The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-03-04
STATE PRESS.
Items of Interest and What the
Newspapers Have TO Say.

Royal In New orleans nave HnaIly
decided to sell the property al
4 public outcry some time during
! April, the exact date to be design
ated by the Attorney General who
will supervise the sale. For senti-
mental reasons it is to be regretted
that this magnificent property
should pass out of the hands of the
State. Some of the most memora-
Louisiana have transpired beneath
its historic roof. 1t served the
State Capitol during and ust fol
lowing the stormy period of recon
struction, and its majestic dome
trescoed by the hands of some Of
the most eminent artists in Europe
and America, is an object the fame
of which extends over the continent.
Here Warmoth and Kellogg and
their infamous mlnlons sat when
they plundered the State of count
less millions of dollars. Here Pack
ard defied the voice of the people
and remained barricaded and
guarded by Federal bayonets until
he was overthrow by gallant old
Governor Nichols. at the head of
the white men of the State, and
here too, when better days dawned
upon the State and the dove of
peace smiled upon her people, sat
Nichols when he inaugurated those
beneficent reforms which have been
followed up by his successors,
Wilt, McEnery, Nichols again
and then Foster, and which have
done so much for the prosperity OF
Louisiana. 1t is great pity that
the State should have to part pos
session with the historic pile, but
New Orleans is moving away from
the old hotel and it is no longer pro
fitabie to maintain il.
Baton Rouge Advocate: Senator
McEnery may be an EOld Roman
and all that; but it does occur to US |
that when momentous issue is to |
be settled and his vote counts big |
he can come nearer 'roamlng' into
the Republican party than other
prominent Democrat in the nation
He s'roamed" off against the Demo
cratic party in Louisiana III 1892; he
"roamed" Unto the Republican camps
when he voted for the Dingley tariff
bill, and last week al the earnest
solicitation of Republican Senators
he ..roamed'' into he same camps
on the vote ratifying the peace treaty
with Spain. He is a great "Roam-
er '-Morehouse Appeal,
Our good friend should hold his
patience and remember that ''the
sugar interest had to saved. " OF
course, it counts for but little if the
t.downfall of the Republic should
date from the acquisition of the
as some expressed 1t,
and as Senator McEnery himself
seemed to feel three weeks ago; we {
can get along without the Republic,
but the sugar interests must be !
saved even if the downfall of the
be the price we must pay
for the salvation of sugar. When
gar interests and the Republic, why {
the Republic be damned. Who 9
would stop to think about a measley t
title Republic when the gigantic /
sugar interests of Louisiana are sup c
posed to be involved?
Daily Picayune: But is it not /
noteworthy that the President should v
% boldly declare the incapacity of t
/ people of whom, as he confesses, /
lie is.so profoundly ignorant that he :,
,annot venture to say what form of
would be best for them. O
Yet, after adding that he is &C
luainted with no one who is much +
letter informed than himself in that
egard, he congratulates all con h
:erned that the fate of the Filipinos Ii
S in the hands of Congress. That t
ssembly, infallble despite its igno T
ance, is meanwhile fast approach {
ng the last day of its present ses fl
ion,' and will adjourn without lay il
ng before the Pr esftient SO much as s
he rough outlines of a plan for the a
government of the Philippines e
ST. 4sandry Clarion: 1t is high .