The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-12-05
The Father. the Son, and the
Holy Committee.

IeTN cl6EuDlc HOSt, IllaI c1lcI OF the An
gelic guards, who are supposed to bs
keeping watch and ward over Lonis.
iana's virtue and manhood" which
the lottery Devil is attempting to de.
baueb Murphy j. Foster is reported
10 have fallen llcadlong frou his celes.
1ial perch, under circumstances of most
datnn!blc scandal. down t o the dead
level of an unsuccessful ba1lOt-hex
s~;nfl-r.
Every body in Louisiana, every man,
WOMAN and child, every saint and ev-
cry sinner, aye, ever the niggers, them
selves, have all heard of Murphy j.
Foster, the inspired apostle of ~revolu-
ton and sbotguns, the heroic advocate
ofbullets instead of ballots to kill llle
Lottery.
Already the germs lad been planted
among them for the evolution of poDu-
lar legends respecting Murphy's ange-
lical statute, his wonderful e~loqnence
and his fiae h-scimitar with blade of
such miraculous temper that as often
rs III slaslied with 1t the neck of some
Infamous Lntteryite. the miserable de-
Vii never knew it, until lie sncezed.
WHEN his head would roll off his
shoulders and fall ut his feet.
But alas :. the cod blasts Of scandal
which reach us from St. Mary have
nipped these legendary germs. and
another fallen angel must be added to
the crowded muster down below.
The sad story is that Murphy ]. Eos
ter went home n day, after an earn
est consultation with the Executive
Committee of the ti-Lottery League
at their headquarters in this city,
there to attend "a meeting of tie Demo-
cratic Parish Committee of St Mary.
OF which his father, Mr.. Thomas j..
Foster, is the chairman.
Murphy, the son of the chairman,
was not, himself, n member of that
Parish Committee, but he easily pro-
cured a proxy, and proceeded to in
spire and to lead the deliberations of
that body.
de drew up a set of rules to govern
the primary elections for delegates to
tie approaching Democratic State
Convention, in which he brazenly as
sumed to deny the existence of any
rival factions in the Democratic party.
When the friends of the candidacy of
Mr.. Justice McEnery demanded rep
resentatiOn at the ballot boxes. MUIR
ply j. Foster, with all the JUNCTION be-
lifting his sanity role Of guardian of
LOulsIana's 'virtue and manhood
announced the very pious doctrine
that the Parish Committee, under the
presidency of his own father. recoe-
nized but n solid undivided and in
Invisible Democratic party, and forth |
with the father. the son, and the holy
committee proceeded to select the
Commissioners of election strictly and
exclusively from among the most bla-
tant Anti-Lsttery politicians in the
parish.
Such a brutal act, the most shame
less ward leaders in any remote suburb
OF New Orleaus, have never vet
thought of perpetratlng, no, one even
as against the niggers and the CARPET
baggers III Reconstruction DAYS.
That the Fosters, father and con.
should in a primary election among
white Democrats, resort to an expe-
dent so fragrant in its falsellood to
steal a march on their own white fell
low-parishiOneis i'll order that the stuff
hng Of the ballot boxes might be
in secret and IN fancied safe
ty, Is a deed of such infamy that the
alone is enough 10 confouDd
shem forever.
When Marphy j. Foster proclaiming
his ignorance of fractional divisions in
the Democi attic party, carried his
and the Parish Committee to
his blissful condition, Murphy j.
Foster, then and there gave the lie d.
rect to Murphy j. Foster, Vice Chair-
of the Anti-Lottery Executive
of the State of Louisiana.
VI course language strong AS this,
demands proof. Let the Lafayette
SPEAK for us. Let us quote a
lines of its preamble
LAFAYETTE, AUGUST 4, 1891,
The undersigned, members of the
conference committee of the Antl-Let-
terry Executive Committee of the State
r armers' Union of the State of Louis
and the State Farmers Union OF
the State of Louisiana, recognize the
fact that they represent two factions of
the Democratic party of this State, and
with a view OF securing an Anti Lot
terry plank in the platform of the COM
ing State nominating convention of
party, etc, etc.
In this preamble we Lave tile ac-
acknowledgements of Democratic faction
al divisions, and Vice Chairman Mnr-
ply j. Foster came all the way. from
St. Mary to New Orleans, to ratify the
entire dlcker whose basic clause i The
recognition of the very truth
which Murphy J. Foster violated in
his capacity of urOyv-memher of b;s