Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1859-10-29
Our Ticket

LIS aUScuco u poiI!cd' UlCtelHeSs anu
high party strife during the present can
vass should in o ir stance cause a quail
fled eIector Of the State to absent him
self from the polls on Monday, the 7th
of November. The election 10 be held
on that day is just as important as though
the excitement end party feeling which
characterized the G"uhernatorial contest
Of 1855 attended it. The same Offices
are to be filled and largely increased do
mestic interests are still to b. guarded
bv faitbfuIness and honesty in every de-
partment Of the government, and it is
incumbent upon the people that no neg
Iigence or Indifference en- their part
should suffer incapacity and inexperienc"
to seize the reins their future prosperity
is to be guided by.
Standing at the head of our paper
will be found the names Of the able and
incorruptible gentlemen chosen by the
Opposition State Convention to- fill the
high offices Of Governor, Lieut.. Cover
nor, Secretary Of State, Auditor, Treas
urer, Attorney General, and Superinten-
dent of Public Schools. That they pos
sess the qualities Of head and heart nee
essary to an honest and dignified admin
'strat1on of public affairs is satisfactorily
evidenced from the fact that no press or
politician opposed to them has, during
the time they have been before the peo-
P'e' had the hardihood to assert or insih-
uate augght against either their moral or
political integrity. Not the shadow of
STAN rests upon the fair name of any
mar honored by the Opposition with its
confidence as a nominee. They are eacl,
and all worthy the posts assigned them,
and worthy the great Opposition party
whose chosen leaders they are.
The platform adopted by the OPPOSE
sition has likewise passed through the
ordeal thus far without any we'll sus-
tanned objection or hurtful criticism be-
ing advanced by those who persist in
opposing us for the mere name aud pur-
pose Of "Opposition." What higher en-
dorsement could we desire for it, or What
better proof that it meets he cordial ac-
ceptance Of the people of the State?
deem It scarcely necessary to al
|ude to the f~arcical demonstration made
in Baton Rouge in May last, in which
the people were gloriousIv swindIed out
Of their rights, by political stockholders
who preferred men congenial to their in
~teres>s, while the dear people were COM
PEELED to take what their rulers t|'ough,
proper to give Them. This piebald tick
ct, this ofshoot OF SlidelIism, was concoc-
ted by a party Of men, who thought
they were giving a little dignity to their
operations by placing 7. O. MOORE at
the head Of the concern. The balance
Of the affair is made up Of Democrats of
doubtful consistency, OlIeLine Wings
and ex K. Ms. They koow they have
but little chance Of success, and the long
drawn visages Of the nominees fully COL
firm the fact. A spasmodic effort is
made here and there with the vain hope
Of giving a scintillation of vitality to the
concern, but it is like the hickering|
flame Of a fast expiring lamp. There is
no oil in the cruise to replenish it-let it
expire, and with it, the hopes of the So
called Democratic ticket.
In the county parishes, this Demo
cratic ticket-this poor efusion of Sill
dellism, is seldom heard Of. A feeble
wall is now and them sent up by the
" Organ," which is still teebler echoed
by a few Of the same ilk, and there the
echo ends. Their tiny voices have not
been able to keep it upon its slender legs,
and the few who force down their lucu-
br"tions, are worked as with an eme,ic
of powerful strength. The bant|ing is
emphatically a woeful failure; it died
befo1e it was born, and granny SIidell
never enjoyed the pleasure of gazing