St. Landry democrat., 1892-02-20
Efforts for Harmony Frustrated.

At Il meeting of tile State Centre
| Committee held in New Orleans las
Monday, President Jastremski was au
thorized to address the following COIN
munication to the chairman of the Eos
ter State Committee, and subsequentl
handed the same to him in person. |
fully explains itself:
| NEW ORLEANS, Feb. Is, 1892
Hon. T. s. Wilkinson, Chairman, New Orleans
La
ago the chairman of our executive committee
| had the honor to address a communication t.
| the chairman of your executive committee
submitting propositions looking towards al
adjustment of the differences that now exist il
| the party. l am instructed by the State centra
committee, over which l have the hon
| or to preside, to communicate with you upo1
| the same subject matter and present the same
| propositions, and request that you bring them
| to the notice of your State central committee
| The question of the manner of aC dressing the
| communication we consider immaterial, and
| I beg to assure you that I will find 10 fault
whatever with the manner in which yOu- Or
your committee, sees tit to address i'll re-
ply. The interests involved our committee con.
slider too grave to permit lis to stand upon a
question of diplomatic etiquette.
The propositions which Ours executive com
mttee have submitted, and which meet The
unanimous approval of our State central conf
mittee, were elected by the universal feeling
that most disastrous effects 10 the material
welfare OF the State OF Louisiana would follow
the election of Republican ticket, caused by
a division among the Democrats who have
acted together since the downfall OF radical
rule in 1876. II is useless to deny that such Il
result may flow from a continued division Of
the Democratic party. Confident that the
state nominees of our convention are patriots
whose love for the party and whose solcltude
for white supremacy outweigh any ambition
to hold public office, we feel no hesitation i'll
speaking for them at this critical period OF the
party's existence. Therefore, III the interest
cratic party, and to avoid the possibility OF the
election OF Republican governor in the
State of louisiana and the consequent losa Of
Louisiana's electoral vote to the national DEM
ocratic party in November, 1892, we Offer for
the consideration of your committee the fol,
lowing propositions. VIZ:
Fivst-That the nominees upon the two tickets
known as the McEncry ticket and the Foster
ticket withdraw.
second-That the State central committee
known as the "McEnory State central commit
tee" and tho Foster state central committee''
join in a call for new primary election for
delegates to a State nominating convention, to
be held III New Orleans not later than March Is,
1892.
Thrd-The adoption by the two State cen
tral committees of q set Of rules as will insure
fair and honest expression of the will of the
Democratic voters, the prevention of frivolous
contests, equal representation among the COM
missioners of election to the two contending
parties. the selection of such commissioners to
be made by the campaign committees of the
throughout the State, the election to DE uniform
and the primaries in the different parishes to be
held upon the same day; that day to be fixed
by the Joint action OF the state central commit
tees.
Confident of the patriotism Of the people OF
the State of Louisiana, and their deep interest
in her welfare, we feel certain that they will
gladly give one day, or more II necessary, TO
the duty of attending primary election. so as
10 heal the differences that now exist in the
Democratic party.
This patriotic, manly and straight
forward letter was submitted 10 the
Fosterites on Tuesday aud referred by
their committee to a subcommittee OF
its members for consideration and re-
ply-the reply to be submitted to the
full committee for approval. Ihe COM
position Of the subcommittee leads us
to believe that the emiDeuty far-aye,
ma neutrality-suspicious. of the regu-
lar Democrats will be rejected, and that
some preposterOus and totally inadmiss-
ply; not with any idea that these CON
dtions will be accepted by the majority.
but in order to hOodwink the people and
attempt to conceal from them tile fact
that these tricksters are now, as they
have ever been all through the cam
paign, decidedly and emphaticaily op-
posed to a!lowing the white men of Lou
lsiana to settle any public question Of
this nature at the polls. These extle-
mists have, in fact, been assuming all
along that they were entitled by divine
right to rule, no matter what the people
thought about it, and being imbued with
these autocratic views, it is unreasOn-
able to suppose that they would consent
TO the proposition that the people be
Since the above was written, the news
las come that the entirely fair PROPOSE
ion of the majority was fatty rejected
IN Wednesday. A counter proposition
vas then made by the boilers to the ef- |
,ect that the two committees make up a |
icket without consulting the people,
hey (tbe boiling minority to name the |
Governor and four other officers Oh the |
State ticket and the majority to name |
he other two. This ridiculous PROPOSE
ion was of course rejected, as its max |
rs knew it would be, and a committee |
vas appointed to confer with a like
committee of the boilers to endeayOr to |
,ring about some fair settlement of the |
question. We fear that nothing will
;ome of these repeated attempts of the
patriotic McEnery leaders to compro-
Mise the differences in the party, and
hat there is now nothing for the people
o do but to rally as one man to the DEM
'cratc standard and rebuke the leaders
Who feared and refused to trust them,
nd at the same time save the State |
rom Republican aud negro domina-
ion.