The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1896-01-04
TIE NIGGER on Tor.

The Republican State Central
Committee has issued an address to
the people of Louisiana. The Ca
zette. has always commended that
Louisiana Republicanism did not
and could not mean anything but
negro supremacy. Three are, no
doubt, many white Republicans
few of whom are excellent gentle
men living in this parish-who are
opposed to the supremacy of the
that party because they believe in
its doctrines of protection aid cen
tralization, but, unfortunately, those
men have little or no influence in
the councils of TIE party, 4 fact
which is made clear by the charac-
ter of the address of the State Cen
trail Committee.
We have read this Republican adj
dress to ''the people of Louisiana
and we dare say that for rank i'm
pudence and as an appeal calculated
to arouse the passions and preju-
dices of the. negro, it will compare
favorably with any address ever is
sued by the Radicals during the
palmiest days of reconstruction.
This remarkable address is full of
niger. It is niger here, nigge'
there, Niger everywhere. There
isn't word about the white man in
:his whole niggery document. l.
should be read by every white man
in Louisiana, for it will show, better
than anything else.. what we are to
expect of the Republican party
should it get control Of the State
government. 1t should convince the
most skeptical that white man has
no business in the Republican party
as it is constituted in Louisiana to-
day. 1t is for the niger first. last
and always. In short, it is in favor
of putting the black man on top and
the white man under.
= The outraging of white women by
negro brutes is one OF the themes
that the committee dwells upon. 1t
denounces, in bitterest terms, the
good white people for lynching the
black monsters who are guilty of
the most horrible of all crimes. The
Republican party of Louisiana is
guilty of many things to be ashamed
Of, but taking up the cudgel for the
duskY ravisher is the most villainous
of all its infamies. According to
this address it would be their policy
to hang or send to the renitentiary
every white man who would dare lay
his hands on a black ravisher of
white woman.
There is in the parish prison of
Orleans a negro under sentence of
death for the deliberate and unpro-
voked assassination of white Po-
liceman. This negro is the no.
to.ious ssGreasy Jim," who would
have been hung years ago had JUS
tice been melted out to him. Be-
cause this red-handed murderer is a
negro and his victim is white man
the interference of the federal
courts in his behalf is warmly en-
dorscd. The Republican committee
is not satisfied with defending negro
ravishers of white women, but it
its assistance to negro
of white men.
The committee is also especially
DESTROYS of compelling white ladies
and white men to ride in the same
cars with negroes, regardless of the
odoriferous qualities of the African
lily and the midsummer he-coon on
a warm July day. The anti-misceg-
nation law is denounced and the |
inter marriage of the two races is
approved.
The suffrage amendment, whose
adoption means the disfranchise-
ment of the bulk of the negro voters,
IS fercely attacked. The right of
TIE negro to vote is held sacred,
when it is an established fact that
with a pint of rot-gut whisky the av-
=ragc negro voter can be bought
half dozen times.
With such principles enunciated
BY the recognized representatives