San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-29
THE SUNDAY LIGHT.
NIGER THROUGH AND THROUGH.
FrOm the Sew oreIeans states.

official address that is of very de.
cided interest to the people Of
louisiana. When the sugar
planters of southwest Louisiana
bolted from the Democratic party
and set up what they termed a
national Republican party, based
on the single issue OF being sup
ported in their business at the
cost OF the country-in other
words, bounty-lt was ostenta-
tiously proclaimed that the Re-
publican party would cease to be
a niger party and become quite
respectable and heightened; and,
indeed, the recruits to their ranks
were body OF intelligent and pa
triotic gentlemen, but who, having
once tasted OF a good big nlbble at
the public treasury, had their
heads turned by the sweets, and
could no longer see anything in
politics but "bounty." But the
Ethiopian cannot change his sin,
nor the leopard his spots. The
republican party is in this year OF
1895 just as thoroughly niger
party as it was in 1868, when 1t be-
gan its career of plumber, oppres-
sion and insult through negro
votes under the protection OF
Federal bsyonets.
We have carefully gone through
this labored and stilted address OF
the republican State Central Com
mittee. We find the white man,
white civilization, free conserva-
tive institutions in it nowhere.
We find the niger all over and
all through it. The address Is inn.
properly headed. "To the People
of Louisiana" 1t ought to be
headed can Appeal to the negroes
of Louisiana to rally to assert
and enforce their rights to social
equality, to license and crime, and
for the destruction OF Anglo.Saxon
civilization. 1t denounces the
Suffrage Amendment as part OF a
conspiracy against the citizens,
i. g., the negro's life, liberty and
property, and declares that the
Republican party is now as ever
Jealous of that sacred boon OF the
citizen, i. e., negro, sovereignty,
and believes 1t to be Its duty to
appeal to all loyal republicans to
vote against this engine OF demo-
cratic oppression in the approach
ing campaign. In the judgement
of the committee, the preservation
of universal, /. e., negro govern
ment, and degraded suffrage are
paramount to all other issues In
the present crisis,
The outraging OF white women
is theoretically by resolution de-
nouncing in the most ferocious
terms the lylching OF negroes
guilty OF that hellish crime for
which there is no legal punish
ment sufficient.
The appeal Of negro murderers
from the criminal COURTS of the
State to the Supreme Court of the
United States is cordially Endorsed
and the course OF the red handed
and brutal assassin, Greasy Jim,
is especially approved. Greasy
Jim is a negro assassin under
sentence OF our courts and for the
simple reason that he is a negro
it applauds the usurpation of the
jurisdiction by the Federal court
of the administration OF our police
and criminal justice. 1t de-
nounces the separate ear law, the
anti.marriage law, which deprives
a man OF his senses, !. e., when de-
graded white mon seek to set up
an era OF miscregenation in our
State, the chain gang law as a re-
enactment Of many provisions OF
the ante bellum black code. And
so it goes on to the end. MOI one
OF its prounouncements touches
the interests of the white people
or of the people as a whole, white
and black. 1t is the niger, the
nigg9r, the niger, and his fancied
wrongs, from the beginning to the
end. And there is not one OF the
alleged evils or wrongs which, If
erased from our legislation, would
not give loose rein to the ignor-
ant, brutal, vicious class of the
negroes.
The ire OF the republican COM
mittee is especially directed
against the Suffrage Amendment,
which requires slight education
al or property holding qualifica-
ton to vote In our elections. This
is regarded as damnably oppres-
sive, and the right OF everything
that walks on two legs to vote is
demanded as a principle Of free
government. This demand is
made in the interest of the repub-
lican hordes, and their qualities OF
integrity and manhood are assert
ed as the ground Of this right. And
yet the whole proceedings OF this
committee were, as charged by its
own leaders, guided and controlled
by the grossest corruption. Mr..
A. III. Leonard, In solemn state
ment, declares that the members