Tuesday arrived in due couirse and
things didn't go right-that is, it was
found that two heavy Republican
polls in Gretna would give a majority
against the able and popular editor
of the Courier, who was the Demo
cratic nominee for Justice of tlhe
Peace; and, to make the matter still
more aggravating, the opposing can
didate was a man who had made him
self obnoxious in the same position to
which he again aspired. Hence it was
that, true to the prophecy of the far
seeing Courier, the Gretna boys got
angry, raided the polls under cover of
a fialse alarm of fire, smashed the hal
lot-boxes to smithereens, destroyed
the poll books and tally sheets, and
frightened off the colored Republic
ans gatlhered to witness the count, by
a noisy fus:lade from revolvers point
ed skywamrd. The only box in the
ward which was not disturbed gave a
llmajority that pleased the boys and
secured the return of their candidate.
We suppose this playful little esca
pade is all O. K., considering whose
ox is gored, bhut if the circumstances
of the case lhad been reversed and a
Democratic ward, parish and State
ticket had been euchred out of several
hundred votes by similar violence, it
is probable the virtuous indignation
of the Courier would have known no c
bounds. Such a shameful outrage k
upon one of the most sacred rights of t
a free peop!e, and all that sort of
tiling, you know.
A New Orleans paper redler. at
familiar (quotation in this uncouth
Imnlnet :
When the devil was sick, a monk was le.
When the devil was well, a monk'-"'ooJd
be.
