The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1892-10-08
OPINIO OF THE LOUI-
STANA PRESS.
A ONE-HORsE AEFAIR.

ONE-HORsE AFFAIR.
Alexandria Democrat: 1t is an un-
healthy state of affairs, politically,
when congressional district possess
es only one man who has the ntlu-
ence and capacity to represent it and
protect its interests in tire national
house of representatives.
DEMOCRATIC HOME RULE.
Tensas Gazette: The state central
committee has decided, bv vote of Is
to A, not to interfere in the Fifth con-
gressional district matters. This is
sound Democratic doctline 1t is bnt
Il repetition cf the home rule theory.
which has ever been Democratic
principle, and it will be heartily in
dorsed by the Democracy eff this dis
trict The people of each congress
sioral district have the inalienable
right of mana sing their own political
affairs. ard the decision of the state
central committee was eminently
proper and just.
HARMONY IN THE SMITH DISTRICT.
Pointe Conpee Democrat: The har-
mony and ubanimity in this district
should ave q happy influence on 9TH
er districts. louisiana must 60 into
the national legislature with an entire
Democratic delegation pledged to
support Cleveland, who is to be the
next president. 4 united Democracy
| will insure long number of uninter-
rupted years of safety and prosperity,
not only to our own state, but to the
! union in general. 1t will give rs pro-
| lection for state rights under the con
stitution and republican form of
government as framed tor us by the
great architects who established free
| institutions i'll young America.
DEMOCRATIC INDEPENDENCE.
Natchitoches Review: 1t is matter
| of astonishment and no little emphatic
comment that every man who says he
is Democrat and then declines to
blindly follow the dictum of every
leader and claimant for official honors
is at once proclaimed renegade or
untrue to party principles. Bah. A
sincere American can be thoroughly
Democratic. without losing his polit-
cal manhood, by being perfectly indie
pendent at the same time, particularly
when there are numbers of claimants
demanding his ballot. Abject servile
submission to men, not principles, is
what has tied the political Gordian
knot in parties. Stick to principles,
! tt ne, pure, honest, and let the dema-
gogues. dictatorial and self-asserted
and self-laudating claimants be rele
gated to the shades off ''innocuous des-
uetuden
ANOTHER LOUISIANA PORT.
Lake Charles American: The United
States engineers have completed the
survey of the outer bar at Calcasieu
passed. and are engaged on the inner
bar. They report that the .jetties can
be put in at remarkable low price
and seem to think that it will be Il
very easy matter to secure a good
depth of water on the bar. This is as
we have constantly predicted. The
$ls5, 900 already appropriated by con-
gress will go far toward opening up
one of the great harhors of the world
AS soon as the survey is completed
and plans made, bids for the work
1, will be advertised for aud then the
work will begin in earnest. Soon we
expect to see gOod-slzed sea gong
vessels sailing into the mouth of the
Calcasieu. The good work will go on
until we have one of the best harh"r>
in .he south; and that one is connect
ed by rail with all the great cities oi
the northwest.
REVIVAL OF TIE MILITIA.
Baton Rouge Advocate: Now re
vival of the martial spirit of our peo.
pie seems to be sweeping over the
state augmented by the activity and
interest manifested in the matter BY
Governor Foster, who has spared Ut
effort to bring the state militia to :
point of excellence reached by the mi
litia of but few states in the union
The offering of free transportation tt
the Chicago exposition to the compa
ny from each congressional distric
which shall stand first in competi