The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-10-20
TRYING TO HUMBUG THE PEO-
PIE.

The leaders of the new National Re-
publican party. the new tangled
grnwtl, which has sprung from the dis
appointment of interested parties over
the recent tariff Legislation of Con
gress. are either deceiving themselves
or trying TO humbug the people, when
they profess that the negr" question
is ii dead issue. That was the first
note oftheir campaign; they proclaim
ed that the 'nigger' should play no
part in the coming election: that they
are for white supremacy, aua IL his
| mdor II III their most zeainns con-
verts went SO far as to say shat negro
domination was impossible It's long as
one white man lived. All that turns
ont to have been fine bragadocio, for
the bre atii that uttered these words
had scarcely expended itself, when
Boss Demas had laid his political lash
on the backs of the new converts of
the Second District and compelled
| them to mtekly bow tn his will. In
the First District we have the same
story of the negro imposing his condi-
tons upon the Planters Candidate,
which were meekly accepted by the
latter.
And again, the Democratic Conven-
ton of the Third District, taking he
new Moses at their word. proposed to
let the white people of The district
decide the issues before them, and
again TIE new National Republicans,
afraid of losing the power of the negro
vote, declined the proposition.
1t is plain to every thoughtful mind
now, that they depend upon the negro
vote for success; that is their only
hope, their ~.nainstay. Without that
vote, they are absolutely without the
ghost of a chance ; without that vote,
to use an expressive slang phrase,
"they are not ia it,"
When. therefore, they talk about
not wanting negro domination, as be-
ing against negro domination, they are
either deceiving themselves or trying
to hnmbug the people. They cannot
be deceiving themselves ; thev are too
intelligent not to know better j; and to
say that they are deceiying themselves
is to class them as consummate fools,
which would be paying them a very
poor compliment.
They are, therefore, trying to hum
bug the people. and the people should
know It. They should know that an
artempt is being made to re-ihtroduce
the negro as a disturbing factor in our
politics. They should consider that
such an attempt is fraught with dire
consequences, threatening the peace,
quiet aud order of the State. They
should reflect that a return to the
means of old Ralicaiism of a few
white men in the State massing the
negro voters against the white voters
makes possible II return to the troub-
Ions times of 1868 to 1879 makes
possible a new Colfax massacre. a St.
Landry massacre and a fourteenth of
September uprising.
Les the white people reflect upon
all these things and set the seal of
condemnation upon those who would
take such risks of troubles for the sake
of their personal interests.
And let the colored people who are
now leading quiet and ~peaceahle lives
reflect upon the situation and refuse
to be made cats paws of by designing
men, who will surely abandon them
should the whirlwind rise from the
wind they are o sowing.