The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-04-10

selves to carry it out in subject
and effect.
Fifth-The Commissioners to he
appointed by both sides are to en-
ter into the spirit of this agree
ment.
Sixth-Thc leaders of the two
parties Will discountenance any eff
fort on the part of the people of
any of the wards or the candidates
for ward officers, taking any adj
vantage of legal technicalities or
informallties in the election of such
officers as are to be voted for in
the different wards by the people
of the wards. This however, not
to be understood as waving the
requisite for legal qualifications in
a candidate to hold the Office for
which he may be voted for.
Seventh-We the undersigned
candidates for Office in the parish
of Natchitoches, at the coming
election on the 21st of April, 1896,
hereby agree to the above and fore
going. and obligate ourselves to
abide by the result.
Elghth-The Commissioners to
he appointed as soon after this
agreement is signed, as possible.
l read it and was satisfied, and
SO stated to Mr.. Scarborough. The
next morning l saw Mr.. Porter,
and told him | was ready for the
agreement, let us sign. He said
he was going to see Mr.. Phanor
Breazeale, and would be back in a
few minutes. When he returned,
the document was revised by put
ting in the words, "and intention"
in the fourth clause. Still was
satisfied with the revised edition.
Mr.. Porter and myself immediate
ly took step to carry out the agree
ment. We went to Red river, In
front of Mr.. Sompayrac's planta-
ton to see representatives of our
parties. Mr.. III. Raphiel, a Dem
ocrat, came across in a small skiff
AMI conferred with Mr.. Porter.
| was unable to see any represcn-
tative of the Populist party, but
sent the a greement by Mr.. Raph:el
to Messrs. Hathorn and Lowe,
who were upon the opposite bank.
A few days after this Mr.. j. w.
Brown received this telegram from
his father: ''DOes Brian, Henry
and yourself, approve of not let
ting the negroes vote : Is the
measure Populistlc /! Answer. To
this Mr.. j. w. Brown sent the
following reply ''Pay no atten-
ton to that type written docu-
ment."
/ must say that l tried to per.
suade Mr.. Brown not to send the
telegram to his father. However,
Mr.. Brown argued that the Popu-
list had offered to the Democrats
a white primary and they hal re-
fused, and now he was unwilling
to enter into an agreement to viO-
late the law, when a chance was
given to the Democrats to carry
out the same ends and not violate
the law. He says he had no de-
sire to vote the negro, but he would
enter into no agreement to violate
the law. He further said that the
Democrats expected to beat our
Senatorial ticket by voting 2000
negroes in DeSoto, and rs the Pop
lllst were on record as favOrlng
white supremacy, he would pay no
to any measure where he
lad to enter into an agreement to
violate the law. l must say, that
believed Mr.. Brown right in
principle, however, from cxpedi-
sncy, / tried to get Mr.. Brown to
,ign the agreement. ! told Mr..
Brown that he knew that we
had at least 700 majority with
he white people in this parish,
md let us receive this majority by
/ fair election.
/ was afraid of the negro vote.