The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1894-09-21
The Sugar Planters Denounced.

On Friday night, Sept. 18th,
pursuant to previous call, about
one hundred persons assembled in
the court house. The object being
to take some action by the demo
Gratis of Natchitoches against the
action of the sugar planters for
boiling the Democratic party. The
meeting was organized by calling
Hon. ID. c. Scarborough to the
chair and Mr.. L. =. Breazealc as
secretary. Messrs. NJ. II. Carver,
Dranguet and Fuqua, each intro
duced a set of resolutions. After
considerable discussion on both
sides the resolution of Mr.. Dram
guet was laid on the table and the
other two were submitted to
Messrs. Carver, Fuqua and Brea-
zeale, who after comforting for a
short time reported to the meeting
a set of resolutions which were
adopted by vote of twenty-four
out of the persons present, only
ten voting against it, many having
left before the final vote was taken.
Among the speakers who adj
dressed the meeting there was
considerable dissension as to where
the Democratic party as at present
constituted lis at" One of the
speakers captured the motto of the
Peoples party, Equal rights to
all and special privileges to none"
and made it hum as the time-hon-
ored principles of the grand old
Democratic party. He failed how
ever, to say anything about Have
meyer of the sugar trust, the Ma
tional banks, the money trust, the
Nova Scotia and other coal trusts,
the standard oil trust, the bagging
trust, the poverty trust of the cot
ton planter, or any other trust that
can not live without special legisla-
ton to foster them, and that the
Democratic party had been in
power for two years and yet these
special privileges continue. We
suppose the gentleman forgot to
tell us why.
When the meeting was called to
order Mr.. Z. j. Gamble introduc-
ed resolution asking that a two
cents pound bounty be placed on
cotton.
We have not the space to publish
the entire proceedings, but will
give the resolutions below which
we look upon as being an attempt
to curtail the right of the Ameri-
can citizen to vote as he pleases
Resolved, That we denounce the ac-
ton of the said sugar planters as selfish
unpatriotic, and dangerous to the best
interests of the State, as well as the coun-
try, at large, and that we wish the world
to know that the said planters do not
speak for the people of the entire State,
but represent few hundred bounty-fe d
sugar planters who have not the manhood
10 rely for their support on their own eff
forts; that the masses of the people of
Louisiana will remain true to the Demo-
cratic party, because they are Democrats
on principle and not for plumber, and we
take this occasion to reiterate the declar-
alton of the Democratic platform that
the Republican system falsely called pro-
lection is really robbery, and we go
further eand say that all protection,
whether incidental or for its own sake,
is robbery, and we will never be satisfi-
ed till every vestige of it is stamped out
of our laws and we crystalize into a
statute the glorious principle OF Equal
rights to all and special privileges to
nOne.'
BE it further resolved, That we here
by instruct our Congressman to vote for
a free trade Speaker in caucus, and to
abide by the action of the Democratic
caucus on the tariff question, and call
on all the candidates for Congress from
this district to define their position on
the tariff question in clear and unmista-
kable terms"
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