The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1892-06-25
The Lion and tspe lamb.

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compromising aud vindictive of the
McLottery press gives vent to its
venom in the following unmistak'
able terms:
Just as we expected. the lion and
the lamb have lain down together,
the lamb, of course, inside of the
lion. The cry of the Fosterites has
been for harmony and they have
got all the harmony they demanded
and pretty much everything else.
According to the terms Of the reuu-
ion of the Democratic factions, en-
tered into at Baton Rouge yesterday,
the McEneryites recognize the legiti.
macy and binding authority of the
Foster State Central Committee,
while the Foster fellows agree to
stuff the Committee with a few Nc
Eneryites, and finally the delegation
to Chicago and the presidential cleo.
tors are to be composed of equal
numbers of both factions.
And so we are harmonized, and
the logic of the harmonizing process
is that the Lafayette compact be-
tween the Fosterites and Farmers
Union was q wise, honest and Demo.
cratic one; that the .himble rigging
process by which the Fosterites sub
sequently tricked the farmers ont of
the greater part Of their award, vas
shrewed, but honest and Democratic;
that the bolt of the Fosterites at
Baton Rouge was proper and strictly
in line with Democratic usages; that
the Young Returning Board was the
correct thing, and must henccforth
stand as sacred, in the eyes of Lon.
isiana Democrats, as was the sacred
bull at Egyptian Memphis; that the
disfranchisement of $500 Democrat
ic votes, for the purpose of enabling
the minority to rule the majority, is
now a settled Democratic precedent;
that the counting of over 10000
Leonard negro votes for the Foster
ticket to defeat the McEnery ticket,
is cordially ratified by the McEnery-
ties, and finally, that the McEnery.
ties for two years past have been
doing the largest amount of lying
and slandering on record.
These are the resultant PROPOSE
tons of the harmony that has come
about between the Foster lion and
the McEnery lamb, preceded by the
lamb rubbing himself under the nose
of the lion, begging the lion to swal.
low him. The process has been
complete. There are. it is true, a
few hairs of the lambs tail protrnd-
ing from the jaws of the lion; but to
all intents and purposes the lamb is
gone up.
For a lamb that 'inended to be
swallowed. nay. that finally begged
to be swallowed, the McEnery ami.
NAL has o remarkable record. For
many months it was, to all appear
ances, as ferocious as The ravenlng
Foster "lion. going about seeing
whom he might devour somebody"
1t bleated as Justify as the lion roar.
ed. 1t unfolded its tail and waved
it to the winds, a veritable gonfalon
of battle. It stood up on its fore
legs and then on its hind legs, and
it butted and kicked at everything
in the pasture with a ferocity that
was terrible in deto witness.
But it is o gone up animal; it is o
busted" sheep and has retired from
active business, on it's own behalf,
to subsist in future on such crumbs
as in his contempt the lion may
choose to drop from his ravenous
jaws. Indeed, it is now as week as
the lamb that Mary had.
It was q fierce fight; it was q
Jolly ripsnorting humbug ofa lamb;
it was and is a rousing, bowling,
roaring, contankerous, bully old lion.
Ha, ha, ma. Ladies and gentlemen,
friends all, excuse the hilarity of our
mood, for the outcome is enough to
make a horee laugh.