The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1892-04-16
General Notes.


lousas, Announcing the alleged change
of the Acadia Sentinel from McEnery
to Foster, has been branded by the
publisher Of that paper as ga lie oat of
the whole cloth.' The columns of the
Sentinel of March IL, its last issue at
the time of the telegram was sent,
prove the falsity of the statement
The editorial page fairly bristled with
anti Foster sentiment, garnished with
i vigorous articles supporting the candi-
dacy of Gov. McEnery. The fidelity
of the Sentinel to the cause it had SO
!; long upheld was unshaken, and its
] loyalty breathed in every line, stead
! fast and true. There was no ground
for suspicion, and the publisher was
right in denouncing the mendacious
charge of treachery as 'a lie out of the
whole cloth''-Baton Rouge Advocate.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald asks the ques-
tion: care the Democrats likely to
put two national tickets in the field
this year r. The answer to such a
question is that the Democrats are not
fools. They put two presidential tick
cts in the field in 1850 and they have
not yet forgotten the result of their
folly. 1t is quite safe to assure the
Herald's correspondent that the Dem
ocrats this year will be perfectly salts
| fed with the nomination of one ticket
and if they are united, as they were
in the congressional elections
two years ago, they will elect
it by rousing majority. 1t is now a
duty to prevent any strife within the
party lines, and we believe that the
leaders will succeed in preventing the
silver question, or any other question,
causing division and disaster. The
Democrats are well aware that they
cannot afford to divide, and they are
not going to do it.-N. o. States.
The individual who has not known
| for months past that the Foster leaders
had it in mind never to submit to
defeat but had resolved on a bolt,
trusting to the election machinery
under the direction of Gov. Nichols,
who ia as full of venom as rattle
snake in August, and of egotism as an
| egg is of meat, is as innocent as a
sucking dove. Capt. Adams letter, it
is true, might, and probably would
| have blocked that game, in which case
| they proposed to fall back upon q
scheme of appointing goody good COM
missioners and then knitting McEnery
directly at the polls, or, indirectly, by
remaining away from them. We do
not pretend to say that the mass Of
| Fosterites, who are good Democrats,
would be guilty of or endorse such an
act of treachery, but entertain not
shadow of a doubt that the rule or
ruin leaders of the faction would do
this thing without scruple or remorse.
Alexandria Times.
The st. James Courier says the Fos-
ter faction voted 300 Italians in that
parish, whose votes were counted, but
the returning board threw out ~ Ital
ian votes which were cast for McEnery.
The reason for the rejection was that
these foreigners were not legally nat
uralized, because their papers were
signed by a notary instead of the clerk
of the district court. The clerk, who
is Foster man, shut up his Office and
absented himself from the parish, and
thus prevented them from properly
applying for naturalization papers.
This was the real fraud in the case,
but it had no word of censure. Per
i contra, in Terrebonne parish, a repub-
lican judge, 10 sympathy with the Fos-
/ ter side, went wherever his services
were needed to naturalize Dagoes who
intended to vote for Foster, aud made
citizens of them by the score. And
yet the cry of fraud came from those
who took such technicle advantages in
the primary election Baton Rouge
Advocate.
The Fosterites will make nothing
out of the high tax issue which they
are trying to raise, because it has been
4 shown By the record of the Nichols
administration Of which Foster is a
reflection, that taxes have been piled
1 up in a lively fashion during the last
four years on licences, produce and
acreage. When this increase is point
ed out to the voters they will laugh al
the men who arc now bowling about
4 high taxation. The action of the Dem.
ocratic State Central Committee In ad.
opting resolution instructing the reg
ular nominees for the legislature te
vote against any amendment to in
crease the rate of taxation, knocked the
wind out of the tax issue of the Foster.
u ties, and the Indications are that the
8 leaders of that faction will have to pui
their heads together and agree on some
thing else to 60 before the people on
Their stock of issues has played com
Ipletely out, and If they do not find ons
soon it would be we'll for them to ad
$ vertiae in the want column. IN. Q
States.
s, The day after the primaries the Lou
isiana Review, after stating that 9
would be impossible.to obtain faire
depression of the popular will than wa
obtained ID Tuesdays election, = strike
j the key note of true democratic duty
/ and says:
5 Every fair minded, square man VIII
: claims to be democrat must bow t
i the decision thus obtained. whateve
: that decision is. There ought to be nj
) Isnlking, and it is those who were fore
most in urging the nomination of Til
S defeated candidates who should nos
1 give the example of loyal observanc
i Of the popular decision. 1t will b
: manly and patriotic for them to SO be
have. The duty Of every loyal demo
crat now is plain. It consists in usin
: his influence to allay the i'll feeling en-
i gendered By the long contest that wa
8 settled By yesterdays primaries to L
bygOnes be bygonas, and TO fall int