The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-10-12
KEEP THEM orr THE
DECK

The DEM cratic Executive Com
mittee of DeSoto parish has ordered
a primary election to be held on
the 18th of November to nominate
parish and ward officers, at which
call known Democrats, regardless
of color, will be permitted to vote.
Are the Democrats of DeSoto so
weak in numbers that they must
call on the negro voter to help
them ? or have they reached that
stage when they will 10 anything.
no matter how wrong, for the sake
Of office
Democracy in Louisiana means
white rule, or it means nothing, and
If that supremacy of the Caucasian
race guaranteed by Democracy, can
not be maintained without the ne
gro vote it is not worth having.
Where is the boosted white
premacy of North Louisiana when
the negroes are solicited as brother
Democrats Have the sturdy yeo-
many of that section left the
Democratic party and joined the
Populists in such large numbers
that the leaders of the only white
mans party are begging the ne
groes' assistance?
What a disgusting spectacle
The Democratic party of a parish
actually asking the negroes to be-
come members an: help nominate
candidates. 1t is to be hoped that
DeSoto will find no second to this
policy. People who
desire political utilization with the
have no business in the
Democratic party. They should
not be admitted as Democrats, or
the Democratic party is no more
what it has always been-the only
political organization that afforded
shelter to the white man of the
South.
What beautiful piece Of consis-
fglse While ~e are abusing the
asblicans for aff7iiatink with the
colored man, here is body Of men
styling itself a "Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee" Going the very
thing which we find so reprehensi-
bic when done by the enemy.
Will these black voters, whom an
Shreveport paper calls
<efaithful and steadfast negro Demo
cratic friends" take a hand in the
selection of delegates to the Demo-
cratic State convention If they
are good enough for primaries, are
they not good enough for delegates
and If they are good enough for
delegates are they not worthy of
being the nominees7 Would any
one think of inviting a big, black
coon to his table and
not allow him to partake Of tne
dinner Surely not.
Are we on the eve of having two
factions in the Democratic party
one liiy-wh;te and the other SCOT !
black7 Even the bounty-fopped |.
refuse to admit the |
colored brother io their ranks. !
They know the communicating influ- |
ence of Sambo's political associa-
lion and his malodorous scent when
crowded together in convention.
md be it said to their honor, that
they will have none of him. A /
negro" is physical
His very color is
He could not be a !
Democrat il he would, and he
would not if he could. He is in
stinctively a Republican and he
would be base migrate if he were
not.
Is it not fact that sswhite supre-
macy" is the rallying cry of the
Democratic hosts in every cam
paign Is it not true that were it
Tot for this fact the old Democrat
c ship would sometimes come
mighty near wrecking7 But as. long
IS the white people know that on
,cr deck there will be none but
white hands she will have smooth
sailing. We say. let her sink it
but keep the negroes off
he deck.