The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-09
WHERE THE4BENEFIT?
TShreveport Times.1


guprs, it must surely be apparent to
even the most confiiiug member ot
the Alliance that tue pact Is one III
name only, and that there Is n" lnte"'
rion of keeping faith With their body,
lv the anti-lottery. for,otfice-only mem
hers Of the league. 1t may he said
that the compact has been ratified ="
indeed 1t has, hnt with mental reser
vatiohs. If the compact was to tie
kept in good faith, does it not seem
strange that while numbers of the al
lance papers have h"isted I. 5.
Adams name for Governor, neither
the thief anti organ nor any OF It's
promiueut satellites have done so !
That there is profound silence npon
any enlogis,ic endorsement of Adams
for Governor That they are print
ing column after column dennnciatnry
of the lottery, but are not giving even
II single paragraph advocating Adams
in this rrspecl7 Do rhey propose to
he bound down to vote solidly on
question which is Il non political side
issne, when the orher conditions are
hping ignored CT damned with faint
praise9 Do they think the anti lea
que can deliver the goods Do they
not know they cannot 7 That while
many good and trne citizens of .he
State oppose the Lottery on purely
moral grounds, as thew do any game
of chance, that they are nevertheless
Democrats first, and will not he h"nnd
by any compact which does not have
for it's primary consideration the sue
cess of the Democratic pasty, It's plat
form aud its principles, both in State
and national affairs, and will not sup
port any man or men who may he De
mncratic for State, and Oca!a for ma
tional platform9 Furthermore do not
the lnIk of the Alliance hold the same
views, and will the majority of the
Unions indorse the Lafayette pact 7
If they do, what eau they gain there
by, what benefit will they receive I
They will surrender their individual
rights to vote as their conscience die.
tates upon proposed amendment, the
license from which will benefit them
and all lah"ring people in the State
more than any other class, and receive
what in reIurn9 Nothing, absolutely
nothing. They will antag"nize the
majority of the Democratic party in
the State by making side issue par
amount To Democracy, and will suffer
defeat whose they should have pro-
gress. The pure Democracy of this
State will assuredly carry the day
upon the princi pies Of the party alone.
Its platform will he the only one re-
coguized We have always held that
all necessary and practicable reforms
desired 10y the Alliance c"nld be oh
iained, and only obtained, through
the Democratic party, the party of re-
form aud nf the people. If the ALI
ance wishes to advocate the Ouala
platform in national, and the Demo,
cratic in the State, we serve warning
now that they cannot do it success
fully; they throw down u gauntlet
which the Democracy will he qnick t.
raise, aud they will find that the" can
not connt upon even the support OF
their Whilom allies of Lafayette, MOI
the nnited strength of their own mem
hers. Us the States says:
The State Central Committee must es
tablish, and insist upon Democrat (
shibboleth which shall be applied rigor
Ously at all the next elections, State and
National, Legislative ana Congressional
/ Candidate Adams and his Lafayette sal
magnndi must be- drilled iuto correct pro.
nOuncement of Democratic doctrines
pnre and simple, or they must be exclu
ded from the Democratic party's primary
elections at which no true Democrat ever
draws any line between the State aud
the national campaigns.
This is sound Democracy and will
he. adhered to. The action of the
ants in trying to force the amendment
question into politics, and the course
pursued at the Lafayette convention
with its contingencies bodies no good to
the Democratic party of the State
therefore put none hut Democrats OF
guard to night. The thoroughbred
Democratic war horse is not accnstoln
ed to heing driven in haruess with s
colt of mixed breed, nor can be be
driven tandem; whenever this is at
tempted he will kick over toe tract.
and make for the wire OF his own re
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