The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-31
CAFFERY'S ARRANGEMENT.

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In his speech delivered in Donaldson
vile on October 25 Donaldson Caffery
scored Jay Wye Sanders to the quick
Mr.. Caffery AMI Mr.. Sanders are both
from St. Mary parish and know each
other as thoroughly as it is possible for
men who have been close neighbors and
| intinateS
Mr. Caffcry's arraignment of J. y.
Sanders was fierce
1t was in full keeping with the record
of facts.
In political sense Sanders was llaycd
alive His record was dscrcdited from
beginning to end.
In explanation Of his appearance on
| the rostrum Mr.. Caffcry sail he was
supporting Mr. Wilkinson. with whose
election is promised fair and honest
administration Of the State government.
He had gone into the campaign with re
grct and reluctance In criticism of Mr..
Sanders he would not attack him per
sonally but would speak Of him as pub
lie man. He declared that Mr.. Sanders
represented the old-timc methods. and
then proceeded to the peeling of his
so-caled championship of white su
oremacy in the words following:
Out of the political agitations of the
last ten years, Louisiana has gained most
from the legal establishment of white
supremacy. the suppression Of election
frauds, and the curtailment Of the power
which reconstruction had made it neces-
sary to vest i'll the Governor Upon
none of these issues did the Lieutenant
Governor, although recognized factor
! in legislation during most of that time,
| render any service.
He claims much credit for the final
| triumph of white supremacy for having
insisted on the adoption of Mr. Weeks
draft of Section ) of the Constitution III
| the Convention O 1868 Does he wish
| the people to believe that the letting in
ii few white illitcrates under Section
| ) saved white supremacy? If the ne
| groes had not been barred out. as they
were by the property and educational
prerequisites to suffrage, Section :
| would have been a mere bullrush against
the floods of the Congo If Mr.. Sanders
had been an uncompromising advocate
Of white supremacy he would have gone
/ down with the late Henderson Crawford
and me- when we stood out alone i'll the
| Democratic Executive Committee of St
Mary in 1896, against the slaughter, Of
Act 200 of 1894, which proposed to
amend the Constitution of 1870. so as to
read in substantially the same way that
our suffrage law now does, thereby
raising up against the negro an educa-
tional and property barrier. When |
| found that the committee was betraying
that amendment and was untrue to
white supremacy, | resigned from IT.
The next | heard from Mr.. Sanders in
connection with white supremacy was
later on i'll the campaign, when he grace
fully mounted the Republican ticket.
headed by the good and lamented John
N Pharr, to thereby capture split OF
pasted votes for representative from
the negroes. Mr. Sanders next exploit
for white supremacy was to get III
dorsed in 1900 by the Wimberly or ne
gro faction of the Republican party for
the same office, so that every vote in St
Mary parish for Reems for Governor
was one for Sanders for representative
If such be white supremacy Booker
Washington would not grieve over it; il
such was white supremacy, why doe:
| Mr.. Sanders make the welkln ring to-
LAY with his reputation of Republican
support and his horror Of Republican
votes:
Naturally the Syndicatcd Press ha:
been thrown into a spasm of discomfort
| and as usual are bowling Sanders Il
7 being slanderei'' and that Wilkinson i
: consorting with Republicans, but fact
are facts, record IS record, truth /
truth, no matter by whom uttered, evc1
by Old Nick himself
1t is the truth, the recorded truth
which Jars Sanders and the Sandersites
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