Natchitoches populist., 1898-04-01
The New Suffrage Law.
Times-DemOcrat.
|. 1t is undemocratic.
2, 1t is un-American.
). 1t is unconstitutional.
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special privileges to foreign-bor
citizens denied to natives.
5. 1t will divide the white vot
and bring disaster to the Demo
cratic party Of Louisiana.
6. 1t will inaugurate a ney
movement for the repeal of this IN
wise suffrage.
Z. ut will breed discortl, dis
content and revolution and encour
age strife and turmoil
8. 1t is an insult to the people
having been adopted in defiance OF
their wishes as expressed at mass
meetings and through the press.
9. 1t is an insult to our Senators
and to all our Democratic friends
in the Senate, who were unani.
mously of opinion that the ordi.
nance is unconstitutional, and who
advised us against adopting it.
10. 1t will bring the Louisiana
question again before Congress and
the courts, and stir up anew the
troubles we escaped from in 1868
1877.
III. 1t may reduce our congress
sional and electoral representation.
II. 1t buries the poll tax, leav-
ing it behind as mere humbup
with which to trick the people.
13. 1t is framed against the IN.
terest OF the people and for the
benefit of the politicians, to en-
trench the city bosses in power and
help the country politicians.
IA. 1t brings in as voters the
hoodlums. hobos, vagabonds and
criminal classes, granting special
to the undesirable mass.
as, who ought to be ostraoised in.
stead Of enfranchised.
70. 1t IS, as the Shreveport pa.
'ers declare, Gil advised" sob.
ectiOnable," "Of1ensive"-"a Pan.
lora box that will bring all manner
It ills to Louisiana"
These are a few of the fatal de.
ects in the suffrage ordinance to
which the Shreveport papers call ,
ttention. There are many others ,
hat could be added to the list. I
nd there are still others that will |
ONE to light should the ordinance t
yer go into effect; but the simple
lets that it may involve Louisiana
another struggle with the United Y
tates government, that it will di.
lie the whites and split up the g
'emocratic party, and that it will =
reed "discord, discomfort and - =,
'volution," as one of our Shreve- u y
)rt contemporaries suggest, are I, +
nple reasons for its reputation. y,
All the Shreveport, Monroe, Bat i
Rouge and Lake Charles dai.
IS, the Picayune, States and Item. {,
I'd nearly all the weekly papers p
the State agree with the I'D.
the above statement of facts, ~ ~,
1t 1t remains to be seen if they
We the courage to fight the boss ry
10 holds the whiphandle, and for p1
lose benefit this fraud upon ras. sl
llty was perpetrated. ~
We told them this would be the N m
suit when they sent a convention ec
lawyers down there. Every ma
vyer wants an office, and all Eos. OF
had to do to control him was lei
promise him the use of the "ma. NV ~.
me" long enough to get that of: hr
, "s
But then the administration IS pc
Il backed by our dear Enterprise, ye
| who shall stand against it! ~ ~,
Such an ordinance will satisfy on oa'
Democratic party in this State
which includes the respectable tn,
lte people of louisiana" says ri'
neighborly Enterprise. OF
iy! but if that's the test, the 0o
amercrat party is gittin small c;z
Luzeranny, and hur respectable sid
,ers are gittin small and few in wh
ill! !