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LOUISIANA POPULIST. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY THE. ZATCHITOCHIIE4 1'BLIsHING CO., (LIMITED.) mETERED AT THE NATCHITOCHES POST OFFICE AS SFECOND-CLAiS MATTER. H. L. BRIAN, - - - Editor. W. H. AREAUX, - - - Publisher. IUIBSCURIPTIO- ear .................$1 00 Set Montl t .............. B. S For Months............. 40 ADVZI sreZ ATIL oPAC. 1 I a* o- eawe 0 ar 1 year. I leb ý - *2 * 5 a Be 0 J 11 ]It 5* St nelhu 5 00 8 al .515200 20 Sinhem 7 11 Ia 12 . ea 2500 li b.. 8 50 14 as 1500 200 10 000 Irhele I l0a 14 a 1700 27 500 lurehes 11 5 1os0 10 0 0 M s M 7' hls 13 . 20 21t M 33 I44 I leah 4 IIs 1 0 55 2 65 M 14800 TransmeIt ldvertl1 meiSt. $1 pyr square eBrat ia ert1; each sbsequent Inrte 5 t per al e or egl adverttlesemnt. $1 per square fet Isertieo ; each subseqtest Insertlo2 co ta Lcal u adveerti.aetst. l coatst per lime. Idlerial mnties, Irat Iasirtim. 15 eatel per se: hemquemtly I uten. p"r lime. cl'uawl mar s.o o ledI. ut we uwill *t be Aeew-s IbOfo say vlewm thelst exp tsool. Adirwm all ematleatis tb theb RmIsea Masager. C.·mmealatIs mus be t in by orPday. Commutmfba Intansd ie psoiatiss ubod b eoeinmpaaled by the re'l as well ma the asumed sJme of th aUth.. Eot fr pbl Elas_ ht as evidoee of -oad Jbih ma the prt of the write. A hla to lo ae willr cro1 thor to the wate FRIDAY, April i7, 1896 "People's Party Ticket. CAPT. J. N. PHARB, Of St. Mary. FOR IEUTrENANT GOViERNOR, JOHN B. KLIENPETER, J Of Eat Batou Rouge.. rO.PUCRETARY O'frrATE, J. W. McFARLAND, Of Claiborne. FOR AUDITOR, H. P. KERNOCHAN Of Plaquemin. FoR TREASUZER, I JOHN PICKETT, a Of Bossier. f I5M AWrOUNZ GENERAL, d LUCIEN F. SUTHON, Of Terrebonne. FO IIrmImrrTrd' or EDUCATION, N DR. G. A. M. COOKE. e Of St. Landry. P3a erur aUX ATOn, 19TH WA- P TO AL DICTOT. D. G. FREEMAN, Of Red River. I E. J. GAMBLE, Of Natchitoebe. roe REERMATITIY _ 2 DR. J. i. BROWN. t J. A. TELTIX . JAS W. JONES. ron arUan. O. O. HATHORN. DI. 0. H. Paor0Tmo. j Veb th. Fepslit tia. You w wy'r hve aether oppeat mtigbr thn pgst her yars R- ia dst tr l mIpest It. a - mc palshbibMe k. sta ls wM u ot. e am d wIth P .o o eskos sA Aflmm 1abmsa werU iste Co T. You are Dancing with a Bear. Then keep both eyes on your partner. When the sordidly rot ten Foster Democracy appears the fairest-then the danger is great or. est, er. Eternal vigilance, from 4 o'clock on the morning of April 21st, un " til the last vote is counted and the 49 last return is signed, is the duty of every man who would be free. The count in Natchitoches will - be fair! e But the enemy is going to try to get votes in the ballot boxes, so M as to count them, by every hook I and crook. They are going to keep as many i. white men from voting as they r possibly can, and by every con . ceivable means. Your names may not be on the P' polls books. You have rot a right to vote on an affidavit. You must Sdo it ! .M Your Commissiener is there to see to it, and there are honest 2 Democrats who will aid you in any - effort to secure the deposit of an honest, legal white vote. * They will try and vote through their heelers DOUBLE FOLDED BALLOTS; folded so that by SHAKINO THE BOXES THEY WILL SEPARATE! Let every Populist Commission-i er keep a list of the voters. Your, watcher, which the LAW allows I you behind every POLUNG PRE I ctxci, will keep his eye on the I bear while your commissioner I writes the names of every voter. I Let counters keep tally's of the I voters as they vote ! Get your men to the polls; eve- I ry one of them I The "pure Saints" have bought, t or are trying to buy workers in I wards one, seven, nine and ten. c They will publish Cards from rene- i agde Populists who, by fair or c foul means will be induced to write i or sign all this, to break the sohd s ranks of Populism moving to vic- t tory. t Look out for telegrams from A. iv r, V. Carter, at Robeline, and others t elsewhere, that our party is mass- a ing the negro and voting them in It hoards. Wards nine and ten will y . play this trick. This is intended as a pretext to o swindle. In allthings, and at all times, v KEEP B(OTH EYES ON THIE I BEAR 1 / a Go to the polls aild h vote. Thel stay there ti till your vote is count ed, and counted right. tl 'Giovernor" Booth's Repres.ta- _ tioe. Jodge Theard yesterday heard tie uppotm of A. B. Booth, PoplleL eadkiste, for governor, for a mandamis to compel the w board of .leitm spervisors to l 'irant him rrmtto a at the ILL on day. Mr. ouary a rlaud appmarud for '"Gov enor" Booth and Mr. B. IS SKrulttsa nltt repreetd the elsc- tl lob superviae w hThedlhslled a O kmpsio s t o mn8o of satlo t to the pititon . Booth. It was claiml tlhat othr was I the a, endidat et y y, the Pp-T li having rithts -, rl lm m-Plesye . Omlya weak r o asagoJadge Wakths, of Webiar, deeded I"ruiht the ther wy,"a ad y7eI made lmst g too hr wiping Sa.eh oterb deidoms, Mr. lmdL Boo eshl ot thm aof his' -tlrlm, __ aer .tp ·"~riSd a Booth Withdraws, ur And Declares in Favor of At- John N. Pharr for Gov he ernor -- He will at not Permit ck "- Foster to Use Bim an a he Cloak for Swindling if Webmter and ill Other Parishes. to Patriotic Letter From Mr. * Booth, Who Stands by SHis Party ny (ly Platform, But Deelares, n- That an Honest Elec tion in 1$96 is the he Only Hope of His ht .st People for the Future. to st TO THE PEOPLE'S PARTY OF LOUISIANA. in New Orleans, La., April 15.-I .h have stood loyal to your conven D tion which nominated me, and I ,y relieve firmly in the principles , enunciated in the platform adopt ed by it. I have at more personal . sacrifice than is justified by the ir circumstances resisted the revolu rs tionary course of the State com _. mittee under Mr. Brian, and I do ke not feel justified in being now ,r placed in a false position by con tinumg a hopeless fight, after I ie had vindicated as best I could our party organization. It is now ap .- parent that the contest for the of fice of governor is between Cap t, tun J. N. Pharr and Governor n Murphy J. Foster, and that my a, candidacy only complicates matters - in this State. All your other can r didates on the State ticket have e adviseI me to withdraw. In Web d ster parish the courts decided that -the ticket headed by me is entitled to representation ; in Orleans par .ish with its two hundred and sixty a thousand people they decided - against me. It is plain for you a to see that if 1 persist in claiming II your votes as your nominee while we have no campaign fund to push a our ticket all over the State, that we are affording a cloak to those who would manipulate a fraudu i lent election. We certainly have not forgotten our treatment in the Fourth and Fifth districts in the last Congressional election. I feel Sthat under existing conditions my continued candidacy will place both you and me in a false position, and, ,therefore, I deem it my duty to you as well as to myself to with draw, and thus leave you free to unite upon one ticket, in' your ef fort to secure an honest election in Lounisiana. In doinr this, I do it in the hope that the day is not far distant when we ma'y as a party not only put forth our candidates, but do so with some assurance' that we can have an honest election in local, .State and National affairs. I trust that this may be the case in No I vember, when I hope that under the leadership of such men as en ator Jones of Nevada, ad Senator Tillman of South Carolina, we may tsecunrs an expression of the people Iof the United States'upa the great 'nanclal principles we advocate. Permit me, m eonclusionm, to my thstlptaindJ. N. Pharr is per- 1 somslly in no way responsible for the actioa of aour State committee ad his high peronal character ;,i Iuh that 1 mot hope tbhat whrm elected, our people will not be dis appontsed in expecting the iust tratment we hope for; as ouron- 1 ly hope for honest elections here after, suh as will enable as to eo press oar views by ear votes, in the eleetion tof the ticket headed by Capta, J. N. Phsrr. Yoursn siually, A.B. BOOTr. A vrt for Opsri , Ca ldwel, a. r er Triebel, s a vote for amy Ya prspersd in the last seu't if se vote for Foster t claiining; that the I)e::ºnrti, ir tf ty h n.I I,elu nIiisr ei...,ur I in th matter of ofcering, Ithe P. 'c)-ll mnission'ers to join it in -eculri-in a white election. The world- is already aware of the fact that such an election was held in this parish on Nov. 7th, S1~!4, and again on the question of prohibition in 1S9.5, and if we renemlMwr correctly, the Demno cratic party was in control of the nlection machinery in this parish r. at Ioth these ehlections. Mr. Porter himself, in his very lucid explanation of a part of the transactions between the Demo ceatic and People's parties on this a, matter, says : "It is a well known fact that several lnmembers of the Democrat ic Executive ('omminittee of this parish at the neeting held on Feb ruary 21st, desired to have the cominnittee make a proposition sim ilar to this one, as a sulstitue for the one submitted by the Popu lists for a white primary." Of course "it is a well known fact," and those "several mem bers of the l)emocratic Executive Comnmittee" gave full expression to their desires in the presence of the Populist suh-comnmittee. dele t gated to submit the white iprimanry ii prolposition, who, at that time, re C fused it. Those individual members may not have had the authority of the o whole Democratic Committee on such a measure, neither did Mr. H enry have such authority from his committee, in proof of which r he tried to get their signatures la ter, and failed. M. Ir. Porter's history of the mat . ter is as good defense as the Pop r ulists need in this case, and we y thank him for his candor, and rest , our cause. I - Oh no ! we have no desire to c e misrepresent the Democratic party. c That is too big a job for us to un- I ,t dertake. It pccupies too many - I positions upon the same question. C Another Objeet Lesson. t The political demoralization of a our young men is well nigh com- C t plete, if those of them who fre- r B quent country hotel lobbies and there proclaim their fealty to Dem t ocratic principles, by promising to z stuff the ballot boxes in its inter est, represent a fair average. a These well dressed, cigarette smoking, loud cursing dudes, are e utterly and profoundly ignorant of P those principles and policies which n separate men into political organi- e nations. Their whole knowledge V of what they term the "princi 'ples of the Democratic party," d eonsists in the right of that party o to appoint all the commisseoners and swindle at the election. And the pretext for this, white o supremacy, is not even ap'pealed I to. When asked, as one was the other evenag at Alexandria, La., by an intelligent travelling man, "Would you use the machine, as to you term it, if all the colored men a were kept away by their leaders b from the polls I" "It would make a no diference in the count I" repli- a ed the young citizen, with s oath, too fool to print. This rising young generation, L with no conception of the duties h of a citizen and indifferent to the appalling conditions confronting the great interests of a great State, oi will, in a short time assume con- k trol of our public afairs. The lessons they have learned oft Dem- , oeraey; Jtrained as common elec tion swmdlers; wilfully ignorant ti of the demands of the houF, t w them as promoters of a system of p political debauchery which will be, may, has beeome, a steach to the t nostribs of honest men, at homet aad abroadl. Truoly, Louisiana i. in a fearfol or sitation. A poitical combination P based on the divisio of the ·spoil ta of oice and upon £ platform kick ed to the winds as soon as adopted, is seeking to perpeteute its power, V the further exercise of which eve ry thoughtaful man dreads. Even eanervative men, bound by tradi e tio or prejudice to the Democrat in pary, will ot, nor cannt, give i )4i~··,.~.:ac~rd.;~ -5.' lA WillFiams, Weaver & O'Quin, E. J. GAMTBLE, Natchifother, La. DEALERS IN\ General Merchandise. Hlaving purchased the entire stock of E. . Ganimble, together with the lease of the store occupied by him we are prepared to offer to our friends and the public generally, the choicest selection of I)RY GOODS, GIIOCER[IES, BOOTS, SIHOIES, IIATS, NOTIONS, AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES. o---o- As we buy for cash we can offer goods at ridiculous lv low prices. Give us a trial order, and you will come again. Williams, Weaver & O'Quin, Gamble's old Stand, near the Bridga. Charlie's Famous Tonsorial Parlors. Opposite the Courthouse, next door to the Populiti. ,f ~ ~ ~~ ,L- -_.! us an assurance that any good will come of this thing of "shreds and patches" masquerading in its name -even should it succeed. Our young men, the future hope of our commonwealth, are being trained m the school of the theif and the thug, and from the dark conditions now surrounding us no ray of hope for the future can lw seen. When the over-sensitive parti zan points to the negroes assem bled around the political hustings and sounds the danger call from negro domination, let him be pres ented with the other and more ap palling picture-the youth and manhood of the Caucasian race eagerly learning the craft of the vilest criminal. A continuance of this awful con dition will reduce, with unerring certainty, the future political struggle in Louisiana to a contest for mastery between a black horde upon one hand and a white horde of scoundrels on the other.--Daily Item, IMPORTANT. Corruption in Louisiana, persona ted in Foster's ticket, is Making one mighty effort to hold its i blighting grasp upon us. Let every man who loves his State, his honor and his manhood arise and destroy it. Force the clerks of election to keep a list of the voters as they t vote, at every country precinct. Let your watcher keep tally with him and compare numbers public ly when every twenty votes have have been polled. See that the ballot boxes are 4 opened and inspected before a vote has been deposited. Watch for artistically folded tickets, where two ballots are fold ed together. If the clerks keep no list of vo ters, let your commissioner do it. You are entitled by law to a watcher behind the polling box. Put an honest, brave man on guard I! Stand to your rights as men and the day is yours The man who steals your vote is t the assassin of your dearest rights. The votes must be counted with out moving the boxes and in the C presence of sach citizens as desire a to attend.-Daily Item. 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