The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-04-25

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and it's time for the thoughtful
and rejecting of both the late Va
rieties and Courthouse factions,
who have at heart The success OF
the Democratic party, to begin to
think seriously on the consequen-
ces of keeping up the discussions
of 1876. Then it resulted as al
ready stated in the election OF a
partial delegation of Republicans
to the Legislature, and q Repub-
lican Recorder. Ii kept mp this
year it may result in the election
of Republican Legislative ticket,
a Republican Sheriff, and certainly
a Republican Senator, for we don't
pretend to deny the fact, that with
two Democrats running for Sena-
tor, Anderson could carry st. Lan-
dry easily. lie beat Garland nearly
AGO votes here last election. Gal
casieu, Cameron and Lafayette
were with us then to Offset his ma
iority here. We have not got them
now and must make the fight alone.
Every effort we know will De made
to prevent the cordial-union OF the
two late factions of the Democrat
ic party, 1t will be a labor OF love
to the Republicans to keep up the
dissensions of the past. We know
they are now trying to ian them
into full blaze again. IT they
succeed in this they will huve
things their own way, and a few
days before the election all their
honied words to the contrary, they
will meet in secret eonclaFe, nom
mate Il ticket, and elect greater
portion Of it, just as they did in
1876, when they made their nom
nations for the Legislature, Sher-
if and Recorder, only q few DAYS
previous to the day of election. In
the coming election 'tunltea we
stand, divided we iall." Therefore
let us got together, present uni
ted front, and roll up such q ma
jority as no other parish in the
State has ever given to the Demo
cratic party.
This can be done and we must
do it. 1t only requires "a lo44g
pull, a strong pull and pull alto
gether" to demonstrate to the
State that st. Landry is the Dom
ocratic banner parish, and to give
hel the commanding influence III
the councils OF the party, which
she is justly entitled to.-St. Ian
dry Democrat.
The above advice contains true
democratic doctrine, though it is
amusing to those who knew the
true illwardness Of St. Landry poll
tics to reflect that many Of those
st. Landry politicians who now con
fess, what lis truly stated by the
Democrat, that nothing short of a
strict party organization, and nom
mati0ns for offices, will save st.
Landry from republican DONNA
ton, are the very men who, in 1874,
fought against and defeated de
mocratic district convention, and
the nomination of a democratic can
didate for State senator. Perhaps
the secret of this conversion to the
true democratic faith is found in
the fact that st. Landry, under the
new apportionment bill, is a sena-
torial district by itself, with no pos
sible help to expect from Calcasieu,
Cameron, or Lafayette. She must
fight her own battles now, single
handed, and in view of its large
colored vote, the still powerful local
influence Of Anderson, and the fact
that the republicans there hold the
balance Of power, it is evident, as
the Democrat says, that the demo
cratic party, if divided, must be de
feated.
Itiis never too late, however, to
learn wisdom, though it may Ibe
learned too late to be profitable.
Whether the st. Landry Democrat
is disinterested or not in its above