The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-03-29
What We Object To.

| poeuiooy idot u correspondent VIII
signs Albus, too timid. or perhaps fol
other good reasons sails under an as
sumed name, filled more than column
OF the Revielle in answer to a short
paragraph which appeared in the Mes.
senger of the 18th instant, which he says
is an indirect slur against the board of
trustees, and goes at some length EMU.
merating what amounts were collected
by said board in taxes, licenses, hnes
de-. and that 80 many bridges were
built, the roads repaired, the brick cul-
yerts repaired and d 80 feet culvert
built near the market house and a canal
dug Oh Railroad avenue and so on.
We presume that the trustees are
elected to do what they have done, it is
their bOunden duty to have the taxes
and licenses collected, and to expend
that money on Improvements in the cor
poration; there is nothing so extraordi-
nary in that. As to the ranal near the
depot it was dug during the adminstra-
tion of Mayor Fleming. The 80 feet cul-
vert, the colossal work which is about 40
feet long and one foot square, 4 planks
naited together and buried under 4
inches of ground is a great thing to
boast OF. As to the repair of the brick
culverts it was done with the special tax
money which by the way is 80 per cent
the amount of the corporation tax.
But we do not propose to go over what
the present board has done, we have no.
thing to complain about that, or YOU
would have heard of it before in these
columns. Our objection to the board is
that they are not the choice of the Demo-
cratic party of this town Although we
do not doubt in the least the democracy
OF the individual members-they were
chosen by the Regulators with closed
doors In secret cOnclave and not by call
ed democratic convention or mass meet
ing as it should have been t!One, and M
secure their election a large number OF
white, democrats were intimidated and
the election thereby changed.
The correspondent of the Revielle asks |
what We mean by Regulator ! why, We
mean these individuals-th members
and officers of what he calls the white |
democratic clubs, composed II good white |
men and sound democrats. We 10 not |
iOubt that those clubs are composed
mostly of good white meh and sound
ienOcrats," but they are merely instru-
mental in the hands Of the leaders whose
democracy. If we must judge them by
he proceedings of that great cenven-
ion held at Breaux Bridge some time
'gO, is very conditional and doubtful.
Those proceedings said: We miU stand
By the Democracy so lony as it miH not
'e en- conflict Tfth the pcypose of our or
Ian'satiOn: Is this sound Democracy?
t Is conditional! and doubtful democracy.
md this is what we object to. No secret
'rganizatiOn for us, but an open frank
md unconditional party for the people
nd by the people, and not by few in
ecreat cOnclave for the benefit of a few
'Osses:
The writer tries to impress upon the
MINDS of our people that the regulators
ave done an immense good to this COM
lunity, while We say the contrary, they
ave demOtalized our labor, they have
uine1 the confidence Of orr town, and
ave destroyed our commerce. This is
ue to regulator rule; 90 and ask the
Merchants and business people how they
Ike Regulator Rule, and what good it
as done tlrem, and their answer will be
they lave killed the town."