The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1878-10-02
TO BE REMEMBERED.

IL DL NL.uANADA"AU
We desire to have plain and can
did talk, with our fellow-citizens and
friends, all white men in the Pine
Woods of our Parish, who have more
or less been disposed, from good mo-
tives we are certain, to join or affili,
ate with a meae party called here the
"Workingmen's Party" and else
where the Nationals" the "Green-
backers," etc. Under its name here
it has been forming and organizing,
from what we could learn, under the
auspices of few very good and
strictly correct men, principally on
the North side of the river, and has
attracted some merited attention. So
far, SO good, but on last Saturday
some of these men, about a baker,
dozen, convened secretly, and with
locked door in the Sherift's Office in
the Court House, and with them,
then and there locked up, in secret
conclave, were the two real and most
noted leaders of the Radical party OF
this Parish, John DeLacey, Post.
Master of Alexandria, and J. Madi-
son Wells, Surveyor of the Port OF
New Orleans. What these men did
there, at the present writing, we can
not tell our Pinewoods friends, but
this We can tell them that they NOM
mated for Representatives in the
Legislature, C. B. Yeager and John
A. Calhoon, and in less than half an
hour afterwards, the latter was en-.
dorsed up stairs in the regular radi-
cal convention for the same Office,
and endorsed through little slip OF
paper, drawn and written by the Sur
veyor of the Port of New Orleans,
and handed to the Convention
through the hands of negro en-
plOyee of the New Orleans Custom
House. sa .
Now, what we want our Pinewoods
friends, who have always stood up
with the Democrats and Conserva-
tives, to understand and remember
well, what these men, in the name of
the so.called Workingmen's Party
have done as o start in this canvass,
and we are truly sorry to have to
talk so plainly about it, but truth
hurts no one, and it must be told,
that the true friends of this people
of Rapides may know who noao are
their friends or even allies in the
present important contest against the
bitterest foe and worse enemy this
people, this white people ever had.
These delegates were in Sc.
cret caucus and conclave, in a locked
up room with the two Radical lead.
ers of Rapides, who up stairs had a
Convention, waiting at their beck
and call, composed Of "a negroes, not
single white man a member of it,
and then and there acted in consort
and affiliated with these bad men,
these radicals, these negro radicals
and for what cause? for what reason
in whose behalf2 against whom2-.
We answer that for you, pinewoods
people-for the sale and only pur.
pose of aiding, abetting, helping this
negro radical party to elect just what
men these two radical leaders desire,
and specially to defeat two such
men, good men, true men, white men,
as Jim Wise and James Jeffries,
whom IS of your race, your own peo'
pie, your own party have chosen to
defeat this same radical combina.
ton, made up against them. This
and nothing shorter have these men
done, and we ask you to remember it
and to mark it well, that they have
certainly done you pinewoods people
q serious injury, and are aiding to
forge new handouts to bind you tc
negro radical rule. once more. By
our next, we shall be better posted
and will surely keep you posted, and
shall refer to this combination, got
ten up solely to defeat the Demo
Gratis, the Conservatives, the anti
Radicals. the white people of Rap
ides, and that by that same old Rad
ical party, under the same old radi
cal rulers, under the same old radica
leadership. !,
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|DEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS.-
d WE ARE THE ONLY AUTHOR
lied AGENTS FOR THE SINGET
NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE
IN THE PARISHES OF RAPIDES
VERNON and GRANT. FERGUSON
g. SCHNACK, WATCHMAKERS an,
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