St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-12-26
Just How It Was Done and What It Is.

AS an effort will be made by the bolt
crs OF the State nominating convention
| of the Democratic party to induce the
people to support their nominees, we
consider it our duty as a journalist to
say what we have to say concerning it :
They are not entitled to recognition BY tie
Democr0tlc party.
+ he Farmers Alliance began at an
early period after the action of the Le-
glslature upon the revenue amendment
to denounce the measure in no very del
that as all association they were deter
mined to oppose it. We had set OF Of
tiCeholdcrs, and beneticiaries of such as
held office, who felt convinced that, as
Democrats, they could not obtain the
support OF the Democratic party. Some
thing had to be done. They at once
seized upon the device of forming what
they yclept an anti-lottery organization.
In doing so, they pOunced on the only
issue they could make in common with
the Alliance. In presenting this issue,
however, the latter transcribed and vio-
lated the limits and authority it had, un
der its charter, to bind its members, and
sowed the seed of its own destruction.
But it had showed out plank for the
antis to stand on, and the Trojan horse
WAS duullllCu "IUulJ tlIC HdiiS-N ultII
might rot have been scaled.
From the beginning, outsiders beheld
the ogling and courtship that went Oh.
The antis wore sanctimonious face and
tried to look more pious than others, and
the Alliance was easily wooed and won.
A marital union was agreed on. The
wedding cakes were prepared, and eV-
crything was in readiness when the
farmers met in convention at Lafayette.
An ante-nuptial contract was verbally
agreed upon, before the celebration OF
the marriage. As matter of course,
when the farmers ventured to go with
the ants in the dark, the wiHdings were
like the thread of Arladne, labyrlntlilne
and intricate; but like good, coDfiding
souls, they Quiescently accepted tho
guidance of the sanity consorts.
They had agreed upon becoming unit
ed in the bonds of political matrlmony,
and tho time of the convention in Au-
gust last was fixed upon as being the
most appropriate for the celebration.
Distinguished guests were invited from
Franklin, New Orleans and other places,
and all were at the feast. The ceremony |
was characterized by paradisiacal SIM
plicity, and the twain were made one |
flesh By the terms Of the nuptlal con- |
tract the farmers were to name the first |
babies, and the ants the balance OF tie
offspring.
The Alliance has discovered that ho-
MED words are not always kept. The
of the ante-nuptlal contract
ave been entirely unheeded, and the
conditions upon which the union was
consented to have been evaded and dis
egarded. The Alliance is now under
he management and direction, polltl-
ally, of the righteous antls.
It was understood when the marriage
contract was entered into that the iilst-
,orn of the union should be called Ad-
ms, because the farmers hoped that,
ike our great original progenltor, he
would be able to reach to the heavens
nd set the sun, moon and stars to dang
ng, to the music Of the angelic antls:
But when the babe was born they called
lis name Foster. He is a sickly little
elbow and will require assiduous atten-
ion and careful nursing, to carry him
Trough a paroxysm of Ia grippe demo-
ratique. This nlalady is on the in
rease, and thousands are giving signs
f its power over them. If the ants
would escape, we tel! them now to take
0 their holes and hiding places from
which they emerged.