Feliciana sentinel., 1892-10-22
ssStir the DRY Bones In the VAL
ley.''

Is the suggestive caption to an
excellent article IN the Daily States
of the 14th, in which the political
Of the Democracy of Lou
isiana is treated upon similar lines
to those contained in several re-
cent articles produced III the SEN
TINEL.
From the States article we re-
produce the following ringing par
agraphs which are em,nently wor-
thy of the attention of those to
whom they Justly apply:
1t is NO excuse for this lethargy to
say that Louisiana is safe, SO is
Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas aud all
the other Southern States safe; most
Of them indeed, more safe than Lou
isiana. But it is of great impol tance
that Democratic organization, disci
pine and enthusiasm should be main
tanned in tue Democratic party.
throughout the South, and that can
only be done by fighting. And fur
ther it ill-tecomes the people who
have the largest stake-their very
liberties. and freedom from negro
domination-in the election Of Dem
ocratic President and a House Of Re-
representatives., to set idly down with
folded hands, while the Democracy
in every Northern State. county,
town aud cross road. is waging their
battle of the Constitution.
Louisiana may be safe, all the
Southern States may be safe; but
does the State Central Committee as
sumo that the earnest sympathy and
enthusiastic ssnpport of these safe
States impart no courage and enthu-
siasm to cur fellow Democrats Of the
North, who are hard pressed at every
point! Any such assumption is the
most arrant folly. If there be no
such assumption on the part of tto
Central Committee, then why this
apathy, this indifference, this unwor-
thy abandonment Ct the fight III Lou
isiana?
The Democratic party of this State
should be Immediately mobil;zed,
speakers should be sent to every par
ish and a. determination evinced,
while our fellow Democrats in the
North are fgting the main battle, to
pumble the last vestige of life out of
the Third partyite and the Ocalaites
and the Republicans down here. All
such parties should be uprooted in
the South, and when the great victo-
~ is Won in N.vemter, there should
be no squads of insiduous traitors
left in the South upon which disgrun-
tied politicians, and their followers
may rally.
We ask the State Central Commit
tee: Should not the voice of Louis
lana be heard in this campaign'
Should not Louisiana, when the bat
tie is won, claim share in the glo-
ricus victory? Should not the next
Democratic Administration feel that
it owes something to the Democracy
of louisiana
We have participated in every cam
paign in Louisiana since the war,
and in none other have we witnessed
such apathy and indifference as pre-
walls, like a pail, over this one. Are
the patriotism, fealty and courage Of
the Democracy of Louisiana para
lyzed! So little interest has the
State Central Committee. displayed
in the canvass; so barren Of action or
advice has its course been; SO utterly
inactive has it remained, that thou
sands of intelligent and earnest
throughout the State, and
even in this city, are ignorant of the
OF its members, and many do
not even know who its Chairman is.
No such thing has ever been known
in Louisiana before. We have fought |
dozen campaigns in which
the vote of the State was safer than |
in this; but in every one Of them we
have had organization we have had !
speakers on the stump; We have had
everywhere in the field, and
she State Central Committee has |
always sat in session, or been pre-
pared to assemble at the shortest no.
ice, guiding and directing The cam
oaIgn-
If Louisiana is 10 take any organ
zed part in this fight if the name
# ou- gallant State is to be written
IN the rclls of those which have no.
oly done their duty, it is time for the
State Central Committee 10 move. to
.ct, and to make itself felt. II how