St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-29
open Letter to Senator Eustls.
Hon. J. E. Eustis, United States Senator !:


My Dear Sir-I have a political SYM
pathy for you, because you evidently
feel bad from the treatment you have
received at the hands of Mr.. Cleveland,
the President elect of the Democratic
party, of which you have always been
such strong aGherent; and then, as
you say in late interview: II have
never been anything but Democrat
and never voted any other ticket. |
have never bolted in my life; never
scratched the ticket, although it has
been pretty hard for me to swallow some
nominations" Yet, with so much 10y
atty, infer you will not support, as a
u. s. Senator and representative of
the Democracy Of this State, the nOmi-
nations of the only Democratic President
We have had since the late revolution
has transferred the government into
Democratic hands. Now, sir, at the polls
you represented one man. AS Senator
you are expected to cast the vote of,
possibly, $4,000 Democrats, | would say
to you as late convert of Bod Inger-
soils said to him /: BE sure you are
pending on you" During your late
pleasure trip to Europe many of your
friends went up to Salt River upon a
crow diet, uttering many a maledictiOn
against the commissaries your dyna-
mite explosion at the Democratic Presi-
dent had left them. Now with their
ingestible food in sympathy with your
own, they don't seem to blame you SO
much, but locate their misfortunes ut
the doors of President Cleveland and
his Democratic Cabinet. | ask you in
all seriousness, would it not have been
better for you to have followed your old
Democratic tenets, and supported the
fixed policy of the administration, sup
ported by so large Democratic major
ity of the Louisiana representatives in
Washington II you do not, yet will
you not as a Senator be Mugwump 7
| know you would scorn to occupy such
a position at the polls.
1t is pity that President Cleveland
with his Cabinet and yourself disagree,
but they being in majority might be
right. At any rate the Democratic party
of Louisiana has implicit CONFIDENCE in
Mr.. Lamar, Mr.. Garland and Mr.. Bay
to say am a Mugwump, | TepOse the
same confidence in President Cleveland.
You know he has new field to explore.
The magnetic political current has
changed it's variation since you learned
your Democracy from the text books OF
Jefferson and Jackson. President Cle-
veland, [ think, has discovered this va
ration and has set his compass accord
ingly. You know the Democratic party
once believed "tO the victOrs belongs
the spoils." The Republican party also
was democratic in this respect, but the
dear people want stable and respect
able government with no "spoils." The
millions of citizens who go to the polls
to vote their ideas do not vote for
"spoils," and the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land over Mr.. Blaine, preaching that
idea, proves it. When you voted for
Mr.. Cleveland you did it knowing he
had pledged himself to civil service re-
form. Now adhearing to that pledge
you say "the Democracy is bigger than
Cleveland and his Cabinet combined, OF
which both are but the creatures and
the representatives of the party at
Washington will see that Mr.. Cleveland
shall pursue the proper line of action,
or that Cleveland and his Cabinet shall
fall and be buried in the ruins they
have made"
believe upon further reflection you
will reconsider this rash statement. Be-
not, like Samson, either smash up the
party or see Mr.. Cleveland and his Cab
met do it. The grand old party is on
the highway to prosperity, and it ought
to live. Rather than destroy the party
had yOu better not do as | did at the
late Baton Rouge State Convention,
step down and out gracefully, or resign,
as Mr.. COnkling did, because Mr.. Gle
veland and his Cabinet may have miss
cd the variation. There have been SO
many changes in party principles, from
low tariff to high tariff, etc, you can af-
ford to give Mr.. Cleveland chance on
his idea, which elected him, unless yOn
propose really to join the Mugwumps,
and we won't need you until next State
campaign. Then we would like to put
you in kicking harness, because we are
tired of supporting leaders in the party
we love so we'll when false to the plat
forms of the party they denounce the
Lottery, repeal it's chartered rights, then
take it into their bOsoms and warm it
again into life leaders who fix the
bonded debt of the State, and when the
bonds have had time to change hands,
under the Odious cry of Tepudiation, in
crease the interest $120,000 per annum
as a gracious gift to the fortunate hold
ers of the bonds. / could mention the
Penitentiary lease and contract " and
Baton Rouge platform denouncing it,
set id Omne genus.n But suffice it to
say, we would like for you to meet these
home issues in the next State campaign
when the legislators will be elected,
whose votes / presume you will want to
send you back to eight NIT Cleveland
Very truly yours,
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