The true Democrat., 1900-01-13
Remarks on Republican COn-
mit!ee Meeting,


this State: but wc DO not think that
it has yet sunk TO that pIante where
". W. Heard can be defeated for
the GOycrnorsIlip at the dictatlon
Of Ex-Governor WarmOth.
We have heard much of the
superior dignity and high standing
Of the sugar-tcat Republicans, and
we were told that their infusion i'll
to, or capture of the control of the
Republican party meant new era,
and that TIE veH0mOuS reptile had
shed its old skin and taken on a
new and brighter coat. Mary peo-
pie have been simple enough to
listen to this pleasing tale. But
stupid beyond imagination must he
be who perrISes and investigates
the meeting Of Saturday evening !
list, and who is still deluded with |
that idea. In spite Of tic protests
of the people Of the South, the
| Federal Republican administration
| has forced the most obnoxious ne
grocS into the public Offices and
there is new a most formidable
movement amoHg the Republicans
in Congress to emasculate the rep
rcscntatiOn Of those Southern States
in Congress and in the clectora!
college, which have disfranchlsed
the ignorant and vicious negro Gle
,acnt of OR electorate. This, strange
TO say, has excited little attention
or concern here; but if our people
have not gone daft, emphatic is the
IMPORTANCE Of the resolution boldly
presented to the Saturdays com
mittce by Ex-Governor Warmoth,
Inviting to the Republican stand :
ard, without distinction of race, col
or or condition, all Republicans.
This was unquestionably a summons
to the negroes; it was y bold and
undisguised admonition to the coun-
try that if "the opposition to 'Fos-
tcrisnl" should succeed in carrying
the State, the negro would be rein,
stated in his political rights and re-
clothed with the franchise.
But this is not tic most significant
incident that occurred. Mr.. Henry
Mccall, one of the wealthicst, most
refined, cultivated and high-toned
: of the sugar-teat Republicans, and
who has Eeen repeatedly urged as q
candidate for Governor by the new
breed of Republicans, fully compre
hended the scope and meaning OF
a Gov. Warmoth's resolution and
D stood up for time manfnIIy to
t combat it, and some of the members
. assure us that if Mr.. Mccall had
maintained his ground he wouIC
9 have defeated the resolution. Bu
S Warmoth was the master; he was
c the Boss of the lanyard; he welded
) the lash and he swung it high ant
o cracked it loud, and the refined an(
IL gallant gentleman from Ascension
l. who has ever heretofore stood to-
the white man exclusively, tinall,
y pulled off his coat, barred III
q !
shoulders to the masters lash an
accepted the resolution
% If this convention proves all.
st thing, it proves that though W
IN have eliminated the negro from tn
= franchise in Louisiana, the contin'
"a ed domination of the Democrat
tc party is absolutely essential to esta'
#. lish the status of the negro as
ne has been fixed by the late Dem'
is cratic convention and that the d
is feat of the regular Democratlcpar
at means the restoration Of the neg
he regime.
e'r This Republican meeting admo
- ishes every disgruntled Democrat
his duty to stand resolutely by /
ne party. When man is at the he'
l." of the condottiere that are assem-
no l0 ling and who has the audacity a
y" nerve towhip his followers in to !
''' will and compel even so splendid
gentleman as Mr.. Henry Mccall
swallow negro resolution, it
time for men who have their oN
u" W. little grievances and fancied or r'
.aS. "r wrongs treasured in their embitt