St. Landry democrat., 1892-01-30
POLITICAL POINTS.

| When Gibson and Blanchard speak it is not
the voice OF the office seeker that is heard. o.
! no. They are pure unadulterated patriots. who
| only consent to serve their country for theiI
| country's good, and because the people riii
have them ct any price-City Item.
| II tho straight Democrats of this parish and
every other parish in the State do not proceed
at once and vigorously to organize. they will
! lance has the machinery at every polling boot
and the impotence and the tools to use it tc
| steal the State.-N. o. TimesDemOcrat.
The ants need not flatter themselves that
| they will be able to count us ont. Ii we elect
! McEnery and the rest of the Democratic ticket
| in April, they can rest assured that the vote
will be counted, and that our men will take
| their seats, Winchester Foster to the contrary
| Notwithstanding Star.
The people are thoroughly aroused to the con
| spiracy of Gov Nichols and his faction to con
vert the election law into a Force bill more op
pressiye than any vet conceived bv the Radica
enemies of the South in Congress, and more des
tructive to the popular right to free ballot anC
a fair count. But knowing their danger, they
will stop at no measures necessary to avert 1t
N. 0. City Item.
Let not the Democracy of the State be under
any delusi0n; tue Blanchard threat to turn
Louisiana over to the Republicans for term
! of years Is OH the road to contamination, anG
| it will materiallze unless the Democrats rouse
| themselves to prevent it. Apathy on theil
part will land the Radicals and the negroes
again i'll Ottice-N. o. Times Democrat.
The fight in Louisiana is not between Lottery
| and Ant-l0ttery factions, as 1t would appear
| from the face OF the returns, but between pure
| Democracy and the Otfce-seeking, otffce-llold
Ing, selfperpetuating cass-the latter being
represented by Foster as tho hSure-head candl
| date for governor on the Nichols sOre-head
rule-orruin ticket.-RaymOnd (Miss.) Gazette.
The New Delta speaks of the "true demo.
cratic ticket, with Foster and Parlange and
Adams at the head" That ticket seems to he
double ender, with Foster and Parlange at
4 41np r fl nrtE I
| of note once more that the Delta never had d
| compliment for Adams Until he was put at the
| tail of the ticket Then he got to be great
| man.-B. r. Advocate.
| Louisiana Review 1t Is new code of honor
| and ethics that allows men who have of their
| own free will participated in political contest
| which binds the participants to abide the re.
| suit, to break the obligation incurred on the
| test. Yet this has come to pass in Louisiana,
| and 1t is those who prate the lOrdest of honor
and morality, who are offering the spectacle OF
| the most fragrant breach OF political obligations
| ever witnessed in America
Another staunch democratic newspaper takes
an intelligent view of the political situation i'll
Louisiana. The WOodvile Republican says:
" If one-Quarter of the testimony given by the
sheriff and other respected citizens of st. Mary
parish, La, before the democratic committee
| on credentials at Baton Rouge, be true, Mr..
Foster the nominee OF the anti convention for
governor, stands in very bad light before the
people of this country, to say nothing Of the
democracy Of louisiana"
We wonder how the McEnery convention that
met in Pixies Hall can harnonize democratic
platform with their failure to put in an anti
lottery plank. Was there ever monopoly that
true democracy did not advise its abolition p
Farmers Vidette.
The Nichols democracy, of which candidate
Foster is the cXemplar and exponent, put no
such plank IN the platform Of 1888 Therefore,
according to the Vidette's logic, the Foster
democracy is sham aud fraud-B. r. Ad
Vocate
If the amendment is adopted by the people,
and the result so declared, Murphy Foster,
backed by all the bowling dervishes of his
household: cannot stop or stay it. On the other
hand, if the amendment is defeated, GOV Nc
Emery, even if be so desired, could not set it up
again or blow the breath of life into its nostriis
The boilers know this, but they make pre-
tense in the hope that by some hook or crook
foisting them into office again, in spite Of their
recent Reputation by the white people in the
primary electons.-B. r. Advocate.
Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Potter and Dr..
Palmer and the ministers of other and antagon-
istic religious denominations are ON a line with
Associate Justice McEnery in dlsapprovIng
lotteries as government functions for raising
revenues the difference between the clerics
and the laynlan is that the former give them
selves huge airs of moral superiority over the
people of Louisiana i'll their estimate of the adj
vantage of lotteries, While the latter is disposed
to allow the people to say what they think best
for themselves III the matter. But then Mr..
McEnery Is Il Democrat, While the Others nam
ed are dognatics i'll opinion aud autocrats in
action.-N. o. Tint s-Dem0orat.
The Anti press and speakers should have a
conference and agree upon some line of falsifi-
cation. AS it is, they make each other ridicu-
lous. Mr.. Foster is telling it around the coun-
try that 1.-THE delegates in the Pixies Hall con-
vention did not have majority Of the undis-
puted delegates Yet on the Gay Foster was
nominated the New lDeta-even that immacu-
late sheet, which could not tell falschood if
it waited to-declared that the parishes car
ried by the anti-lottery forces had been con
the lottery had secured Il majority of the I'M
contested delegates to the convention
Now, it is impossible that Mr. Foster and the
organ both tell the truth, and if they keep up
this thing to the end of the campaign their
character for veracity will be worn into shreds
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