The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-04-04
Capt. webb on the Combine.

Can't. Webb on the Combine.
Capt. r. P. Webb, the nominee OF the
Populist party for congress in 1892, pub
fishes in the Guardian-Journala lengthy
letterto the Populists Of this State, in
which he arraigns the present combine
in emphatic language. The following is
an extract from his appeal to his party
to repudiate the combine:
1T looks very much like our State con.
trail committee has bartered or attempted
to trade US of, but we are here to tell
them, il SO. they can not deliver the
goods. We have too much faith IN the
honesty and integrity of our brother
| Populists in Louisiana to believe That
they, after four years hard work, fighting
for and defending principle, will now sur
render to the men and political party
| who tried and who succeeded in African
izing poor, oppressed Louisiana, from
| 1865 to 1874. Would to God we could
ever be relieved and could forget the
wretchedness, the misery, the woe we
suffered and had to suffer during the
dark days of reconstruction in Louisiana;
but we cannot forget the Louisiana he
publicans robbing our State treasury,
/ paving no attention to the constitutional
limit of our State debt, but plunging our
State into millions beyond the limit, the
then, as now, ignorant, recently eniran,
chised negroes filling many offices and
seats in both branches of the legislature.
When murder, rape and arson were OF
common occurrence; when we were de-
MED our political rights; when our mo-
theirs. wives and daughters lived in con-
tinual dread and fear; when our neigh.
bors. our sons, our fathers, many OF
whom we're handcuffed and dragged
!, from their homes, their wives and their
children, into prison cells, there to suffer
and wait until trial in United States
} court could be had. All this and much
more we had to endure. This being the
case, let me ask. is there outside our STATE
central committee q white man who sui
: fered with us more than the fortunes o
9 the damned, from 1865 to 1874, who car
n say, have forgotten, yea, forgiven all u
the past, and am now ready with my vot
= and influence to help place the Louisian'
Republicans again in power In our STATE
y God forbid that there should be in on
= State white man, or even man with
white skin on him, who has gone 80 IA
down the scale of human depravity tina
q he now unblushingly says, l an IN favo
y Of and shall vote the present Popuii'
a ticket, 30 -calIed.-
I'VE are not slaves, nor are We prutt
~ controlled by few men known as tn
ISL Populite State central committee. The
30j in the name of freedom, in the lntere
~ of our party, both State and national,
4, behalf of our principles, in the prote
~ tion of our wives and daughters, and
ne behalf of an abiding duty or obligatit
a resting on us to the Caucasian race,
NO free institutions, to ourselves and TO O
q. God, let us assert our freedom and te
- to pieces the damnable plot gotten up
dump the Populists of our State INTO {
lap Of goIdbugs, high tariff, silver, sug
80 and negro Republicans. Away With. a
VI to hades with all such dirty, foul, filtf
Sc Shiny, villainous, cowardiy combines; a
j let US stand by our regular nominee,
all B. Booth. aud for principle. Let us &C
tend and fight, and to that end let thu
be State convention called as alrea
OF asked for at Monroe, La, and when 81
es- convention is assembled, as was once 81
IF by our great Washington on the eve o
II big battle, let none but Americans
~ placed oD duty tonight; we say let M
m but true Popuiists be nominated for
it'll position on our State ticket, and tn
To weak kpeed Populists nominated at Al
- andria on the 9Th of January last
given a position on our State ticket,
sue have not boldly spoken out against
the aforesaid wicked combine. let them G
In where they belong with the kePu
eed caus).