New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-20

Senator Anderson.

The OpeIOusaS Journal contains the SUB
Joined article, complimentary to Senator
Anderson:
Senator AnderEon's election is curious
anomaly in politics, and shows the great
personal popularity and wonderful strength
of the man. The Liberals supported him,
but he was, strictly speaking, an inde-
pendent candidate, running ON no platform
but that Of T. G. Anderson. All the ma
chinery Of both the Democratic and Repub
Iican organizations, in this parish and il aIl
the other parishes of the district, was
against him. Each Of these parties had
their candidates in the field. Mr.. A. +.
Riard, Of the parish of Lafayette, was the
regular Republican nominee, and Joseph
NJ. Moore, Esq, considered one of the
ablest lawyers of the Opel0usas bar, was
the regular Democratic nominee. Knowing
that Senator Anderson had great strength
with the colored voters Of this parish, it
was the policy Of the Bourbons that Riard
should be candidate to draw off the col
Ored vote: and We have heard it said that
they prevailed Oh him to run and remain iu
the field, the BourbonR Of this parish assur-
ing him that they preferred his election to
that OF Anderson, and thatt the chances were
in his favor, as the white vote would be di-
vided between Anderson and the Demo
cratic nominee, whom they would run to
help elect Riard. And the BourbOns Of
Riard's own parish promised him, we un
derstand, direct support.
With the coIOred vote thus satisfactorily
disposed of, the BourbOns went to work
contriving plans for depriying Anderson of
the bulk of the white vote in favor of their
own nominee. To accomplish this his
political record was falsifed, perverted and
distorted, publicly and privately, by the
tongue and in print, in newspapers and in
circulars, which were sent in food over
all the parishes of the district. Great re-
lance was placed, also, on the Democratic
sentiment of the district. Lafayette was
under control of the Bourbons, Calcasieu
had always been intensely Democratic, and
this parish was considered ditto. The Bour-
bons expected 500 or 600 majority in Lafa-
yette, 400 or 500 in CalcaBieu, and major
ity, at least, in this parish. Between a col
Ored Republican nominee on one side and a
Democratic nominee on the other, Ander-
son was to tall through and get nothing. A
Bourbon catalogue of his rascaIities had
been concocted and industriously taught
to the people, who were called upon to rally
under the Democratic banner, or the coun-
try would be lost. lit Is lost and won at
every election) The cry was: anything
to beat Anderson"
All the nti-Anderson tickets were headed
Glow Taxes" People who pay no taxes
can well afford to vote for " low taxes" or
any other kind of taxes but some one,
who did pay taxes, scratched out the Glow"
and put mo" in it's place. The people un-
derstood perfectly well that it was simply a
trick-an appeal to prejudice-for the pur-
pose of beating Anderson. To the Bour-
bons everything seemed lovely and the
goose hung high" when election day ar
rived. But mountain waves of political
trouble have since rolled over their souls.
The parish of st. Landry, his own home,
has reelected Senator Anderson. He beat
both Of his regular nominee opponents,
combined, in this parish, about 20 votes.
and he beat the Democratic nominee here
over 800 votes. EYeR if he had been de-
feated by the vote in other places the 993
votes which he received at Opelousas and
Washington, the two chief towns of the
parish, in which places he has resided for
twenty-five years, where he is best known
and understood, and where the motives of
those attacking his political record are also
well known and understood-such vote
as this out Of about 1900 ballots polled at
these places, with both parties and their
nominees against him, is a compliment that
any man might be proud Of and is full
Endorsement OF his senatorial career during
the past four years.