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(Louiniumt Standard.)Kellogg pulla the Hiring audMorris Marks plnys the monkey. He U appealing to the passions and prejndices of the colored people to “stick to the party.” The party 1—Great God! have we fallen ho low that a Bclf eonvicted bribe-taker i# the Republican party in Louisiana f Hut did Morris Marks—a carpet-bagger from the Third to the Second Congressional District and a member of the Re-publican Slate Committee thru— r | “stick to bis party” two years ago I when Henry Dennis—a black Ko-* I publican—was regularly nominated for Congress in the Second District t liy no means—playiug the monkey again to Kellogg, ho put himself up as an independent candidate in order to defeat thu regular nominee and help K. John Ellis to go to Congress. This is the sort of men, Republicans and colored voters, who are to day arousing your prejudices ami appealing to you to vote for a bribetaker, under the pretense that he is the nominee of the party. Re tip and show your manhood by repudiating political traders and tricksters, their henchmen aud hirelings, and their coirupt methods. Repudiate, corruption and vote for honesty. Rid Kellogg take his trunk of promises—the only thing he hue in the Htuto—and go back to Illinois.Vote for E. J. Cay - in so doing you will vote for protection to our industries, the improvement of our water ways and the building up of the Mississippi levees, for schools supported by the National Government for all the children of the Htate, for peace and harmony between the two races, and the prosperity of our whole people —aud for honesty aud purity, the underlying principle of all political parties.Mlu-10ill*yseis-b,ofpla.teornd
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Lake Charles Commercial
Lake Charles, Louisiana, US
Sat, Nov 01, 1884
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