The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1896-02-01

41lVD THE GAZETZE.
In the last issue Of The Advertiser.
=. .Democratic Voter informs % that
the peoples Ticker simply signi-
6es candidates chosen by white
Democratic voters in meeting as
sembled, but not by few politi-
clans, of6ce-holders or ring. This
definition is rs ludicrous rs it Is alb
surd. Everybody knows that the
parish executive committee ordered
white Democratic primaries ON the
I4th of December when two-thirds
of the white voters of this parish ex-
pressed their choice at the polls
and nominated the ticket printed at
the head Of this paper. and every
one is aware of tie fact that the So
called Peoples Ticket" is the
choice of that acrobatic institution
known as ssthe committee" the
leading members of which are not
of6ce-holders, but inveterate Office
seekers whose insatiate desire to
serve their country is painfully evi
dent. When "<Democratic Voter
intimates that the regular Democrat
ic ticket has been chosen by a STEW
politicians, of6ce-holders or ring''
he is simply declaming through his
old hat. Such :, statement sounds
50 much like ajote and is 50 abso-
lutely at variance,with the facts that
it needs no RECITATION. Had our
anonymous friend said the stPeo-
pies Ticket" was patched together
by a handful of would-be politicians,
used-to-be bosses and ofice-seekers,
he would have hit the nail squarely
on the head.
If the Democratic ticket was
chosen by politicians and Office
holders" as intimated by The Ad-
vertiser's correspondent, there must
be De,y large number of Office
holders in; this parish (1zoo out of
the 1900 voters nominated that tick
ETY. and with so many Offices to be
filled, our esteemed friends, the
Googoos, must be terribly unpopu-
lar that they have not yet succeeded
in being elected to any of them.
It is surely not because they don't
try, for like the patriots of old they
were never known to fail to answer
to their country's call.
We are told that the gentlemen
forming the s'People's Ticket have
always been true and tried Demo-
Gratis from their Infancy" If they
we've baptized with the holy water of
Democracy, it is high time for their
political godfathers to be doing
something. If they have been Dem
ocrats for so long time greater is
the crime they are committing
against Democracy by running on
a ticket which is neither s'fsh nor
foul"
They were probably Democrats
''before the young editor of The
Gazette saw the light of the sun. u
There is nothing strange about that.
But having been Democrats SO
many years, they should be &C
quainted with the duties of Demo
crat and the principle of Democra-
cy and not allow their names to ap-
pear on so-called ssPeople's
Ticket" especially at time when
all the enemies of Democracy and
white supremacy have combined fol-
the sole purpose of defeating a
Democratic governor and electing
in his stead Republican.
If they were young and unac-
quainted with the political history
of this State since the war and had
not sheen true and tried Democrats
since their INFANCY" their present
undemocratic course by utterly dis
regarding Democratic authority,
might be excused on account of
their age, but having been Demo
Gratis s.before the young editor OF
The Gazette saw the light of the
sun" and having actually grown
grey in tie service of the grand old
party, their action to-day in leading
an independent movement is mex
cusable and incomprehensible.
We repeat we have the utmost re-