The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-03-31
THE FRAUD or 'o6.

THE EKAUO- or 80.
Daily States.
The band of disappointed Office seekers |
who compose the alleged Democrats con-
tingent of the Republican party are bowling
through the woods, over the plains and IN
the village barrooms of the State about the
great fraud of ninety six. They allege that
Captain Pharr was really elected in that year
by the Republicans. governor of Louisiana
but that he was counted out by q gigantic
scheme of ballot box stuf6ng, and that by
the same means Foster was made governor
of louisiana.
Now this is q very pretty lutte romance
and some fool Democratic papers have al
one time another given It circulation.
Well. let us for the sake of the argument
concede the foolish contention to be true.
The deed has been done; it cannot be re-
versed, and there is not a big enough 1901
in the State to believe that it can tie re-
versed. That, the Republicans concede to
be a fact, and they say they are only hight
ing to break up the Ubiquitous system under
| which it was done, and to prevent its re-
currence.
Now then, who, according to their own
statements, was among the biggest Criminals
| that participated in that terrible crime!
Why none other than Donelson Gallery, IT.,
| the Republican candidate for governor. II
| there is. any self-accused but unconv'cted
| criminal in his business engaged in this cor
| ruption, it is the man who is the head ana
front of this band Of patriotic accusers OF
the Democratic party. ''Ca:ch thief! IS
| an old cry of the fleeing rogue, old as th'e"-
ing itself. In many instances 1t has been
successful and many an honest wayfarer mas
been caught and arrested for crime simply
because he was in the proximity OF some
sharp rogue shouting as he flew 'Stop
theft But the cry will not work TINS
ssload of poles.'' The Republicans who are
making this hideous out-cry have placed
at their head one of the men who was most
violent in denouncing the pretenses OF Cap
tain Pharr, and who was ready to defend
the ..count in" of Foster in 1896
In that year when the air was filled with
the most ferocious threats of death and he'll
unless Captain Pharr was inaugurated gov
ernor of the State; when Taylor Cade was
making his celebrated naval movement on
the capital loaded down with poP-guns and
: firecrackers, Donelson Gallery, Jr., joined
squad or company in St. Mary to move or
the capital of the State and clean out the
s.Old Swamper'' body and boots
We are told that at that time the now Ke
publican candidate, who has taken up tht
, wrongs of Captain Pharr, was the mos
ferocious bulldozer in the beautiful parish OF
St Mary. They tell us that he had brough
to his work a huge six-shooter, loaded 10 ths
muzzle, and big enough to have blowr
Pharr and his hosts, including Cade's naVa
contingent, off the earth and into the a'r
Then on arriving IN Baton Rouge MIR. CAT
: ferry Joined in with the squad from st
Landry, headed by our friend, Mar1o'
Swords, next to Taylor Cade, one of thu
best men in the State.
And there Mr.. Caffery, the Republican
candidate of today, stood rampant to tn
death, blood in his eye and fire in his heart
4 waiting defantly for the appearance OF tn
s Pharrites, and as he is brave and dauntles
young fellow, everybody knew that he wa
one of the gang at least who meant bust
ness, who meant what he said, and who wa
S ready to swipe the Republican insurgents OF
= the earth.
o To-day MIR. Caffery is loud in denouncinl
the fraud of 1896, which he was largely in
strumental in making effective then. Now
in his eyes, Captain Pharr is a martyr VIII
l ought to be canonized. Then Mr.. CATER
! was ready to rip old man Pharr up the back
down the front, decaPitate him, hang AM
quarter him, exterminate him. destroy hin
root and branch, drown him, brain him, an
initiate him, macerate him in a sugar mill
, scatter his ashes to the wild winds, an
z otherwise wipe him out.
p Heaven preserve us! What mess MI
Cafery would have made of the "Ol
Swamper'' and the ssOld Swamper's" gang
e had they encountered him on that awfr
E | occasion.
r And now, how changed! The Oi
Swamper'' and the young lion of st. Mar
every morning meet in the breakfast room
: fall into each others arms and, weePin
e tears of love, exclaim like the piou
e Christian OH Resurl ection morn, 1.-THE Re
e publican party still lives. The Republica
!, party have arose."