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The Primary Election Law '.
is All Right. t
The ('olfax (ihronicle ik
not in favor of primu.arie for 0
the iui,ii iinti,, i of State of- "
ficeri-. It says of the primary- f,
hele ti mary Elt L fi
-"l,' milt of the State papers ti
i a;1"k t'l ll, !'ti-:Ike of Ulltr s
injg that we hia' ill Louisiana i
a prilt'ary le, tin law. This
is :t ,ravy' ,rrr. \V have a
:xir'-ty that -,uie siujpo:e is P
at la'w 1 , t'liliut |e clifotr'
p'l. I ,, i: th ,';'e atny ie ialty
itt i 1 , to its vi,,latioli. It
is trall. atil the father e
Mill ini-t i:eator 't' fratlud. f!
'l'i .lilty of nmakiig thii
i,.ll. d law d..serve the
t11e111 1 ot hlivOllt. ýUitil day
oltli-'if,Ia lmay have a lriulla
ry ,..Iti,,:t l1:«, hult it has a
'et to hl allilt. 'I
A su'ltli.t t': t the (hrilii- a
cl.e kl ,,:z - wIt .r. /If it - leaks. h
tit' ,lt 1 lIo alt.-t - . \w ho, i toll (
blamil' fi , "r tilt, " Itrave ty" t, l
the tallt itt h .iks . Thlere r
aVet' air,,l:t a'ilvO. aties of al "
Iil e41 l'llril ar, l aw ill t1 it
1 .i!frl 'it, l: tll,' "º aVeý
ty .l.'" X. :+i>1. 02: ud it i " n t
fair t'1 u'Ii ,' ihlr e lii tvith l
'The tla--1" If the *"fra ud." r
theli, iut,-t !luVe. bhy,.li tlc I,
work of the aivi cat,- of thel,
'tuivct'litil + system't. O c(lr-'urste
they dl oit wantit a pritlilry '
law. by which ballot hox
Stuffers can he reached and r
through which the rank and i
file of the party can have ak
voice ini making nominnatioins.
Mansfield Journal. !
Our usually fair and well
informed cilitmnlliorary. the t
Mal.-fieldl Journal. w ouldil
have :i:troll it:clf f lllll ite -i
1y i" ' tllll'itt ll i ani a v i, d t
lutl:kiin r iinjuist lednl ti( li-.
hats it 1 ...kd lupl and r1a' I
lthe law it.-lf ta't No. 1' ._t'
itiil t iiuttl:uid of as.umtiiil-'
that the 'h'c r,,ll icle kfiows
whlitreof it spcaks". and thin .
(lis-,us--inig the ,liqu -tiii fro i i
'iT ( hb'om ii -". icoi in1mnia
tii ii of the priniary election
jaw is as sweepihig as it is po.i
ble te) imlake it iin the English
laillnaize: aille it is as unti
founuiled and Uiujus~t as it is
iihteniidd to be withering in
its dhnuIIiiationi. Indeed, it
is so iuiitji.-t and ill-founded
that it lian flte .haracteristics
pi a wild attak made by one
who has either never read
thie law. or. h]avi'ig read it,
has fi,'rgottnli its provisions
or .r,'sl~y mniscou'eiived their
in port.
"We ha~e a traveilty," sayis
the Chronicle. "that some
sullppie is a law. It cannot
lie ,.itfrc,-d, ltrI" i lteire any
l t~uiy attached to its viola
tii i .'"
A trilly wonderful state
iiituit i- that i,0ittainltil in the
lanst .tt1-Ite. and it ,i.aes
our ,.,tllitwl~l ul i iow anl
pllt' Hx Io has ovter rT-ad the
ttriiiairy cleat'iiiu law could
Vei' .iak,' it autul set it in
'IT', fat i- the law c'aln he
illr l'li-itiL i..v t if :tially I',e, i
State.: alii Wilil - a turty v ,
Chi,' i i all a mriilnray ctli. tii
t' l'iake ltoliiiictit-i. thi n
that lh~.tion mii l i.-1 le l., I
iiuldr tih I "crovi-i.us ,f ith
prii ia:ry : ,l,,.etiii I0w ,At' 1 ;. I
Noiv. the ( r,; i-ri i-t-l\ ate
of ltc.s- lro i- ioni.i ilt thii 'ir
mluiiiiltlt detail-. is .ifet.iuuauds
.I 'l"; w , -: 1 ,':' , "'l ir"; : ".j . ri- .-r
hº,41 i. :It tlhe ,1 - :'ti .l of O e 1
,icIrit. .11;l by t: ,rivl(· 'il tf
Owe bri:il,e.e ,,ftaki; tart !
iii ary maIInner. shap'e or
"r'11 iIi any Iprimary el l'io) i
,'." l ,ilii il +,,1r1 ,' y 'arS fr, l e
i ' of lav,'. a lt. 1firtl''r. :
,2.- ii, t ii (111a1i n di riig
t,, , u' I. ri,, to holhi any t
,;ti.e i ll i- I I:ti t' elective or!
1 ,! ',,ilili',' . V
Siuch is itihe p lty for
1lle-:al voting in the primary
eh..tioln )by alry- one not poss
:sinig lthe pres-cribed qualifi
:atioi:- of a voutur. (See sec
Lioai )j.
Such, the penalty for any
oie who. offering to vote,
-hall wilfully, untruly, or
fal-ely swear as to his quali
lications as a voter. (Sec
tion 7).
:Such, the j)linalty for vot
lit. I 1r tHl oha unlc on the
-aluc day anh f,'r the smiine
ur11p!I se at . ,'h11 elcti n. ik.
I,
Suchli. the penalty for allny
el lt' IalOlil l or permitting
tramnil Pt osl elect i'on. (Sot.
Such1, the penalty for any t
•le ttion oflier who having i
ac10l-lted the positioni of cmll- i
iIin-i(ioer or clerk of electioni , 1
begun the dis,-harge of lis 1
rluties wilfully neglect- or i
reftiuse to further perform <
•uclh duty. tor fraullrlenitly
act' iin .onitravetntion of the
primary eletiii law. or. who
,erf niil!s sor a-- -ot. 1in any
act. wa thl llir ili v-,ti.n, iii
retei irig or ltd~CleoitiUn bal
lots. or in ,-aril i for ballots
or ballot tox. or. who shall
wilfully nmi-all or misread
or fail to call or read the
name of any person whose
name is voted on any ballot,
or who wilfully enters upon
any tally sheet a greater or
less number of votes for any
person than such person ac
tually received, with intent
to chan<uge the resul of such
election. or impair or improve
the chances of election of
any candidate, or who know
inil'iy permits any illegal vot
iii; or fraud in any manner.
SIrllulh. the penalty for lribl
ine. initimiidating or inftlllen
cilig a voter iu such election
Such, the penalty for at
tempting to commit any man
ner of fraud in such election,
which frauds are fully defin
ed and enumerated. (Sect.
And su.h thi e penalty for
forgin, and ,:ounterfeiting re
turns. (Sect. 14.)
Surely, here there is penal
ty enough to sanction the
law. :Every imaginai)le wrong
ful a(t whih iiay )et coimmlit
ted in aln eh-ctioni has been
provided againt and is pun
ishable under this law.
What moire is needed then
to make the law effective?
Nothing moinre than what is
needed to iii:,ke any other
law effective:- a healthy pub
lic opinion I,,ack of it, and an
honest endeavor to vzfrce
it.
The SENTIN:L i- riot coin
mnitted to thIe lproposition of
nomninatinhg State officers by
l)rinmary ele-i ion, nor is it
;'(ollnnittt-d against it. That
is t qujiestiOik for futnu-e coni
sileltirationi andl determination
It i- (,11,' about whih lithere
is r 'i1 f, r ,in- leret-n,.e of opili
io'l :nmomng iro'l Democrats,
an i for that reas n it should
It, aipr,.'-h -l, with t:hlibera
i on u:il t]-,.i-t! ,'ahnily and
uit it is ,ve! to , :a it un
,Iist,"4 at ,te otiset. that
- bllit lihrly iil its wis
,1 iii dl,,il, t,1 lilike In olninia
i!,,il-f,, -fl e ,~,, by ~ in r
II
l . ,t,'t 1f- fi t l'`. 1. 11
-ý :l rl 'l ll em to intre n i1
'Tiat is the point the S:An- t!
'!.nl-!. Wi iji]di pla'h hollle u11)0:1 0"
n teih
every thloun-.h! ufil mal in the ,1
State. if it had the pow(.r: ti
aiei it prltnil1Ls to invilte its t
confreres of the pis the press to lend i
their aidl in doing it. C
Again the Fifteenth Amend-`l '
'l
ment. K,
A short time ago we called, h
attention to the views ot that t(
widely-read Northern journal, t
Harper's Weekly, on the Fif- a
teenth Amendment to the
Federal Constitution and the tl
chances of its repeal. After ft
a careful study of the subject a
IHarper's Weekly reached the d
conclusion that the drift of d
public opinion was in thel
d(ire:tioin of abrogation, and a!
also the repeal of that section I
()f the F')ulrtelenth Amend- t1
miient \hith pruovid(le that
States that !denly the rig ht of b
si|ffrage to uitale il;: labital.t -
Over t"Wv'litV-ilt yar of age.-.
or to alny way alhri tIe thciri
right to vote. "eo-xe'lt for pr:'
ti il:ttioln in tr asoa ii r ri''It t'l
lion or oth ii" c'ilne. shatI bea
puni-led by a redlt'-tic, of
their basis of rt,res.lt-ti,:
in Congrt'eas. T'he pci tiiv
taken by Hariper's W\Vtily in
favor of repeal has vokedtl an,
outlburst from the lIncdepend- ti
t'ut, which denouunces the li
ljproposition as "foolish alnd
wicked talk." and onnmient-"
ing on this talk the Indepen
(blt says: a
I It delpeinds onl the doctrine,
that this is exclusively a
vwhite mian' counltry, when t
evt'ry mall knows it is 11no t
Imore a white ian's country o
than it is an Anglo-Saxon's r
country. Everybodly knows t
that millions of people, not
white, nor only partly white,
live in this country and have
lived here as many genera
tions as most of the rest of a
us. This is their country
just as much as it is any other
men's country. anl those who
persist in vociferously andl
continiuolusly denying it art c
simply burying themselves
dleeper uwler falsIehoods."
The Baltimore Sun calls
the attention of the Idcepen
deit to the fact that when
i Jefferson wrote in the Declar
ation of Independence that 1
all men are born free and I
equal, negro slavery existed
-in the American colonies,
hence, it is safe to assume
that these words were intend
ed to apply to white men on
ly, because if they were in
tended to apply to the slaves
also the declaration was mere
ly a hallow mockery in viewI
of the fact that slavery was
protected by the laws exist
Cing for a century after the
promulgation of the I)Declara
-tion of Independence. The
t Sun, with much truth, ay.
1- serts that from the earliest
days down to the present
" time the policy of the nation
towards the Indian has been
8 basedl on the assemption that
r the red man has no right that
Sthe whie it man is bound to
I respect.
'1' This is a fact that cannot
be (lisputeol. We have (le
f- fendled our ac:tioii ill shutting
f out the 'hinese oil tihe
igroulnd that thlis is a white
it mania' counitry. Thie descend
t anits of the New England
Puritans, pious missioilaries
Stllthey were, drove the Queeln
te of Hawaii from lcr throlle
l- 'be ause they held that a
i, Wilite 1man' Rgove'rlllll;lit was
dt essential to the welfare of
i-'the islald. In thi- c)nnec
(I tion the Baltimore Sun says:
''l'Tihey dlri\i-vedc thle natives,
-. who olitlilillluber d them 10 to
it 1. of alniost aully Voic iii tlihe
goverlilut-lit. aindl ill due sea
" soil turnrid Hawaii over to
- tilhe Ulnitcd States as a teri
y toiv. 'Fldi..r,' ne', re 7,0 ri Iill d h s
to 1 S1 a,aniar i tl ' lt 'li ,
pitl's \whl; we 1t(ltl l ll i' !h.*
unti-t iav, thoughlt lthe 1i:
i!ºpine: W re a 'whitle liLntl S
:(couºttry,' for.we hon ýr!! t'.c
i- aIs(l ,ot from thill '..!!1 1..,
ul:Triv,.s. bit froai tilt' Sw\'tu-I.
overno'ilit, and thu~l re,"- *
nized the 'white matins' tit,'
andI ownership. So far a -
the praetice of this nati(on is
co):,cernled the weight of evi
d.rlc,'. regardless of abstrat
theories. and 'nlobl conici'l
tions" of equality, indicate
that, except during the period
immediately following the
Civil War and up to the time
that the Southern States re
covered control of their gov
eriiinents, this has been re
gardedl as a 'white man'IIs
country.' Otherwise we we would
have thrown open our ports
to the Asiatics and have
treated the Indian as a man
and a brother."
The proposition to repeal
the Fifteenth rmendment is
far from I the foolish
and wicked talk the Indepen
dent claims it to be. The
drift of public opinion toward
the repeal of the Fifteenth
amendment, which HIarper's
Weekly has noted, is due to
the fact that the North is
A b'ginning to realize that it
.as a stupedous blunder, if
,not a crime, and that it is
not wrong for the Southern
whlite' people to preserve their "
ivi\-iization when it is men- I
aencd by a semi barbarous
ra,:e. The Independent may
wll be within the mark
'when" it asserts that the
amutendment will never be ret.
pealed, but will remain a
part of the Federal Constitu
tion as long.as the Republic
lives, but the Independent t
s-hould know that the Ameri- º
can pe'ople have a practical
way of solving their problems.
iand should the time come
jwhen they have good reason
to believe that the welfare of
their country depends upon
or would be promoted by the
repeal of the amendment,
they will not hesitate to re
peal it In .the present frame !
of the public mind it would
be impossible to adopt such.
f an amendment, and the truth
is that at the time of its
I adoption it was condemned
by the sober sense of the
country, and many prominent
men who then supported it
now frankly admit that it
y I should never have found a
- place in the Constitution.
lThe Amendment may not be
Srepealed for many years, but
t the fact can not be question
I ed that public sentiment
I against it is constantly grow
i, ing in the North.-State~,.
Price for Governor.
-!
The Candidacy of the Hon.
W. H. P'rice fpr Governor of
SLouisiana, was otfficially an
nounced, by a special corres
pI pondence from Alexandria to
s the Times Democrat on the:
;.t- 25th inst. Mr. Price is the
i brother of Ex-Congressman
SAndrew Price of this District,
a- who, will be remembered
e made himself so popular with
Sthe democrats of the 3rd con
tgressional District, and ac
t quiredanenvia le reputation
throughou l titate of Lou
n isiana, as thanager and
n organizer of he first Cam
It paign of th lamented Ed
at ward J. Gay, gainst the ne
to farious Wiliia Pitt Kellogg,
and dethroln 4 forever by his
ot subsequent cacpaign, repub
lican misrule f the 3rd con
e- gressional district. Althoughl
Stilhe Hon. W. H. Price, has nlot
le been activelrin politics out
te side of the Parish of la
j fourche. ihe is very well known
Sthroughout the State as a
Sgentleman, in the full sense
Cs of the word, as a man of un
•n disputed integrity and recog
ie nizedtl ability, and as a true
, anld devoted democrat. The
s Review understands that
Sthere will bean unusually
of large crop of candidates fromn
'- which to select a Governor of
ts: this tate. among whom are
s, tlhe Hous. N. C. Blanchard,
to Iabt. H. Snyder, Judge Mc
te Laurson. Leon Jastreminki,
a- and John T. Michel. In our
to opiniion our Willie Price will
• i. give them a hard fight.- St.
, 11artin Re'iew.
Promotes Dision and ChildrChen.
ess and est.ntainThe ind You Have
A\.getabe PreparationforAs
simiFat ng uO erood ItdReICtda
urng eSLOmacbsa UoF eiSLoe P Bears the
Signature
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ness and Rest.Contains e ofr
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Faradic B Foeries. Over
riit i trile irgnehtre t of rtiv a k w t , r.
E O'o RKr Thirty Years
(ET W YOSTU
ere is t.-dlay. Itoit at lh pWital in theiV1 S- 1 /. ' 1, .:at ,i, w h 1 inl aCt.
()uir hatteries are operatti by owei .. " so.' ' r . .,
The iWillia ms' -
Eleetro-Iikdieal
Faradie B"tteries.
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T hei !fl s ". -;ir ,it" h'ht 'h 1 t lr'li i, - .. " '. -. : t 1. il>. l .ri,
n tr i t'o i t ir"all-.i in i t- i" , ae : t i : t I l. 'v , 1:.1% 1,1 71 iia t
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Diseases in which a speedy Ci;re can be EfIected
lv t':e Ise f tlirh FarAt l .t' (Cu'l;rr t, L El'ctricity
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