The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-21
Mot Demo cratic.

urday last to do things up on the anti
plan of conducting the parish and
District campaign. That Six of those
who had been deputed took no part in
the proceedings of the other Eight
Those not familiar with all the control
ing facts, will doubtless be curious to
know why they did not. There are
more reasons than one for the course
pursued by them in declining to go
into the meeting. They were old
fashioned Democrats standing shoulder
to shoulder in the ranks of the party,
where they have always stood and
where they can always be found, when
the principles of the party are to be
sustained. They were not latter day
second degree Democrats. The eight
who ventured to act for the old party
are Gnti-democrats. They are those
who are not satisfied to act on old
Democratic party principles, and who
are ready yea! Judging them by their
actions, anxious to break up the party
to get their already nominated candi-
dates before the old style democrats for
their support. They were sent there
to do so. They are bent on it, sworn
to do it as against anyone not oath
bound, aud so fanatical are they in
their determination to force the party
to accept their dictation, that they
rush madly into the adoption of the
most absurd measures They have
substituted Lottery opposition for Demo.
cracy, and on that hobby, all spawned,
string halt, blind and moribund, they
hope 10 ride into offices. The people
do not want them-and will oppose
them until the ballot boxes are closed
on the day of the next general election,
This is we'll understood by all parties.
and yet the antis persist in their efforts
to foist them upon them, by the con
spiracy of oath bound and secret com
binations. True Democrats, who, all
through the eventful history of this
government have found the principles
of the party, all that is required to
insure aohite supremacy and the pros
perity of the people. should pat their
heels on this daring scheme to break
down the victorious old party, which
through So years OF valorous warfare,
has held it's colors uutarnished aud
warning i'll triumph over all other op-
posing factions and parties. OF the
gentlemen who comprised the Junta of
eight that met at Church Point on Sat
urday last, we would not utter a word
personally. In that respect we have
nothing whatever to say. We speak
of the scheme or, what might be pro-
perly called the political. strategy resor-
ted to by the ants. Good men some
times do condemnable deeds, and their
attitude iD this instance, is in our
opinion, condemnable because audemO
cratic. and we denounce it iu so Ear as
they may endeavor to call it democrat
ic. 1t being nothing akin to it, we
heartily oppose it, and have no hesita
tion ip saying to the party, ignore,
throttle, smother it. It is devised and
done 70 force candidates on the people,
whom they do not want, and to prevent
them from supporting such as they do
want The question therefore resolves
itself into this shall the secret machi-
Dations of oath bound factions and con-
federates triumph over the will OF dem
ocratic majorities, or, will open, plain
dealing Democrats select their own
candidates for Office without going into
convention oath bound ? There is
another reason why the siG Democrats
took no part in the meeting. They
were the only real democrats, and had
they taken part in it they would have
been voted down by the oath bound
confederates, and then the people
would have been told, it was demo-
cratic meeting of representatives, and
that they were as honorable men,
bound by this work. By refusing to
meet with the conspirators they bave
left all democrats free to vote for such
candidates as they may desire to honor.
These antis and their confederates,
have been working night and day for
several months in their secret meetings,
in which no democrat was permitted to
| participate, TO devise plans and schemes
TO entrap them in the convention.
They thought they had gotten the trap
! set, and thai the voters who had never
been allowed the privilege of knowing
what they were concocting in their
secret meetings, would be daped and
decoyed by them into antiism, regard
less of their lifelong adherence to the
Democratic party Every straight out
democrat owes thanks to the pfescient
/ 6, who have thus saved him from the
secret Vaccinations of anti conspirators.
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