Natchitoches populist., 1898-05-20
Complimentary.

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We did our ''cussin" before the
convention and warned the voters
of what has transpired. The Demo.
Gratis are doing theirs now, and
like children, whimpering over
something they did themselves
"With it's suffrage plan, its rail
way commission, its expensive ju-
dietary system and the opportuni-
ty it gives INSCRIPTIONS officials to
gouge taxpayers, it is bird. If
the Democratic party Gun go be-
fore the people with this Constitu-
ton as the platform and win, that
party must be so thoroughly en-
trenched in this State that a con-
viction for sheep stealing would
not defeat it. Louisiana leads the
South in natural advantages, sell
and climate, in an active, intelli-
gent and progressive people, but
so far as its organic law is con-
cerned it is a century behind the
times. The Constitutional Con
vention, which promised SO much,
has proved u fraud and a failure,
and for twenty years to come its
nefarious work will be Il millstGna
about tho neck of every industry
in the State. " - Lake Charles
American.
The (Bastrop) Louisiana Appeal,
edited by one of the oldest Demo
cratic editors in the State, says:
after months of political dick
ering and miserable plotting and
trading, the notorious convention,
called to write a simple chart to
guide the political affairs of a great
State, has submitted the results Of
its disgracetul gyrations to dis
gusted people. If some avowed
political enemy of the Democratic
party had asserted last February |
that the convention which met ON
the 7th day of that month would |
have made such an ignominious
failure to do what the people elect.
ed it to do we should have been one
of the first to denounce him as u
slanderer and liar.
1.-THE we'll known names on the
roll Of that conventions roster led
4 very large majority Of the peo-
pie of Louisiana to believe conf
lently that its labors would be in
he interests of the State. That
'oster, at the time the convention
assembled, was made up Of names
hat indicated patriotic efforts.
'sThe entire botch fixed up by a
of the convention is so
epulsive, so unexpected, so un-
popular, that the wise thing now to
10 ia TO take steps to get rid Of
ito stamp il underneath the pop {
lar condemnation, and to make I
Preparations for another conven- {
ion.
'Iet the Legislature as soon as q
meets next week inangnrate a !
noye to get rid Of the shameful /.
bortion born of that body which /
be Fitzpatrick ring SO boldly and '
nccessfuIly dominated in New Or c
,ans for ninety days, and whose a
rogeny the people Of this State \
isown and denounce from Arkan- y
as to the Mexican Gulf" b
The Mansfield Journal says: a
'vTruly clan it be said Of the body t
nat it did some things which it t
us,ht not to have done and left un (
one some things which it ought II
, have done. The people are dis v
ppointed in the result of it's To- T
ors. A conservative and honest l
linority tried to, keep the bust II
sss of the convention in line with
le wishes Of the great mass of the g
eople, but they were powerIess to 3
> so. ,Ehe majority had in view |
le promotion of selfish interests II
I'd they carried matters their way. EsI
here was too much political chi p
merry among themajority for them ?
look after the interests of the '
ate as a whole" Il
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