The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-12-25
LAFAYETTE DEn0cRAcY's
THE cOMBLNE.

THE COMBINE.
Opelousas Clarion.
The niger Republican Party met
in New Orleans last week and, as
per Pre-arranged programme,
s.coonjined'' with the Populists on
delegates-at-large to the Constitu-
tional Convention. The ruling
spirits of the meeting were, as
might be expected, the same herd
of thieves from whose clothes
Louisiana had to be rescued with
the blood of her manhood, and who
are now trying to get back into
power on the backs of the Popu,ists.
After putting out the ticket, COM
posed of nineteen Republicans and
seventeen. Populists, they passed a
series of resolutions, some of which
we desire our Populist friends-we
mean the good Populists-to con-
sider- We want them to see to
whom their leaders have promised
to deliver the honest Populist vote
of this State; we want to know if
they can support a ticket which has
on it men of this stripe, and yet
claim that they favor the rule of
the white man.
The first is a resolution passed by
the meeting which .snominated" the
Republican-Populis ticket:
esWhereas, w. S. Wilson, in an
incorporate speech delivered before
the committee of the Boothby
meeting, held on the night of the
ed inst, at Screwmen's Hall, de-
clared himself in favor of a consti-
tutional convention for the avowed
purpose of DISTINGUISHING the COL
ored voters, with which class he is
identified; and
Whereas, such utterances of the
said w. S. Wilson is in consonance
with the teachings of the local De-
mocracy and inimical to the funda-
mental principles of Republican,
ism."
And, whereas, w. S. Wilson was
kicked out of the party because he
favored the disfranch1sement of the
negro.
Here is another resolution passed
by the same people at another
meeting:
t.Whereas one w. S. Wilson did,
on Thursday, Dec. 2, while speak
ing before the Boothby self consti-
tuted committee, with emphasis,
that he (Wllson) longed to see the
day when the suffrage amendment
would pass; and,
ssWhereas, said amendment will
disfranchise more than two-thirds
of the negro race, thereby robbing
them of the legitimate right of the
elective franchise"
Mr.. Wilson received another
patent-leather under his frock.
In another resolution, adopted
by the same meeting, Henry De-
mas, the black scoundrel recently
appointed naval officer, was en-
dorsed as follows:
ssBe it resolved, That the thanks
of this body be rendered President
Mckinley for the appointment of
Hon. Henry Demas as naval officer
at this port. We further thank
the president on the wisdom of his
selection and the regard he has
paid to the wishes Of the Republi-
cans of the State. We endorse the
leadership of Hon. Henry Demas
and admire him for the fearless
stand that he has at all times.
taken to preserve the interest of
the regular Republican organiza-
ton.
ssBe it further resolved, That we
re-affirm our confidence in the
ability Of Hon. Henry Demas to
use all honorable means to secure
to the Republicans of this State the
maintenance of their right of suf-
frage, ETC."
Populists, these are the people
with whom your leaders have com
bined to carry the State against the
white Democracy. Think well be-