St. Landry democrat., 1892-03-12
POLITICAL POINTS.

A party seeking prefcrment by whocsal
bribery can never Observation-Disclosures Dem
ocratic Review.
The only question now is the size of Governo
McEncry's majority y.-Natchitoches Democrat
| Review.
Who got Adams The bear, Who got til
| bear! johnny Fitzpatrick. johnny is a ha
man Baton Rouge Advocate.
An open letter to Mr.. Foster would now he il
. order, inviting him to step down and let Capt
Adams resume his place at the head OF tit
ticket.-Baton Rouge Advocate.
The people of Louisiana will never turn ovel
the reinS of government to Il man who seeks h
own advancement by attempting to bribe to Iii:
support a man whom he has denounced
| " corruptionist. ."-Natchitoche Review.
If there be one reason stronger than another
| why Mr.. Foster should not be elected governor
| it is the claim made by his friends that he vii
make just such governor as the present i'll
cumbent.-Alexandria Times
The contest in this State has now resolved
| itself into simple fight between party Demo
| Gratis and disorganizers. Will the party encour
age bolting and independentism That's the
! question to be answered On the 22d of March,
! Ouachita Telegraph-Bulletin.
Foster says Fitzpatrick sought an interview
! with him. Rogers admits that It was he who
! sought out Fitzpatrick and brought about the
! interview between him and the erstW lille saint
| ly Foster Which are you going to believe, Eos
| ter or Rogers !-ThbodauX Sentinel.
The efforts OF MI Foster and his coadutors
to escape the disgracotul charges brought
against them is really pitiable. However,
kruttSchnitt does not even enter denial but
glories i'll his sLame-evidently thinks he did Il
very proper thing-AleXandria Times.
There is no question but that four years of
Foster as governor would be just exactly four
years more Of the absentee, drowsy and rheu-
matte administration of Gov. Nichols, with all
OF its attendant political idiosy syncracies.-Bato
Rouge Capital Item.
There is no doubt that Burke's crookedness
as State Treasurer began during Nichols first
when Nichols came back into office he allowed
several hundred thousand dollars to be paid ont
aS interest on BUrke'S fraudulent bOndS.-De-
SOTO Democrat.
Immediately after the explosion, Hannibal
Stubbs ignominiUusly tied to the wilds of Qua
Chita, and, Il little later, Murphy also took to
the woods. krutts. and Watt. We're alone left
to bear the ignominy. But Don; We came very
near forgetting Don. Probably lie has crept
into one of the boilers OF his sugar refinery
Alexandria Times.
The Democrats OF this State expressed their
preference for Sam. McEnery by over $4,000
majority in the fall primaries; on March 22d
they will again pronounce in his favor by far
greater majority. The Fosterites have under
taken to set at defiance the will of the people,
but they will soon realize that it is not safe to
fool with the people.-Thibodaux Sentinel.
The Foster campaign seems to have dwindled
down to harping on the one string of the taxa
ton paragraph in Mr.. McEnery's letter of ac-
ceptance, with an occasional diversion on the
Burke bond crOokedness. In the language of
Shakespeare, we ask, :" Oh, mighty Cesar, dost
it{e m measure 1Baton Rouge Rouge Advocate, e. '''S
The Hon. Murphy J. Foster and the managers
of his ticket got heels over head in the soup
when they attempted to buy the "city bosses.''
they call them by pledging them all the fat
city offices as price tor their support OF the
Foster ticket. This last attempted shameful
dcker Of the puIists and moralists will over
whelm them with condemnation from all right
thinking people in Lousiana.-C Signal.
The Alexandria Town Talk pleads with the
dissatisfied farmOrS to support the Foster ticket,
and says that the third party movement will
take away two to three thousand votes from
him i'll the primary election. The third party,
hUWcvcr, seems TO be growing. and is now being
organized in some parishes where it has not
heretofore had an existence. We regard it as
tile embodiment OF political hcrcsy and non
stnSe, but the farmer who sticks to ii will at
least rebiko Fosters trtdcLery and Adams be
tIdyal OF the characterization Rouge Advocate.
The burden of the speeches made by perpa
tCtic politicians of the Foster side is thut the
McEncry ticket ought to be withdrawn, he
cause, as they alleSc, it is identified with the
late lottery issue. The right of that ticket to
keep the field is that 1t is the majority ticket
It was endorsed by an overwhelming vote OF
the Democracy in tile November primaries, as
1t VIII again be endorsed i'll the March primal
ries. II the Foster ticket had the same endorse
nent, it would now he i'll undisputed possession
OF the field. The McEnery Democrats are too
manly to plead the baby act.-B. r. Advocate.
ripped Of every issue on which reasonable
men can stand, and driven to the wall upon
every question they have raised, the Fostertes
have fallen back on the Burke bond scandal
and are endeayoIing to hold GOV. MrEncry res
ponsibe for BlIrke's shortcomings. BE it said,
to the eternal fitness OF things, that it was the
Nichols and not he McEnery administration
that whtewaslled Burke and sent him out into
the world with a certificate OF good character;
and Mr.. Murphy j. Foster, as a senator, helped
to give it to him, Therefore, it i'll becomes him
to sweep his dirt to the door of Gov. McEnery.
Baton Rouge Capital Item.