St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-24
The Clarion on What it Calls Singular
Condolences

> Condolences.
Tie ST. Landry Clarion of the It'll
inst. seems to have had its special won.
der aroused, 10y tive cOincidences which
it enumerates and says: None of the
Lottery sheets or orators have as YET
essayed to explain these wonderful CO.
iuci..tnces Will any of the
three pro lottery journals OF this parish
offer an explanation of this lenaIkablt
phase Of the luttt!y's history u
But for tins question, Nc should not
have given the matter Thought, anu
as Ne t!O nJt pretend to be as hnOW'ng
as the CiailuIi's writer's We VIII not dane
assume that our answer Is the correct
one. However, since that limited
corps have the unqutstlunable right to
learn what little 1t dues not know about
the Pros and their ways of managing
affairs, We will do the best Ue can to
answer the question.
TO begin with, it must DO conceded
that tic leading antis know everything,
unless it be one. Under the blazing
lght of their kuOW. all -dtireness they
| have long since discovered, To their en-
, tire satisfaction, that every one favor
lug the lottery amendment, albeit un-
known in 1879, had already been bought
| when the Constitutional CUnventiun
was in session. Among them as logical
sequence, we must reckon Nichols, For
man, White and McCaleb. owe re-
member to have read their negotiations
| for lottery mouey.) OF the Senate and
! House of Representatives,, the ants say
with equally reliable sapiency that lot
terry money secured some Cor all y of
| them. AS to the Supreme Court they
said with characteristic confidence, that
one Cat least) of the Judges had been
| bought; and now they are lEslBuating,
+ but have not yet openly said, that some
members Of the State Executive Com
mittee were bought. Ii is probable
that, as soon as nGthiug remains to be
hoped for from the actions OF the COM
mittre, they will as openly assert it rs
a tact that some of its members rero
bought.
1t the antis aye in possession of the
proof that what they assert concerning
these matters is true, they are the ones
to explain these wonderful condolences.
We are not as Umnsclent as they. We
can only guess, and in doing So, We be-
gin by saying it is possible that good
sense and patriotism prevailed in each
of the incidents mentioned. Or, if We
be mistaken in this, and the autis he
correct in this hypothesis Of bribery,
all we can say ia, that in the exercise Of
their tinauclal Hisdum the purchasers
only purchased such as were worth hny
ing. 1t had been folly to buy umelia-
Die materials, or TO have bought more
than was absolutely necessary. The
Clarion onght to bear in mind that it
requires large Sums to purchase an anti.
THEY are so good and pure.
IL should Uc remembered that when /
the Constitutional convention met iu
1879; that when the Senators and Repre- |
stutatives Of the General Assembly of !
1890 were elected aud when they met ;
That when the Judges OF the Supreme |
Court were appointed aud confirmed, |
and that when the members of the State !
Executive Committee were elected, they |
we've all antiS-ai pure, al! honOra blt |
mtn. 1t Morris mad To buy up II major !
Iry Or two-tiIIrus of all these, the Cla-
ron ought to understand that, at tile |
high prices he bad to pay, it would have
been great folly on his part to buy more
of Mem than WAS necessary. Possibly
ne Is u,amed by some for not increasing
the majority. We ouly gucss-,oL n-lng
wise like sUme--that AL elegant sutJcj-
ency was all lhe incIdeDts gained tor, and
thai Mr.. Morris does not feel much con-
cerned ABOUT the discuntent of such rs
he did not thiuk worth buying.
Pleasantly aside. Does our contem-
pOrary mean to say by Inference that
Mr.. LanIer, the anti chairman of the
was operated On by the lot
tely7 For it is we'll known that there
fact that he did not cote accounts for
the majority Ut ure III it. We deny
thai be had been influenced by the lot
terry, our contemporary to the contrary
We have not the re-
hottest doubt but that tue other conci-
lences are equally expIIcabir if all the
facts were Known.
Condolences have happened through
,ut the worlds history and always
must; but We feel satisfied that even
he sapient writers OF ths Clarion may
rot be able to account for them satis-
Here are few that have
aiken place:
On the 23d of Dec, 1856, B. c., Xerxes
mounted the Persian throne; on the
same day of the same month, 176 years
B. C., Marcus Antoninus entered Rome
d triumphj on tbs same day of. the same /.
month, 400 B. C., the battle OF the
dellesponr Was fought. The Marquis
,rIer Of Henry Ill of France, cruelty
lssassnated A. d. 1888. On the same
lay of the same month, but il different
Iears, very many important events in
American history occurred. Wonder
ul condolences, according to our neigh
,ci, Were they brought about by cor
'upt and marvellous disturbances of the
,niitical elements or planetary systems 7
Wonderful indeed, that these mighty
,veuts should have taken place on the
ame day of the same month.
The proneness of our contemporary
o suspect the lottery company of using
corrupt means recalls to mind an anec-
lute we once heard of an individual
Who professed to believe that woman
yAS the cause of all the accidents and
'iiminai conduct Nf men. IL he was
old that workman had fallen from
l"use-top and WAS killed by the fall, he
yould ask what woman was passing
shen he fell. Ii homicide took place,
10 at once inquired what woman caused
he difficulty. Nothing of the kind
'ould occur. but he at once suspected :
ome woman at having caused it. Our
'eighhnr suspects the lottery company
y everything it does not aid in, and it
you'd not surprise us if ere long it at !
ribated the presence Of the milk in the !
ocoa nut to it's corrupting influences.