St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-05-07
A Reign OF Fraud.
\. o. States, April 81.

Az " Duties, April u.
The Foster majoliiics iu tie country
parishes continue to swell. Nothing
like it has ever been heard of before in
this or any other State. The majorities,
1t ls entirely clear, were manufactured
IN the room Of the Foster Campaign
Committee in New On leans and dictated
TO GOV. Nichols returning officers in
the country. Thus has Mr.. Foster been
elected Governor OF the State of Loui-
| siana.
He was in the field through, the in
strumentality Of despicable fraud, and
he will serve as Governor for four Years
because the present Governor OF the
State thought proper to ratify tie
Young Returning Board fraud by the
fraud OF intimidation, ballot box stuff
ing and false counting. The whole
election is tainted with fraud. 1t is a
disgrace to the Democratic party, to
civilization and to Christianity.
The coalition between the Fosterites
and the Warmothites is now clear as
the MONDAY sun. The first sold ont the
Democratlc party, the latter sold ont
the Republican party. The result is
neither Democratic nor Republican
government, but, as wessaid yesterday,
government of Fraud.
Tie campaign and its results are. on
Il smaller scale, a counterpart OF the |
campaign IN Louisiana and the Union
10 1870. Then the Mad Wells Return
ing Board laid the basis for the guiltv
work Of The Electoral Commission. In |
1892, the Young Returning Board laid !
the way to the damDabIe fraud perpe- |
trated last Tuesday, under the name of |
an election.
Inc result, however, reeking with |
fraud as 1t is, must stand for four years.
10 DO justice and redress the outrage
by legal means, would necessitate the
prosecution and conviction of tbous-
ands OF the guilty perpetrators, and
that is an impossibility. But because
the wrong cannot be undone, shall it be
condoned No, il thousand times no.
Successful fraud, triumphant crime, is
terrible spectacle for christian men
aud patriotic citizens TO contemplate.
1t challenges the justice of God. It
oosens all the moral bonds of society
It Weakens the spirit of patriotism and
brings honor, justice and free govern
nent into rldicnle and CONTEMPT: and
ct causists say what they NAV. when
he politics of people become cor
npted, the social life of a community.
ooner or later, also becomes tainted I
nd corrupted.
The duty of all lovers of Louisiana. G
Il all lovers of free government, of ali I
zen inspired by a sense of honor, is. NOT
o attempt to resist the inevitable, bad. a
often and wicked though it be, but to .
enounCe IT, to expose and keep it ex-
osed in all its loathsomeness TO The l
nblic eye. Lord Brougham truly said
hat when public evils are exposed thew L
re more than half remedied. The O
rauf then must stand for four years,
ut it SHALL not have day of peace or
est. lt may stand forth bedizened II
18th the robes of office and armed with
re sscepter OF power, but its brow, T.
randed anu smltten day after day as :
le light of Heaven in all its fOulnes. s.
Tue publication of Louisiana politics :
"a the preservation of the purity and Ia
race, of private life require that this !,
lail be done. b
Is it not clear, to all honest men. into o.
bat a hide0us depth of degradation
g will plunge this State if, by quiet sub p;
lssion or acquiesceDce, We SHALL sane ~
~ such methods of making governors
I'd other officers If we do this now. =
en- ei hereafter the voice of the people CT CT
III count tor naught in Louisiana pol- vi
cs and, II we want to know who will Ut
hstitate the administration after the
X election, It will only he necessary so
learn what kind Of rascals cnns.itnte to
g Retaining Boards and by what con re
ieratlons they can be Influenced. bo
An Institutional despotism, such as its
at OF Russia OF Turkey, is a te;ribie su
lamIty to fall upon people but the pr
lt OF despotism whose fouudations wi
re laid tuesday by Gov. Nichols and tb,
other Foster leaders, is incalculablv !.
're obnoxious, more oppressive and u
DEsPoTIsM OF FRarD.