The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-10-14
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NE STAND TOG e TIER
CITY and COUWZR

1t is cheerful to read our Louisi-
ana country exchanges these days.
Coming from the cooler and serener
atmosphere of the country, they
take dispassionate view of the po-
| ljtical situation in New Orleans,
and they are naturally disguised
| with the lies with which the lack
sonians are flooding the city and
the foul blackguardism with which
| the Jack orators and journals are
belching forth. We assure our ex-
cellent contemporary, the Lafayette
Gazette, from which we make the
following excerpt, that the Demo-
cratic ticket is clean and
truly representative ticket. Most
Of the nominees are men Of prop
erty; all Of them possess the conf
dence Of the people of the wards
which they are to represent and in
which they live. The Jacks have
denounced the ticket as whole in
the vilest terms, but they >do not
dare to denounce it in detail. 1t
represents the Democratic people
of New Orleans and it is going to
be elected by a big majority 1t is
not boss ticket and it is not a ring
ticket, and the Jacks know that it
is not; but they have declared they
have no political principle on which
TO stand; that their whole aim in
good government, a profession that
every pirate or highway robber can
make No doubt old John Brown,
if interrogated before he was swung
up on the gallows, would have said
that when he invaded Virginia with
arms in a war of fire and slaughter,
that he was seeking to establish
good government in Virginia, and he
intended to do it if he slaughtered
every man, woman and child IN the
State and burned every mansion to
the ground, and having no political
principle on which to stand, there
only method Of discussion in black
guardism.
'sWe are not in politics; damn
both parties. We are for good
government only" has been the cry
of every band of political marau-
ders that has ever been organized
to destroy the Democratic party.
A party that stands on no political
principle is not a party tor good
government; it is a party for spoils
exclusively, and that is just the sort
OF party the Jacks constitute.
The Democratic ticket now be-
fore the people represents the peo-
pie; it was nominated by the peo-
pie, and it is responsible to the
people. 1t stands on the Demo
cratic platform, national, State and
municipal, and that includes every
reform that any people can desire.
We are glad to have our country
contemporaries speak. The Demo-
cracy Of New Orleans desire their
good words and their confidence.
We are going to save New Orleans
from a gang of office seekers and
political desperadoes, and we are
going to help our country friends
save the State, and together, coun-
try and city, we are going to carry
Louisiana for the next national
Demo cratic ticket, and thus help to
preserve our free constitutional in
situations.
Our Lafayette contemporary con-
cludes very excellent and soundly
Democratic article as follows:
"The Gazette will certainly not presume
to tell the people of New Orleans what is
best for them, but it does not hesitate to saw
that the success of the regular ticket in that
city is Il consummaton devoutly to be wished
by every Democrat in Louisiana. If the
regular ticket were bad as the carpinp
critics of the reformers would make it APP
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
accounts the voters of New Orleans are
taking that view of it. Everything points
to the overwhelming defeat of the Flower
ticket and triumphant victory for the reg
ulars.'
DR.. M. A. Simmons Liver Medi-