The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-08-17
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SlCSc WIS 1to HiSOh Ou>
to the public his letter of acceptance
1t is redoleEt with many platitudes
leavened with the pride aud self-im-
portance of its newly elevated author,
1t contains honeyed words to . the
sugar planters,' to whom the self.
esteemed sage ~ from the fertile
fields Of bayou Black sings in dulcel
tones. He seems to have become thor.
oughly imbued with the fantastical no.
ton that he is a second Moses raised
up from the banks of the Black land
be is said, en- PEASANT, raised up by the
blaehs) for the special purpose OF
s%natching from the jaws of impending
destruction the great sugar industry OF
our beloved State. In his excited
imagination Warmoth's candidate
would have others look through his
distorted glasses and with his confused
vision at the Republican party as the
Savior Of sugar and H. C. Minor us it's
prophet.
In his excitement he loses entirely
his wits and succeeds in doing that
which often befalls persons of small
calibre when essaying a part for which
they were not cut-writes himself
down a fool or a knave.
Listen to these utterances:
"Under existing circumstances the
principles and policy of the Republic
can party are clearly in harmony with
the interests of the people Of the third
district and if applied must be followed
by beneficial results"
"These products cannot be put on
the market in competition with slave.
labor in Cuba and pauper slave labor
i'll Europe"
To be sure, everybody admits that in
this district capital and labor are prin-
cipally engaged in the culture of cane
and rice, in the manufacture OF sugar.,
lumber, etc, and we concede, too, that
these products need some protection to
make them profitable to their pro-
dncers. But it is in the first part cf
his eDunciatiOn that the reckless can
makes Il bad break: "Under
existing circumstances the principles
and policy Of the Republican party are
in harmony with the interests
principally of the people of
the third district and if applied must
be followed by beneficial results"
Indeed! Does Warmoth's candi-
date know what the Republican policy
to sugar is! Does he not
that policy as enunciated by the
senate tariff bill, passed by "A Repnbli-
senate, is to cut down the duty on
fifty per cent, as against a re-
duction of twenty per cent in the Mills
Does he not know that the more
radical policy of some Of the strongest
leaders Of his party is to strike off
the duty on sugar, SO as to
render safe for yet awhile the favored
and already highly protected indus
tries of the North Or is he in favor
of the proposed substitution of a
to planters i'll lieu Of the duty
on sugar? Or, knowing all these facts,
has he still the audacity to put in cold
type the wild assertion above quoted
the %despairing hope that there are
some benighted sugar planters in this
fair land so ignorant of and blind to
their " interests as to swallow with
anquestioned simplicity the poisoned
morsel he extends? Is the Colonel q
fool himself, or does he take others to
be fools
This is the dilemma to which a close
analysis of his assertion reduces him.
md we generously leave it to him to
choose that horn of it which will the
east jar his feelings; wishing to re-
mark, however, that if he takes the
first and admits that he knows not the
Of his party relating to sugar,
hen he is al unfit standard bearer
and ought to throw up his trust but
#, on the other hand, he grasps the
second horn aud admits that he was
to hoodwink the sugar planters
md others interested in the sugar in
then We congratulate the astute
INT nnscrnnn1Ons Warmofh on III.