The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-11-21

iIOtttuiHS Win tiO ioS""
IF the Democracy, called a general
primary election to elect delegates 70
represent this parish at the coming
Nomil ating Convention.
The unlawful occupant of the char
and his six followers. with whose re-
evolutionary and undemocrat;c conduct
that occasion our readers nave al
ready been made acquainted, took NJ
on themselves the extraordinary res
possibility of appointing the delegates.
not ONLY to the Baton Rouge Nomirat
ing Convention but also to all other
district and parish conventions IN
which Lafourche may De entitled to a
vote, ana this without even the pre-
tence of consulting the people. Ard,
as if to aggravate the insult offered the
peorle, they gave in justification OF
their course. the ~ironical reason that
the people were too busy with sugar
grinding and too many of them were
absent from the parish to obtain the
true expression of the will of the ma
jority, and appointed as delegates,
men opposed to the well known senti-
ments of the vast majority of the Dem
ocrats on the issues of the day.
Last Monday, the 18th inst. was the
day fixed by the Committee for the
primary election and on chat the voice
of the people was silently expressed at
the ballot box but when the result
was made known tile lesson it taught
was so torcible that it will not % be
forgotten by those who had presumed
to trample under foot the peoples
rights. They declar ed IN no unmistak-
able terms that they were fully capa-
BILE to n their own affairs and
that they would stand no dictation
from any man or set of men. They
proclaimed that the right to choose
their representatives to conventions
was vested in themselves and that they
would not submit to the usurpation
of that most sacred prerogative and
i%nalienable right by any man or set
of They announced that the
good old fashioned Democratic doc
trine of "rule by the majority is good
enough for their use, and that they are
not yet prepared to discard it to try
other less safe and less reputable meth
DDS which have been in vogue among
their political opponents.
They made known that any attempt
by any man or set of men to abridge
their sovereign right to choose their
" delegates and representatives and
to express their will on vital issues
before them would meet with the
prompt and just rebuke which it de-
serves. They have forcibly shown
their entire disapproval of the rule or
ruin policy sought to be inaugurated
among them and brought up the icono-
clasts to a short turn in their mad car
reer.
And these lessons which the white
men of Lafourche have given the few
who had ~arrogated to themselves such
regal powers have been most forcibly
impressed. They show that the Dem
ocIacy was not only in earnest but in,
dignant, too, when it administered the
merited rebuke.
Those who had sown the wind plead.
ed, begged and implored for mercy
when they saw the whirlwind coming
They sent out their emissaries through.
out the length and breadth of the par
lsh, to advise, dissuade and entTeat til,
people not to vote. Every artitict
was tried, every method resorted to
to keep white men, men who had al
ways breathed tne air of freedom. from
the polls, thus to avert the visitation
upon item OF the just resentment @
an indignant and outraged people.
But nothing awaited them. Til,
people felt that they had been wrong
ed and they wanted to avense tina
wrong. Fifteen hundred and seventy
eight freemen walked to the polls an,
expressed their choice for Samuel ID
McEnery for Governor. and thereb,
set the seal of their condemnation up
on the acts of those who had %attempte,
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