The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-06
LlTIC ITEMS.

Election of United States Senators
by popular Ote is the idea embodied
in a bill just submitted to Congress by
Representative Bryan of Nebraska.
And a good idea it is.-BOston Globe.
Nothing and nobody longer remain
safe from Anti ''morap SANDER. The
Franklinton New Era breaks out in the
following shameful way
Ex-President Grover Cleveland is
now in Louisiana. 1t is thought that
he is al attorney for the Lottery Com
pany, and is down here looking after
some OF their interests.
Thus are outraged the laws of hospi-
tally, of ordinary pOliteness 20 a
stranger, eve Of common decency,
and all to crafty u crazy treak that
has been copjured up by political
schemers for selfish purposes.-Cjty
Item.
The ants denounce Judge McEnery
for permitting the use of his name by
the democratic party as its candidate
for governor, on the one hand, and
charge him with moral cowardice, ON
other, for declining to participate
%personlly in the campaign. The ants
are hard to please. and j udge Nc
Emery will probably not make the
effort.
If Mr.. Fosters g~ubernatolial aspira-
tons are never any nearer IT alizatiOn
than now the "man from st. Nary
may as well bid his hopes a long fare.
well ere they fade away in the dim dis
ttnce, gro wing fainter and fainter, a
mere speck on tlae horizon of political
conflict, until the morning of April
Both when he will awaken to find him.
self in political vacancy-a n1nentity
despite his various combinations
NatchitOches ReUieW.
Men who have gone completely daft
on the question of tho lottery (; men
who believe that the question Of DemS
Ocracy and white supremacy in Louisl-
ana should be held as paramount to
any and all others, should pause aud
reflect upon the madness of giving aid
and comfort to the Foster tick ct ;
should sternly rapudiate all protesting
Democrats like Mr.. Blanchard, who
are at least willing if not anxious TO
see the State relegated to negro rule
rather than the amendment should
carry. Have men wholly lost their
resson that they should for u M
countenance such a dreadful result =.
Alexandria Times,
The general bad faith of the Ants,
together with their utter want of res
pect ior the Catholic Church, is shown
in the treatment of the letter on lot
teries which Cardinal Gibbons yields
iugly penDed at their solicitations. His
Eminence. Ia the outset Of his note to
,'Gen. George D. Johnston of Lonisi.
ann" expressly and in terms excluded
consider alton of the political aspect of
the case, yet he is being used as a
shuttlecOck by the press of the State
House rings, and advertised,at SO much
per line by the campaign managers of
the b0lteis' ticket The Catholic
Church has never been more shameful
ly miaused.
The following is a suggestion that
would be entitled to the very gravest
consideration by the people were there
any possibility Of the State House
Ring ticket winning. The VIM par
ish COmrGde says:
Foster has shown iii the St. Mary
primaries to what methods he will
st0Op ID order to control a parish. If
elected Governor, at what will he stop
when he desires to control a State Z
The assumption Of indignant virtue
and lofty patriotism by which Gov.
Nichols sought TO eVadea direct reply
to the request of the Democratic Exe>
cutiye Committee that the people of
Louisiana should be assured of an
honest decision in their election of next
April, was too Transparent to deceive,
But even this thin veil of sophistry
and misStatement is rent to shreds By
the response elsewhere in TIE IrEM)
Of the champions ofthe popular rights.
Specific and we'll defined acts are asked
Of the Chief Executive. These are
clearly within the line Of his duty and
ere the right Of the people of Louisi.
ana. Indefinite promises, Couched in
glittering g~ensralities, are not sufh-
cienttO allay the general apprehension,
especially in tho face of such open and
y idespread threaSs Of fraud ! nor win