The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-10-13
Mr.. Gays Acceptance.
Address to tho Democratic Voters Of the
Third Congressional District
Of Louisiana.

MOAAAAa'CiuS "oufeltion ateiy iclU Ia
New Iberia, of my nomination as your
candidate to represent you in the Fiji
ty-tlrst Congress of the United Statess
L am deeply sensible OF the honor .
conferred upon me by my fellow-cit
zens OF the third district through their
representative convention.
Their Endorsement of my course in
the past l must attribute more to the
friendly partiality of members of the
convention than to anything it has
been IN my power to accomplish.
My personal preferences and the con-
dition of my health led me t o desire t
be allowed to retire; but these are
troublOus times, when no lover of his
country can we'll hold back his mite of
influence.
accept your nomination because
there is much to be done, and / am
willing to try to do my part.
My election will depend entirely on
your united efforts and exertions.
You have before you every incentive
to the most vigorous combined efforts
Tor the supremacy of the Democratic
party.
We are confronted by the gigantic
efforts OF the Republican party to re-
gam their control over the executive
and Legislative departments OF the
government.
Ineir success means to tile people of
Louisiana the unsettliEg of their social
relations, more important than any
other consideration, besides the des-
truction of the prosperity and even the
existence OF the material interests of
the most important part Of the State.
After passing through months of So
licltude and responsibility in assisting
my colleagues III attempting to guide
the sugar and rice interests in the path
OF comparative safety, during the reyi-
sion of the tariff by the House of Rep
rtsentatlvcs. we are now threatened
with danger i'll Il much more serious
form.
The Republican Senate, after months
devoted to the consideration of their
tariff scheme, has determined to MAIN
tain the duties on manufactured goods,
III some cases to raise them higher, so
that every article we have to buy will
be kept up; while they reduce the du-
ties on sugar and rice to one-half of
what they are at present under exist
ing law.
They have joined with the views x
pressed by the majority of the Repub-
lican members of the House in prac-
tically constituting the Chicago protec-
ton platform to mean that Northern
manufacturers shall be fully protected,
but that protection shall not include
the sugar and rice, of Louisiana.
All disguise is now thrown aside and
a policy is proclaimed which will lead
to the destruction OF the successful cul-
ture of sugar cane and rice in the
South, unless their efforts can be pre-
vented 10y upholding Democratic in
fluence. s
The Democratic policy is to main
tain a high duty on foreign sugar, be-
cause it is one of the largest sources of
revenue, most easily collected and fall
ing most uniformly on the whole coln-
munity.
The Republican policy is to cut
Gown tile duties on foreign sugar be-
cause that reduction works Il large re-
dnction in the revenue, and every dol
lar thus reduced prevents a reduction
on Northern manufactured woolea
clothing, blankets, hats, tinware and
other goods, which they have deter
mined shall not be reduced.
| sincerely believe that every labor
ing Il in the sugar and rice districts
Of Louisiana, whether white or black.
has as great a personal Interest in vot-
ing at the November election for
Cleveland and Thurman and for il De-
mocratlc Congressman as any of his
Democratic neighbors can have.
The important improvements about
| to be inaugurated in bayous Lafourche
and Plaquemine will require industry
and the cooperation of influence to
sustain and carry forward 10y further
appropriations.
The improvement of the bayou Pla-
quemine | regard rs bearing the same
relation to the waterways of the inte-
rior as the roots and the trunk of the
gallant oak bear to its branches.
Let us first establish firmly the roots
and the trunk, then the improvement
of the branches, which permeate the
interior, will be universally recognize
ed as worthy.
After two years i'll laying the foun-
datiOn for the permanent improvement
of the outlet OF the Calcasieu river to
the Gulf, III securing surveys and esti-
mates, the report of the Secretary OF
War to the present Congress declared
that outlet unworthy Of Improvement.
This means that the expenditure re-
quired was greater than the commerce
of the stream justified.
have arranged for another exami-
nation and report, with the hope that