Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-12-12

] and thousand other brave ana
devoted men lead, qrsN 7aeuer con-
seMt to lottery donations, olthooyh
ea- Governor McEae,.y may had
it,"
This language isplain. The Of
fetal organ speaking for its faction
says they will revolt and gives tho
names of the men WHO have alrca-
dy been selected to lead tho revolt.
The lottery has nothing to do with
the Issue before the State Convcn-
ton unless some enemy. Of Demo-
cracy insists on putting Il lottery
plank in the declaration Of princ,-
pies. These boilers know this
but it suits their purpose to have
the lottery III the convention. If
they fail to control the convention
the lottery viii if they can get il
into the convention and keep it
! there, furnish them Il preteNt for
boiling. They sec III advance that
they will not DC able to control
tho convention and for that reason
, they have already set to work to
manufacture prctcxt for boiling
and the language of. the New Del
tn indicates that they have gone SO
tar rs to organize their bolt by
selecting leaders and agreeing up
on Il plan OF campaign. Did any
! one ever hear OF such treason.
The very idea of these mon de-
handing control of the Dcmocra-
tic party with one hand while plot
ting its overthrow with the other.
True they qualify their threat to
| bolt with an if, but they know it
is IN impossible If. In effect the
Delta says if their side can con-
| troll the Convention they VIII
stick tn the Dem ocracy but If they
fail to contro! they Will bolt. Now
anyo0c who knows anything about
the present condition OF state
! politics must know that there is
| not one chance III 10000 for the
. NichCiis crowd to contvo. The
F.! Democratic Convention and they
must know that even if the Mich
Oils crowd should get control the
masses, the sovereign people
would refuse 10 Wear the yoke.
There is already q revolt on the
part Of the people against the
dictatorship of Nichols. 1t IS not
a revolt against tho Democratic
party. The people the rank and
file will have no more of the ty-
rants who have ruled them for
years and this fact Is being voiced
with no uncertain sound rs parish
after parish instructs its rcpresen-
tatives to vote for McEnery, the
man who the Nichols faction know
they must defeat and humiliatc or
fall themselves. Every vote for
McEncry Is a rcbuke to Nichols
and the state ring. Every vote
for McEncry is Il shot fred at the
mon who are demanding the De-
mocratic party for their own and
threatening to disrupt it If their
demand is refused.
The reference in the foregoing
quotation from the New Delta in
regard to the voters Of Tensas and
Madison parishes is sufficient TO
show in what estimation the hum
bic voters are held by these would
be dcspots. Mark the language.
1t says contemptuouslv ~ gu may
, gull the 1870 white voters of Ten
sas who cast % votes in the Con-
vcntlon and the 275 of Madison
who cast Is votes in the Conven-
ton, On The basis Of theiT negro
votcs,' etc, This is as malicious
a. it is untrue. The intelligent
white voters Of Tensas and Madi-
son parishes are no more gul!Iblc
than the people of any other part
of the state and as for their weld
, ing an influence IN the Convention
| through their negro votes that too
IS false. Gov. Nichols knows
| why these parishes have such Il
| large representation in the con-
vcntiou; the editor of the Delta
| knows why and he showed his dis
regard for the safety OF the Dem
ocratie party BY thus publicly call
ing attention to IA party secret,
even if lie did deliberately mis-
state the fact. Every man on the