The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-08-11

our friend said that although he had
severed his connection with ..Dem
cvacy - she is" he was still . let
Democrat who believed
in equal rights to all and special
to none. We submit that
the confession of faith OF The judge
10 not consistent. He says he be
lieves in the fundamental principles
Of the Democratic party, reiterates
his belief in the great Jeffersonian
doctrine of equal rights and sings
over the glor,-s of Din
gIeyism which is the very embed,
ment of the Republican policy that
creates and fosters trusts and mono
poles through the extension of
special privileges. The Jeffersonian
principle Of equal rig IS is opposed
to special privileges while Dingley-
ism robs Peter to enrici. Jack. You
can not be in favor of both.
The Dingley bill may have done
for the rice and sugar industries all
that is claimed for it, but it IS con.
cededly the Incarnation of the pol
icy of protection which confers
special privileges upon the favored
classes. 1t may have added millio ms
to the Golfers of the protected in
but every cent of those
millions has been collected from
the people the greater portion Of
whom do NO, belong to the favored
classes and derive no benefit from
the DingIey tariff law. Ask the
intelligent cotton grower Of St,
Landry il he is helped by a nigh
tariff He will tell you that he sells
his goods in a free trade market.
but en- everything tina, he eats and
wears he must pay a tribute to the
protected industries.
Our learned friend should not be
surprised that we s'shook the red
flag of Warmothism in his face"
In his lette. to tine Item Judge Du-
pre- did not attribute his conversion
cies which he advocated. He led
US to believe that he was abandon,
ing the Democracy in this State on
account of certain methods to which
he objected, and that he had made
up his mind to seek the purer at
mosphere of Republicanism under
rs <ha
master of Magnolia. We found It
strange that man of Judge Dupre's
would, in search for
decent methods and honest politics,
leave the Democratic party to join
Louisiana RePublican;sm.
Judge Dupre wants to see the
white men of the South divide polit-
ically upon an honest difference of
opinion. He desires to relegate to
the past the horrld nightmare Of re-
So does every in
telligent Democrat in the South. 1t
would be far better if there were
two strong, vigorous parties, COM
posed of white men. That is ex-
actly what the Democratic party
has been working for. BY elimina-
ting the negro from the suffrage the
party has tried to make
such a condition not only possible
but desirable. Understanding, as
did the great Georgian, that the
white people could not safely divide
On economic questions until the
'sblack spectre" had been removed,
the Democratic party has made
strenuous efforts to do away with
the African as political factor.
violently opposed by the
politicians and news
papers the Democracy of Missis
sippi, South Carolina, Louisiana
and North Carolina, has, through
is brainv and patriotic leaders,
adopted plans by which that Re-
publican infamy, known as the
fifteenth amendment, has been so
crippled that It is powerless to
again inflict upon Southern civiliza-
ion the blighting curse of negro
That Democracy which
Mr.. Dupre finds so bad has done
all this for the South though or