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The Worst Boodle Convention Ever Held.N. O. States.] +The Daily Crusader, printed inthis city, is the organ of the coloredpeople of New Orleans, and, we believe of the State. L. A. Martinet, its editor, is an educated colored man; he possesses ability fa* above the average leaders of his race, and be is believed to be a straight, honest man, and we mast say, that if be writes his own editorials he is a writer of no mean capacity. Editor Martinet is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, as a matter of course. He has sense enough, however, to note the shortcomings of his party and the courage to denounce them.- In the last issue of his paper, in an I editorial beaded, “Come and Gone,”relating to the recent negro or oldRepublican convention, be says:The Regular Republican Stale Convention” has come and gone. Full accouuts of its transactions have been published in the moruiug press and it is Dnuecessary to lose time aud plact to reproduce them in detail.It was one of those gatherings (bat bad better never hare been held.As an old timer said : It was the worst boodle couveDtion he ever saw —and Kellogg did it.”The first day’s proceedings were decorous enough, but the second day they were disorderly and riotous to a degree that was disgraceful. It was a9 if bedlam was lot loose. They furnished to the enemies of justice the strongest example that could bo advanced for the adoption ot the suffrage amendment.The colored editor conclades his drastic review of the convention aud its works as follows:As to the old party, the final result leaves it where it was before—iu the hands of the worst political sharks for the purpose of trading our votes for ihe next four years. Will we permit It?This is the view perhaps the most cultivated colored man in Louisiana takes of the convention which turned the negroes of the Stato over to the sngar-teats, who take about as lunch interest in the negroes as a bull terrier takes in a rat. What _tdo Capt. Pharr and the other high-toned representatives of “the intelligence and wealth of Louisiana,” who are to be the beneficiaries of the action of this negro convention, think of this denunciation of the recent convention as the worst boodle convention ever held by the negro Republicans? We invite Capt. Pharr to contemplate the picture of the power which he and the sugar planters, who are with him, have invoked to elect him governor of Louisiana and destroy the white Democracy. It was, says thin intelligent and honest colored man, not only a bad convention, but tho worst boodle convention ever held. There was nothing in the carpet-bag days, when Warmoth and Kellogg ruled the villainous elements of the Republican politics, equal in infamy to it. Will Capt. Pharr, who is one of the representatives of the alleged “wealth and intelligence ot Louisiana,” seek an election at such bauds? If he does, and the impossible Bhonld happen and he be elected, will he reward the chiefs of this convention by appointments to offices of honor and emolument, or will he play thepart of an ingralo and traitor to tho negroes, upon whose votes his political fortunes rest?The result of the convention, Editor Martinet says, leaves the old Republican party, i. e., the negro and carpet-bag Republican party, “in the hands of the worst political Bbarks for the purpose of trading on our, i. e., the negro votes, for the next four years.** Read that, Capt. Pharr; put it in your pipe aud smoke it. Tho negro power is turned over to jou, it is true, but it is a trade, and if the negroes fulfill their part of the obligation, or trade, will you fulfill yours? They can give you votes; they may perhaps be the balance of power that may make you governor. In that event, what will you give them in return? You will have nothing but the offices, which belong to the people of Louisiana, and the salaries of which are paid by the tax payers of Louisiana, to give in return to the black Republican leaders who are engaged in dickering with you. Wei contend that you must answer these questions. You owe it to the negro traders, whose votes you are seeking, to tell them whether you are going to give them their stipulated reward or price; and you owe it to the white people of Louisiana to tell them whether or not, in fulfilling your part of this scandalous dicker, this unholy alliance, you are going to bestow the honors and emoluments of their State in a manner which will re-establish in their midst the negro and the insolence of the negro, as the price of negio support of yourself.This is positively the only issue in this campaign; for, whether you are defeated or elected, you will positively get no bounty. Hence, it is your duty to define yourself iu this special and ouly issae on which you stand before the people.
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The Banner Democrat
Lake Providence, Louisiana, US
Sat, Feb 08, 1896
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