The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-11-10
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A-OuAS1AAA ASluAnS Sclt&A uCi0Sd-
ton to the Fifty-fourth Congress.
There has never been any reason
able doubt that Boatner, Ogden
and Robertson would be reelected.
But at one time the coalition be-
tween the Sugar-teat Republicans,
the old carpet baggers and scala
wags and the negroes seriously
menaced Democratic ascendency in
the First, Second and Third dis
tricts of the State. Happily for Lou
isiana, the result has been com
plete and humiliating defeat of the
iniquitous coalition formed to sell
out the Democratic party and the
honor of the State in consideration
of bounty on sugar,
Meyer, Buck and Price, the Demo
cratic candidates in the three sugar
districts, have been elected to the
lower House of Congress by large
majorities. Louisiana has answered
the Sugar-teats with a stroke of
lightning and clap of thunder.
In this State, no combination, how
ever wealthy and respectable a con-
tingent it may have, can again re-
store the reign of fraud, rapine and
brutal ignorance. No man will again
represent any of the Louisiana dis
tricts who is in favor of, or in
league with, movement, the ten
dency of which is to revive the ne
gro as a political force, and who
proposes, for a mercenary consider
alton, to support the party of cen
tralization, of force bills, ssnigger-
ISM" high taxation, bargain coun-
ter politics and governmental pro-
figacy.
The Democratic party has been
defeated in nearly every direction.
But, thank heaven, it holds its
power in Louisiana, where it was SO
seriously and vigorously assailed.
Noble State! Land in whose bosom
our ancestors sleep, under whose
skies our eyes first met the light of
day, your honor and interests are
safe in the keeping of the Demo
cracy, and may heaven bless your
fields in the valleys and on the
hills with bountiful harvcsts and
your marts of trade with uncxam-
pied prosperity.
The Sugar-teats are threatening
to contest the election of Meyer,
Price and Buck. Defeated disas-
trously by the people, in their hun
ger and thirst for bounty, wrung by
an Ubiquitous system of taxation
from the earnings Of the American
people, they now propose to go be-
fore the next House, which, it ap-
pears, will have a Republican ma
jority, and appeal to that body to
trample upon the will of the people
of Louisiana, and seat these beaten
1t is quite probable that
the Sugar-teats may induce a Re
publican body to disgrace and be-
foul itself by perpetrating such an
outrage. Mr.. Coleman is quite COM
petent to take a leading part IN
such a scheme. He has had large
experience in that line of business.
When he was in the Tom Reed
House, he assisted, with alacrity
and skill and with eminent success,
in defrauding fifteen of the De-
districts of their legal re-
and, in defiance of
Justice, law and honor, seating in
their stead defeated Republican
such as he himself, ker-
and Beattie now are.
The sugar-teats thus have in their
own ranks an expert in the thimble-
rigging process of unseating Demo-
Gratis and thus making Republican,
victories in the House of Represen-
tatives out of Republican defeats by
the people. And besides Mr.. Cole
man, they will have as advisers and
friends Bill Chandler, Grandma
Hoar, and other old radical free
hooters, election cheaters, thwarters
of the Southern public will, and
waivers of the :tblood yshirt," and as
active co-partners of Coleman, such
Northern Representatives as Tom