The Opelousas courier., 1892-03-19
THE. .NEcEnery Speaking.

notwithstanding the weather was
cloudy and threatening rain last Tues
day and a misunderstanding as to the
hour the meeting was to take place. a.
large and intelligent audience gathered
in the Courthouse to hear the McEnery
speakers at about 12 o'clock. The spa-
cious court room was we'll filed. nearly
all the seats being occupied, and
number standing.
Inc audience was thoroughly in ac-
cord with the sound Democratic doc.
trine as enunciated by the speakers, as
was evidenced by tho frequent and en-
thuslastic applause accorded them.
A large number of ladies graced the
occasion with their presence and ap-
peared to enjoy and appreciate the elo-
quence and sound logic of the speakers
fnlly as much as the sterner sex.
Speeches were made by Col Robert
n. Ogden, Horace L. Dufour, ESQ, J.
V. Calhoun, Esq, and Hon e. A.
O'Sullivan. At the conclusion of Sena-
tor O'SullivaD's address the meeting
was about to disperse, when Judge F.
T. Poche, who had just arrived by the
3 o'clock train from New Orleans, enter
ed the hall and was greeted with en-
thusiastic applause. He at once
mounted the stage, and for almost one
hour held the attention of the audience
by his mastery presentation of the 20.
litical issues of the day.
Col. Ogden, who was the first speak
er, although iDdisposed, made brief
but telling address, in the course of
which he assigned some unanswerable
arguments why Mr.. Foster should not
receive the suffrages Of the honest vo-
ters of this parish or State.
Foster, Cunningham and Parlange.
all candidates Dow. and bidding for
votes on their hostility to the Lottery,
were in 1880 pronounced Lottery men,
Foster himself introducing bill to es-
tablish a lottery, Parlange and Gun
| ningham voting for it. IF the Foster
people say this was done to iDiure the
Louisiana State Lottery Company.
still it leaves them as Lottery men per
Sc, and how can they explain their
votes for the bill that was intro
druced for the benefit of the Louisiana
State Lottery. an act intended to pro-
tect the monopoly feature of the Lou
Aniah@ A5tAiO A1otlCty vi Ito uHdi pas
sage, Parlange aud Cunningham voted
for it, aud Mr.. Foster, was absent
which is equal to a vote. Again his
expose of the Fitzpatrick diekef showed
i how willing Foster and his coasljutors
were to sacrifice political morality
for greed of Office Truly, said he.
the same blood that made Tarqnius'
daughter drive eover the bleeding corpse
of her father. TO mount the throne, an
imates. their hearts they care for moth
I ing but the greed Of Office; they con
demn gillainy profit By il. Men
who are afraid of disease never vaIun-
| tarily visit pest houses. Foster, if he
was as pure and sanity as his friends
would have us believe, he would never
1 have visited the corrupt and danger
Gus, continent John Fitzpatrick. Or
dinary men. can run some risks TO their
reputation, but he who aspires to the
/ highest office, in the gift Of the people
Governor of the State of Louisiana :
| must, like Cgsar's wife, he above all
Isuspicion.
/ He was followed by Mr. Dafour. who
spoke eloqnsntly in French. and made
a clear and concise exposition of the
political situation, conclnsively demon.
strating the legitimacy of the ticket
headed by Hon. Samuel d. McEneiy,
and bringing ont IN strong relief tbt
Iindefensibie action Of the minority IN
| setting mp the standard Of revolt, aud
/ thereby eneIangering the unity, the dis
cjpIine and the harmony Of The party
They were frequently applaudea.
Messrs. Calhoun and O'Sallivan were
peculiarly fDrcible Id their handling oi
the topics touched upon by them, and
made very favorable impression, a.
evidenced by the liberal applause Will
i which they were frequently interrupt
ed. None Of the speakers INDUCED ii
, mud throwing. They scarcely aliudet
Ito tile ballot box stutffng III St. Mary
passed lightly over tile tIeaeilery D
the Fosferites toward Adasas aud th.
Z dickeriDg with the New Orleans bosses
i but were nnsparing in their denuncia
tions of the trickery and bad faith .
tile leaders at Baton Rouge, who, t,
i secure q selfish advantage, recklessl.
ieoparaized tile success of the party
upon whose harmony nnd unity de
e pends good governmei,t in Louisiana
Some Of them referred incidentally 4
the scandalous charges against Gov
McEnefy in connection with the Burk,
bond matter, charges which those VIII
i made them themselves did not believe
and showed iii al conclusive manne
their after falsity
II Iii. Il. Shuartz, the old and promi
nent merchant and leading Hebres
citizen of New Orleans, died on Marc
l8, aged seventy two years. Deeease'
was i resident Of Opelousas before th'
war, where he conducted q large mer
camille establishment 81 the corne
] now occupied by MIR. Joseph Bloch, I
! the head Of tile firm of Shwartz 4
Kaufman, and had i host Of friend
i il old ST. Landry who appreciate
his many sterling virtues