St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-09-23
THE CHOICE OF SOUTHWE STERN
LOUISIANA FOR COVER
NOR IN 1854.

We think the time has arrived, when
siana are entitled to demand from the
party candidate from their section for
the highest office in the gift of the peo-
pie of the State. The parishes of St.
Landry, st. Martin, Lafayette, Vermil-
lion, Iberia, Calcasieu, Cameron, and St.
Mary contain men the peers of any in
Louisiana and whose Democratic
records through life are without flaw.
Nearly all these parishes, at every cleo
ton for years past, have cast over
whelming Democratic majorities yet
it has been long time, since any Of
them were accorded place on the
Democratic State ticket. Hence we
think in the next convention, the Demo-
Gratis of this section, should unite in
solid phalanX and demand the first
place on the ticket. In the person of
Judge Adelaide Deblanc, of st. Martin,
will be found united, all those qualities
of the head and of the heart to be
sought for in the next executive of the
State. Louisiana has 10 son, of whom
she has a right more justly to be proud
than Judge De Blanc. A quiet, retiring
un-obtrusive gentleman, and a dis
tinguished jurist, he has already shown
himself worthy of any honor in the
gift of the people OF his native State.
Amongst all the heroes Louisiana con-
tributed to the Confederate cause, none
bore himself more worthily than Judge |
DeBlanc. He was amongst the first to |
respond to the call of the South. He |
fought his way to Brigadier General
ship, receiving severe and painful
wound in the famous charge of the
Louisiana brigade at Gettysburg from
which he is still sufferer. Returning
to his home on the Teche after the war,
he was the first man in the State to or
yanize an opposition to the rule of the
Carpet Baggers, and radicals which
eventually expelled them from the
State government and restored its con-
rol to the Democratic party.
When Genl. Nichols was elected
Governor of Louisiana in 1876, one of /,
lis first acts, was to call his old COM
,anion in arms from the retirement of !
private life to seat on the Supreme
'ench. How nobly he bore himself in
his exalted position, is part of the
istory of our State, so recent as to be
by all. The people of t
louisiana hailed his elevation to the 0
upreme bench with delight. They
aw him retire from it with universal t
agret. Judge DeBlancs urbanity and IL !,
navity of manner, his keen apprecia- o
on of what is just and right his I'M b
uestioned integrity and honesty, his .,
Intending courage, and tirmness, the Il
services he has already h h
,ndered the people of Louisiana, alike
peace, and in war, all unite to point OF
I'M out as the next candidate of the al
party for Governor. Elevate OF
m to that high position, and we would er
Re to see the "ring or the faction" N
rong enough to swerve him from the &,
ght in the discharge of his duty.
In all Southwestern Louisiana there -
n scarcely be found man, certainly
It Democrat, who would not feel
at he was honoring himself in cast ~,
g a vote for this noble representative
the manhood and chivalry of our u
ate for the high and exalted position
Governor. We therefore suggest D
J name and respectfully request an - -
preston Of opinion from our con- fro
res Of the press. st.