St. Landry democrat., 1885-12-19
MlSC'HIEVOUS ADVICE.

Newspaper Organs of the Republican
Party Calling upon the Senate to ThWars
the Popular Will.
Is there not enough patriotism or
common sense left in the Republican
party to stop the mischievous advice,
which is being given by some of its ac-
credited organs. to the United States
Senate? They are constantly harping
on the antagonism which must occur be-
tween the President and that Eody,
which they designate as the last bulwark
of Republieanism. They call upon the
Senate to stand firm and resist the
further encroaehments of the Democ-
racy. The main point, of course, is in
regard to the appointments to office.
According to those Observation-Disclosures the
Senate should embarrass the President
as much as possible by Withholding its
consent to his appointments, or,at least,
to the majority Of them. In other
words, the Senate should set itself up
as tribunal superior to the American
people, who have given ineontestible
proofs Of their acquiescence in and
Endorsement of the policy of the Presi-
dent. Besid> :, there is another branch
of Congress, which more directly repre-
sents the people and that branch is
Democratic, by large majority.
Can the United States Senate afford
to set at defiance the viii of the people,
as expressed in the late elections, the
authority of the President, in relation
to which it only holds confrmatory
power and the House OF Representa-
tiTes, which is directly from the people?
It would be as if the House of Lords of
England were to disregard the Lower
House and the plainly expressed win
of the English people. With all their
traditional ideas of feudalism and priv
ilege the peers of England would not
dare what Republican newspapers are
now urging the United States Senate to
do. There is a Republican majority OF
eight, at the most, in the Senate and
Democratic majority OF forty-seyen in
the House. Yet such a generally care
full paper as the Philadelphia Inquirer
says substantially that while the small
majority in the branch of Congress ex-
lists sit viii be matter of very little
consequence to the country what the
majority of the House Of Representa-
tives does. The Democrats can only
propose; it viii be the Senate that viii
dispose. - 49,
Nothing can be palmer than the in-
timation that the United States Senate
is a sort of oligarchy, placed above the
will of the people and entirely free
to disregard anything that its majority
of eight does not desire. Can anything
be more unrepublican, moreun-Ameri-
CAM We have better opinion of the
Republican majority in the Senate than
to think they would thus set themselves
above their masters, the peoplep What
ever little life remains in the Republic
can party would be extinguished COM
pletely by the tidal wave of public
wrath that would follow such an un-
warrantable exercise of power In re-
spect to the Presidential appointments
and wise legislation in the House of
Representatives we do not apprehend
any marked hostility on the part of the
Republican majority of eight in the
Senate. But every American citizen
should condemn the mischievous course
pursued by some of the Republican or
gans. 1t is contemplate and incendi-
airy, and. if acted upon, win prove a
terrible boomerang. The declared will
of the people of the United States can
not be defed with impunity. Albang
ArguS.