St. Landry democrat., 1891-11-21
Political Points from the Baton Rouge
Advocate

The visit Of Ex-Presidcnt Hayes t,
New Orleans was a surprise, and ls
came and went with little notice excep
He was just in time to witness the
grand democratic victory, and to min
gle his tears with tho salty drops of tht
New Delta over the desOlation of d."
feat. Wananlaker and Hayes are goo,
pair for the ants to draw to.
The Mississippi election resulted in /,
grand triumph Of the democracy over
the Vaccinations of the Farmers AIi-
ance to elect both of the United States
Seuatois from that State. George and
Waltha!l have overwhelming maiorities
iii the Legislature, and Barksdaie and
Lewis, with their pumpkin baUk con-
stitutionaities. will stay at home, while
they luminate on the vanity of trying
to delude the Democracy with such va
carries.
The New Delta will now seek other
fields to conquer, and proceed to carry
the democratic State convention by its
usual anticipative majority. This is its
last stronghold, except the ApIi! eIec-
tions, and that it will be routed from
both Of these, as it has been one by enc
from all others, is a forcgone conclu-
sion. The New Delta was born under
an unlucky star, and Adams was the
| weight that pulled it down into the
depths Of defeat and despair. 1t ought
to have fought for Foster, aud by that
token it might have won.
The New Delta tvits the pro-lottery
people for preferring to be called Nc
| Eneryites. There is good reason for
this, because all McEnery men are not
pro-lotteIy, by a large margin. Such
| democrats as Boatner, Montgomery,
Wicklitfe, SutlIelin, Mnnday, Wells and
hundreds OF others who march under
the McEuery banner prove this fact.
But may we not twit the New Delta
aud its friends for pleterIjng to be call
ed "antl-lottcly," rather than Adam
Sites though the latter appelation is
the true one, It they propose to hold
faith witt! the alliance.
The ants at Lafayette promised
forty delegates from New Orleans to the
one. They will make up the loss in the
Adams parishes, however, as in Natchi
toclles, for example, where they will
control the entire delegation under the
unit rule. The bear is danciug with
his partner, and preparing for the
squeeze, after which will come oblivion
to Adams. He will not be "in it"
when the State convention meets. The
Aatciitoches Review hits the mark
when it says, 4 vote for Adams is a
vote thrown away"
The New Delta claimed that there
We're over 5000 men iu the late auti-lot- /
terry demonstration in New Orleans,
and 10000 people on Lafayette square
to listen to the anti oratory that night. |
But these thousands Of men in buck
ram did not appear in the primaries, /
where they were most needed, and only /
loomed up in the imagination of the |
newspaper nhiei, displays the motto,
OF its columns. McEnery swept the
city by a solid vote of all the wards.
The Shreveport Caucasion, in it's ar
ticle reprinted in the Advocate yester-
day, clearly iusinuates that the national
money in sending national lecturers
down here to strengthen the third party
This is serious charge,
aud ought to be resented by every alI-
ance man in the United States. II the
order is so rotten as to have its leaders
bought to betray their constituency,
then mere membership in it is a re-
proach and disgrace. The Caucasiou is
too" flip" 1t should contine its accu-
satiohs and insinuations OF bribery and
to the "Morris gang,h who
are used to it,"
The array of prominent anti Iouisi-
ana) lottery leaders in New Orleans,
who are stockholders in the Mexican
lottery, as presented in the article from
the Times-Democrat published yester-
day, is a curious complication of the
pending campaign, and very suggestive
IF possible source Of doodle" for
our brethren of the sanity side. If the
Mexican lottery can drive the Louis-
ina lottery out of existence, it will
come in and occupy the entire field of
he United States as a market for its
tickets. In other words, 1t will be the
,Gly octopus" in sight, and can " suck !
he life blood OF the people" without {
paying dollar of revenue to Louisiana =;
,r any other State. c
The Florida State alliance sends |
greeting to the National alliance. 1t f
'dopted the Ocala platform by vote r
# II to 5. The Louisiana State alli-
nee adopted the 0cala platform solidly
It Lafayette, but it did not send greet
ng, because at the same time it put up a
N strictly pure democratic plat
orm.n The suppression of the fact
hat the Ocala platform was endorsed
here was part of the plan to deceive
he democracy of Louisiana. Even the {
agreement would never have
'een published to the world if it had
ot been for the enterprise of the
,imes-Democrat reporter, who sur
eptitionsIy secured a copy Of it in spite a
I the efforts to keep 1t secret. }