The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-21
Political Points.

In Kansas, tue electlOn returns SHOW
that wherever party lines were drawn
the Republicans made heavy gains.
More women voted than ever before.
Mr.. Cal. d. Hicks, editor of the
Shreveport Progress, has announced
himself an independent democratic can
didate for congress in the fourth dis
trict
Judge Davey knocked out the Foster
Fitzpatrick combination in the first
round when he laid out Murphy in the
second ward last Monday.-Monroe
Tclcgraph-Bulletin.
Many women voted last week in the
local elections in Colorado. Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo were car
by the Republicans, but the mining dis
tricts. as a rule, elected Populists.
The Republicans, in the election Of
April 3, in Colorado, carried "a of the 80
towns in which elections were held.
The Populists carried six towns against
90 last year, and by reduced majOrities.
"Clcveland Democrats" is what Con-
gresham Boatner calls that set OF poll
ticians in Congress who have abandon,
ed the party platform in order to stand
III VIII INC iSolACht' oShalci ""i
gan of Alabama calls them CuckOOs.
Hon. II. w. Ogden. of Bossier, ex-
speaker of the house of representatives,
will succeed Mr.. Blanchard in congress
in the fourth district. He was nomi-
mated at the democratic primaries by
a good plurality.
The better element of the people of
Nan Ir1noTc q. ~ tlct1U INDIGNANT that
| Gov. Foster should lend the influence
of the administration to Fitzpatrick to
pcrpetuate the most Infamous and OPP
pressive and corrupt government that
eve dominated that city.-MOnroe Tel
egrapll Bulletin.
In his speech on the silver bill last
October Senator Caffery said: 1.-The
horizon of nv political star is just ris-
ing" He was right and he could also
have us trnthfully remarked that it was
setting. The Legislature will put this
little star far beneath the western hori-
zon next month where it ought forever
to stay.-Farmerville Gazette.
Will Il Legislature return Senator
Caffrey to the Senate ? We hope not.
Surely the citizens Of Louisiana have
not become so stripped of their man
hood, so host or blind to their interest,
as to return this great enemy of the
people to a position where he can do, as
he has done them, SO much harm.
We expect better things of the chi
Various sons of our state.-Shreveport
Progress.
| Oates, of Alabama, it is reported, says
Cleveland told him that "the money
power had the country by the leg" On!
what a sapient man our President has
become. He is just waking up to the
fact which the ordinary American has
known for the past twenty years. 1t
Jackson were in the White House he
would seize the money power by the
throat and set the country free.-Theo-
da Independent.
The Gazette, published at. Farmer
vile, Union parish, in a political re-
| view of the situation says: 1.-THE place
now filled by Mr.. Blanchard should be
given Hon. c. j.. Boatner. He is in the
full enjoyment of strong physical and
mental vigor, las gained a. national
| reputation in Congress, and would wear
the shoes of ex-senator Eustis with
more grace than any other man in the
delegation. In ability he towers above
all Of them in Democratic loyalty he
is as true as Andrew Jackson, and in
boldness and independence of opinions
he is capable of sitting by the side of
Isham G. Harris or Roger Q. Mills.
Senator Blanchard voted in the in
terest of the people on the first impor-
tant measure that came up after his ap-
pointment, viz: The seigniorage bill,
while his colleague, Senator Caffery,
cast bis vote in favor of the gold bugs.
Webster Signal.
Being in sympathy with the gold
bugs, and having assisted in defeating
silver legislation. Senator Caffery can
not expect the support of members of the
Legislature, whose constituents are in
favor Of silver. Caffery being a gold
bug, must be kept at home where he
can do Democracy no harm.-Shreve-
port Caucasian.
NO. States: The announcement was
made yesterday that Congressman Price
would be a candidate for the United
trict Congressman is one of the leading
wealthy man. y = \ If the report
that Mr.. Price is a candidate for senate
ial honors is correct, the political situa-
ton will be greatly complicated, and it
is quite probable that the friends Of
Senator Gallery will not relish the idea
of Mr.. Price entering the lists, because
they know that the people of North
Louisiana are in no humor to allow this
section of the State to have both sena-
tors, consequently either Senator CAT
ferry must step aside for Mr.. Price or
the latter must be defeated. 1t will be
a pretty fight all along the line when
the contest begins.
Monroe Telegraph Bulletin: The lead
ing papers of New OrleaL ), except the
States, have not denounced the combine
between Gov. Foster and Mayor Fitz-
patrick, but all of them have denounced
the way Fitzpatrick has governed the
city. The combine means a perpeua-
ton of Fitzpatrick rule and corruption
and the governor will be a party to it.
Think of it, people of Louisiana!
Your governor, who was declared
elected upon a platform Of reform, ac-
tually enters into a combine with a pes
fessional politician to subject your chi.ia
city to a continuation Of ring rule, pluLN
der and oppression, and to perpetuate
his own political control with the end in
view that he may land in the United
States Senate!
More-He is willing that Fitzpatrick
should become governor of Louisiana
to accomplish it.
Ministers of grace and angels, defend
us from such a fate!