The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-08-26
MIXING OIL AND WATER.
In. 0. States. ].


assimilated it is indispensable that it
he treated like a mixture of oil and
water in the same vessel which so long
only as it is violently and swiftly agi-
tated and twirled, can present to the
eye, what appears, a completed COM
bination.
The Lafayette pact cannot survive
a calm Democratic analysis, any more
than the twirling vessel can be gently
set at rest without exposing its con-
tents in irrepressible disassociation.
Notwithstanding the high sounding
preamble of the Lafayette pact in
which the Farmers Union are daubed
"a faction of the Democratic party of
Louisiana" the merest application of
the tombstone of true Democracy to
any of the principles of that self-same
Farmers Union betrays the spurious
ness of that preposieroas claim.
If the Farmers Alliance have done
anything in Lafayette besides trading
for the spoils of Office, they have cove
nanted, in consideration of modicum
of campaign doodle, to hold in tempo
rary dormancy the famous Ocala de-
mands to which their oath. bound or
ganization is solemnly pledged.
These Ocala demands are as notori-
ously anti-podal to anything Demo-
cratic, as is the Infamous Republican
demand for Force bill.
The Ocala demands constitute the
Louisiana Farmers Unions sole raiSoa
d'etro, they are the very breath Of
their nostrils, and though that breath
may be held for while, it can only
be for while, else the body dies.
Tue anti-politicians, then, have in
reality agreed to assist in putting the
Farmers Alliance in power over Demo.
cratic Louisiana in consideration of the
mere holding in allegiance of their
heterodox political doctrines, after
which event, that is after the April
1892 elections, Farmer Adams, be.
coming Governor Adams shall be at
full liberty. to resuIrect the hidden
Ocala principles, and with them, des.
troying the Democratic party, root
and bsanch, to turn over the electoral
vote of Louisiana to the National AL
lianoe's candidate for President in
November, '92, to say nothing of Can.
didate Adams i'll disguised intention
to use bis influence 10 the next Legis
lature to defeat Senator Gibson with
some long-bearded PfeGer or some
''sockless Simpson,"
But sinister as we feel, this pream.
BILE and first clause of the Lafayette
pact to be, there is another more sin
lister still, when it is kept in mind thai
one of the contracting parties, is q
Union composed Of the bone and
sinew, the yeomanry, the very virtue
and hope of the commonwealth. Tha
clause is the cap-sbeaf of the hol,
structure built by Sanity Anti-Lotte
ry politicians to confine the homes
farmers in disciplined bondage. Tha
clause is the price set upon the hold
Ing in allegiance of the farmers prin
eiples. That financial, that boodl,
clause is the wedge which artful poll
t'cians inserted to temporarily spill
the farmers Ocala platform for tn,
benefit of ambitious demagogues Xix,
Farmer Adams, and with the view o
placating the Whitney National Bank
the railroads and other corporations
against all of which the Ocala plat
form is declaration of unrelentin.
war. That clause reads as follows
We recommend that financial aid b
| furnished, as the finance committee shall
determine, to the campaign committee o
the Farmers Alliance.
Such are few of the incompatible
monstrosities of the Lafayette pac
which arise to the surface as soon a
it is probed in calm investigation
We shall, on another occasion, prob
it even deeper, when the candidate o
the Combine" Farmer Adams, shall
have BEGIN, from the stump, his ex
position of all the Democratic beau
ties of the Lafayette oil and waite
combination.