St. Landry democrat., 1891-10-17
Political Points from the Baton Rouge
Advocate.

IiIe texas State Grange is now hold.
ing It's annual fair at McGrcyoT, in thai
State. Not many yctns ago the grange
WAS power iii politics in Texas, and
aSplTcd 10 elect governors, senators
congressman and legislators. Now il
devotcs attention to cotton pickin. ma.
chimes aud other farm machinery, fine
poultry, tiue stock. etc. II was then
noisy ; 1t Is now useful.
! The Arkansas coIClcd alliance had a
! brief and bloody career. Its leaders
inaugurated cotton pickles strike,
and like their white brethren, TIE d
compulsion. The result was that they
/ We're all pursued with bloodhounds i'll
/ to cancbrake where several were
/ killed, and nire Of them hung by a mob
OF masked white men, and their bodies
left hanging on the trees. 1t was a
ored alliance is evidently curled I'D on
tie floor, and the subsequent proceed :
ings will interest it no more
The anti lottery newspapers are pa
rading in dOublelea,ied type an ex-
tract from message of Gov. McEuely
in 1882, cOnienning the lottery. As a
democrat he has right, now as well as
then, TO hold W hatever views he p!eases
on this subject without question or
criticism by his brother democrats. 1t
is generally believed that he has not
changed his mind since 1882, but tliIs
will make no difference in the grand
rally to his standard as the leader of
his party in this campaign, because his
democracy is known to be of the ur-
swerying kind that is always true.
1t is a very common saying by the
anti-lottery press and politicians, that
the adoption of the revenue amendment
will be reprOach to the State, but if it
checks the growth OF illiteracy in Lon
isiana part, at least, OF that reproach
will be compensated for. In fact, it is a
greater reproach TO free State, III this
progressive age, to permit the spread of
ignorance among its citizens than TO
license an evil that will flourish in
spite of all restrictive laws, and the
deepest shame to Louisiana would be
to rank lowest among her sister States
in education and highest 10 illiteracy.
The Farmers Alliance of South Car
DINA is nnw after Senator Buffers no.
litical scalp. Having defeated the
grand soldier, patriot and democrat,
Wade Hampton, and put the iusignifi-
cant Irby in his place, they now declare
that Senator Butler also must 20, to
MAKE way 1Ul duUlnSf UUDGDEltV, The
same game was tried in Mississippi. and
prevented only by Senator Georges
magnificent fight to preserve the demo-
cracy from ruin. What about this
State7 Oh, the alliance here is web
bed up in a sort of democratic chrysa-
lis, and the leaders, like Mark Twain's
darkey, have concluded to "lay low
and keep dark, and see what is gwine |
to come outen it," When the plot is |
Matched and comes into full fruition, |
they will then be ready also to go on |
the war-patll for democratic scalps-
but not until then.
The true-biuc alliance contingent, |
known as the third party
faction, headed by Guice and Clayton,
announce that they are "loaded for |
bear" OF words to that effect, and will
soon open their campaign to the terror
of all enemies. Several national lee
turers will come down into Louisiana
to help them. Ex-Presidcnt Evan
Jones, once at the head of the order in
the United States, will address the pco-
pie at Natchitoches soon, to be followed
by President Polk, of the national alli-
ince, President Livingston, of the Geor-
gia alliance, and sockless Jerry Simp-
son, of Kansas, in other parts of the
State before the campaign closes. /
There is blood on the moon.