St. Landry democrat., 1879-10-11
sT. LANDRY DEMOCRAT.
oPELOusAs, SATURDAY, OCTOBER II, 1879.

We are sorry to see in our neighbors,
the Washington News and Opclousas !
Courier, expressions OF dissatisfaction |
With tho ticket nominated here Oh the !
9Th ult., by the Democratic convention. |
The ticket is q good one and Il repre- |
sentative Que. 1t comprises as much
ability as the Democrats Of this parish |
ever brought into the field at one time.
And it is moreover strong tickct-some !
thing no party can afford to ignore if it
expects to succeed. For the Senate we
have F0ntcnot and Robertson, both of |
whom have been there before, and the !
latter member of the late constitu-
tional convention. They are both
representative men, and personally !
strong men. For the House we have
Kavanagll, Carron, Young and Lyons.
The two former have been to the Leg
islaturc before, one OF them is a morking-
mun and the other lawyer and Il man
Of acknowledged ability; of the two
latter one is physician and the other
Il farmer, who now first appear before
the public. The candidate for cleIk of
court, was elected to the same office in
1876, and his recent nomination is full
proof of the satisfaction he has given
MS an officer. Mr. Duson was first elected
sheriff in 1874, again i'll 1876, again III
1878, and will certainly again be elected
in 1879. lie is universally conceded to
be the ablcst sheriff in the State of
Louisiana, except perhaps by al un
reasonable or preju1iced faction in this
parish. 1t would be a great misfortune
for this parish to lose such sheriff:
but so long as he continues to discharge
his duties az he has done since he has
filled that responsible position, and
hunt up criminals, whether in the parish,
out of the parish, or ont of the State,
and bring them to justice, the good
citizens of the parish will continue to
elect him, Notwithstanding the factious
opposition which must be expected by
all good officers who execute the law
without respect to persons. DIR. W. N.
Thompson, the nominee for coroner, is
a young physician Of ability, well known
among us, and has filed and is now
filling the Office of parish physician.
The ticket is a good one on its own
merits; but it was nominated by the
Democratic party in convention assem-
blcd, and each individual on it was
nominated by large majority of the
delegates of that convention. Those
delegates were elected fairly and pub
licly at primary elections previously
held according to the established lules
of the party. Every member of the
party is therefore politically and NOR
ally bound to vote for all the candi-
dates ON tho ticket, and not to encOuf-
age opposition to it, and not to Mror
cold iratcr on it, so to speak. But how
much more bound to do so, arc all who
voted at the primary elections, and
still more so, if possible, those who
were candidates for delegates, even
though they may have been defeated.
Tho call for the parish convention
stated that all should be entitled to
vote at the ward elections, uho support
The Democratic party an1 who plcdyc
themselves to support the nominees Of the
pGrish conUention." The moment a man
voted at the ward elections he bound
himself to support the Democratic party
and to support the nominees of the
parish convention. and to fail to do SO,
would be political and moral perjury.
We arc entirely satisfied with the
ticket, as far as it goes, and we will
give it our most hearty support.
But we are not satisfied with the
failure to complete the ticket, in neg
lecting to nominate a district Judge
and district attorney. The convention
should have paid no respect to the
bargains of individuals i'll this matter,
but skould have done its duty to the
party. The convention should not have
followed in tho wrong course OF the
parish committee. We have heard it
stated that the wrong action of the
committee in this matter, was the result
of political bargain, not between op-
posing candidates for the same Office,
but between aspirants for different
Offices, who needed each others support.
We have no means OF proving this, but
it looks reasonable, and the whole
matter has a dirty look. And now we
would like to know if both these inde-
pendent Democratic candidates for
district iudge-so made by the grace OF
a bargain and fraud on the party-are
going to support all the candidates on
the regular Democratic parish ticket.
The Democratic voters Of the parish
sAould insist on knowing this before
they vote for either OF them. Only
this week an influential Democrat was
importuned to become a candidate for
sheriff. Now what does this mean? His
principles forbade his doing it; but
where were the principles Of those who
importuned him, and what candidate OF