The Progress., 1894-10-06


! ed until they became self sustaining
9 this was done; but, bless your sou
t after the party has protected this il
J FAINT industry until it is q hundre
years old it is still crying for it
, "Cncle Sans" till and wont be com
forted.
We Horse river Democrats ar
willing to give these dependents"
> fair revenue on their sweetening 70
a while, in order to wean them of
from their glutteuous raving ate
the peoples tax money, if they woul.
accept the situation; but they can
be satisfied, they want the whole
world, alt1 are now bowling abouI
New Organs holding prayer meet
ings; swMrinc each other out of the
old Democratic party, and swearing
into thc' black and tan protection
party, in search of bribe-money fo1
making sugar. In these bowling
meetings tIIey stand upon tip-toe aud
double sweir that if Governor Foster
don't give them fair election and
an honest count, they will count out
every Democrat in the State and
turn the white people and State over
to the negroes. This kind of rot"
makes u North Louisiana Democrat
tired" The truth is these sugar
crat "nabobs' are like spoiled chill
dren, and have been half Republicans
all the time. and the main stake that
has sustained the Democratic party
and kept it in power in this State
was the votes of we piny-woods
"Simond-pures." Why, sir, the votes
and influence of these sugarcrats
would never be felt and the old Dem
ocratic party would still hold down the
Baton Rouge State house as usual.
See!
The only thing that effects my
feelings and pride about them leav-
ing the white mans party is for our
race to be mixing up with such as
Demas, old Bill Harper, Pinchback
and ''sitch." But if they prefer this
kind Of stock to our kind, WHY, let
'em 20 and mix.
But I say to you, Cal, privately,
that our boys in this part Of the
woods has had a meeting, and swore
to die, or hurt somebody, before they
will submit to negro dominancy
again. Negro rule in this parish has
played. 1t was buried IN 1876; it's
funeral preached; its epitaph pro-
claimed; so lot 'em rest.
Suppose we piuy-woods, one-horse
cotton farmers, who work thirteen
months in the year to make Scent
cotton, would get our congressman,
Watkins, to ask Uncle Sam" to give
us 2-cent bounty to protect our cot
ton aud encourage us to raise more
What would be the "out-put' of such
a request? Why, bir, every marshal,
sheriff and constable that could be
mustered, would he put on our
track and we would be hunted down
as SO many lunatics. Haven't we as
much right to handle the bounty
bags as the sugar men? The princi.
pie is the same aud is all wrong.
I don't like to complain Except
"agin" dry droutb) bnt when I see
Democrats, who are Democrats for
Doodle and not for principle alone,
then Ivy ticket is to rid the party of
all such cattle, and have them read
out in front Of the courthouse door,
That's what's the matter with the
party now; too mich new-fangled
doctrine injected into it under tn.
guise of Democracy. The present
Democratic party needs q purgatlve,
to rid it of all Office seekers, dema-
gogues, bosses and sickly Democrats.
| acknowledge the party is kinder
shook up, but want you to make a
calculation las I am not good in
tigures) and tell me how many will
be left after you get rid Of the kind l
have mentioned.
Yours till death,
.. BILLY SMooTE.