The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-01-05
The Conspiracy Has Failed.

[Natehitoches Review-Cunningham paper
The contests between Governor
McEnery and General Nichols is, as
far as they are concerned, nearly
over, and we feel safe in saying that
McEnery is hopelessly behind
Nichols goes to New Orleans with
large majority over his opponent,
the Levee Governor, and nothing but
a political miracle there can reverse
the positions which these two candi-
dates occupy towards each other
now. Assuming then, that McEnery
is beaten, already, it is both interest
ing and instructive to consider the
causes which have brought about his
defeat. The tale can be told in few
words, and it points moral which
should serve as guide for the future.
His campaign, from first to last, has
been a gigantic conspiracy to mis-
lead and hunbug the people.
Almost every issue which his fol-
lowers have presented has lacked the
essential element of truth. They
have taken a good, honest ordinary
man, with fairly average executive
ability, and with fanciful touches
have encirc1ed him with halo OF
virtues which few mortals ever did,
or ever will possess. They have
made an idol of simple human clay,
and have asked the people to accept
it as the purest gold. They have
clad an ordinary mortal in robes
which saint might well covet, and
like poor devil of man, dressed
for the first time in all the parapher-
MALTA of a fashionable belle, he has
cut ludicrously awkward figure be.
fore the people. They have paraded
their hero as the great and only levee
builder, when the truth is that the
people built the levees. They have
named him the "great educational
Governor" when the statistics of his
own administration show that since
he came into power, the cause O
public education has refrigerated
rather than progressed.
They have asked for new lease
of power for their paragon because
= his financial ability has redeemed tn
credit of the State and placed he
once more on the high way to finan
, cial glory, when the fects show tina
the State has not only failed to NEE
! her obligations which existed whel
he was first elected, but has, yea
after year, incurred additional ones
that her ordinary creditors are fire
. quently compelled to accept less thai
: SO per cent. in payment OF thei
, claims, or go unpaid, while the publ
institutions, the insane asylum, hos
pitfalls and schools are compelled t
: run on less than one-half Of VIVA
& they require, or stop altogether.
And last, though by no means leas
= he has been heralded as the exclusiv
! champion of white supremacy in thi
4 State, to the total exclusion of th
negro as political factor, when th
u delegates from his home parish
s (Ouachita) were elected for him, par
# ly by the aid of Republican negr
: who was a delegate to the parish COZ
vention.
e The sober, second thought of I'll
Il people has revolted against thes
~ transparent efforts to delude then
= and to divert their minds from tt
d real issues involved, and they hav
n with righteous indignation resente
:, the insult to their manhood and il
telligeuce.
It always has and always will /
true, that honesty is the best polio
r.
- Tho e. Morv nrinoarios raSultad