St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-04-16

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to their worth and manhood ; and at
the polls on the 10Th OF this month they
will administer terrible rebuke to the
faction which has thus fraudulently de-
prived them of a victory honestly
! achieved.
! Strive as they may, the Foster contln-
gent cannot escape the slur Col. Young
cast upon them when he admitted that
he endorsed fraudulent count because
| there was not honor enough among his
own friends to abide by au adverse de-
cision, however just and fair.-AleX-
andria Times.
Vermiion Star: We are Democrats :,
And stand on the broad majority rule
platform. A majority of the people of
they wanted 5. d. McEnery to rule
over their destinies as governor for the
next four years, therefore this is cur
will.
Concordia Sentinel: The action Of the
| Committee Of Seven, headed 10y Col
John S. Young, is u stencil in the nos
tris Of the honest people of the State,
and there was but one thing for the
supporters of Judge McEnery to do,
carry the fight to finish, and that is
what they will do.
Welsh Crescent: No Democrat who
| participated in the lato primaries, Is III
any way bound to support Foster, as he
is not the nominee according to the
| vote cast in tho late election and as
you were required by honor to abide
| the result, his nomination is not the re-
suit. He is the nominee Of an arbitrary
| ruling of one man.
Alexandria Times: If the Foster fac
! ton gets III power every man III the
State who has advocated the cause of
Gov. McEnery will be, to all intents, as
absolutely DISTINGUISHED as the negroes
| have been for years past-they will be
allowed no more voice in the affairs Of
| the parishes or of the State than ii they
| were residents Of Dahomy.
Those who submit to this rape by the
returning board will forfeit their man
hood and all claims to voice in the
government.
DeSoto Democrat: The fight must be
short, sharp and decisive. Let each
Democratic cavalier tighten his girth,
shorten his stirrups, draw his sabre, and
charge the foe wherever he may be
found. There is no time for maneuver
ing the foe stands before us, and the
com bned hosts of Leonard and all other
foes Of Democracy, must be scattered
to tile four winds of heaven by the
"Old Guard :" under Samuel Douglas
McEnery.
When confronted by smell, utierances
| of the New Delta that the Foster side
would not abide by the decision of the
committee it it were adverse to them,
his friends in this bailiwick, with farci-
cal pretense of fairness and conserva-
tism, scout that immaculate sheetas too
radical and extreme, but really in their
heart of hearts they endorse and
chuckle over everything it has said all
along. But this preteDse is in keeping
with the cant and hypocrisy that have
characterized their campaign.-Alex-
andria Times.
New Iberia Enterprise: Many fair
minded and justice loving men among
the Fosterltes seem to feel that they
have been forcibly made the receivers
OF stolen booty, and the guilty knowl-
edge of this fact preclndes them from
extending to their robbed brethren that
open-hearted greeting which would
naturally have followed an honestly
the stigma, or will they, inspired by the
the treachery of John S. Young on the
10Th day of April
The Ruston Caligraph calls Oh all
true Democrats to stand by their cOlors-.
" The outrageous attempt by Col. John s.
Young and his CO. consDirators," it says,
to defraud the McEnery ticket of its
fairly won nomination will not be en-
dured by any true aud loyal Democrat
n tho faf A,fhin.r h.. e
our State is comparable to this attempt |
ed infamous robbary-not even the !
damnable steal made by the Tom An
derson and Mad. Wells Returning
Board in the blacklist days of black Re- .
publicanism.'
How terribly shocked kruttscllnitt
and the Four Hundred were at the idea
OF permitting ''DagoesH who have lived I
whereas, how pleased aud gratiiied they !
we're that 800 "Dagoes" in St. James
parish, who have recently come ovcr,' /
do not understand q word of English |
and were put through the form of natu-
ralizatlon few hours previously for !
"that occasion only,' went up and de- !
posted their ballots like little men.
The explanation of this apparent in
consistently is easy-the first voted for |
McEnery and the second for Foster.-
Alexandria Times.
st. James Courier: How is it that in
our own parish Young recognized the
right of the committee to purge the bal
lot boxes OF illegal votes 7 Seventy-two
votes. said to have been illegal, were re-
jected, but no one seemed to have con-
ceived the moDstrOus idea of rejecting
the entire vote in these boxes on ac-
count OF these seveDty-tW0 votes; the
legal voters were not DISTINGUISHED. But
the rule was not made to work the same
way in the City of New Orleans, and
5000 votes were rejected because of
fraud perpetrated by the McEnery COM
missioners. This was necessary to
majority for Foster, and
a majority of the committee committed
the infamous deed.
Baton Rouge Advocate: The meagre
majority given to the Foster ticket by
the new returning board makes the ay-
arage Foster man blush when it is men
toned. 1t was truly a contemplate
steal, but it must he remembered that
The fraud was perpetrated by the pren-
ice hand OF these election mauipulators. ,
II this fraud goes unrebuked, its per-
)etratOrs will go further next time and
swell the fictitious majorities into hun t
lreds and thousands, and whoever op-
poses them will be the slaves of self i
constituted oilgarchy, employing for
heir own base purposes the most
shameless methods of the reconstruct t
ion era.
Natcbitochcs Democratic Review: 1t ;
S Uncomfortable that man of Ioung's !;
character and standing should have lent =
himself to so glaring aud outrageous :
raud. :
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