The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1899-09-23
mR DENEGREs THE ALL-POW-
EgFUL HAND.

Daily States, the only strnight-out
Democratic paper in the City of New
| Orleans that has not been on inc
.fence,n shows up Denegre ana his
Jacksonian movement in its true Hght:
Like the cu,tle-ish, which lashes the
water in which it sWlms until the lnh9
dcp,hs arc turned upon the surface ana
hide its presence, the Jacksonian lead
ers are laundering aud railing ut the
rot,pnness of the regular ticket IN Inc
bone that their own real aim III the
present local political contest may be
concealed from public eye. Let US not,
therefore, lose sight of the genesis OF
This Jacksonian movement. lest we are
fooled into the idea that it is the IN
spiration solely OF sincere desire Tor
honest municipal government, ana NOT
u wild scramble for office. Let US bear
in mind that behind all this clamor for
n good ticket lie not alone an assault
upon the present Democratic State ao-
ADMINISTRATION, bat also the welfare OF the
carefully nurtured ambitions OF 1r.
! WalterD. Denegre TO warm seat IN
tho United States Senate.
The Jacksonian movement now At
tempting IN this city to capture our
municipal government is the same ID
name end identity as the Jackson move
ment born in Rayville on July 3. The
same men are behind both. The same
source Of wealth are providing the
siucws of war for both. Both. if sue
cessfu, mean the loss of Democratic
| prestige in Louisiana. Both II mol
| COMPOUNDED in defeat. mean the promo
0 ton of the jolilical aspirations OF Mr.
Dcnegre, who may possess all the emi-
nent qualities of availability and lead
ership which bis admirers claim SO
fondly for him. but who. We submit, is
:. not. in the most liberal construction OF
: the term, true Representatives OF the
0 Democratic prrty of Louisiana.
We do not believe that Mr. Deuegrs
: when he launched the Rayville fiasco
entertained The most remote idea ,shat a
campaign against the regular party IN
y the New Orleans municipal contest
- held out any prospect of ultimate sue
= cess. But we do believe that Nir.
: Deneere aud his friends. carried away
by the belief that there existed antago
II. nisms 10 Gov. Foster and his admins
te tration which needed only wise leader
g. ship to whip them into an iDvlnclole ah'
be composite whole, did feel that the Ray
Vile meeting would rally the State un
- der their spotless banner of political re
form and lead to revolution pre-aes
!. tined to success The Rayvllle move
N. ment, however has fallen lanentabl
~, fiat, The Democratic party has re
nv seuted it to man. 1t has found SUP
port in no single quarter of the State
- and there is no record in our politics
movement 80 quickly and so utterl
In. repudiated by the people to whom
ice appealed. Il won no recruits accom-
to plished no purpose and was notewortb
only because If showed the strength
the sd n;inistration in the sober though
- of the State.
TX Realizing then that their CAREFUL
,or conceived plans stood in fair way
complete annihlation and the only hor
en- of rehabilitation lay in a successf'
lld municipal contest in New Orleans, M
,ta Denegre and his friends hit upon tt
happy idea of launching a sanity cr'
'eh SADIE for the control of the city govern
'od ment, under the thinly disguised pie
his that the regular party was hatchlng
deep-laid conspiracy to steal the Gil
Hall and carry off with it as piund
the S14 ,0O0, 900 which the people hs
rat voted for drainage and sewerag
~, Even that campaign enlisted no enth
w sasm. Public interest was torpid al
the refused to believe that the local Dem
tie. cratic party was band exclusive
or composed OF petty thieves and publ
- plnnderers And II goes without sa
tai, ing that if the Grand Opera House co
TO vention had avoided some OF the sma
hor err blunders which, out of excess OF co
fdence. il committed, the Jacksoni
movement would he to-day what it w
q fortnight ago-a hopeless and inco
eg- sequential minority of diegruntl
ito office-seekers aud ambitious POLITICAL
0 Unfortunately, however the Ora
De Opera House convention, in sol
not minor particulars. laid itself open
,bt attack, and thus it gave to the JAG
!, the scant material upon which tn
he' have since been building high hopes
sti- victory.
and The temporary imitation of JacksC
hu ian hopes promises an early collap
~ however. The sudden rush OF acc
sions to tho Canal street headquart'
has ceased Sober second thought
the revising opinions hastily formed WI
the Democratic ticket was announce
'no The ungracious lies against Mr. Cap
fol- vielle. now melting away as the sun
ula- truth is shed upon them.' are reactl
ooe upon those who, if they did not iaur
them, gave at least tacit acquiescel
ana in their circulation. The Democra
900 ticket. under the light of closer insp
,hn. ton, has proved, ifnot perfect at 10
ticket of more than average quail
COZ and strong enough to bear favora
aud comparison with any which the opp.'
,aal. lion may present. In the two mont
os campaign now upon us, the ticket
grow steadily in favor, nominated o
,00O was in open convention of the pl
IT, people. On November z. we have
doubt it will win.
Yet this recent impetus to the ia
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