Year: 1876

the time-hOnOTed principles of that
party. We support it because it
is composed of candidates regu-
IarIy nominated by a convention
composed of the best men and the
truest and the most outspOken
democrats in the parish of St. Ian
dry. We support it because the
candidates come before the people
with a democratic endorsement
and nomination, ard because they
are lending all their influence to
build up the party through an
honest and thorough organization.
We support it because they are
opposed by a set of independent
candidates who would not submit
their democracy to the test Of
democratic convention, but who
preferred to reserve to themselves
all the chances and advantages Of
private and individual cOmbina-
tions to be made on the eve of the
election. We support it because
every candidate is directly respon-
sibIe to a strong and we'll organ
lied party organization, which will
surely sit in judgment upon any
one Of it's. nominees who should,
during the canvass, enter into
schemes to elect himself at the
sacrifice Of the party. We support
it because we know exactly how
the canvass is to be conducted by
the gentlemen on it, and we have
no fears that the results at any of
the boxes will-sO far as they are
concerned-give rise hereafter to
discreditable comments.


We support it because the men
on it are not afraid to take po-
sition, publicly and openly, which
brings them into antagonism with
the republican party, and by which
they incur the risks and losses in
cldent to such a position. We sup
port it because its success would
be the viDdication of the princi-
plies and usages of the party, while
its defeat wonld be the triumph at
once of disorgaEizers and disor-
ganization. We support it because
its success would put an end to the
system Lv which T. c.. Anderson
and his friends have heretofore
gotten into Office, and by which
thev expect to again succeed. We
support it because with its success
will begin a new era in our parish,
an era in which tricksters, traders
and disorganizers will go to the
rear, and honest men and leaders
will come to the front.


We support it because it repre-
sents the only organized demo-
cratic party in st. Landry parish,
and because the men on it are
making a bold. open and deter
mined effort to defeat T. G. Ander-
son and elect Henry L. Garland to
the State Senate. And, finally, we
support it because the men on it
are capable to fill the positions for
which they are nominated, and be-
cause they are honest and unfiacbjRg
democrats. So much for the Legis-
lative, Police Jury and paroehial
nominees.


We support E. T. Lewis, Esq,
for District Judge, because he is
quite as competent as his competi-
tor; because he was always willing
to submit his claims to q conyen-
ton of the democratic party, and
to retire from the canvass if he
were not their choice for the posi-
ton he sought, and because his
competitor was not willing to sub
NIT has claims to such test; but
fOm the moment he connected
himself with the democratic organ
ization, he lent his voice and his
influence topreyent the party from
making nominations, and in his
own behalf he strenuoUsly opposed
the proposition made by the dem
ocratic executive committee of this
parish to hold with Calcasieu a
judicial convention. We support
MIR. Lewis because we believe he
has the courage, frmness and in
dependence Of character requisite
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