The Lafayette gazette., 1893-06-10
A CARD.

A CARD.
,@The Railroad Element in Local
Politics."
Under the above caption the edi-
tor of the Lafayette Advertiser pro-
ceeds to commit a rape on common
decency. And, inasmuch as have
served my time as a railroad fire.
| man, and having spent the greater
part of my life in association with
| railroad men, I consider it family
right to answer that editorial of
May 80, 1898. I understand the
editor of the Advertiser and author
! Of this article to be Mr.. A. G. Ord
! way, and with him we are dealing.
He says: "Until the present time
the Advertiser has refrained from
| taking sides with either of the par
ties who were candidates at the last
! municipal election. But the events
of the last few days have left no op-
ton in the matter, and we believe
it is now our duty to call the atten-
tion of our people to the writing on
! the wall, that they may fully real
ize the menace to good government
, contained in the action Of sohue of
the defeated candidates..
1t is strange, but true, that when
, ever the devil wishes to accomplish
dastar rdly deed through one of his
; agents, he gets that agent to lay his
foundation upon falsehood, and the
editor of the Advertiser keeps as
close to the record as the bark to
! tree. and we consider it our duty to
tear off the mask from this assassin
of character. and, in as few words
as possible, because when the editor
of the Advertiser wrote the above
! quotation ke knew it to be as black
falsehood as the sulphur smoked
regions from whose vaults he re-
ceived the inspiration.
A short time before the election
the editor of the Advertiser came to
to me, and said s' I am doing all
I can for the success of your ticket,
in fact I am doing indirectly that
, which will do you more good than
if it were done directly. For ms
tance, I have inserted extracts
taken from an exchange that are
complimentary to you, and will
continue to do so. Bcsiass this,
! through my influence I haze pre0e,zf-
ed tie -/o,mafion of third ticket
which means and would be the de-
feat of your ticket" Utalic ours.)
Look we'll to the quotation marks.
How does that tally with his declar
alton of neutrality7 Yes, the hand
writing is on the wall, and the index
finger points to the editor of the
Advertiser as being a liar or a hyp-
ocrite. Which does he choose
Then he proceeds, Qook we'll to
the quotation marks): t'The official
returns of the election showed that
those gentlemen who now hold their
commissions were elected, and the
defeated candidates should have
abided by the returns, and we be-
lieve they would have done SO had
they been governed by unselfish and
patriotic motives and desire to adj
vance the best interest of the town."
Great Scott "Upon what kind
of meat has our Caesar No. 2 fed
that he hath grown so strong7"
What twaddle about the best inter
est of our town! What brazen ef-
frontery for a man who, but few
months ago, characterized some of
the best people Of our town and par
ish as being a set of ignorama, be-
cause they were opposed to the tax
to build railroad to Abbeville.
But we digress. Every man on
the Mouton ticket is property
owner in this corporation, and
never since the Morgan road was
built to this place has a railroad
man been requested to assist in a
public enterprise that he refused.
In fact they have been the very first
to aid by private contributions every
Improvement in our town, and the
feathers of this bird of passage are
too short to be permitted to charge
such people with selfish motives and
a disregard for the interest of Lafa-
yette.
We claim to be a peaCeable, law
abiding citizen, and since filling the
office of city marshal, there has
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