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r.iTI,alXr.ebTRYING TO BUY LOUISIANA.uf-Political umuugemeut bad sunk pretty low before the opening of the present Presidential canvass. Indeed we believed it bad reached the “lowest deed” of corruption. But when a jobber, speculator and and bribe taker, such as James G. Blaine, is placed in the lead of a political party, all calculations as to the measure of corruption he will employ must be abandoned. All that can be done is to watch and expose each new and villainous scheme as it arises. In 1877 the Republican party contented itself with stocking Returning Boards, with forgers and perjurers, and with finally cheating the people out of their choice for President through the instrumentality of an Electoral Commission. This year they arc richer and bolder; indeed with each year, with a plethoric treasury to plunder, and a growing brood of monopolists to contribute to the corruption fnnd, they grow richer, and as the schemes of corruption spread and succeed they increase in audacity. Their plan is now to literally buy up several States beforo the election. In 18S0, with Dorsey, the Star route thief, in command, they bought out Indiana. Now, with Stcvo Elkins, the associate of Dorsey, in charge of the line, they propose to buy up Lousiana, West Virginia,, and, by the same corrupt means, make several doubtful States certain for Blaine.On Sunday we exposed the fact that a certain individual was in the city, acting as the agent of Blaine,, offering inducements to certain of our merchants to enlist ia the ranks of the Tattooed Knight.. Capt. Henry Martin, cotton buyor, has also developed here as ono of the purchasing agents of Messrs. Blaine Elkins, and a regular statesmen who accepts Steve Elkins latter day political axiom: “Success is simply a question of finance,” as tlie prop-* er rule of action.A few evenings since this new luminary, now blazing in onr political firmanent, made a desperato. effort to organize a Blaine club in the Second Ward at 338 Caronde-lct street, under the martial name of the “Martin Guards.” This move* meat was instigated by the report of a receipt of a letter or power of attorney by Mr. Martin from Elkins-(who Mr. Martin regards as a splendid type of Southern chivalry) authorizing him, Martin, with large promises of rewards in the nature of Fedoral patronage, to bu.r up the sugar planters and all other elements be might find it possible to reach by sooh means. A gentoman who both read and heard this terrible epistle, under the authority of which Louisiana is to be bought for Blaine and Logan, informs us that the contents wore, in substance, as folows: kmild compared with one he had received from the friend and agent in Congress of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad himself. This latter letter, it was explained, was to the point, and the promise was explicit that the friends of Blaine in Louisiana should be properly rewarded in the event of his election.Be this as it' may, and whether Mr..Martin has been authorized to buy up Louisiana or not, there is no fact more conspicuous than that the Republican leaders have abandoned any hope of electing the “soiled political doves” they have •nominated by honorable means, and that they are relying solely upon corruption of the blackest and vilest description for success. The time was? when it was the duty of. National Committees to send out orators and statesmen to proselyte add carry states; the new Republican idea of a National Committee is that its duty is to. send out purchasing agents to corrupt and buy up States.What benefit Lave the sugar-plnliters of Louisiana or other honest classes, here or elsewhere, to expect from the success of such a party by such means?—[New Orleans]States.—The Bossier JSanner, in a late issue,, von' pertinently Bays: Ex-Speaker Duncan S. Cage, of Terrebonne Parish; “takes sugar in his” politics, and now booms for Blaine. Col. Cage was a rabid firo eater in 1873, when we last met him in New Orleans as a member of the “McEnery Legislature.” He was on the rampage; wan ted: gore, hair, c., and Was a regular die-in-the-last-ditoh.. He asserted in our prosence that be intended to insure his life and the lives of' his sons, buy double-barreled shot guns and die, before he would submit to the Kellogg usurpation.. And now it appears that the Colonel really didn’t die worth a cent, but lives to join hands with Kellogg and huzzaifor Blaine, Kellogg and the “so-called sugar interests. It is 6aid wise men change-their views—foolsnever. Well, Colonel, we are the same old Conservative Democratic fool we were in 1873, and believe as-firmly in pure and honest Democracy now as we did in the dft k days of trial—but still opposed to shot-guns; gore, ring-rule and ballot box stuffing., And we candidly believe, Colonel, that our friend Grover Cleveland will “sit down” on. the Presidential prospects of your friend Mulligan Blaine, and that you and your “sugar interest” are left—bodly left—when yon look for assistance from Blaine and “the usurper” Kellogg.Sugar,.Colonel, did you say I— No, thank you. Wo take onr Bourbon ( Democracy Y straight. See-. Walton.The HErtfotrs very air seems to“The National Republican Committee look favorhly on the movement inaugurated by you (If. N. Martins) in the State of Lonsiana and will aid and assist to further the objects of the same by ovcrv means in its power; also the committee considers favorably the pres-sent sugar movement in your State and in the event of success to the ticket, will remember friends.”Of course this was drawing it alittle too mild to be satisfactory tothe other expectant parties to the trade, whereupon the leaders of the Martin Guards, explained that the meaning of the letter was entirely clear, and encouraged his recruits by the assurance that the letter of Dorsey’s fiieud . wasexceedinglyCrime. — The b©' laden with crime. In Georgia, .seventeen out^ rages- were perpetrated and attempted upon women, in one week, by negroes, and not another Southern State but what has had the same experience in a less degree. In the Northern States, tramps assisted by worthless roughs, who go out in th6 highways and by-ways leading into the largo cities seeking whom they may devour, are perpetrating similar crimes. We believe in the law; but there are crimes that no law of man can contemplate without appearing severe to a class of sentimentalists who have nothing to do bnt decry the acts and motives of others. Therefore we say; we should have a law of the hour that would deal sudden death to the ravisber, and allow these seutimontalists to repair their shocked nerves in the intcrmin. —[Augusta Herald.—Job Printing neatly executed at this office.tS(orMSIalAni0a
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The Louisiana Democrat
Alexandria, Louisiana, US
Sat, Sep 06, 1884
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