The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-28
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Our sister Southern STATE OF
Louisiana is wheeling into line in
the Republican column.
According TO the latest dispatches
the Republican party there and the
Populists have nrade an alliance
against the Bourbon Democracy
that has so long controlled that
State. If they stand together they
will win, and Louisiana will be the
first State of all the Southern States
TO cross the line and abandon the
economic policies and traditions
that hare held the South in econo-
mic tbraldom.
Populism in the South is pro-
test against Democracy. 1t is a
protest against the exploded free
trade doctrines and teachings Of
John e. Calhoun. The interest Of
the South are the interest of the
North. And the interest of North
and South are acknowledgements
for Americans.
North and South, East and West,
the fundamental basis of the pros
perity and the supremacy of the
republic is laid on Republican lines,
and on those lines and those alone
can we win and bold our own.
That stannch Democratic jour
nal, The Opeiousas Clarion, comes
back at the Recorder, the Republi-
can and Populist crowd thusly:
The Recorder Is, as usual, sadly
in error. Louisiana is not ready to
..wheel into line in the Republican
column True enough there is a
strong probability of coalition
between the disgruntled sugar Re-
publicans, the old rotten negro Re-
publicans and the Populists in Louis
lana, which Will doubtless form a
somewhat formidable combination,
but depend upon 1T that that the
boys of the old party are equal to
the occasion. We have enough con-
fidencc in the white yeonanry of
the State, the yeomanry that ever
since the State was redeemed from
negro thraldom at the price of
blood has stood fast at the helm of
their precious prize and defended 1t
by day and by night, fighting its
battles when the storm ragged and
rocked as heroicall5 and unfinch-
ingly as when tho dove of peace
spread her wings over the land and
Gained the pillows of conflict, to
firmly believe that they will march
to victory the Democratic party and
the glory covered banner of White
Supremacy in the approaching
struggle. The old veterans are
here, and they upon whom the night
of earthly existence is about to
dawn will tell their children of the
bloody struggle and what Rcpubli-
canism in Louisiana means; of the
bayonet in the hands of negroes, of
the force bill. of plumber, of false
counting, of the appalling night
mare of negro domination which
overshadowed our fair land before a
brave people revolted and over
threw it by force of arms.
No, the Recorder Is rather pre-
vious In proclaiming Louisiana a
Republican State. There is no de-
nying the fact that the Democracy
will meet a slightly rougher path
way than it has for recent years, if
indeed the combination spoken of is
effected, but as yet there is no dan
ger.
Sometime back there was a little
move set on foot by demagogues and
such traitors as the Times. Democrat
to split the party IN twain and thus
allow the Republicans to step in,
but thanks to the thinking element
of the party, this Benedict Arnold
stroke has had its treacherous- neck
wrung off like measly cur and
flung back in the face of the trail
tors. We have reference 10 the in
lection of the silver question into
the State campaign, which would
have necessarily driven ont of the
party many sturdy Democrats who
favor the gold standard. This
plan, as our readers are aware, has
been pronounced against by 80 per
cent Of the bimetallic meetings of
the State, and the press of Louis
lana is solid against 1t, save for the
few Populist papers and perhaps
two or three so-called Democratic
extremists.
We place all reliance in our Dem
ocratic leaders, and fear nothing for
the party in Louisiana, and the
Northern Republican press need not
let the prospects of carrying the
State with their negro cohorts dis
turb their peaceful slumbers.