The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1900-03-31
sA,NN,N,YNN,N,,l,x OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Speech of
81 Hon. K. F. BrOussard 8

Delivered at Franklin rlarch 18TH, 1000.
: 1t is your duty to support the Democratic par
ty in this State, in order that may win the vcto
ry when the battle comes in November next. 1t
is your duty to vote for the Democratic state ticket,
and for the local Democratic tickets that we may
control every office within the state Of Louisiana,
and that may the people Of this state and
her industries from the destruction with which they
now threatened by the Republican party. 1t is
the duty Of every Democrat and every man nteres-
ted in the prosperity Of this that ticket
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 senators,
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
90 to the senate of the United States appause);
vote for that Democratic ticket for this grandest of
all Louisana's of this generation. the most :
magnificent governor this state has ever had that
this, the first citizen of the parish of st. Mary may
be his mate in the senate of the United States;
that Foster and McEnery may be the senators from
Louisiana in the congress Of the United States, and
for the Democratic ticket above all this, that
the white people Of this state may continue to gov
ern, to scatter broadcast prosperity, good CO.
vernment the maintenance of law and order, and :
promote the welfare of the people, and upbuild :
their material interests, that civilization may 60
on progressing hand in hand with Democracy, for =
they and the same in Louisiana. ZAP
pause) Vote that Democratic ticket both state and
locally. Don't vote for constable unless he is
that ticket because if you want 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 you expect those
whom you put in office to be in the administration
of public affairs. And If you participated in pr-
mary, you went there pledged to abide by the re-
suit of it, and matter whether you dislike the man
who has been nominated or not, 60 to the polls on
election day and cast your ballot for him, because
he is entitled to it.
Fellow citizens, when l make this appeal to you, :
do not know what local application it may have
: but make it now because know that throughout
the parishes Of this state our opponents are 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 no time to bubble about individuals. 1t is
time to for principles and to maintain those prin-
cples that may set at rest forever and ever the
proposition advanced by those people that they are
occupying neutral ground between the Republican
party and the grand old Democratic party and that
forever and in this state there may be an end
: put to independent movements.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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