St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-05-07
Still Dancing with the Bear.
Baton Rouge Advocate,

Baton Rouge Advocate.
Let us see what the farmers have Civ.
Ell and gained thus far in the campaign
which has just ended in what they be.
lieve TO be a glorious victory. First
let it be remembered that they furnish
ed the whole sustaining power OF the
grand conspiracy of broken faith and
fraud, and they alone made success pos
s!ble to the politicians. Aud yet there
is not single result attained, which is
not in direct antagODlsm to the pur-
! poses and objects of the farmers. PEI
contra, we find Mr. Adams prospec-
lively in possession Of the office of secre-
/ tary of State, Mr.. Lafargue at the head
! of an inefficient public school system
and Mr.. Pickett in the treasury, but all
! of these cont ined have not got the po-
! litical power of one single police jury.
! The birtlrigbt Of the alliance has
| been sold for a mess OF pottage, and
/ this is all the return for the fuss and
fury, the sweat and toll Of two long
years, for all the pharaphernaIia of
lodge meetings and the mystical mon
key business Of grips, secret signs and
passwords.
The new regime will leave all this be-
bind. For example, Senator Gibson is
the type of the directing power that is
to be again in Louisiana politics, and
the senator is in open hostility to the
farmers movement as it has been given
expression in the alliance organization.
He is a lawyer, as all his political friends
are, and yet one of the great objects of
the alliance was to curb he power and
influence of that class in local and ma
tional government. Nearly all the law
yers in the State were in the grand dem
ocratic revolt, and their ascendency in
State politics is absolute and complete.
These, with the banks and railroads,
the syndicates aud corporations in gen.
eral, were to be taught a lesson, but i'll
stead OF that we find the farmers sad
died and bridled for four years ride
under the same old whip and spur
against which they so loudly protested
two years ago. If the lolDy-handed
sons of toll doubt the truth of what we
say, let them come to Baton Rouge
within the next ninety days and see the
lobbyists of all sorts and sizes put in
their fine work on legislation and the
political favor of the new admiuistra-
ton.
The cohesion of the democratic party
has been destroyed - and for what?
Let the honest truth he told-merely to
get Mr. Foster and bis little coterie of
lawyers into power, with the control of
election machinery for it's perpetuation,
with all the silk-stocking and plutocra-
tic adjuncts that mock the farmers with
husks of place, while the privileged
classes take and keep the power and
patronage OF office. The alliance has
been ignored ; the noble objects of the
order" are subjects of derision; cotton
is six cents pound; land is a drug on
the market, and taxes are to be hi CHER
than ever. The McEDery democrats
have got control of ali the large towns
and cities in the State, where alone |
here is prosperity and progress, while
the Foster administration must lord |
it over a heggarly waste in the rural |
districts. This is to be the price paid |
for joining the politicians in their cru
SADIE against free speech and free
Dress, and helping them to break faith
md stuff ballot boxes to gain an unloly
victory.
The bear is still dancing with his
partner, and the same finale will again
,e the result.