The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-05-08
Repub:ican-Popuiist Address.

To the White People of the State
of Louisiana
The Democratic State committee
held Il meeting in the City of New
Orleans on May 4 and issued an
address so remarkable, fale and
outrageous that it becomes our du-
ty to reply to it at once.
The statement that the Populists
and the National Republicans have
ever advocated negro domination,
contributed to negro domination or
kreamed of negro domination, is
absolutely gratitous and false. The
Populists who nominated our tick
ct at Alexandria were every one
of them white men. The National
Republican convention which in
dorsed the ticket were every one
of them white men. 1t was on
this nomination and Endorsement
without any reference whatever
to any subsequent Endorsement by
other political organizations that
this campaign was formed and
made. Every member of the Dem
ocratic State committee knows this
statement to be the truth. There
was not speech made during the
campaign by any of the candidates
or any of their canvassers, at any
of their meetings, which did not
declare the belief and the convic-
ton and the desire for the main
tenance of the white race in the
control of our government.
The strongest and much the larg-
est support received by this ticket
came from parishes where the
white people predominant, and
where they absolutely control and
dominate. The large negro par
ishcs where the white people are
in a hopeless minority, with hard
ly a single exception, were retlrn-
ed against our ticket by enormous
maiorities.
In the City of New Orleans tie
Foster fitzpatrick ring got down
on their bellies and begged for the
negro support.
Fosters friends in the parish OF
East Baton Rouge put two negroes
on their Legislative tickets to catch
the negro votes.
Negro orators were employed to
speak from the same stands with
Democratic orators, and advocated
the same cause. 1t is a well-known
fact that Cage, Wilson, Kellogg
and Leonard, of the ssnegro COM
did everything they
could to aid in the election of the
ring ticket, State and city.
1t is fact that no man dare de-
ny that every appeal and every
in the way of money
and promises were held ont to the
negroes throughout the State for
the purpose of enticing them to
The support of the Foster ticket.
Starting out in favor Of the con
stitntional amendment proposed by
the Legislature, and placed upon
their platform, they speedily kick
ed it from under them, ap0logized
Tor it and repudia.ed it. Large
sums of money were distributed on
the day of election among the ne
groes in the City of New Orleans
and elsewhere to induce them to
support the ring ticket, and thou
sands of them are known to have
lone so in various parts of the
State. The assertion that our tick
It was elected by the negro votes
e false and contemptibly malicious
N every particular.
In thirty-four parishes of the
State, having 80, 156 white vOrters,
J, N. Pharr secured 81, 66S votes.
These were parishes where the
whites are largely in the majority,
md where they absolutely domi-
nate al. d control. Also, where our
people were able to coerce Fosters
,fiicers to grant them representa-
lion at the polls on the day of elec-
lion. In several of these parishes
no negro voted at all.
In twenty five other parishes,
where the negroes have an i'm
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