St. Landry democrat., 1892-03-05
POLITICAL POINTS.

EOSttI. +lOHtSL LON autk ltltul NfCdl scout
J., The Lake Charles American says: "The 10
+ terry is dead what shall VIC kill next! 40
j. tried very hard to kill the democratic part,
: but it was saved from that fate by the patrio
ism of Samuel d. McEnery.
9 | The Warm0th candidate for governor, HoI
' John Z. BreauX, of POinte COupee, is brothc
l of Justice BreauX, OF the State supreme cour
promoted to that office from superintendent {
education by GOV. Nichols in 1890
Louisiana Review: The recollection Of til
! result Of the primaries last fall doubtless hat
a good deal to DO i'll influencing the Fosterite
to fight so hard the propositions 20 let the reo
} pie make their own ticket. The rule or ruiz
contingent in their ranks died hard and yeldet
the point only when they saw that further re
sistance would be political suicide
B. R. Advocate: It was only on the 7th day
OF February that Mr.. kruttschnitt assumed
the prerogative as chairman of the Foster exc
cutiye committee. to sumnarily stop as he
thought, all efforts to larmonize the democra
cy by turning up his official nose at white pri
Inares. Two weeks later the Crandcll PROPOSE
tion was practically adopted by the unanimous
vo;e of both State central committees. Mr.
krutschntts craftsmanship is at a discount
He will please stand up and receive au "Ar-
| kansas ruprinand.'
N. 0. States Senator Hill has accepted an
invitation to visit jackson and address the
Mississippi Legislature on March 18th, and as
a matter of course the distinguished Democrat
| will receive hearty welcome from the warm
hearted people of our sister State. jackson is
only few hours run from New Orleans, and
Senator Hill should be invited to visit this
city after he has finished his Mississippi en-
gagement.
Louisiana Review: The Fosterites have sung
| on every key that they were not after Office
| An anti-lottely plank was all they wanted
! But they changed their mind as the
lottery question passed out, and ont Of seven
| places on the State ticket the unselfish Foster
ties only wanted five. In the exuberance of
! their generosity they would have given the
! McEneryItes the Lieutenant-Governor and the
! Auditor. AS the McEncryites wouldn't trade,
the FOsterltes will now take all the offices if the
| dear people are willing. There's nothing small
about the FOstertes.
! +. II. Adyocate The McEnery men fairly
won the victory in the first contest, and they
can win it again by more decisive vote. The
first victory ought to have been conceded. but
as it Was not the necessity seems to be for
second election in the interest OF harmony BY
all the rules the contestants at the head Of boh
tickets ought to have been the same, ard there
was no fairness in taking Capt. Adams down
after his defeat and putting up another candi-
date for governor, believed to be stronger.
However, there will be no demur at the change,
fer the prestige OF previous victory will give
McEncry the State by not less than $4,000 ma
jorty over Foster, as against half as much over
Adams IN November.
The third party convention, lately in session
at Alexandria, was compelled to revise its first
State ticket on account of the withdrawal Of
most Of the nominees thereon, and fiually got
it in almost new shape, as follows: For
governor, r. N. Tannehill, of VIM; for he'll
tenant governor, |. j. Mills, Of Calcasieu for
secretary of State, d. McStraVick, of New Or
leans for auditor, ] John Hendrich, of Caido;
for attorney general, Judge Hough, of Cald-
well for treasurer, ohm Mahoney, of New Or
leans for superintendent of education. J. T.
Patton, of VIM. Second place was offered to
Col. I. Jonathan Guice, but he magnanmously
declined the honor, although it did not have q
string tied to it.
B. r, Advocate 1t was singular spectacle
to see the victorious side in the late pri-
mares urging reSubmssiOn of rights honestly
won to the same tribunal, while the minority
~ mdlcDOtputS OpDOSpH it. The Tarlli1P de-
mocracy, however, had nothing to fear, in a
second appeal to the white people, under terms
and conditions which will insure free election
and a fair count, and we shall be repaid for ell
sacrifices if thereby the harmony of the demo-
cratic party is restored, and the republicans
kept out of power in the State. The McEnery
ticket viii sweep the State by majority larger
than it received in the November primaries,
aud its recognition as the regular ard unques-
toned choice of the democracy will follow.
We are no longer handicapped by the lottery
issue, and thousands of democrats will rally to
the McEGery standard who laiely stood aloof
Oh that account.
n. o. States: Tie Fosterites will make
nothing out of the high tax issue which they
are trying to raise, because it has been shown
by the record of the Nichols administration of
which Mr.. F0stor is reflection, that the taxes
have been piled up i'll quite a lively fashion,
during the last four years Oh licenses, produce
and acreage When this increase is pointed out
to the voters they will laugh at the men who
are now bowling about high taxation. The ac-
tOn of the Democratic State Central Commit
tee in adopting a resolution instructing the
regular nominees for the legislature to vote
against any amendment to increase the rate of
taxation, knocked the wind out of the tax issue
OF the FOsterites, and tho indications are that
the leaders of that faction will have to put their
heads together and agree on something else to
go before the people on. Their stock of issues
has played out; if they do not tGd one soon it
would be well for them to advertise in the
want column
B. R. Advocate: There was probably never
a parallel to the present political situation IN
louisiana A State ticket fairly and honestly |
elected by an overwhelming majority Of dele |
gates to regular convention and also of the |
popular vote has been compelled by a set Of
malicious malcontents, as the only means Of
saving the democratic party from ruin, to sub |
nit to a second election, with a new leader of |
the opposition, claimed to be stronger" than |
the candidate who was defeated in the first |
campaign. If Capt. Adams was too weak to |
make successful race, it was the fault of those
who put him in nomination, and not of those |
who opposed and defeated him. His hackers |
ought to have accepted the result without |
pleading the baby act" after they were beat !
en-. They certainly had no right to substitute |
Mr.. Foster or any other person as the head of |
their ticket for second race. If 1t is true, as !
some of the FOsterites claim, that Capt. Adams |
won the victory in the first campaign, then he |
was entitled to the honor of The second victory; |
if, on the other hand, he was defeated. that |
ought to have been an end of it. and neither he
nor Mr.. Foster could claim the right to make
second race.
n. o. States: Murphy J. Foster, the bolter
in chief and the Rump candidate for governor,
does not feel kindly toward the newspapers of
this city, which are supporting the regular
Democratic ticket headed by Samuel Douglas
He charges them with trying to
fers to the publication of the particulars of the
ballot box stuffng in the parish of St. Mary.
The truth is the newspapers did nothing moro
than print the facts ELECTED by the investiga-
tion conducted by the credentials committee of
the Democratic convention at Baton Rouge, |
when the protest from ST. Mary was considered.
If Mr.. Fosters character has been blackened,
the backing came from the testimony of DR.
Wise DR.. Saunders, Mr.. Gusman and other
prominent citizens of Mr.. Fosters home parish
whose evidence stands against him undisputed
and unattached. The newspapers have never
ATTEMPTED to blacken the character of Mr.. Fos-
ter, and if he feels that it is besmirched, he has
only himself to blame for that which, after all,
is but the very natural consequence of the st.
Mary outrage in the perpetration Of which he
was caught red-handed.
article opposing all compromise and particular
y the submission of the two State tickets to
white primaries, said that there are " thousands
Of pure democrats " who would not vote for
Samuel ID. McEnery if he was the nominee of
" twenty democratic conventions.' Since then
The Foster State committee has unanimously
adopted basis OF settlement by which the two
wherein it is specifically agreed that g the per
SONS thereon receiving the highest number of
votes for the respective offices shall be the
nominees of the democratic party of Louisiana,
and shall receire its united rotc" Therefore, if
the Foster ticket is defeated, as it probably will
be, the New d, ltas % thousands Of pure demo,
Gratis" (" will be specifically bound to vote the
binds all participants in primaries,
but i'll this case the pledge is put down in black
and white The New Delta and its thousands
If pure democrats" must make up their minds
hat ticket or abstain from the primary eec-
lions.