The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-01-22
The White Mans Party.

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refu,es the charges that the Democ-
racy of Louisiana depended on the
negro vote to save it from defeat
and it shows that by strict white
vote. the State is Overwhelmingly
Democratic:
lust after the State election ID
1909 some pseudo statlstican with
more regard for sensation than Tor
fact and with the object in view to
d;scredit the democratic party In
Touisiana. announced that the
negroes had saved the Democracy,
and that out of 25 white parishes IN
the State 20 of them had registered
pluralities against the Democracy.
IOf course, this libel upon the
Democracy of Louisiana was speedily
refuted by bare reference to the
facts in the case as exhibited by the
official returns of the election, but
the lie, palpable as it was, had
doubtless served the purposes OF It's
author and the populist press and
baranouers never tired of telling
their readers and hearers how the
very existence of the democratic
party depended upon the negro vote.
To one who investigated for himself
: it might have appeared a trife In
consistent that the populist papers
, and speakers should make such
charge as this and then howl at the
same time against the efforts OF the
democrats to cut off the negro vote;
To one of an inqulring turn OF nina
. 1t would have at once occurred tnat
e If the democratic party depended
II upon the corrupt use of the negro
e vote for success at the polls the best
II thing populist could do would be
to cut off the negro vote and thus
kill off the democratic party. BE,
At fore the populist orator had reached
: this point in his alleged argument,
'' his logic had become cloudy and his
re discussion too lofty to be disturbed
to bv any such trifles as consistency OF
e. reasoning, and he never quite reach
< ed the point of answering the cues
IN ticn.
Many of the honest members Of
that party who were animated ny
10 sense of principle in what they did
T. discovered at once this joint IN III
~ armour of the populist fretenslon
I'M and they did whole lot of thinking
I'M on their own account, the result o
k which being that democratic dele
,at gates have been returned eiecte'
~ from almost every populist parish II
~ the State. The honest members 0
eo that strangely deluded party saw
glance the shallow subterfuges tina
had been resorted TO by the corrur
m leaders of the populist party t
IN again deceive the people and the
err resented it with vote which mus
les have made the aforesaid polite;
40 hichwaymen and sandbaggers tren
~, BILE in their boots. Their inconsis
,'A ency was SO glaring and the refue
rs of lies they had constructed was
ere clumsily put together that hone
populists everywhere resented II
reflection upon their Intelligent
in and buried their leaders deep b
lin meath an avalanche of public indi
to nation and contempt.
his In the light of the results OF Il
- election on Tuesday what comes
W. the nigger combines cry OF t
lea' negro vote being necessary to sa
line the Democracy? The negroes d
ecls. not vote on Tuesday, hence acco.
can ing to the claims of the popuil
;sb lungwbangers the result ought
have been an overwhelming popul
victory. 1t was distinciiveiy
white mans election on Tuesd
mus and according to the claims IL
on have gone forth from popullst
Hall tbority, a decision of the questl
Rus by white men meant regular V
rayy LEV of Jehosaphat affair for
room democrats. Was this the case Iu
day? For answer we have but
u refer to the returns as CLEANED fr
peo- the dispatches to the newspap
res from every parish in the State,
we're ginning with Acadia and end
with VIM. In all save scant
dozen parishes, perhaps, an arou
lack and thoroughly in earnest Caucas
:, sentiment has torn the mask II
the hypocritical party's pretensl
lcnei and exposed to public view the
d tenness of the populistic schen
rdict The white man was heard from
and Tuesday from Dan to Beershe
nnre from one end of Louisiana to
Az, other, and wherever he has spo
49, the story has been the same.
mis- He has assaulted populism in
rged native fastress-in Jackson, in
(. coin, in Union-and wherever
forces have been joined popul
nver, has been sent heels over appel
ut in He has met the republicans wi
vsps- they thrive most luxurlously-
~; Plaquemines, in st. John, in lie
'na'' bonne-and in every encounter