The Opelousas courier., 1896-04-11
General Notes.

1t is infinitely better to prevent the
occupation of the citidel 10y the an
dalic invader, than it is to dislOdge him,
after he once gains admission and be-
comes strongly entrenched therein
Alexandria Democrat.
Poor old Pharr, he wants II bounty to
keep the wolf from the door. Self pre-
servation is the first law of nature and
if elected Governor he will Immediately
provide for the wants of number one
and the Pops will be turned out to
Observation-Disclosures Enterprise.
The Democratic managers intend
| that there shall be :, fair and honest
! election between the white men OF
Iberia. Upon them rests the RESPONSE
biIity. They assume it and will not he
coerced 10y traitors and Office seekers
Iberia Enterprise.
Senator Blanchard said in his speech
last Tuesday that North Louisiana
would come down Red River with IL
majority of 3 $1,000 for the ticket headed
by Gov. Foster. We feel assured that
we will meet them with a majority of
$15, 900 for the same matchmaking
the Democratic ticket ii winner by
$45, 900 majority in the State.-Vermil-
lion Star.
We were told n few days z that
Pharr was a Populist. He is when IN
North Louisiana, but down here IN
South Louisiana he is Il neg%rO-iovlng
Republican and said "When | became
il Republican eight years ago, accepted
all the principles of that party The
only thing he has accepted OF the popu-
49, -, thoir srrnnrt - Nnrpnj1Iinn
Star.
The Texarkanian says This is the
way an exchange understands the new
game law: Book agents may be killed
from August ; spring poets from
March 1 to July /; scandal mOngers from
Jan. / to Dec. 81, inclusive; umbrella Dor
rowers from February 1 to November 1.
Open season all the year round on life
insurance agents and fellows who Dor
row their neighbours paper.
The history of Generals Longstreet
and Malone shows that when Southern
white men break away from the Demo
cratic party they inevitably become the
political, it not the social, companion OF
the negro. The pOpulists and sugar
planters are now yoked to the Repuhll-
car band wagon, and it won't be long
until Sambo holds the whip handle
NatcIlitoches indicator.
If there a negro in this State whoEau
read, or who has property assesseE Ia
the value of 5000 on the assessmentD "lls,
he is IL fool it he votes against tN sui
frage amendment. If that amendmen,
is adopted, the vote of such II negro
will be worth something. He will he
respected, and his vote will be secured
by arguments, and lie will not come
under the general category OF the lgno-
rant and vicious of his race, as is the
case new, who sell their vote to the
highest and last bidder.-Tewn Talk.
We leafnehat one or two prominent
planters in this parish say they intend
to vote the Pharr ticket. This Is a free
country and and every man in it has a
right to do as he pleases so long as ne
keeps within the law but in the name
of all that's good and holy, what dc
these gentlemen expect to gain by the
election of Capt. Pharre He can do alb
solutely nothing for the sugar indus
try one way or the other; he can inau
gurate no policy that will improve up'
on Gov. Fosters administration. lr
1876, when the Radicals had cleaned uI
and stolen about everything that wal
stealable in Louisiana, the State tax
was 80 mills on the dollar. To-day /
is 6 mills. Our public institutions arc
in splendid con&stion; the levee sys
TEN is better now than it has eve
been, while the States credit is prac
tically unlimited. Will these gentle,
men who intend to vote for Capt. Pharl
specify the particular sins of omission
or commission of which the Fostel
administration has been guilty Let
not the planters delude themselves il
this matter. AThey' have nothing t
gain and everything to lose by support
ing the Popufite- Republican ticket
West Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.