The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1892-05-14
THE LOUISIANA OLTGARCHY.

of the white people of Louisiana be-
tween McErery and Foster. 89.544
votes were cast, unqnesriomablf the
largest wlnte vote ever east. OF this
total McEnery rishtfuIly received A.
557 and Foster 1887.
AT the general election, oil April 10,
the total vote cast was 177,735. Of
these Foster is credited with having
received 1916 votes, being an in
crease of 35 1876 over the vote received
by him in the primary OF March -
McEnery's vote footed up 1905, being
3.449 votes more than he received oh
March %.
Fosters majority over MeEnery on
April 10, was 30,170.
Where did he get it,
Surely, not from the 1851 white
votes cast for McEnery in the primary
of March %, since McEnery gained
3,449 votes i'll the election Of April 10,
Where did the S,479 yotes-white
votes-cast for Tannehill, the Peoples
party candidadate, come from
Surely, not from McEnery, nor from
whites who had abstained from voting
In the primary of March %, for these
S,4.9 votes added 10 the white vote
cast ut that primary would have
sWelled the white vote of the State
to the colossal total of 9S,023, which
deducted from the total vote Of IT.
735, would leave TO the Republicans
1912 votes, when it is generally ad-
mitted that the colored registered
vote, Which is rated as Republican, is
at least equal TO the registered white
votes, several thousands OF whom,
BESIDES, are Republicans.
If, as is generally believed. the s.
479 votes cast for Tannehill calne from
Fosters 1887 white votes, the white
vote cast for Foster on April 10, did
not exceed 35,50S.
Leaving aside as colored votes the
excess OF 3,449 votes cast for McAntTy
on that day, owe the 1851 white
votes he received in the primary OF
March 20, McEntIy would seem to
have received a white majority of TO-
Oi9 over Foster on April -.
Ut the Republican votes cast on
April 10, Leonard is credited with &c.
O62 and Breaux with 1902, making a
total OF only 41,074 Republican votes.
1t is reasonable to infer, therefore,
that of the 1916 votes credited to
Foster 0 April 10, no less than 43, 56S
We're obtained from the negro vote
through the plainly discernible mani
pnlatlons OF the ballot-box by the
Nichols election officers.
These facts and figures ought to
convince every intelligent man that
McEnery was, beyond question, the
choice OF tile white people Of louisa
ma, and that he was grossly detrauded
OF his nomination on March %, and
likewise of his election on April 10.
In 1888. when McEnery was squarely
beaten betole the convention by Mich
oils, ti.a McEneryites manfullv accept
ed the result and helped to elect Mich
oils.
They would again have submitted
to honorable defeat.
Now, when the majority of the white
people have been lnanitestly robbed of
their rights by the Young Returning
Board and the Nichols Election Ma
chlnery, the Fosterite organs coolly
advise tins white majority to submit
to the ontrages perpetrated upon them,
and, by SO doing, to the absolute null
LITIGATION OF Democratic principles in
Louisiana, for Democracy can only
live iii name in the clutches OF "a Pha-
risalcal Oligarclly intrencl.ed behind
the Election Machinery with which it
proposes 10 perpetuate its power and
reaace t-c once free people OF Louisl-
ana /" d condition Of dis9iaceful politI-
cal slavery!
In presence Of so lumiliatiRg a con
ditlon OF affairs, no man WHO Is proud
OF his American citizenship and mind
full OF the solemn duty 1t entails upon
him to jealousy defend the rights and
liberties it voucllsafes to him-ourht
to accept the advice.
"%iInsli,p Is always the crv Of tyrapts
and OF those who hope to enjoy their
favors.
Liberty and Democracy do not teach
silence aud Submission to tyranny. 1t
Is the teachings of Liberty and Democ-
racy that we mean to observe, and
neither tile taunts of the organs of the
Nleliolis-Foster Oligarchy, nor the
plants Of tiio timid, will swerve us
from HE tlain line of our duty in this
supreme crisis i'll the history of our
State.-Louisiana ReFiew. \.