The Opelousas courier., 1894-03-31
Political Points.

~
The papers of North Louisiana are a
unit for ballot reform.-B. r. Capital
Item.
Bastrop Appeal: Unless tie Loulsi.
ana Legislature does an unexpected
thing MI: Blanchard will not sit a very
long time in the Senate.
Bastrop Appeal: We believe the Mer
Ronge Vidette is the only paper in the
Fifth District that will ask the Legis-
lature to elect Mr.. Blanchard to the
Senate.
Judge Pierson, of Na%tchitoches, Har-
ry Ogden, Of Bossier, and Judge Hall,
of DeSoto, are announced as candl-
dates for Congress to succeed Senator
Blanchard.
The treasury was b%ankrupted by the
Harrison administration. 1t was under
Republican administration that the
enormous pension debt of more than
$780, 1000, 900 a year was piled up.
When President Cleveland went out
of office at the close of his first term
he left a surplus fund of over $100 ,00O,-
900 inbthe treasury. When he came in.
at the beginning of his second term, he
found the treasury empty.
Nine Democrats and twenty-five Re-
publicans voted against the Seignior-
age bill in the Senate, while thirty-on
Democrats, ten Republicans and three
P6pulists voted in favor of it. Caffery
was one of the nine Democrats.
The Vidette will favor that the as
SCISSORS for the parishes shall be elected
by the people. The appointing power
Of the Governor is too great. The peo-
pie of each parish are competent to Sc
lect the assessor.-Mer Rouge Vidette.
Iberville South Hon. Harry Ogden
is a prominent candidate for congress
from the fourth district. He is a man of
brains and if elected will fill the posi-
ton as we'll as any of his predecessors
and much better than many of them.
He will make a strong fight.
A qualified suffrage and a new cleo
ton lava law that will make ballot
box stufing and false counting impos-
sible-are the first reforms demanded
fore we can have honest and decent
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Journal.
Telegraph Bulletin: The Hogg and
Clark factions of the Texas Democracy
have harmonized and united and at the
next election there will be a Demo
cratic majority that will make Mr..
Grows majority in the recent Penn
sylvania election ashamed of itself.
Bastrop Appeal On the Bland sci
gniorage bill the following so-called
Democratic Senators voted with the
Republicans: Brice, Caffery, McPher-
son, Palmer, Smith and Villas. These
same Senators voted with Sherman &
Co. last fall, and they ought to get into
the Republican party.
The New Orleans papers speak of the
city delegation being delivered by the
bosses to this or that senatorial aspirant
with a callousness that is a fearful
commentary on the political condition
existing in this State. How do the
members of the Legislature from New
Orleans relish it Photograph Bulletin.
Bastrop Appeal: True to his gold
bug proclivities Hon. Don Gallery voted
against the Bland silver bill last week.
Caffery is such q straight, conscientious
Democrat that he cannot find Dom on
and slobbers owe that instrument,
which is the party's compass in the con-
duct Of the peoples public affairs.
Bastrop Appeal: Caffery used to yell
like a Mississippi river calliope against
the "infamous gambling schemes of the
Louisiana Lottery )" and yet he cast
his vote in the interest Of the gamblers
in futures" and thereby aided in the
perpetuation Of a custom which does
the people of this country more harm
every day than the Lottery did in a
year.
Bastrop Appeal: We repeat, howev-
er, what we said of Boatner: I'm all
the twisting and squirming which have
been INDUCED in by fawning, boot lick
ing, cuckoo statesmen since Cleveland
called Congress together in extra ses-
sion, Mr.. G. j. Boatner has stood like a
brave and faithful soldier BY the orders
given by, his masters-the people," As
long as he does that he will make a
The Natchez Democrat, speaking of
Congressman B0atner's candidacy for
the Senate, says Of him !: "He is an
able, broadminded, liberal, conserva-
tive gentleman, as we'll as a staunch,
earnest and true Democrat, and if the
Legislature should see fit to place the
senatorial mantle about his shoulders,
the people of the state of Louisiana
would have u to blush by
reason Of any Of his actions in the
United States senate, but on the other
hand would have there a man, a states
CUES in the highest branch Of Congress-"
The Baton Rouge Advocate of a re-
cent date contained an assertion that
Hon. Charles J. Boatner bolted the
congressional convention
of 1886. This charge has so often been
refuted that it seems strange any rep
utable paper pretending to be inform
ed on the political history of the State
would repeat it, but there is hardly any
limit to the questionable methods Of
the partisan to besmirch an opponent.
In this instance, however, no harm can
result except to the Advocate. The
is unworthy OF it.-Telegraph-
1t would be interesting to know ex-
actly what Senator Caffery's position is
on the financial problems Of the day.
When he voted for the unconditional
repeal OF the Sherman act he declared
in the Senate that he was taking a posi-
ton which Louisiana Democrats did
not endorse. Last week he had his vote
recorded against the Bland bill, which
ID simply a measure to obviate the alb
necessity of issuing another batch
Of interest bearing bonds. Now just
why he voted against the bill is one Of
the interesting bits of information
which Mr.. Don Gallery might, in his
moments of languid leisure, give the
members OF the Louisiana Legislature.
-Bastrop Appeal.
Tho nnlu rinhnc = mnn anfrall nnnas