The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-06
The Abusive Mr.. Wilkinson.

Butler, Charles R. Kennedy, Victor
Maurberret, Arthur Dunn. john Brew
ster and Ferdinand Dudenheffer, was
so intensely personal as to cause much
surprise and evoke considerable COM
ment hat was not at all favorable to
| Mr.. Wilkinson, because these leaders
were only a short time ago very warm
supporters OF that gentl emanand twSOe
sat in the convention which nominated
him for Congress fFhti the First Con-
gressional District, and by their active
efforts in the campaigns overcame the
big negro vOtein the district and elect
ed him by round majorities. tits there
fore astonishingtO hear Mr.. Wilkinson
who owes so much to the ward leaders
thunder forth from the Anti stump de-
clarations to the effect that they are
the scum OF New Orleans, the purchas-
ed hirelings of the lottery, and the very
worst opponents of the Doodle element
who he positively asserts are working
for tho election of Mr.. Justice McEnery
and the adoption of the revenue amend
ment under contract.
1t this abuse of m on who have done
yeomen's service for the Democracy in
the great struggle whichresulted in the
overthrow of negro rule, was not SO
unjust and outrageous, it would be
amusing coming from Mr.. Wilkinson,
because he twice accepted Office from
this scum and these case hirelingsIiO of
the lottery, consequently it does not
look we'll, tOsay the least, for him to SO
numerically excoriate them whenever
he has an opportunity to make IN Anti
lOtteiy harangue. We for one protest
against the kind of language which the
ex- Congressman and the beneficiary
of wardleaders seems so fond Ofindulg-
ing in. 1t is outrageous and insulting
to good Democrats who havedone more
fOrtheir party than MI. Wilkinson, has
or will ever do, and whose greatest
crime seems to DO that they sat in. the
convention which nominated Mr.. JUS
tice McEnery for governor last Imonth
at Baton Rouge. IT they are bad charac-
tiers now they were certainly just as
bad when they, in 1888, we're delegates
to the congressional ntion that
nominated Mr.. Wilkinson for a second
term as their representative.
We would be pleased to know if Mr..
Wilkinson meanstO say that he regards
Hon. G.. L. Hall, the law partner of
Senator Gibson, as a hireling of the
lottery and the scum of New Orleans,
an d yet this is the way Major Hall ia
classed i'll his broad and sweeping de-
nunciations Of the ward leaders who are
now supporting the regular Democratic
ticket headedby Ex-Gov. McEnery and
Ex-Gov. Wicklife. The fact off the
matter is the conduct of Mr.. Wilkinson
can not be otherwise than contempt.
BILE in the estimation of all honorable
men in his W faction, because there
$40 eAiHg s 9 re #eltiHg is THE att Of Il
man who deliberately goes back on the
friends Who have helped him either in
business or politics, and endea vors to
blacken their characters for 20 cause
other than that they refuse to be gov
erned by his views on a question of
public policy.
Senator Gibson is also an Anti and
has made speeches and written letters
in opposition to the adoption of the
lottery revenue amendment and has
indOrsed the bolt from the Democratic
convention at Baton Rouge, but in do
ing sc he has not INDUCED in any abuse
of the ward leaders of the Democratic
party ofNew Orleans, because no is not
without appreciation of the services
which they rendered him in the past,
and which advanced him to the high
and honorable position that he Dow
occupies as a Senator of the United
Sta ties.
In the congressional convention of
1888, when Mr.. Wilkinson was nOmi-
mated for the second time to represent
the First District, a resolution was
adopted commencing the action of
Senator Gibson in presenting to Prcsi.
dent Cleveland the nameOf Hon, John
Fitzpatrick for appointment to the
United States Marshalship of this Dis
trlcr. The resolution was offered by
Judge Anthony Sambola of the Ninth
Ward, a delegate, and it showed that
the convention was thankful to Senator
Gibson for thus recognizing the pOIiti~
cal services of one of the most promi-
nent ward leaders in New Orleans and
the presentation of Fitzpatricks name
also showed the gratitude of the Sena-
tor to them for what they had done in
his WI behalf. and it is safe to assume
that the Senator would not have recon-
mended Capt. Fitzpatrick for appoi1t-
Irsnt to She Marshalship had hs been, |