The Republican courier., 1899-12-02

The effort to induce Admiral
Dewey to train for the Presidency,
according to the utterances Ut that
gentleman, will not work, ana he
positively refuses to become in any
sense and under any circumstances
rival of President Mckinley.
| Moreover, the Admiral very grace
fully and properly contends that
Mr.. Mckinley is entitled to be re-
elected.
The aspirants for Democratic
honors at Baton Rouge next month,
would appear to be on the hustle,
and the scramble for the Governor
ship and seats in the United States
Senate, especially the one now held
by Senator Caffrry, promises to be
quite lively and more than interest
ing. At this distance, however,
the Judge will not venture a pre-
diction as to possible winners, be-
cause the Democracy, beyond It's
fixedness of purpose to rob ballot
box aud manipulate the count,
when Republican majority of the
votes therein would appear to be
the result, is as uncertain a quanti-
lty as anything can be. Their po-
Iitical ruler, judging from actions
and selections of the past, is expe-
diency and availability. Fitness,
principles and deservability cut no
figure, it would seem, and as the
saying goes, "My son get money,
get it honestly if you can, but you
must get money" Therefore, what.
ever the cost Of principle or the
sacrifice of good men they are cast
to the four winds wherever and
whenever the Democracy realizes
that this must be- done in order to
succeed.
The Judge hears Of many little
political schemes being hatched in
che Republican cann. and as TO
what will be done in short while
from now, or as soon as the Rrpuo.
lican "checker board" is brushed
off and arranged for the game. de
also hears that certain men now
holding high positions in tie Fed
eral service and councils OF the
party, are to be slaughtered ana
sacrificed without mercy or cere-
mony. Of course, such contempla-
linns by the soreheads and disap.
pointed are always fathered and
| intended by them. but they don't
always succeed in their designs
and purposes. And the Judge, II
he knows anything of the men anu
politicians, who, it il said, will ill.,
augurate and prosecute this move,
hazards nothing in saying that like
all their antics and combinations in
the past, they will be thwarted
and hoisted higher than "Gilroy's
Kite" The Judge is aware that 1t
is a bitter pill, but it will have to
be as "gall and wormwOOd" to
} them, at least four years more.
They made for themselves a hard
bed aud must lie on it until fully
: purged of their political perhdy
}, and wickedness.
The National Congress will soon
meet, and not since 1866, or the
close of the war between the North
: and the South, has any Congress
= had to deal with such question:
and affairs of state, as the present
Congress will have to deal. How
. ever, fortunately for the country
:. every branch of the National Gov
|, ernment is safely under Republi
= can control, and every issue ant
vi.al question will be met and set
tied in a manner to insure the pro
motion and protection to every in
terest of the nation. The Repub
lican party is a liberal aud pre-
O. gressive party, and in every NOV
a since 1861 has fully demonstrate
al it's ability and fitness to deal wit
le every live question and demand q
ls the hour. Therefore, in fixing th
10 status and future of the recent
OF acquired territories, their success
a. full re habitation and progress, uI
y. der Republican direction, will b
~ as marked as was the reconstru'
&c ton of the South.