Show louisianan LOUI DISGRACE it was brought broucht about by fraudulent democratic methods NEW ORLEANS feb 8 lion iron A 11 II leonard republican nominee for governor today to day sent a lengthy letter to chairman 1 ducot of the state com committee mit tee acce accepting the nomination and arid dealing with ith t the tt e issues of the campaign in the course of his letter he says that where a people are free opposing posing political parties are invariably a alu found i w where ere sue such i parties do not last t the e people eo le are not free ini in 1877 says ays he the democratic party took tool fo forcible I 1 lisl e possession of the state government all and has ever since maintained absolute power by violent and fraudulent means power for 0 r sixt sixteen cen years the people of louisiana have lia not ha had fears a government such as is guar guaranteed to them by ti the 1 c constitution odthe of the united states this condition of things filings so abnormal has been woefully woefully injurious in its consequences the deve development lf 0 in it of the magnificent resources of t the ee s state ta to have been retarded and the tile intellectual tel and moral tone of the people lowered to a degree that seriously threatens the underlying principles on which society itself is based the results have been disastrous even to the democratic parly party for under the conditions which that party lias has created reckless and unscrupulous ecru bulous men have naturally risen to power what else can be expected when force norce usurps the tile place of argument when ballets are substituted for ballots when men who c claim lain to be and who are accepted as members ers of a self styled ruling c class lass act as oil officers of elections and cons consider 11 er it simply a joke to certify to returns which they kne knew w to be and in many instances have I 1 I 1 v admitted to be false and fraudulent all it that is necessary to the comini coming elect election ion is an honest hone it count we ask not nothing t ling more we should submit in nothing else in the words of the Ite republican publican platform the right of every citizen to cast one v vote 0 to and have that vote duly counted is their paramount right in conclusion leonard says there is reason to ho hope pe that the ce of ninny many of the more int intelligent clit 11 ent members odthe of the democratic party wilf will be exerted to li prevent the bulldozing and frauds at elections which have so in long disgraced louisiana inform moreover the 0 disruption is of the tile democratic party will to a certain extent diste dispel el the unreasonable prejudice which has heretofore reto existed in the minds of many democrats against the tile Ite republican publican party and make it difficult for the returning officers to count out the republicans large larye majority J ont lie ile accepts without reservation the platform adopted by the Ite republican publican state c convention and proposes to stand stanl by it in the tile coming campaign |