The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-30

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nor as the sun is to shine, has the
aspect of an attack upon the Demo
cratic party and the favory Of treach'
ery.
Mr.. Sholars dwells at length upon
the old charge that Gov. Foster is IN
combine with Fitzpatrick and 9TH
err ward politicians to perpetrate the
present ring rule in this city, and
challenges denial. The direct proof
of such charges is extremely difficult;
indeed impossible. But since Mr..
Sholars has filed the charge it is his
duty to prove it. That he cannot do.
We most emphatically deny that
there exists any such combine; or
that Foster is in any combine which
threatens injury to this city or in
any that is dishonorable or that he
need be ashamed of. 1t is true the
Governor has appointed some few
Ring men to office; but they stood
by him in the measures he deemed
for the pubic good; and every man
appointed had been previously elect
ed in spite of his efforts to the Leg
islature or TO some other position OF
honor by the McEnery faction. In
deed. it is a matter of fact, matter
| of recorded history, that every Ring
man in Office to-day was on the Nc
Emery ticket and elected by the exer-
tions of the leaders of the McEnery
faction. Mr.. Sholars' other charges
are just as empty as these two; they
are as sounding brass and tinkllng
symbals; they tickle the ears of the
mob of Republicans, negroes and
Populists who desire to see Governor
Foster defeated, not that they hate
the Governor less, but because they
hate the Democracy more.
Mr.. Sholars, indeed, alleges that
every Ring man in the city is advo-
eating Fosters nomination. Suppose
we grant that fact? Gov. Fosters
victory is assured, and hence the
Ring men are with him. But when
the issue was doubtful and an oppo-
sition was organizing against him,
more than half of the Ring men were
in the opposition, and Foster and the
opposition divided the honors and
support of the Ring between them,
some of the most obnoxious leaders
of the Ring against Foster.
| 1t is shameful fact in our politi,
cal history of the past twenty years
that every man who has risen by his
wisdom, his virtue and his faithful
ness to the State, to position that
made him a candidate for or the oc-
cupant of the gubernatorial chair
has been the object of this sort OF
mud-slinging. Poor Wilt, who had
not heart-throb that was not true
to our State and the DemocI attic par
| ty. was villifed and abused from the
| first day his candidacy was an.
nounced until he was stretched or
his death-bed, racked by the re
proachs of people he had served
with unfalling fidelity. Nichols,
than whom there never was bravel
man or truer heart, endured this
treatment through two administra
tons; and there is that grand ane
j noble patriot, honest as the days are
I long, in whose bosom there never
was thought Of corruption or wrong
Samuel D. McEuery: what was his
sad experience of nearly eight years
Blackguarded as if he were william
charged with every possible sin; &C
cused in the most virulent terms o
being the instrument of Ring ant
, the partaker or condoner of TIT
Burke defalcation. And now thu
batteries of abuse and vituperatio.
are being opened on Gov. Foster
And what is the verdict? Wilt
! sleeps in an honored grave and hi
bravery, generosity and fidelity ar
} still remembered by those who knew
} HIM and by the State at large
: Gov. Nichols is Chief Justice of tn
State, Samuel D.. McEnery is al
Associate Justice sitting at his side
and Murphy ]. Foster is the allnos
; unanimous choice of the Democrat.
of Louisiana for second term
Thus, while we condemn and de
: nounce the mud.slinging of thel
, enemies, we hold in all honor tn
} Democracy of Louisiana, througl
whose sense of right and justic
t these true and noble Democrats hav
, risen to higher and more distir
/ gulshed honors like the great oak
5 that take their roots in the earth
r but rear their heads higher am
l higher to the winds of Heaven.
(; All this ferocious fight against tn
: nomination of Foster is born of tn
f spirit of faction; but of factio
E whose power is spent, who's
! strength is emasculated, and whic
, has no force now but the force o
8 an invectlve.
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