Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-06-28

latter under the name of the Young
Mems Democratic Association, Citizens
League, or some such similar nomencla-
ture.
The Regular leaders viii meet in
some room some night and, after full
discussion, select five gentlemen whom
they will all agree to support from Car
rollton to the Barracks. The word will
be passed down the line, and these five
men will soon be known as the Regular
candidates"
The "Oppisition," under whatever
name it may adopt, will organize, will
hold regular convention and will select
and nominate five gentlemen who will be
declared the candidates of the opposition.
The fight viii be on.
An independent candidate will have as
much chance as the proverbial SNOWFALL
in hades.
Both sides viii open campaign head
quarters. Both sides viii strive for vic
tory. Both sides will seek to poll every
possible vote for its candidates. Both sides
will raise large campaign funds. Both
sides will strive for victory. Both sides
will seek to poll every possible vote for
its candidates. Both sides viii seek every
where for these votes.
In this contest negro's vote will be
as. lawful and as effective as white
mans vote.
In this city there are many thousands
of negroes who are sufficiently educated
to be taught and coached to go to the
registration office and fill out the blanks.
Their poll taxes can be taken care of as
well as is now done for thousands oil
6ehite voters.
r. Human nature being the same now
that it waslin 1888 and 1895 both sides
will permit its negroes TO be so handled,
nor will either side permit the other to
defraud it of the benefit of its negro vote.
Vast campaign funds will be raised
The negro politicians and the negro
preachers, and the masses of thenegroesi
will be fiattered, cajoled and bribed and
bought.
Thousands of negro poll taxes will b
paid by white men. Thousands of ne
groes will be taught, coached and brought
to the registration Office by white mel
and registered.
Negro clubs will be formed; white mel
will consort with negroes, 60 to thei
houses, drink and eat with them, anC
put themselves on footing of equalit.
with them. Negro political meetings vii
be held in the negro churches and else
where, and viii be addressed by whit
orators.
The negroes will hold the balance o
power, and will know it. They will de
mand more than flattery and money
. They will. demand the repeal of the sep
3 arate car laws, the separate saloon laws
the separate school laws, and finally wi
demand political recognition in politics
affairs; win demand offices, appointiv
and elective; and all these will be prom
4 ised them, and finally accorded them
C New Orleans will be Africanized.
q As to the young men, recently grow
up, who are behind this movement
; young men to whom Reconstruction
IS is ancient history, and who know notf
ing of 'S8 and '96, I can only say
o Father, forgive them, for the know Nc
!, what they do; but for the older me
d associated with them, the men OF m
e own age, and older; the men who kno
b these things as well as do, and bette
Ie / can find no excuse.
d / can only implore them to tai
, thought, to cast their eyes backward,
+ remember the horrors of the past, and
withdraw from participation in this pr
:, posed crime against the white race.
d Mr.. Editor, appeal to that mob
y body of white supremacists from tt
n country parishes who control our Legi
o lature, and to Governor Hall, who hal
Ne from that grand old Parish of Ouachitl
n where Samuel Douglass McEnery struC
the first blow for white supremacy, n
10 to put this bitter cup of shame and de
radiation to the lips of their fellow-whi
ID men in the Parish of Orleans.
se HUGH C. CAGE.
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