The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-15
or condition of their enemies.

po illdiSH " INC Sed was ulltdtSu Dy
spirit of hate hell-born fisherman
march to the sea was blazed with the
ruins and the ashes and the cnders OF
homes and barns burned by incendiaries
The burning of Columbia by Sher-
man on his march to the sea was crime
as wanton as it was brutal and cowardly
The devastation wrought throughout
Georgia and the Carolinas was thorough
yand complete: so complete Chat Sheri-
dams boast after ne had despoiled the
fair and lovely valley i'll Virginia that a
Icrow Go live ehree days must carry along
its sation, is applicable to Sherman
|march to Che sea.
We repeat we have not reflected nor
do we vehect or intend to reflect on any
of che ancestors OF Mr. Edmonds. who
can base no connection whatever with
the issue involving the candidacy of Mr.
Sanders.
10 is perfectly legitimate i'll a political
|canvass to point out facts which are sus-
tanned by the record the gst of which in
this instance is whether or not Repub-
lican should be the chief editorial pilot
Of Democratic newspapers.
II this chiei editorial pilot is Demo-
crat, The Democracy should know it. Ii
he is or has been a Republican, the
Democracy of Louisiana is equally in
terested in the knowledge OF this fact.
Is there anything unreasonable in de-
string such nformation2
In the explanation OF the Times and
the State is the lntination that Mr.. Ed
monds believes that party government
is an essential feature of successful
| Democracy-and that party government
lis best maintained when vigor-
Gus and keen eyed opposition is
maintained" which is, i'll sense,
correct, but can have no connec
ton Or relation in a contest between
Democrats for the nomination of candi-
dates by Democratic authority for State
and parochial officers.
In this contention for the nomination
of Democratic candidate for Governor
of Louisiana, the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments are not the issue, as
it was in the recent campaign in Missis-
sippi when Congressman Williams was
the opponens of Governor Nardaman,
an exponent of State rights and a radi
cal antagonist to these amendments
whose repeal he favored and for which
he was denounced in unmeasured words
by che Times
As the issue has been raised by crit
icism having discredit for Mr.. vii
kinson, candidate Cor Governor who has
no connection with the letter published
in the New York Sun an answer to a
sew simple queries will suffice:
Was the letter wrtteno
Is Mr. Edmonds the author?
Are not che quotations following ex-
cerpts from this letter:
Now Learn lesson from this Leave
us alone down here. We will settle this
problem. as the people of Anglo-Saxon
traditions have settled other problems all
around the world for the good Of the
land Leave the nucleus of the decent
white Republican party alone. Drop the
vote catcher negro planks from the
National Republican platform. They
may be good politics just now, but they
are not the politics of generous patriot
ism of far-sighted craftsmanship. They I
are akin in policy 90 those constitutional
designed to perpetuate Re-
publican rule in the South, which real l.
y made and created the solid South
and Democracy.
Leave us alone, say, and in eight L
years the solid South would be broken,
me broken for the good Of the country {
md forever"
Neither the Times nor the Baton t
Rouge State have denied or challenged t
he truthfulness of these excerpts, there '
ore it follows as day the night, that at b
he Tune the letter was written that {
Mr. Edmonds. IL he was not a lip
Republican,, he was in favor of the t.
Republican dropping the negro voter, SO
S to strengthen and give responsibility
0 Republican party in Louisiana made
# gentlemen and self-respecting citi- S
ems |c
If this be true, how can the Times liz
nd the Baton Rouge State except 10 s.
act sustained by the record.
And from which party did Mr. Ed q
1onds expect recruits to make the Re- -
ublican party respectable, if it was not 4
rom the Democracy of Louisiana? :,
And what kind of a Democrat would
id and abet in giving responsibility to T.
Republican party in Louisiana or III
ny State of the South? =,
And here The Caucasian will emnha- r