The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-11-20
CONSTITUTIONAL TIMER

CONSTITUTIONAL TIMER
Mr.. E. H. Farrar, the well-knowr
New Orleans attorney, has writer
a letter, which is printed below, ex.
pressing his willingness to be a can
didate for delegate to the constitu
tional convention. Mr.. Farrar is
concededly one of the ablest men
IN the State and will, if elected,
make a valuable member of the
convention. He is Democrat, a
good lawyer and pronounced adj
vocate of white rule, and being "a
man of big brains, he can not fail
to be of great service to the. people
ton. Men Of great intellectual
force will be needed to do the work
for which the convention has been
called. Wellmeaning and able men
will do good work, but men of
mediocre ability and political aspi-
rations instead Of ameliorating the
present condition will make it
worse. There are good men in this
State who should do as Mr..
Farrar has done: come to the front
and tell the people that they are
willing to help them solve the great
question upon whose proper solution
will depend the future peace and
prosperity Of this commonwealth.
The following is Mr.. Farrar's
letter.
t'Ncw Orleans, Nov. 6, 1897.
s'Hon. c. c. Cord;ll, New Orleans:
'My Dear Sir-I am in receipt Of your
letter Of yesterday asking me to permit my
name 10 be used for candidacy as a delegate
at large to the constitutional convention, and
your views the Importance of
The suffrage question. AS you know 1 have
40 political ambition, but do not regard
of the convention in this crisis
IF affairs as political Office. I hope and
believe that might be able as delegate
% the convention to do the State some SER
rice, 1, therefore, accept your suggestion
md put myself in the hands of my friends
est would be particularly gratifying to me
o be put forward for this position and to be
by the friends of my youth in my
I'D home. They have always followed my
:areer with Appreciation, and the dearest
of my life dwell where theirs |
lwcll.
''1n my judgment the suffrage question is |
he only issue before the people. All others |
re of Infinite littleness when compared with |
his. When the convention meets it should, |
n my judgment, appoint other commit
ees except one on suffrage, and should not !
iscuss or consider any other subject until |
he suffrage clause is formulated and finally |
dopted.
''My views on this question have been
in pamphlet largely distributed
throughout the State. am welded to no
Ian; but am welded to a purpose, and
hat purpose is to lay the foundations of
Official peace and purity in this State by
Eliminating the negro from politics. To
eep our civilization from Authorization we
ave resorted to force and fraud until we
eel that the remedies we have applied are
lmost as bad as the disease. Twenty
ears of negro suffrage have convinced me
lat we shall never be able to reconcile the
egro in the South, because his social in
incts fundamentally at war with ours
olored man who politically supports that
arty, to which the white man in mass be-
'ngs, as traitor to his race. This is the
Jason why he clings with fetish-like devo-
on to the Republican party which promises
i'm to trample under foot the prcjudices of
lie Saxon race, and to make him the polti-
Il and social equal of that naughty and
people.
''We have before us but two paths to fol-
w. One is domination; the other is mis-
genation. The latter we shall not and
i'll not take; and, therefore. we must press
'ldly along the former, and disqualify the
gro as far can under the Federal
institution, both suffragan and office
older.
81 am quite sure that the views above '
pressed are those entertained by large
ajority of the people of Louisiana. Yours
ny truly, EDGAR H. FARRAR.'
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