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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-09-30
Democratic Executive Com nittee

Lafayette, La, Sept. as, 1Soo.-
Pursuant to call the Democratic Par
ish Executive Committee met this day
with the following members present
and represented by proxies: Chair
man John Hahn, P. L. DeClouet,
J. Aymar Liable, p. A. Delhomme,
Homer Durio, Aurelien Olivier, A.
G. Guilbeau, DR.. NJ. l.. Lyons by
proxy, and Harrison Theall by
proxy.
Mr.. P. l.. DeClouet was APP
pointed secretary by the chairman
On motion of P. L. DeClouet the
following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That this committee
reserves the right to admit or reject
proxies to Democrats who are not
members of this committee, pro-
vided that in case of admission said
proxies be given to a Democrat Of
the same ward as the member giving
the proxy.
After the adoption of foregoing
resolution, Mr.. O. Cade was admit
ted as the proxy Of H. Theall,
member of the committee from the
fourth ward.
The chairman here stated that
the committee was assembled to ap-
point a judicial committee to meet
a similar one from Acadia parish.
Thereupon the following persons
were voted for and elected members
of said judicial committee: Octave
P. Guilbeau, E. G. Voorhies, I. A.
Broussard, Julian Mouton, John
Wilmington, A. M. Martin.
A committee from a mass meet
ing presented itself and submitted
the following petitions:
To the Honorables John Hahn
and D. A. Cochrane, Chairmen,
and members of your respective
Democratic Executive Committees
of the parish of Lafayette: Gen
tlemen-We, the undersigned citi-
zens and qualified voters of the
parish, in view of the discord in our
party and desiring harmony in our
midst, respectfully petition your
honorable bodies to unite and lend
your best efforts to bring about this
result which will insure security to
our party and restore good fellow
ship and harmony among the white
voters Of our parish.
By the pacific influence Of our
congressman, Hon. r. F. Brous-
sard, during the last congressional
convention, both factions were
equally recognized and pledged to
united action to restore harmony in
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-09-30
THE Committees &c
TON.

At the meeting of the Democratic
Executive Committee of this parish
held at the court house last Monday
a committee composed of Messrs.
Albert Guidry, w. b. Torian, Louis
G. Sicily and R. w. Elliott, called
upon that body and presented pc
tition signed by number Of voters
of this parish. The petition was
addressed to John Hahn and D. A.
Cochrane, presidents of the gre
Committees" In it was embodied
a request that s'white primaries" be
called to nominate parish and dis
trlct officers. Messrs. Grow Girard,
w. B. Torian and R. w. Elliott
spoke in the advocacy of the prop
ositions contained in the petition.
Hon. Overton Cade proposed
that the name of Mr.. Cochrane be
erased and that the petition be adj
dressed to the only genuine com
mittee of which Mr.. Hahn is chair
man, and Mr.. A. c. Guilbeau
moved that the word Democratic"
be inserted between the words
white" and ''primaries" and that
the petition be made to read "white
Democratic primaries. The gen
tlemen presenting the petition read
}lly epnaensed - the amendments
9 leesrs CAde and
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Goodness, honesty and value,
shows in the BUCKsKIN BREECHEs;
doesn't matter if you wear the
stronges: kind Of critical spitlachs,
you can't discover loose button.
a weak seam, or ripable corner or
pocket. They wear longer and fit
better than any other Jeans Pants
on earth. We guarantee this.
Look for warranty in pocket.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-09-30

WANTED-SEvERAL BRIGHT AND HONEST
persons to represent us as managers in this
and close by counties. Salary 5000 year
and expenses. Straight, bona-fde, no more,
no less salary. Position permanent. Our
references, any bank in any town. 1t is
mainly Office work conducted at home.
Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped
envelope. THE DOMINION COMPANY, Dept.
3, Chicago. Sept. 23-26t.
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To Make Life Happy.

Sweet music appeals to the heart and soul
and lightens MANY of life's burdens. If
you have ever heard the sweet-toned
STEGER PIANO you will appreciate this.
To reach the highest standard of excellence
has always been the aim in the manufacture
the best material is used, insuring great
durability. Every piano fully guaranteed.
The Steger factories, thoroughly equipped
with the best and most improved machinery,
located at Steger, ILL.,, are among the largest
in the West.
Intending purchasers will find it profit
able to write for full descriptive catalogue,
which will be mailed free, upon aPplica-
ton. STEGER & Co. Established 1879,
Chicago, Ill.
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THE CRY F/GHZ.

For all that and all that the
ticket of the regular Democracy of
New Orleans isn't as bad as the
I'D. would make us believe and
the nominees of the Jacksonians are
not all as good as that same paper
men on both tickets, but it is abso-
lutte folly to say that one is all good
and the other all bad. According
to the Jacksonians they have mono
polized the virtue of the city and
their opponents have got corner
on corruption. In our limited ex-
perience we have learned that the
virtue of community is not con-
fined to set of men who generally
style themselves reformers and who
howl fercely at the alleged corrup-
ton of other people. Between the
demagogue and the spurious re-
former there is very little difference
They are both perpetual nuisances.
They would reform everybody ex-
cept themselves. The Gazette
thinks that the tickets nominated
by the Jacksonians and the Demo
Gratis are pretty fair, and should
either be elected New Orleans will
not be at the mercy Of thieves and
hoodlums. But being a Democrat
our preferences are with the Demo
cratic ticket. We believe the de-
feat of the regular Democracy will
be unfortunate for the people Of
New Orleans and the whole State.
In few months this State will go
through one of the hottest political
campaigns in it's history and 1t is
essential at this time that the party
should be united. 1t seems certain
that the Republicans will make a
determined effort to capture the
State government at the April cleo
ton, and all who believe in Demo-
cratic principles will not lend sup
port to any movement whose sue
State Democracy. The Jackson
ians have rebelled against the reg
ular Democratic authority in New
Orleans and it is not at all unlike
that they will follow the same course
in State affairs. Should they Join
the Republicans and Populists in the
State campaign their opposition to
the Democratic party will no doubt
assume very formidable proportions
and with able men as leaders the
results may be disastrous to the
State which has made such splendid
progress under Democratic rule.
The Gazette will certainly not
presume to tell the people Of New
Orleans what is best for them, but
it does not hesitate to say that the
success Of the regular ticket in that
city is consumnatiCn devoutly to
be wished by every Democrat in
Louisiana. If the regular ticket
were as bad as the carping critics
of the reformers would make it ap-
pear such staunch journals as the
Picayune and States would not be
found among the supporters of Mr..
Capdevielle and the other nominees
of the Democracy, and from all &C
counts the voters of New Orleans
are taking that view of it. Every
thing points to the overwhelming
defeat of the Flower ticket and a
triumphant victory for the regulars.
ZAE 20 N1(/ ZI1E =
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FCR
TARIFF
ZAFA We TIE.

The matter of the proposed re-
adjustment of the insurance tariff
for this town has been decided adj
versely to the interests of the people
of this community. The petition
which was signed by the policy
holders of Lafayette and referred 20
the Southeastern Tariff Association
for consideration has met the fate
which document of that kind
always meets at the hands of a
trust. The association referred the
matter to Mr.. w. F. Dunbar,
stamping clerk at New Iberia, VIII ose
decree on questions of insurance
rates for this section seems to be
as irrevocable as the ruling of Tom
Reed in Republican Congress.
1t is bootless to dwell upon the
injustice inflicted on this commu
nifty by the insurance people and to
try to pursuade them that they are
wrong. We must bow to the in
evitable and meekly submit TO their
autocratic decision. Under the
existing laws we are at the mercy
of the insurance trust. No matter
how arbitrary its ruling we are it's
legitimate prey. There seems to
be no way out of i: for tie time be-
ing. But in the meantime we can
ind ulge in the fond hope that there
will be day of reckoning. The
Gazette would advise the people of
this town to petition the next Legis
lature for remedial legislation. Ar
kansas, Texas and other States
have sought relief in Legislative en-
actments and why not louisiana?
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L Take Any Case

Of morphine, opium, cocaine,
choral, whisky or tobacco habit,
cure it in from "a hours to- five days.
Guarantee cure. No i'll after
effects. Booklet free.
A. N. PIERCE, NJ. D.,
Lake Charles, La.
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SALVATION BY .SLAUGHzER.

.S3LIIIICN BY SL-4CCzZET.
New York World.
In an appreciative sketch of
"Gov. Roosevelt and his Opin-
ions," by Mr.. Henry LOOMS Nell
son, in Harper's Weekly, appears
the following statement of the atti-
tude of our governor on one of the
important questions of the day:
He finds himself choked by the conditions
EN- anant from prevailing commercialism
and he is impressed and governed by the
thought that the manly virtues may be
brought into their appropriate prominence
if the political life of the nation is cleansed
with baptism of blood.
An official definition Of .scom-
mercialism" is yet lacking, but we
take it to indicate those social and
industrial conditions prevailing in
times of peace and order-when
the common people are allowed to
attend to their business, to provide
for the support of their families,
and to try to make some provision
for the future.
condition of commercialism, which
is positively asphyxiating to the
impetuous soul of "fghting man"
like Gov. Roosevelt, has NOT yet
reached dangerous proportions.
According to the "Practical Socl-
ology" of Carroll IS. Wright, the
people Of this country had in 1890,
after a hundred years of CONNER
ciaiism-with an occasional bap-
tism Of blood-succeeded in accu-
mulating an average wealth Of only
81, 900 per capita 1t is notorious
moreover that this accumulation is
SO unequally distributed that the
great majority of our people have
much less than thousand dollars
apiece.
1t is very sad indeed to have it
said of the country, on the strength
of this modest hoard, that ssif 1.-THE
nation has come to the point
where it is merely CONNER
cial, then the nation
and its government are not worth
saving. =
Il II pain aliko have this. despair-s
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-09-30
Will You Be Good?

Yes, if you will quit giving me
nasty medicine and get me one Of
DR.. Kings Chill Pads. If they fail
to cure we refund your money.
$Ioo. 900 to back our guarantee.
A sure preventative. If your
druggist does not keep them we will
mail you one on receipt OF price
$I.oo. The DR.. King Chill Pad
Co., Memphis, Tenn.
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Notice.

NOTICE..
Notice is hereby given to the owner of
brown hog to come and get his property
which was taken up in my field on Mrs. ].
Revillon's place the seventh ward.
Owner can secure same by proving owner
ship and paying costs.
JACQUES LANDRY,
9TH ward, Lafayette parish.
Aug. 26-4t.
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For Rent or Lease

My farm, containing about 400 arpents.
The west end of this tract of land is about
u mile from the depot. If not leased in
one body by Nov. 1, will then be rented in
small tracts. THos. +. WEBB.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31
Immune to Snake Poison.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
st. Louis, Jan. 11.-Thirty persons,
five of them physicians, stood in DR..
Heine Marks reception room Tuesday
afternoon and saw slender young Wo-
man permit a rattlesnake to sink its
fangs into her arm twice. Then two of
the doctors collected blood and serum
from the wounds. together with some of
the venom left by the snake on the sur
face of the skin.
The blood and venom We're mixed
with warm alcohol and drawn into q
hypodermic syringe. Part of the mix
ture was then injected into a guinea
pig, and made the little animal sick. In
about Is minutes it seemed to be re-
covering, and the rest of the poisoned
blood was squirted into it. The guinea
pig was soon in commissions, and 10
minutes after the first injection it was
dead.
The physicians agreed that the young
woman's claim that she was immune
from snake poison was correct. The
woman was Eva Ardo, a slender light
eyed woman, between 25 and 30 years
of age She claimed to have been rem
dered immune by the bite of cobra in
India when child.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31

since the Chicago platform has purged
the democratic party" Democratic
laughter.)
The gentleman has admitted that he
mas been called demagogue by both
sides OF the house." replied Mr.. Mahon.
He has also been branded dema-
gosue by the people of his own district,
who have voted to leave him at home"
(Republican applause)
Mr. Cummings, DEM, N. Y, said he
hoped the treaty would be ratified, and
that then the president would notify
| congress what he intended to do. He
gave notice that he would, If given an
opportunity, offer an amendment pro-
viding that none of the troops author
lied in this bill should be used as a
posse comitatus, or in putting down
strikes or riots, except upon the appli-
cation of a governor, saying he could
not preserve order with the force at his
command.
Mr.. Mahon offered an amendment to
the section providing for appointments
in the ruarternlaster generals depart
ment, so as to provide for mental and
moral as well as "physicar' examin-
atoms, which alone was required by
the bill.
Mr.. Lands. rep, md, speaking to the
general question, contended that we
should hold the Philippines in the inter-
est of human liberty. The voice of
Aguinaldo, he declared. was no more
the voice of liberty than the voice of
Mr. johnson was the voice of the peo-
pie of Indiana
Mr.. Simpson, in support of Mr.. Ma
hons amendment, referred to the" num-
erous incompetents given commissions
during the late war, and incidentally to
the fact that Chairman HulPs son had
held lieutenant-colonelcy Under the
q annpintn1
to similar rank in the regular army
Il object he added ito creating posi-
tons for lot of incompetents who
strut about the army and navy club.
and the receptions in the west end. ar
rayed in the latest Mckinley military
millinery"
The Mahon amendment was adopted.
A series of amendments reduc-
ing the number of assistants in
the staff department was adopted
Mr.. Mahon protested against the
committee amendments increasing
the age at which persons could be ap-
pointed to staff positions from 80 to so
years.
At this point warm personal contro-
versy occurred between Mr.. Johnson,
rep, Ind, andMr. Lands. rep, Ind.
growing out of Mr.. Lands' remarks
earlier in the session.
The committee amendment providing
for 100 dentists with the rank of first
lieutenant was defeated. Mr.. Hay,
dem, Va, protested against the COM
mittee's proposed reductions in the
medical corps. But the reductions were
agreed to- They reduced the number of
surgeons and assistants from 500 to 234,
and the number of privates in the hos
pital service from 5000 to 1 $780, In all
the reduction in commissioned officers
on the staff numbered 331.
After completing the twelfth section
of the bill. the committee rose, and at
5:55 p m. the house adjourned until IL
o'clock tomorrow
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31
WILL BECOME A LAW.
The Anti Gambling Bill in the Idaho
Legislature.

Legislature.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Boise. Idaho, Jan. 3O.--The anti-g gam
bling bill passed by the house was, after
a bitter fight, adopted to-day by the
senate on it's second reading section by
section,' and advanced to it's third read
ing, insuring it's passage. An anti-eig-
arctic bill was introduced in the SEN
ate.
Chief Francis to-day arrested Jack
Hilton, alias Hill, who is wanted for
robbing the Lakeview house on Dec
-, 1896. At the time of the robbery
Hilton's partner, Albert Wilson, was
wounded and captured. Hilton to-day
made full confession, stating that
he got away with $500.
The case of Diamondfied Jack Davis,
the Cassia county murderer, who was
under sentence to hang day after to-
morrow, was taken to the United States
court to-day on a writ of habeas cor
pus. Judge Beattie denied the writ
and an appeal was taken to tho circuit
court at San Francisco, a stay of ex-
ecution being granted. If that court
takes adverse action the case goes to
the United States supreme court.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31
SUES IN ENGLAND.
United States Seeks Recovery of $4,000
Paid for Ships Not Delivered.


London, Jan. 30.--In the Queens bench
division of the High Court of Justice to-
day the trial began of the suit of the
United States against Pelly Brothers,
ship brokers, for the recovery of 95, 800
paid them on April 81 1898, on two 600
ton Golfers by Lieutenant Sims. then act
ing naval attache of the United States
embassy here.
Lieutenant Sims testified that the ship
brokers signed a contract at midnight on
April q to deliver the golfers for e5S, 600
He added that the contract stipulated
that they were to be delivered as soon as
possible, and said that the ship brokers
promised orally that one of them would
be ready to sail in "a hours and the other
in As hours The lieutenant gave the
brokers a check for 300 at midnight
but they failed to deliver the ships be-
fore the neutrality proclamation on April
&c, and claimed that they were unable to
get the golfers ready in that time.
Continuing, Lieutenant Sims said the
check beat the records in going through
the clearing house, as the brokers secured
the money at noon on the morrow, init
mating that they cashed the check, ex-
pecting war. and that they did not intend
to deliver the GOLFERS.
Sims further testified >Aat the Golfers
were to have Joined the United States
fleet at Key West
Expert shipmen testified that the col
liers could have been ready to sail in the
promised time
The defense tomorrow will be that the
brokers We're unable to fit out the ships
before war was declared
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-31
ARSENAL STORES USELESS.
France Has Been Defrauded on Co.
lossal Scale.

lossa1 Scale.
Paris, Jan. 3O.-A great sensation has
been created here by the news current
in political and diplomatic circles to the
effect that the discovery has been made
that large stores of cartridges in sew
eral of the principal arsenals have been
tempered with to such an extent as 10
render them practically useless.
AS soon as M. de Freycinet, the war
minister, heard of the matter he at
once sent two general officers, in whom
he could place the most absolute con-
fidence, on a tour of inspection of all
the government depots. They have by
no means completed their task but the
Investigations already made have pro-
duced such startling results as to con-
firm the most grave fears.
Indeed, there is every reason to be-
lieve that had France gone to war with
England at the time of the Fashoda
crisis she would, like Russia in the war
with Turkey, have been handicapped
beyond all recovery by the discovery
too late that more than half of her am
munition was useless.
1t may be remembered that Greace's
magnificent torpedo squadron was rend-
cred useless during the war owing to the
fact that it was found after the squad
ron had put to sea that the detonators
had been removed from nearly all the
torpedoes. There is no doubt that some
thing Of the kind would have befal1en
France in the event of war being de-
clared last November.
Nothing concerning the matter has
appeared as yet in the press, save in
the most guarded fashion, but the af-
fair is the all-absorbing theme of dis
cussion in diplomatic circles, and it is
certain that when the thing becomes
more generally known, popular confi-
dence in the army will receive a still
further crushing blow, for it shows
that, in spite of the immense sums of
money that have been spent upon the
army since 1870, it's administration is
just as rotten as it was shown to be
when the war with Germany broke out,
and when the various stores and equip
ments credited to the state were found
to have disappeared, while the ordnance
and ammunition were worthless.
Meanwhile the various firms of army
contractors are thriving to such an eX-
tent that they are converting the bust
ness into joint stock companies, the
shares starting at an immense prem
ium.
Indeed. it is no exaggeration to assert
that the nation is being defrauded on
just as colossal scale in connection
with the army to-day as previous to
1870 when Baron Settlers, father of the
duchess of Sagan and of Talleyrand,
made not one, but several fortunes by
furnishing paper soles to the boots and
shoddy cloth for the great coats of the
soldiers to whom We're intrusted the de-
Tense of France
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The Beef Was All Right.

Washington, Jan. 30.-The commissary
generals office has received a telegram
from Lieutenant Colonel Abiel Smith at
Havana, concerning the beef shipped on
the Michigan, on which board Of survey
was ordered. The dispatch says:
Not pound OF beef condemned, or
thrown overheard by me. Contrary, board
called for by me pronounced beef fine
Quartermaster unloaded part of cargo
contrary to my recommendation, but was
stopped and ship held until meat could be
properly handled. My calling the board
was unnecessary but deemed a wise pre-
caution esq., SMITH"
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ON THE RACE TRACK.
At New Orleans.

New Orleans, Jan. 30.-Results: Selling,
seven furlongs-Ben Frost won, The Star
OF Bethlehem second, Henrica third; time
1:3l. Selling, mile--Morning won, Castine
second, Volandies third time, 1:451a. Mile
and observation-disclosures won, Sutton
second. Joe Shelby third: time, 2:05A
Handicap. mile-Muskadine won, Sea
Rohber second. Moroni third; time, 1:431a.
Selling, six and half Observation-Disclosures
won, Hanlon second, Fetiche third; time,
1:2312. Selling, six and a half furlongs-
General Maceo won, Borden second, Sis
ter Alice thru; time, 1:2334.