The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1896-07-04
McK7NLE HOFACCEP.
LANCE.

Yesterday. at his home in Canton,
Ohio, the official announcement was
made to Ex-Goveln Mckinley that
he had been nominated by the Repub-
llcan convention at st. Louis for the
presidency.
As a sensational event this ceremo-
ny has long ago been anticipated and
discounted, but since the candidate, on
such an occasion, always makes a care
fully considered speech of acceptance
it ia worth while to note what he says.
After charging on the subject of
tariff protection, which is Mr.. McKin-
ley,s hobby, he spoke Of the conditions
President Cleveland. Of bonds, with
the proceeds of which the credit of the
nation had to be sustained. Mr.. Nc
klnley said:
The national credit. which has thus
far fortunately resisted every assault
upon it. must and will be upheld and
strengthened. If sufficient revenues
are provided for the support ofthe
Government there will be no necessity
tor borrowing money and increasing
the public debt. The complaint Of
the people is not against the admins
tlation for borrowing money and
issuing bonds to preserve the credit of
the country, bnt against the rninous
policy which has made this necessary"
Not ever by his ost partisan enc
mics can the President be blamed for
borrowing money for the maintenance
OF the public credit. He was bound to
do what he did. having no other re-
source. Bat why was it that he was
simply and plainly because the Repub-
lican party had wasted the large cash
balance which the first Cleveland ad-
mipistration had left in the treasury,
and had, by the operation Of Mr.. Nc
kinley's own tariff cut off the chief
sources of revenue that had, under a
Democratic administration, furnished
an abundance of money for all the
purposes of the Government. The
Republicans took from sugar the tariff
that the Democrats had put on it, and
thus a very large source of revenue
was cut off. Tariff duties so high as to
cut off the importation of many classes
of foreign goods were levied for the
express benefit of certain Eastern
manufacturers, ard as a result no in
come Of account was collected from
articles that had formerly contributed
largely to the national revenue. The
Government vas practically bankrupt
ed under General Harrison's Repr BIZ
a administration and the Democrats
were in no way responsible for the
situation. One of the first duties that
fell upon Mr.. Cleveland was the neces-
sitv Of borrowing money.
A Democratic Congress tailed to
supply an adequate revenue, and the
succeeding Republican Congress re-
fused to make any further provision.
1t is true that this failure to provide
the necessary money was largely insti-
gated by o desire to handicap Mr..
Cleveland's administration, but much
of the opposition to the increasing Of
the revenue was caused by the ability
of the silver socialists in the Senate to
prevent the contamination of any
financial legislation which did not give
them the power to put the country on
a silver money basis. If this oppOsi-
ton should be directed also against
the next administration, and if Mr..
Mckinley should happen to be Presi-
dent he might find that all his fine talk
would come to naught and that he will
be as powerless as is Mr.. Cleveland to
do aught but borrow money.
But the Republicans are vastly .
responsible than are tho Democrats
for the present financial condition Of
the country, and the blame should fall
on them.-Picayune.
Just new everybody is beginning to
take Spring Medicine. And it is a
good thing to do provided you take
Simmons Liver Regulator the best
Spring Medicine. It's a sluggish liver
that clogs the system and make bad
blood. A dose a day Of Simmons Lii
yer Regulator will make a new man
out of you, and a new woman too
Look for the Red Z. on the package.
1t is Simmons Liver Regulator you
want.
The Rev. Father. Pacquet, the be-
loved pastor of ST. Francis de Sales
Church, Houma. was the guest Of
Fathe: Dubonrg in the early part Of
the week. While here, Father Pac-
quet attended the commencement