The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-12-26

| FOR LIEUTENANT ONERNOk.
The BANNER advocates the can
didacy of Hon. j. Y. Sanders for
the office of Observation-Disclosures
, of this State, because he is DEM
ocrat, who has never swerved from
the principles of that great party;
a democrat, not merely for place
or preferment, but because he
knows, as every white man, who
has learned correctly the lesson
taught by the history of his state
since 1865, knows, that the safety
of the white man OF Louisiana
the states prosperity, her in
tegrity and her honor, depend on
the success and control of the
Democratic party.
The Republicans debauched
Louisiana in the past; and any
pseudo democrats, who seek to
ride into power on the good will
and "God-Speed" of the Republic
can enemy are entitled to no more
consideration from true and pa
triotic white democrats, than are
their republican friends through
whom they seem to act and have
their being in their unnatural at
tempt to break down and destroy
the integrity and the organization
of the Democratic party in Louisi-
ana.
We advocate his candidacy be-
cause the best years Of his young
manhood have been spent in an
earnest, active and fearless fight
for white supremacy at all times
and under all conditions; and
because he has been consist
ent and bitter enemy of negro
ism. (synonimous terms) or Re-
publicanism, in which ever guise
it presented itself. We advocate
his candidacy, because he has
been true and faithful to his party
and his fellow white citizens, and
because in the high Office of trust
which he seeks, and which he will
obtain, he will be a credit and an
honor to the State, and will be
found always at the post of duty
defending her fair name, and Ia
boring to advance all her institu-
tons to that high stan lard of ex-
cellence which. will place Louisi-
ana's second to none in our great
sisterhood of states. He is the
peer of the gentleman, who seeks
to defeat him, in intellect, in
craftsmanship, in integrity, and in
a fervent loyalty to his state aud
to his party. He is his opponents
superior in that, that Jared Y.
Sanders scorns to descend to the
plain of low politics, who, in his
eager hunger for place, does not
hesitate to make an unwarranted
and up lerited attack upon the
true record of a true man who is
superior to his maligncr in the
possession of that civic virtue and
race pride which his assailant at
tempts to deny him. Mr.. Sanders
will not seek preferment by vain
attempt to despoil Judge Barks-
dale of his fair political, social
and personal record; and Judge
Barksdale can find no warrant, in
fact or propri ety,-no justification
before his fellow democrats in his
unnatural attempt on his oppon-
ent by echoing the untrue and
garbled report of a northern negro
republican.
Judge Barksdale's gratuitous
accusation is based on the malign-
ant assertion of Il political enemy.
The denial of Sanders is sustain
ed by the unanimous testimony Of
all white democrats in Southern
Louisiana, his neighbors and his
friends, who honor and respect
him. Whose testimony will the
white democrats of our state be-
lieve-that of the northern repub-
lioan traducer which Judge Bark So
dale reiterates with SUCH evident
gusto, or the testimony of those
who have witnessed j. Y. San
der's every act from childhood to
his present mature and honorable
manhood?
Mr.. Sanders has always been
an active promoter of white SUI
premacy in private life, in the
State legislature and in the Con-
stitutional convention of 1898,
where he was potent factor in
depriving the negro OF political
rights. And We confidently assert
that if the white mans right is
ever assaulted, at any time, or at
any place, this gallant young
statesman of st. Mary will be
found in the foremost of the fight,
struggling to the death for white
supremacy. and for the integrity
OF the Democratic party.
A striking feature of Louisiana's
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