The Progress., 1894-10-20
Official Journal Caddo Parish Farmers Union
SHREVEPORT LA. OCT. Is, 1894.
ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE.

inec, defeated Mr. &. d. Hicks. "J"f
fersoniss Democrat, "Qty over 5000 ma
jority. Flow much OF d majority vii
the regular Democratic nominee in thu
November election have over Mr.. Bal
lie, the Third Sartys candidate fo1
Congress in the Fourth District. y
Shreveport Cauca5iar, October 10?
Our attention was directed to thi:
a unkind and untimely reference to az
election, the recital of which shOulC
cause the cheeks of all honest people
to blush with shame.
" This unmanly allu$ion had escaped
our notice as we never dreamed thai
our home contemporary, with whom
we thought oIH relations were abso
lutely friendly, would stoop to boast Of
the robbery OF one Of the most sacred
rights of that one whom-by outward
appearances-hc Processes to regard
with friendly@r&tccm. In the first
place the assertion that Mr.. Ogden de-
feated Mr.. Hicks by over 5000 ma
jority Is false, and we are forced to be-
lieve, Intentionally so. We say this
because it is a boast of the Caucasian
that it keeps posted, and if that aSSer-
ton is true, 1t must have known that
it was perpetranng a falsehood when it
stated that Mr.. Ogden defeated Mr.
Hicks @ over 5000 majority.
To begin with the official returns
Ia mockery that they should be de-
nominated suchl - show Ogden 1921,
Hicks 1888 votes. which gives the
former a so-called majority of 1928
This to begin with shows that the
JIcasian has prevaricutcd BY at least
ZIP, and as many more over that 5000
as it means hy its ''ovcr 5000 ma
jority."
In the second place the ballot boxes
nearly everywhere except in the first
seven wards of CaddO, and the ma
jority of precincts in Webster parishes
were most OutragcOUsly stuffed for Mr..
Ogden, and everyone with the Sense Of
a flea knows it. This we are forced to
belize the Caucasian knew, as we have
always given its editor credit for hay
ing more sense than that insect In Bos-
sier parish this fact was nosrious, the
commissio and citizens thereof and
Mr.. Hicks having had several laughs
over the aft II: while the dispgtch of
inquiry to Messrs. Ogden asd Treze-
want or to one of them. from AleXan-
dria on the evening of the election
asking, chow many do you need has
become a standing joke. We think
we can prove by Mr.. D. B. Langford,
editor of the Gibsland Gazette, and
Mr.. w. Lee Wilson, OF Mapsfeld, that,
while on our way to the last press con
vent0n, and standing on the hotel gal
Iery at Cheneyville, the editor VI TIE
PROGRESS was told that one box in
Rapides pariSh-BlyOu Rapides We
think it was callcd-whose CFOting
strength was Is at the fullest limit.
had returned 800 for Ogden and
against him, at the election. This was
told by citizens of Che9eyville we be
lieve, and all, Mr.. Hieks included, en-
joyed hearty laugh at his expense.
And yet these political robbers,
robberies as wanton, opA 0and
unrestrained as were ever con-
mited by Jessie James, the Caucasian.
a paper which pretends to support and
advocate ballot reform, indorses by i'm
by boastiny of majority,
the far greatest part OF which, it must
know, was obtained by the deepest
fraud and most fragrant deprivation OF
ones most sacred rights: the dcbauch-
cry and the stutfing of the ballot boxes |
against one who in his announcement. |
in contradistinCtiOn 10 his opponent,
declared for white supremacy: and |
nearly everyone OF his 1888 votes being
cast by white men, which his oppon-
,nt's real majority, about | 200 at the
almost and many that went to make
The vote equal, was pnt IN by negroes.
minors, strangers. some being present
IND really voting and some not know
ng that they were being voted, being
lbsent attending to their private du-
les.
We had made up our minds to let by
zones be bHgones. and would have done
D had not the Caucasian haunted in
ur face the deeat which was accom-
lished by such cowardly, unmanly.
ishoneSt methods; and we shall brand
ne falsehood every time this con-
'mptib]e act is paraded as something
boast OF, no matter who the acto T.
lav be. 1t is enough to be robbed: it
lould not be expected that the vic
N would con ient willingly to allow $
lie act 70 Da bDastad nf and claim FL; /, .