The Louisiana populist., 1897-08-27
POpulists are Moving.

l. OpulISUSd dIC VOtlIaS.
MONROE, La,
Aug. 10Th, 1897.
Dear Sir and Brother
AT the great Populist Camp
meeting at this place an adjourned
meeting of your State Central
Committee was held, and large
number Of earnest enthusiastic
Populists were present advising
with said committee. 1t was per-
feet love feast. We congratulate
ourselves that all differences are
healed, and that our loved party is
united and determined; that its
growth in the Union and in Lou
isiana has been phenomenal, start
ing in our State with 10000 votes
for Tannehil in 1892, and raising
it to near 10000 for Populist Sen
ators and Representatives'm 1896
that our political enemies are hope
lessly divided, both on the ques-
tion of principles and ON that of
spoils.
In view Of this encouraging stu
alton as regards our party, and of
the approaching campaign over a
Constitutional Convention in this
State in which our right of suf-
frage, citizenship and manhood is
at stake, and in which campaign
the good people Of all parties are
turning to the Peoples party to
lead the fight against corruption,
brute force and Fosterism, your
committee and its advisers present,
decided to make a grand, a noble,
a determined effort to organize our
party SO strongly and so thorough
ly that it will be invincible to the
cohorts Of fraud, Fosterism and
the devil.
This can be done. 1t must be
done. We will tell you how and
why.
Congressman NJ. W. Howard,
of the 7th Alabama District, who
is the only Popuiist in the South
who has so thoroughly organized
the party in his dristrict that he
was sent to congress, not once, but
twice, was present and gave us his
plan of organizing in detail.
This plan we have adopted, with
full confidence that it will win If
we carry it out. Every parish in
the State, and every ward in each
parish will be thoroughly organi-
zed and have their executive COM
mittees whose addresses will be in
the Office of your State Chairman
and Secretary. Every voters adj
dress and his politics will be in the
hands of your ward and parish
committees, New Orleans, Shreve-
port, Alexandria, Monroe, and all
the cities will be organized the
same as the parishes.
Money! has been raised hy yolun-
tary collections from Populists, and
two men put in the field for their
whole time, one in New Orleans,
the other in the parishes, to do
this work. More men are needed,
and as soon as we can raise the
money we expect to send them out,
and continue the ones already en-
gagged.
We are all poor. We wouldn't
be Popuiists il we We're rich, for
who, ever saw a fat dog catch q
rabbit, but we can spare q little to
assist in this, the only way OF per
manently relieving our poverty and
downing the rich nabobs who have
grown tat off our labor.
II our party has done so much
when it's organization was imper-
feet and had none at all in 24 OF
the SO parishes in the State, don't
you know we would be invinclble
with tho organization here propos-
ed established in every parish,
ward and city IN our State
Through this organization you
can have every Populist taught ano
made to understand the registra
tion and election laws, and induc
ed to comply with them. Through
| it every Populist can be gotten te
the polls. Through it the vote;
can be protected and counted, ever