St. Landry democrat., 1892-10-08
Some Political History.

f mas Deen written ABOUT TIC siil com
mitted by the congressional convention
in seating the Estorge delegates ant
about the Swords committee being th'
Irregular" committee. Those who pirate
! thus forget, OF think that the people
| have forgotten, the lelcctable politlca
history of this very pure and regular
body. They losei sight of the damninG
fact, or hope that the people have los
sight of it, that this body abetted, sus
taiued and endorsed the most hideou
! political pertidy ever perpetrated upol
fsiiow- members Of the same party-un
iess we except the action Of the Young
Returning Board-and that its closes
political friends were among those wht
openly rebelIed against the uuquestion
ed authority of the party and set up {
convention Ut their own. And, mark
you, they did not attempt to defend this
reasonable action upon any grounds OF
patty or political cxpedeucy, for it was
utterly indefensible on such grounds
but they excused it by using the pretext
that a great moral question was involv-
ed, and that party principles, party
usages and party platforms could not
bind them in such case. Aud these
peopls now have the gall" to claim to
be politically IRREGULAR
On the other hand, let lis examine in
to the legitimacy of the Estorge COM
mittee and its right to speak for Demo-
crats-Democrats who yield to the man
dates Of their party aud to the will of
the majority. When the Swords conf
mittee rebeled against the legitimate
party acknowledgements the voice OF
the Democrats of the State It's expressed
by a majority Of over 20 in the conven-
ton that nominated McEnery--the 9TH
er Democrats here who were not SD
highly moral, perhaps, but better party
men, finding that their party machinery
was in the hands Of boilers aud reb-
els " no We're arrayed against their par
ty, organized the Estorge committee.
The Swords committee, all through the
campaign, opposed the regular party Or
ganizatiOu and its nominees, while the
Estorge committee stood by them.
Who then are the "regulaTs," tlie men
who stood by the party or the men who
dealt it the most cruel blow it ever re-
ceived and from which it may never en-
titeiy recover
But aside from this, and admitting &
for the sake of argument that the bolt
ers were the "reguiars and that the
Estorge committee had no political
right to exist, yet the fact remains that
when the reunited party held cUnven
ton at Baton Rouge last June and found
most Of the parishes in the same condl-
ton az ST. LandTy-in some the old
were true to the party and
the boilers had organized new ones, and
in others rice rersa it took cOguiZance
of the existence of all these new COM
mittees as we'll as OF the old ones. BY
this act Of mutual concession it placed
them all upon the same footing, and up
Oh this act OF the highest tribunal OF the
reunited party the Estorge committee
is content to rest it's claims. But the
spirit of insubordination had taken root
n the Swords committee and it refused
to obey the mandates of this tribunal as
It had refused before, and it went Sc
renely on, ignoring both the action Of
the convention and the existence Of the
Estorge committee, until the congress
sional convention brought it up with a
short turn and taught it a salutary les
son. This recognition of Democrats
who had been recognized by the State
is what these very"r regular"
people call "sin," Truly, some peo-
pie have more cheek than government
mule.