The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-09-04

= 10 inc Ed1tof OF the k'l(
The letter publsl
old and highly esAe,
: j. Taylor, of St. Ia
. organization of aht
, ments of the StaSe
race, for the purISs,
pending political; c
: suggests but dempn
-, reply. A conserVat
, per, and, like DIT;
; large agricultural
peratively demand 6
Htheir protection, ! n
the letter Of my I'D
may not be inapI8ol
Before the warE "
party utilization as5tf
| have taken no axti'
in politics since, Nit
Liberal, | was notnil
as a Fusion candida
the first district.S
cooperation witSl
Emery and Ogdels, a.
DR.. Taylor and oShe
men, | made the {cal
form of principle$, b
enough for the Heo]
race, to stand upon, ;
conceded to the snee
political and indSstr
claration of principle
conservative whise a
in 1872 is so antaSon.
and programe suSge
League that | any fol
ton the identity c
of the g~entlemen'no,
as | believe, honestly
proscriptive policy u
1t is better to be Srue
tent, and | shoula be
questions of conAste
| p~ortance if this nov,
Dictated on its mcLits
In my Judgment. a
! political in its cllslraC
is at all times quks+iC
Gus, but at this janct
only evil, and fusl of
races and to the Stat,
The condition. of
Louisiana is a~noknalt
time since the esEabli
ion we have in a Simt
a de .f0ct0 State govel
" two years the polit
have been so gSave
Congress has hesitate
called louisiana case
declines to detersnine
legal status of a Etatt
assumes to enacg an'
for the people of Houis
easements springng /
of this latent doabt I
idity of the existing {
aggravated by tlSe OF
ment of unwise ssnd V
very great unani nifty
Dictated are referred
and conservative vote
ism now dominapti in
and as a very natural {
clusion, relief is sougl
overthrow this cprrul
public management
COncede the existence
planned of-and Ehey
aggerated-and Surth,
is sought in the light
thoughtful, sobei mil
shrink from eitht'r ex1
reliet upon a program
plates dividing tie cit
into two parties af n'
bers, and alrayyng t
another on the hasis {
TAYLOR has reminiscent.
black" The mSvemt
DR.. Taylor is ex@eptio
proceeds upon al estil
citizen that is UNDER t
inadmissible. Isam p1
the e~nfranJlisen
Immediately upbn tn
without preparation f.
or privileges, Il
the supposed military
of the ration,
premature,
devOlve upon thy cOu1
ical problem, hard to
Their, I admit that the
prived of the coknsel
the resident white M,
and compelled, ly the
their political is
experience to take thu
at their commaSd, di
by the forced n4cessit
SO crudelI and
form their initiaS polit
TO commit, Largely, the
affairs in Eouisi
to corrupt {
adventures and
competent men !Of the
as q result fromitliese
IF the e citizens, t
man alike have
distresses AID outI
Further, th
to politica. powt
the State by {
of pubic affai
advantage of tieir pos
confidence of I'll
% develop distiSlst on
race against th
people, and also by inc
ng their W chimes Il
supporters, they have
an a~cr1nnOnlOns
n the old whiSe ellen
race. THUS, by
on the 5especti
on the seciproc
they have maint
he colOred yOtSrs and
he political ana civil ]
Add TO these d
ions to the frsi polite
he colored votfr, still
the negrS, like
Caucasian bro
erenee or tfoukhtlessI
he direct exercise Of h
has remittdd the s;
hat SO conveniently a.
ume party mas gem
he white mamie has
by proxy snpolitil
ave done in psYson.
re as full as bhe fac
ute enough I'd prove I
ave not alwA. andssU
their political hi
but tlleydOn otj1
? construed, a udgme'
ompetency orr integri'
otter. Such laspses in
ccurred among the A
and viii occur ag;
OF incurable II their G
ither the whits or blac
, lead the pat2iot to di
ubllc,