, but soon, through snfferance,
he grew into bumptiuus leader of the
Louisiana Sugar Planters Association.
But the arpet.bagger, the uuprin.
cipled political mountebank, was only
hidden skin-deep in the grotesque car
feature he personated, of Southern
planter.
Like the wanton that Balzac des-
cribes pining away with nostalgia
when removed out of the slums of vice
into a pure atmosphere; so Warmoth
soon wearled of bucolic cares and joys,
and longed to return to the more con-
genial turmoil of Radical pathouse
politics, where ignorant niggers are
manipulated and some foolish white
men may be lied to and debauched.
The adherence in which his public
character was held here, at home, and
the contempt for his person felt by the
Republican administrations of Grant,
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, were suf-
ficsent to hold Warmoth in ignomini-
GUS political burial during sixteen
years.
1t was reserved for President Harri.
son to dig out Of his dishonored polit-
ical grave our rotten oarpet-bag ex-
Governor. Such an act was, indeed,
qnite worthy of a Republican admin
istration, whose architects are the un-
convicted felons, Quay and Dud-
Icy, and whose foundation is the boo.
die paid by Wanamakor for seat in
the Presidents cabinet, together with
the vast corruption fund contributed
by the robber Barons of tho protected
industries, and of the Trusts. A year
ago, President Harrison lifted VIZ.
moth into the leadership of the mig.
gers Of Louisiana, lodged him in the
custom house with it's patronage at his
disposal, that be might rally and keep
together his party of ignorant blacks
and re.establish negro rule over US
with all its attendant denominations of
which Louisiana had such sore expe.
rience from 1868 to 1877.
Warmoth's first political move was
characteristic of him. He strove to
lure over the Democratic sugar plan.
1ers to the support of Fl. c. Minor, the
Radical candidate for Congress in the
Third District, in September of last
year, with assurances of a Republican
congressional measure Of liberal pro.
lection in favor of sugar.
Everybody remembers how utterly
"armoth failed in his campaign of
brazenly false pretenses. Not a sin.
gle respectable or respected sugar