The Opelousas courier., 1896-03-07
Can't Make Monkeys of Them ALI.

The executive committee ct the Peo-
Piles party Of Calcasieu has passed res
luti0nS censuring the state central com
mittee of that party for attempting te
place at the head of tue ticket the naiDc
of IL Republican candidate for Cover
nor" and pledging its undivided sup
port to A. B. Booth for governor. The
Populist organ at Lake Charles. the
New Road, is also supporting Booth.
These men make GREAT mistake
in opposing the Democratic party,
which has given the State nearly twen-
ty years of good government. and is in
a position to do ever better in the flu
ture, but they at least are standing up
for principle.
Another Populist who declines to be
m ade a monkey of to pull the chestnuts
out of the fire for the bounty grabbers
is Mr.. r. P. Webb, a leading citizen of
Claiborne parish, who went through the
reconstruction era. In a recent letter
he says:
at looks very much like our State Central
Committee has bartered or attempted to trade
us off, 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 Popu-
lists in Louisiana to believe that they, after
four years hard work, fighting for and defend
ing principle, will now surrender to the men
and political party who tried, and who sue
ana from 1868 to 1877. Would to God we could
ever be relieved and could forget the wretch
edness, the misery. the woe we suffered and
had to suffer during the dark days of recon-
struction in Louisiana: but we cannot forget
the Louisiana Republicans rObbing our State
treasury, paying no attention to the constitu-
tional limit of our State debt, but plunging
our State into millions beyond the limit, the,
then, as now, ignorant, recently enfranchised
negroes tEHng many offices and seats in both
branches of our Legislature. When murder,
When we were denied our political rights.
when our mothers, wives and daughters lived
in continual dread and fear. When our neigh
were handcuffed and dragged from their
homes, their wives and their children, into pris-
on cells, there to suffer and wait until a trial
In o United States court could be had. All this
AID mufeh more we had to endure. This being
the cadb let me ask, is there outside of our State
CentrahCommittee, a white man who suffered
with uE more than the %tortures of the damned
from 1868 to 1877, who can say l have forgotten,
yea, forgiven all in the past. and am now ready.
with my vote and influence to help place the
Louisiana Republicans again in power in our
white man, or even q man with q white skin On
him, who has gone SO far down the scale of hu-
man depravity that he now unblushingly says,
I am in favor of and shall vote the present Pop
u!ite ticket socalled.
Eve are not slaves, nor are we brutes con-
trolled by a few men known as the Populite
State Central Committee. Then in the name
of freedom, in the interest OF our party, both
State and National, in behalf. of our great
State, in defense of our principles, in the pro-
lection Of our wives and daughters, and in be-
us to the Caucasian race, to free Institutions.
to ourselves and to God, let us assert our free
dom and tear to pieces the damnable plot got
ten up to dump the POpulist party of our State
into the lap of gold-bngs, high tariff and silver
sugar bounty men and negro Republicans. Away
with, and to hades with all such dirty, foul,
filthy, Shiny, v%iliainous, cowardly combines,
and let us stand by our regular nominee, A.. B..
Booth, and for principle"