The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-05-01

are at present endeavoring to run
the Orleans levee board. The
board has succeeded in squelching
them, but they will pop out in some
other place soon. It's little
strange that the august Janvier has
not forwarded orders to Mckinley
relative to Federal appointments in
the flood threatened metropolis
lberville South, Dem.
We have had occasion to
auimadvert severely against Meyer,
Davey and Broussard for perfidy to
the Democratic party, for voting
for this Republican and anti-Demo-
cratic measure, but we cannot con-
ceive it possible that Sam McEnery,
who has been honored by the DEM
ocratic party of Louisiana beyond
any other man in public life since
the war and who owes whatever of
honorable political preferment he
has attained to the Partially of
that party, will deliberately betray
the trust which has been reposed in
him by a confding constituency,
by recording his vote in favor of
me assure calculated to destroy any
semblance of returning prosperity,
and multiplying every sacred tradition
and principle of Democracy,
handed down to us by the inmor-
tai founder of the party, Thomas
Jefferson. When the final vote on
the passage of this robber tariff is
taken we hope and believe that the
name of Sam McEnery will be re-
corded on the negative with that of
Don Caffery He has been
weighed in the scales of official life
o.. Lac
found wanting. We cannot con-
Roman of Democracy will for the
first time in long, useful and
honorable political career, sacrifice
every cherished principle of the
party to gain f1eeting popularity
with a few hundred sugar planters
of Louislana.-Alexan Demo-
crat, Dem.
1t has been established time and
again that principle-party Princi-
ple-must be preserved inviolate
and paramount to interest, personal
or collective, if party organization
IS to be preserved and perpetuated.
The very moment it is conceded
that party leader and representa-
tive chosen because of his avowed
faith in party principles as his
guide of action, can become the
instrument of interests and the indi-
vidual interpreter of his line of &C
ton, even to the extent of Detraying
his party and slapping it in the face
by joining its enemies, then there is
an end to organization which is re-
solved into independentism. Such
method betravs and ignores his con-
stituents as a party and makes a
fraction greater than the whole.
1t. won't do.-Shreveport Times,
Dem.
In the meantime those gold-bug
Journals that are cutting up such
antics because Congressman Brous
sard, Meyer and Davey saw fit to
vote for the Dingley Bill might
spend their time more proftably in
trying to rid themselves of their
monometallic predictions, that
they may occupy the prodigars seat
at the Democratic feast in 1900; or
else remain with the Palmer and
Buckne, crowd and try to figure out
some way through which their
peculiar political aggregation can
gain recognition as belligerents, in
the lost cause they are SO vigorous
ly but hopelessly espousing-a re-
cognition they failed to win at the
last election although backed by all
the power of a repudiated admins
tion.-Houma Courier, Dem.
The trouble with the Republicans
is that they have been during the
last campaign too lavish with their
promises and predictions of good
times. All that was required said
they to the voters, was to defeat
free silver and s'anarchism," and
shattered confidence would at once
be restored, and the glad smile of
prosperity would at once light up
the land and fill with joy the hearts
OF the Inhabitants thereof.-St.
Mary Banner, Dem.
At a meeting of prominent citi-
zens of New Orleans held on Sun
day last for the purpose Of devising