The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-04-07

Delivered at Franklin rlarch 18th, 1000.
: 1t is your duty to support the Democratic par
ty in this State in order that we may win the vcto-
ry when the battle comes in November next. 1t
is your duty for the Democratic state ticket
and for the local Democratic tickets so that we NAV
control every office within the state of Louisiana.
and that we may save the people Of this state and
her industries from the destruction with which they
are now threatened by the Republican party 1t is
the duty of every Democrat and every man interes
ted in the prosperity of this state to vote that ticket
to the end that when the Legislature to be elected
in April next shall meet in Baton Rouge and again
be called upon to elect two United States senator's
you may again have representatives from St. Mary
who will cast their votes for that valiant Democrat
who has stood between you and ruin. Vote for the
Democratic ticket, that Samuel d. McEnery may
go to the senate of the United States (applause);
vote for that Democratic ticket for this grandest of
all Louisiana's sons of this generation the most
magnificent governor this state has had, that
this, the first citizen Of the parish Of St. Mary may
be his mate in the Of the United States vote
that Foster and McEnery may be the senators from
Louisiana in the congress of the United States and
vote for the Democratic ticket, above all this that
the white people of this state may continue to gov
ern, to scatter broadcast prosperity good go
yernment; the maintenance of law and order and :
promote the welfare of the people, and upbud :
their material interests that civilization may go
progressing hand in hand with Democracy, for :
they araupne and the same in Louisiana. ZAP =
plause1 Vote that Democratic ticket both state and
locally. Don't for a constable unless he is
that ticket, because if you to hold the adj
ministration in your hands you must not surrender
to the enemies Of the Democratic party single Of :
fee in this battle Vote that ticket from top to bot
TOM Be as honest in politics as you expect those
whom you put in office to be in the administration
of public affairs And if you participated in pri-
mary, you went there pledged to abide by the re- :
suit Of it. and no matter whether you dislike the man
election day and cast your ballot for him, because :
he is entitled to it. :
Fellow citizens, when make this appeal to you, :
do not know what local application it may have,
bat | make it because know that throughout :
the parishes Of this state opponents using
every effort to elect members Of the legislature to
the end that when it shall meet in Baton Rouge :
they may go behind the returns, and in that way :
have the man declared elected your governor
whom they know will not be elected by the people.
This is time to bubble about individuals. 1t is
time to for principles, and to mantanthose prin-
ciples that may rest forever and the :
proposition advanced by those people that they
occupying neutral ground between the Republican :
party and the grand old Democratic party, and that
forever and ever in this state there may be an end
put to independent movements :
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