St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-12-05
Political Points from the Baton Rouge
Advocate.

The New Delta, is a "fearfnl and
RUTHLESS" journal. We shall insist on
it until the contrary is proved. The
Delta says that the popular vote is
against McEnery, which it asserts in
the face of figures that show twice as
many votes for McEnery, as for the OPP
position, up to date. lie Will also nave
more than half the white vote OF the
State when the returns are all in. A
good many interior parishes are need
ed to offset his 1900 majority in New
! Orleans, and he gets about as many
| there as the opposition.
The New Delta continues to be a
fearless and truthful" journal. 1t
still appr0priates Lafourche parish and
six out of ten delegates from this parish
| to the anti column, and deliberately
sets down Ouachita's fifteen votes to
! the same side. But even this stretch
| of its imagination leaves Adams III the
rear by about 80 votes, and there Is
grave doubt whether it can ever eaten
up unless it goes back and claims the
| five contested New Orleans wards,
which it seems to have forgotten to
count at the proper time. 1T tue New
Delta sees any more parishes lying
around loose which it wants and has
not got, we hope its mOdesty Will De
equal to it's appetite. Thus may the
Delta win another one OF It's startling
victOries-on paper.
The letter of Senator Gibson on the
political situation in Louisiana, though
somewhat belated as a factor in the
campaign, algns himself strictly with
the democratic paTI+%, .ee sT1Cia1riry rs
against thnee~-f farmers alliance, which
--fr0w threatens to capture his seat III the
senate for one of its adherents. The
senator also denounces the Lafayette
combine as undemOcratlc, as 1t GER
tainly is. but unfortunately he was
, rather slow in finding it out, or at least
in making it known. The Advocate
and other Louisiana newspapers have
been holding it up in that light ever
since it was first made in August, anC
we have also been denouucing the ALI
ance for year past as an insidious en-
envy of democracy, so that Senator Glib
, sons views are by no means novelty
: or of startling significance.
The recent meeting of the farmers
alliance at Indianapolis resulted in {
split of the order on the sub treasury
{ scheme and its capture by the thirs
,, party movement. The split already
existed, and was only mo1e clearly de
fined. The result will he the organiZa
p. ton in several States Of two branches
+ of the alliance, with two sets of leaders
The recollection of President Poll
confirms the attitude of the alliance a:
an independent political factor in thu
| next campaign, and he will probably b'
it's candidate for president of the United
States in 1899. Efforts will be made t.
capture as many United States SENATOR
as possible, and whenever a congress
man can be gobbled up it will be don,
without ceremony, or saying 40 mucl
as "by your leave" to democrats or re
publicans. Our own State, fortunately
will be in the hands of the. democracy
and there wilr be a fight to the fnisl
: against the alliance at every point.
E The campaign is drawing to a. close
and whatever may be the result in 9th
. er respects, it is certain that Gov. Mich
oils will step down and out on the 1911
8 day of May, 1899, never to return to ex
+. ecutive power in Louisiana again. HI
? has been twice weighed in the balances
. and found wanting, SO that there is nov
none SO poor as to do him reverence
His own faction has repudiated bin
by its silence, and endorsements of hi
| administration have been so few aD(
! far between as to show that he was too
heavy a load for them to carry, and 81
: he was dumped into the rubbish pilt
without the ceremony of leave-takiue
r or other civility. And yet Gov. Mich
oils is the very embodiment of the anti
; lottery sentiment on which the cam
:, paign was based. 1t was he who lee
, the fight on tho lottery amendment las
year before the Legislature. and his i'm
/ placable stoldity has never yielded al
| inch since then. Yet he has been ut
,, terly ignored by his faction from frs
to last in the campaign which be inau
, gurated.