The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1891-09-26
A New Conspiracy

clples every where against what we
believe to be a new conspiracy Of the
lottery company, and its hirelings in
this State. This internal monopoly
will invade the sacred precincts ofthe
home and appeal to the heart of the
mother in behalf of her child's educa-
ton, in the hope to lessen the fathers
opposition to selling his political lib
erty. Ii mVades the sanctuary Of the
charitable. the unfortunate. the old
soldier, the miser, the gambler, the
avarieious, in fact every class, of citi-
zeG.
Now here comes a pamphlet bear.
log the title "Fhe Industrial Reform
League, Principles and Rules" with
all the earmarks of the work of the
Farmers Union traitor too plain to
be disguised. The earmarks show the
hand OF the LOTTERY with the Farmers
Union traitors as a tool.
Here we have The declaration, first
that the majority Of the Farmers AL
lance Tor Union)o of this State propose
to institute q third party. This is
lie number one, and we wonld like to
have the name of the man who told
it. Second. we have the declaration
that the compromise at Lafayette is
infamous-tbis is lie number two and
we would like 10 have the Eame of
the author. so we can brand him as
an infamous scoundrel as well as a
traitor to his Union and a man who
has violated his obligation to the
order, sold himself to the lottery,
disgraced his family name and brand
ed his children as the offspring of the
skum of society. Third that every
principle of the Alliance was saariic-
ed in order to obtain political prefer.
ment. This is lie number three, and
was concocted by an Office hunter
that has sold TO John A. Morris
knowing that the honest people of
the State would never elevate him TO
any official position. Who is it that
dares come out over his own sigma
ture and declare these sentiments but
I. j. Guice aud who is it that is in
the 4th Congressional District that
does not know that he has wanted
Office ever since he had been lecturer
of the Farmers Union. He started
when the Union first started with a
wish to be member of the police Jury
ofhis parish, he rose TO the ambition
TO represent his parish il the State,
this was when he was parish lect-
ure.) When he got to be a State leet-
nrer his ambition raised and he wan.
ted to go to congress. He had lost
his grip and now be wants to destroy
where he once (no doubt for selfish
ends) tried to bald up.
Some traitor to the Farmers Union
went into this New Orleans combine
and has sold himself to Morris to try
to destroy the unity of the Farmers
Union.in this State. In going 10 lie
has stolen the principles of the ALI
ance and fixed them on a lottery hook
as a bait hoping to catch Farmers
Union suckers.
The Farmers Onion promises all
the equal rights and justice" that
this conspiracy promises, and it will
be able to deliver the goods" if We
can down the lottery; but this con-
spiracy is set on foot By a set of nm.
scroupulous villains who have sold
to Morris and they hope to bag a
lot of soft Drained Farmers Union
men whom they think have more
principle than they have sense
Farmers Vidette.
We notice the Times Democrat
and osher lottery papers are urging
the State Central Committee to
draw the line" What is contained
in this proposition remains to be
seen. but if it is intended to exclude
members of the Alliance from parti-
cipating in the election Of delegates
the best thing these papers can do
would be to come out fiat footed"
and say TO these people 'you belong
to the Alliance and we intend to
have the State Committee to adopt
a resolution to exclude you from par
ticipating in the primaries This
said the members Of the Alliance
would be able to appeal to their