The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-10-03
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To the SENTINEL. -
The extraordinary amount of svm-
pathy that is expended for the clay
seeds, cowboys, anarchists, repndia- |
tors &C., by the gold bugs is m
thing truly wonderful tu behold.
just now the orators, whose brilliant
logic and burning %eloqnence is illu-
minating the dark places in Southern
Louisiana, are ~denouncing the new
election law, %proclaiming that it il
disfranchising a large number of the
white men and deprlving them of the
privilege Of casting their votes. This
is nothing more nor lpss than y DELHI
crate mistatement of the fact. -
1t is true that there are a great
number OF voters in Louisiana who
cannot read, but that does not au-
thorise the gold bug orators to char
acterlze them az fools. Because q
man cannot read 10 no evidence that
he has not common sense, OF that he
is devoid of reasoning faculties.
Every one Of them will cast his
vote, if he wishes to do SO, in Noven,-
Der, and nine out Of every ten will
cast their vote for Bryan, Sewall,
Broussard and free silver coinage.
These unletterel men know what
potatoes at five cents per barrel mean
and they know when there is no mOn-
ey in circulation what sound money
means. 49,
This hypocritical sympathy is III:
demanded by the man who Is idle one
half of his time. gets poor pay for
the time he does work, and next to
nothing tor the products that he cul-
tivates ont of the earth.
Again some OF them with long and
IL gubrions faces shed tears at the
thought of solne paer confederate vet
Grams who will be unable to vote, but
, they have forgotten that it has not
been six months since they, every one
of them, went to the polls and voted
:. against an amendment to the consti-
tuition that authorized the Legislature
\ to pass Il law granting II pension or
relief to the INDECENT, aged and home-
! less veterans.
!; The CONFEDERATE VETERANS spnrn
/; all such hypocritical rot as their pre-
: tended sympathy.
They have forgotten also, it appears
that six months have not gone by,
since they travelled all over Louisiana
swearing By all the gods of every
nation that the rivers, bayous and
creeks of Louisiana should run red
!. with human gore unless they were
: given a law by which the voters conld
) have \ fair election, a fair count and a
!, fair return. Now that they have such
: u law they swear louder than ever.
1t is not just election Law that they
= want. It IS no II fair ballot and q
! fair count that they desire. What
, they wish is q force bill such "a Nc.
kinley supported and voted for when
in congress, that gave D man, res
ponsible to nobody, the power to la
. ipulate aud count the vote of a sover-
eign state according to his own
fancy without any regard to the votes
cast. Such a law as Warmoth and
!. Kellogg had for years in Louisiana,
:. and for this purpose they have called
= Warmoth from his retirement and
made him their chief leader and conn
> sellor. -
q A report. has been circulated around
this Parish that a man who ia not
possessed of property to the value o.
q $4,000 cannot vote. This Is another
one of the falseileods that these deal
. lovers Of the lahortr and wage earn,
. ers are disseminating.
= There is no such restriction in thu
new law. These f~alsehoods are on a
; parity with the n%onsensica! stupidlt,
= of the assertion that, if the free coin
age of silver is again put III operation
"every man who has five dollars OF
hand will lose half of IT. ..tllat TIN
- silver dollar will b. worth only 81
cents" II the gold bugs would ad
i vance a solitary argument in favor 0
o their single standard, that would ben.
4 eft the poor man it might have SOM
i, effect, but solid truth will out, weigh
whole CARLOAD of falselloods and mis-
representations. INQUIRER
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