St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-11-05
A PATRIOTIC ADDRESS.

A PATRIOTIC ADDRESS.
The following address has been
issued by tie Democratic State
Central Committee:
70 the Democrats OF the State Of Louis
lana:
The gravest crisis which has ever
presented itself in the political his
tory OF the State and the Nation is
now before us. A variety Of causes
has delayed until . late date the
opening OF the campaign upon the
great questions which now call for
settlement by your votes and those
Of the rest Of the Union. 1t be-
hooves US therefore, in the short
time which lies between now and
November 8. to see to it that we
are up and doing, and that the full
strength Of the Democratic vote
shall be cast in favor of the princi-
pies OF good government. For the
first time in . quarter Of . century
the opportunity presents itself to
elect and install . Democratic Con-
qress in both branches, and with q
Democratic President also elected,
to shape the National policy. II
the Democracy can but securely
hold half the advantages obtained
in the last Congressional elections,
this important result can be readily
obtained. With it we shall be able
to relieve the distresses Of the poo
pie, sorely oppressed by oneroul
and excessive taxation, Danish all
fear Of
FEDERAL INTERYERENCE
with the rights of the Ststes In their
elections, and carry on to their
consummation the other reforms so
happily begun under Cleveland's
former administration.
Hitherto Q Republican Senate,
under the control OF plutoofsts end
manufacturing barons, who have
anassed enormous fortunes by this
corrupt combination, has blocked
the way to every effort to return to
an economical administration Of the
Government. Every man, be he
high or low, has thus been com-
PEELED to continue to pay tribute, in
the shape Of increased taxes, to
this monopolistic oligarchy, which
has, under . prohibitive tariff,
bound itself into trusts, syndicates
and other combinations to still fur
ther plumber the maeses. This bur.
den, growing heavier and heavier,
has always fallen upon the con-
sumers, chef among whom are the
farmers and laboring classes, who
have found the products OF their
labor decreasing in value, while that
Of all articles of ordinary cOnsump-
ton has been augmented. All Of
this has been done under the hypo-
critical pretense Of protecting the
American workman and fostering
American production. When no
longer able to blind and deceive the
people, and finding the control Of
the government slipping from their
grasp, these conspirat0rs have bold.
II attempted and are still attempt
ing to recruit their diminishing
ranks BY taking possession of the
CONTROL Or THE ELxcTi0Sa
in the States, to retain thereby .
forcible supremacy. The scenes Of
1874, which have not yet passed
from the memories Of the people Of
the Carolinas, Arkansae and our
own beloved State, wildly foretell
what the attempted Force Bill
would accomplish. Pro1igate l..
S. marshals. armed with bundles Of
blank warrants, backed by posses
of United States troops, riding on
midnight raids through the parish
es, arresting hundreds Of peaceable
citizens in the dead Of night, drag
ging them, manacled, to distant
prisons, there imprisoning them un-
til after elections, and then dis.
charging them without trial whole
aalo naturalization Of Democratic
voters of entire meiyhborhOOds;
total contempt and defiance Of the
orders and judgments of the State
courts, are but samples Of the many
outrages which would follow Q new
Force Bill, as they did its prede-
cessor in the darkest days Of recon-
struction, all committed under the
false Dretense OF q free ballot and