The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1896-01-25
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| Whenever there is State election
approaching in Louisiana the old
time carpet bag scalawag and niger
buzzards hover in our skies and
gather on our back fences, in our
alleys and musty old halls. They
come from Washington, from South
America, from New York and doz-
ems of other localities to which their
starvation through Democratic rule
has driven them. 1t is said the buzz
card has no sense of smell but that
he has an eye keener than that of an
eagle, and can see the carton or the
dead or dying beast from an im-
mense distance. It is well that he
has no sense of smell; that is a wise
provision of benevolent Creator.
If the buzzard could smell he would
no longer be a scavenger, and his
use in the economy of nature would
be nil. The carpet-bag, scalawag
buzzard, on the contrary, has both
a keen eye and well-developed
sense Of smell, and when his eagle
eye discovers the coming of po-
litical campaign in Louisiana his
olfactories are quickened and de-
lighted by the odor of the Niger,
and hence he comes in his flight
from every section of the country in
the dim hopes of renewal OF the
feast of plumber and rascality he
aourished on from 1868 to 1873.
The buzzards are here now in all
their force, and are quite jubilant.
They realize that they have never in
many years before had SO fine an op-
Lortunity to gorge themselves as
they have now. No doubt they are
rejoicing over the prospect of negroes
in the State House, in the country
court-houses and in the Offices of
bonds and taxes. Even company
of eagles. that erstwhile were their
most relentless enemies Rave put
their theological handkerchiefs
to their noses and are actually flock
ing with them.
But alas for the buzzards, their
day is ended, and ended forever
The white-winged spirit of Democ-
racy and White Supremacy is in
vincible, and though the old time
carpet bag bazzard and the old time
scalawag cormorant be joined by
TIE new-time bounty grabber the
whole flock must !sgit up and git"
The white Democracy Of Louisiana
is going to rule the State, and neither
buzzard, nor cornaorant, nor bounty
grabber can prevail against it.
Rejoice, ye young married men!
For one year after your nuptia!s a
lcad-pipe cinch is yours. Read!
A letter was received yesterday by
Judge Ferguson, of the criminal dis
trict court, from one of his fellow
judges of the civil district count,
and establishes new and eff7cacious
method of lodging jury duty. Here
it is: ''My Dear Judge:-Mr. --,
one of my sons. has been summoned
as juror in your court. I beg you
will excuse him from jury duty, in
voking in his behalf the exemption
provided in verse S, chapter "a of
Deuteronomy, Donay Bible: when
man hath lately taken a wife, he
shall not go out to war, neither
shall any public business be en-
joined him; but he shall be free at
home without fault, that for one
year he may rejoice with his wife. ,
The freedom thus granted will not
expire until the 10TH Of the coming
month, and he claims it from a just
man and God fearing magistrate. -
The relief prayed .or was granted.
Times Democrat
In speaking of the lady who is soon to
! marry ex-President Harrison, New York
correspondent of the Chicago Times Herald
says: s'The axiom that little men incline
naturally to tall women is shattered in the