Year: 1878




pie we'll had they coadjusors like
themselves. But to the shame of the
Democratic party of Louisiana it must
be written that her chosen fayorites
are either Incapable from natural de-
fects or oblivious to the real and
pressing needs of the hour.


lSt. Mary Enterprise.l


Louisiana for years had been at the
mercy of raveuous carpet haggers,
monopolies and chartered swindles.
Our people came into power, and our
law makers merely took the Radicals
place. The monopolies are protec-
ted-they fatten and grow rich, while
poverty sets gaunt in many home
aud want-want alone is the poor
mans portion. We say this in sor-
row. We know, and we acknowl-
edge it with pride, that a large
minority in our Legislature have
been true to the best interest of our
State, and have fought valiantly for
those reformatory measures which we
so much need. To them we give full
praise and honor; TO the majority,
who have frustrated their attempts
at retrenching and reforming Louisi-
ana, we say, the Indignation of an
outraged people will mete out to you
a swift and just punishment.


shreveport Tlmes.l


| The fact is, it seems impossible to
get even the simplest bill, and to
which there is no opposition, through
the present Legislature. Probably
no Legislature ever assembled in any
State in which there was as little con-
cert of action. The Senate seems to
work passably well-tlough its vote
on the constitutional amendments.
which means opposition to a cenyenr
ton, was not such legislation as the
people demand or approve of. But
when it comes to tue House every
thing is in an inextricable muddle.
There is no leader, every mem
Der appears he slosh around on his own
account. While the Democrats have
u majority, it is rendered imperative
by the opposition of the Radicals
combined with a few of their own
number who have some ulterior pur-
pose in view. The end of the session
is near at hand and nothing has been
done. This win be fine record upon
which to go before the people at the
next election. The Democratic party
will be forced to bear the blame,
however unjust this may be.


EColumbia Herald.l


The session of the Legislature is
drawing to close, and SO far very lit
tie legislation of Importance to the
people at large has been accom-
plished. The amendments to the con
stitution that have passed will not
meet the appreciation of the mass of
the people, from the fact that they do
not reduce the salaries of constita-
tional officers sufficiently. To reduce
the Governors salary only $1,000 and
THOSE of the Supreme Judges but
$500 is mere farce. And yet,
strange to say, the very men who
were loudest in advocating the cut
ting down of the pay of members,
during the present session, are the
same who are exerting every nerve
to prevent any appreciable reduction
in the pay of constitutional officers.
At the head of these remarkable re-
formers stand Messs. Bush, Ryland,
McGehee and Lyons, who seem
determined=t0 force the amendments
as they are shaped down the throats
of the party and in the face of the
protest of the people of Louisiana.


[Amite Independent


Bnt it's no use. Our silly hopes
were vain Politicians are politicians,
and nothing else they are mockers,
and whatsoever is deceived by them is
not wise. While they were seeking
votes, they We're ready to pledge
themselves to a thousand things.
They could abuse their Radical pre-
deeessors to your hearts content, and
now they can do just as the Radicals
did.


[Ouachita Telegraph


The legislative session closes by
limitation on the 9TH The remainder
of the year will be devoted to expla-
nations and to answers to questions
from iuquiriug friends.


E. Feliciana Patriot -Democrat.1


A good many newspapers are just
now severely deriding the Demo-
cratic members of the present Gener-
al Assembly, for what they are pleased
to term a dereliction of duty. So far
as we are concerned, however, we in
tend rather TO applaud than to abuse
them. We are satisfied the larger
portion of them, in common with the
people, desired the passage of many
reform measures which they were
aware it was useless to press, more
especially as Warmoth, Hahn 81 Co.,
were backed by the large amount of
money commanded by the Louisiana
Lottery Co.