The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-04-24

PUBLIC OPINION
Reflected in the Papers of this
Great State.
Just in proportion to the indigna
ton and chagrin expressed by the
free silver and free trade organs over
the votes of Congressman Broussard,
Meyer and Daveyg in favor of the
Dingley tariff bill, will those inter-
ested in the prosperity and we'll
being. of Louisiana and her people
indorse and commend the patriotic
action. In this particular instance
the three Democratic members of
the lower house have rendered a
service to their constituents which
the great body of the latter, with
out distinction of party lines, will
remember and commend long after
Senator Caffery's high sounding
phrases about party fealty and de-
votion to abstract political prin-
ciples Numerically opposed to the
public veal have faded into merited
oblivion. Donaldsonville Chief,
Rep.
people, there is no panacea for low
prices in the Dingley bill. AS long
as the purchasing power of the dol
lar is increased by the laws of the
country, the agricultural products,
the products of human labor, the
price of everything else but gold,
must decrease; hence the Demo
cratic party, as the party of the
people, will stand by the Chicago
platform because its vital principles
protect the great masses of the
people, rather than trusts and mo-
nopolies. 1t believes in a general
diffusion of wealth, rather than
lot of aristocratic millionaires.-
Shreveport Journal, Dem.
According to the comments of
some of the journals on the vote of
the Louisiana congressman on the
Dingley bill, each must represent
local interests of his people, and
party be hanged. So it comes to
pass that Democracy in Southern
Louisiana means the Republican
high protective tariff, and in Cen
trail and North Louisiana simply ga
tariff for revenue only" In other
words, local interests must be sub
doned or looked after later. That
is a splendid method, surely, to
scatter the seeds of dissolution and
<iisintegrate organization No
party can survive the policy of sub
ordinating principle to local inter
csts. They are antagonistic and
incompatible. Shreveport Times,
Dem.
We always thought that Bob
Broussard was made out of the
Fright kind OF stuff" and now we
know ii, He~knew that the Dingley
bill would benefit the people of the
Third Congressional District, and
feeling that his duty was to the peo-
pie he represented, he voted for the
bill, regardless of The: party lash.
He and Congressman Davey and
Meyer will be upheld by their con-
stituents for their brave stand on a
question of such vital importance to
Southern Louisiana.-Houm Cour-
Ter, Dem.
A communication in answer to
the Daily States of last Sundays
att:ck on Congressman Broussard
for voting for the Dingley bill will
be published in our next issue, but
IN the meantime 1T is not amlSS 10
say that no true Louisianian and no
citizen of the parish of Assumption
will condemn the manly action of
MIR. Broussard, whose patriotism
and manhood broke the shackles
which tried to tie him against the
interest Of his constituents, and the
Pioneer, as Democratic paper
from its birth, gladly congratulates
our manly young congressman in
his brave course. 49, Assumption
Pioneer, DEM
There was a time in the history
of the party in this State when we
saw signs of healthy condition of
things, and that the party could be
organized on such basis which
would draw to its support the ele-
ments of the best people of Louis
lana, irrespective of class or nation