The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1883-11-10
Our Position.

The Democratic State Convention will meet
December 18th at Baton Rouge: the Parish
convention the 9th, and the primary elections
for delegates thereto will be held in the va
rions wards OF our parish Oh the Sd Of the
same month. The campaign may ic consid-
cred fairly opened, and it is now proper that
we should define our position.
In the apparently half-forsotten days of
carpet-bag rule, when Warmoth aud Kellogg
oppressed and robbed our people, the COURIER
stood, solitary and alone in st. Landry senti-
mel over their rights and liberties. and never
ceased its unrelenting warfare against the
alien robbers until the heroic Nichols had
been installed in the guhernatoriaI chair
With the ship of State in the hands of our
own people, We recognized the fact that the
time for political agitation had passed away,
ana we devoted ourselves, to the best OF our
ability, to the building up of the material in
forests of our people, the maintenance Of an
efficient free school system, &c. Imbued with
the beilef that the premature opening of this
political campaign would be detrimental to
the States best interests, We deprecated such
a course; and. Notwithstanding the thunders
of denuneiation hurled at u wise, honest and
able Democratic administration, in many in
stances by papers which in the dark days of
Radical mlsfute uttered no word of cGndcmna-
ton OF the monstrous niquitics of that mon
strous regime. and by Republican papers, wo
have consistently reiraincd from taking an
dSiibO pdEL III tue ulScuSSIUD. DuI we have
carefully observed its drift; and while we
cheertuily esncede that Gen. Ogden and Gov.
Nichols are the possessors of many civic vir
tues that they are gentlemen of unsullied
honor and purity of purpose /; aud that either
would make all honest and conscientious chief
magistrate, tleaving aside for the nonce onr
preference for our honered parishioner, Hon
Ii. L.. Garland,l we incline TO the belief that
our present executive, their peer i'll every res
pect, with the precious experience gained by
his three years ineumhency, and his wise aud
Maturely considered plans for the future wei
fare of the State, is the man for lhe place and
the hour. Aud had he proved himself The
ring maii he is charged with being had lie
yielded to the arrosa 1t demands OF the faction
with which he affiliated when nominated for
the lieutenant -governorship, aud removed
from Office Gov. Wiltzs appaiutees TO make
room for his own personal followers much of
the abuse and denunciation now showered up-
or him would not have been heard to-day.
For these reasons, which are sufficient, and
others, which we may refer to at another time
although it may not be more popular in st.
Landry today to say SO, than il was during
| that dark period that tried mems souls to say
one was ant-Warmoth and anti kelogg-we
favor the nomination by the Democratic Con-
| vention of Samuel u. McEnery. Bat as III
| the past, the nominee of that Convention will
be our candidate; and whoever he be, we
| pledge him in advance our earnest support.
Let us hear frnm some of the blatant de,
tractors and slanderars Of Gov. McEnery on
| this point.