The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-03
Time to Halt.
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.

"t5t DdGon houssO iuutois
We agree fully with the Feliciana Sen
tinel and other Democratic papers
throughout the State that the factiOnal
fight now going on is dangerous to the
Democratic organization in Louisiana.
We believe with them that it should
cease and that harmony shoulH be re-
stored if it is possible to do so without
sacrifice of principle.
When we say that harmony should be
restored if 1t can be done without
sacrifice of principle, we mean fully and
emphatically, Democratic principle and
not the principle that is being pursued
by Gen. Gibson.
His is personal principle and not a
Democratic principle. His is principle
that would subordinate party priDci-
pies, party success, the wishes of Dem
ocratic citizens, the world if he could,
to his own personal ambition and ag-
grandizement.
He has shown this to be the case in
attempting to force Senator Eustis to
stultify himself and the Democratic or
ganization in the State by making the
acceptance of Mr.. Kernochan's appoint
ment sine qua non in the division OF
Federal patronage.
When Gen. Gibson told Senator Eus-
tis that If he would accept Kernochan,
he (Gibson) would support the persons
recommended by Eustis for certain po-
sitions, Gibson well knew that Eustis
could not accept any such proposition
because Mr.. Kernochan was the head
and front of the anti Democratic move
ment that put mp Mr. Hunt as u figure
head to aid in carrying out certain
schemes in which late converts to Re-
publicanism were alike interested with
a few so-called Democrats.
He we'll knew that Mr.. KernOchan's
movement had resolved itself into qua
81 coalition with the Republican leaders
| in the Custom House to defraud the
Democrats of the First District of their
choice for Congressman by disfranchis-
ing enough Democratic voters to give
| the Hunt-Republican coalition major
| ity.
He knew very we'll that Senator Eus-
tis, as the Representative of the State
organization, had appeared before
Judge Pardee and exposed this fraud
ulent scheme and defeated its object.
knowing, as he did, these facts, is it
not plain that his proposition was cold
blooded and deliberate? Is it not plain
that he made it with the deliberate pur
pose nf driving Eustis out of his way in
order to control the Federal patronage
in Louisiana and put in such persona
adherents as would bend the hinges of
their knees to his behests9
H. fhnf Mr.
long ago determined to control the Fed
eral patronage in Louisiana. His meet
ing Blaine in Ohio and suggesting the
recognition of Mr. Minor as the head of
the Republican organization in Loulsi-
ana was an evidence that he was trim
ming his sails SO as to gain an easy
harbor on the Republican coast in the
event of the success of that party.
We ask the Democrats of Louisiana
! Was it IL fit thing for a Democratic Uni
ted States Senator to be advising Re-
publican candidate for President how tC
strengthen himself in Louisiana and
correspondingly weaken the Democratic
party? These are facts that have been
asserted time and again and never au-
thoritatively shown to be incorrect.
Now our proposition is this: Repudi,
ate the scheming trickster, repudiate
Congressional rings, repudiate breeders
of dissensions in the Democratic ranks
repudiate the appointment of Republi-
cans, Mugwumps and Independents to
run Democratic administration, and
yield hearty support to the Presiden
in his efforts SO long as he stands square
" by the principles of the Democratic
party.
This paper Is Democratic to the cor.
and will not support any man, be he
bishop or layman, who does not stand
by the principles of the party as they
we're handed down by the fathers o
Democracy.
IF our confreres will join us in thi
determination the present dissension'
will soon disappear.