The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1892-01-09

persons claiming allegiance to the par
y, and who claim the right 70 control
Its deliberations. There are grIeyan-
ces of the farmers that cry aloud for
redress which can be found within the
principles of the Democratic party.
These principles are well dehned
They ale opposed to class legislation,
70 the Capitalization OF power IN the
Federal Cover nnent. tn the creation of
monopolles, to the enormous increase
OF wealth, in a few hands and the con
seqleut enslavemeut of all kinds OF
labor. The Democrat party Is jealous
Of any Interpretation of the Constisu-
ton not in accord with the views OF
the founders Of the party, Jefferson
and Madison 1t believes in taxing
the people to an amount sufficient 10
carry ont the legitimate purposes OF
governments, and that any taxation be-
yond this is confscation. 1t recognl-
zes the fact that a ven has to be
raised by tariff to carry on the general
government, and it maintains that it
should be adjusted az to advance the
farming interests of tie country, the
advance OF wages to the laborer, to en-
courage American skill and enterprise
in agriculture az well as in manufac-
tnaing interests. 1t does not believe
In maintaining the present unjust and
oppressive tariff, in which the returns
10 the government for revenue are a
secondary and the interest of the mon
opoilst, the primary consideration. 1t
will reform the tariff, and while it will
make taxation legitimate, limiting it
to its proper destination, 1t will take
care to select those items for tariff
which will yield the greatest amount
OF revenue with the least burden to the
people. In these principles the farm
ing Interests will find their surest pro-
lection. 1t is only necessary for the
farmers to organize within the party
and force their just and constitutional
rights by their sigor and intelligence.
In the language of tie great Chief JUS
tlce of Alabama. | say Many of
the principles of the Ocala demands
are but reu%tterances of what have al
ways been contended for in Democrat
ic platforms. They have my hearty
approval. The fact that they have
been associated with other principles
we cannot sanction furnishes no ex-
cuse for abandoning fundamental
prime. Piles. Whenever and wherever
We find the good old doctrines which
Jefferson and Madison promulgated,
aud which Jackson and Cleveland have
sept a6laze on the altar of liberty, let
Ms approach them witt reverence and
uncovered heads"
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
being confronted with these distur-
ances alien to its organization, will
surely be disrupted aud irretrievaoly
lost if the members of the party do not
stard by it and uphold aud maintain
its integrity.
1t is publicly announced and it is a
matter q general comment that a
large and Influential part of our peo-
pie say that they Will submit for four
years to Radical domination before
they will tolerate the existence of the
Lottery, and they propose at the end
OF four years to sweep it away with
force and violence. Tn this | think
that they seriously err. During our
struggles for local self-government no
war was made upon the Lottery. The
State, after the overthrow of the car
petbae government, rapidly advanced
In all of her material interests, educa-
tionai, ~levees, wealth, and in popula-
ton. This advance could not have
aeen made under the conditions then
existing. do net, therefore, see the
wisdom of rei~nstating the Republican
party i'll power, aud thus choosing the
greater evil. If this policy is pursued,
it may end in having both fastened
upon the State. If the Republican
party should unfortunately be placed
in possession of the State government
by means ot the independent ticket
| placed before the people by those who
abjGred their allegiance to the party
organization, it will be no easy task t o
again dislodge it from power. | tear
that if this movement of the indepen-
| dent ticket be continued it will result
in SO widening the breach in the party
that 1t will he sllorn of its strength
II In no condition to summon to it's
| aid the might, enthusiasm that direct
ed its energies in 1876. How can that
faction which aided in the on
| of Republican rule with ally consisten-
cy ask those who have resisted it o
join hands with them to destroy the
power which they themselves have
| created ? Iii 1888, or the mere assuinp-
| ton of dissatisfaction in the ranks of
the Democratic party, the Republican
party, before We We're aware of 1t, rap
| ifly rallied re strpDrth and nrn.pi1od