The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-05-26
ZOUIS/ANA'S .SENA TORS.

The Legislature OF LOUISIANA IN
session at Baton Rouge has elected
Hons. Sam ID. McEnery and Muir
phy T. Foster, United States Sena-
tors from this State. Senator Nc
Emery was elected to succeed him
self, his present term expiring
March 4, 1903. Gov. Foster was
elected to succeed Senator Caffery
whose term expires March 4, 1901.
Both gentlemen appeared before
the Democratic caucus and stated
their views on the different issues
now being discussed in the United
States.
Senator McEnery's views ex-
pressed before the caucus are in ac-
cord with the PRINCIPLES embodied
in the Chicago platform. On the
question of expansion the senator is
opposed to the policy of the Ke .
publican administration. His views
on the tariff are hardly in sympathy
Democratic party. The senator
insists, however, that the question
of tariff can not be made the test Of
Democratic fealty.
Gov Foster, though not an adj
vocate of the free coinage of silver,
announced that he would abide by
the action Of the Democratic party
on this question. He expressed
himself opposed to trusts and i'm
perialism, and in favor of the Mica
raguan canal and of the election of
United States senators by the peo-
pie. On the question of imperial
ism Gov. Foster said:
ssDrawn by the course of events into the
turned from the role of liberators of an op-
pressed people to that of conquerors, and
are now holding these possessions by the use
of the sword. So seductive is the lust of
eminent are being ignored. and the people
| are being lured by the dreams of empire.
Colonies and dependencies are being consid-
cred as part of our Republican system, and
subject nations held under the flag over
whom our constitution throws not its protect
| ing shield. constitutional republic like
| ours cannot stand such distortions of the prin-
ciples upon which it was founded. The
splendid galaxy StdteS which Hxcu lnelI
| forty five stars in the nations flag cannot
| find fit company in subject colonies. The
right of self-government and the right OF
statehood which has heretofore gone with
the flag, cannot give place to relations q
subject and vassal without tearing away the
corner stone of the structure. All the
growth and progress of the past has been or
logical lines and in proper paths.
1.-THE original thirteen colonies have ex
| tended down to the Mexican gulf, and the
Rio Grande, and out to the Pacific. Nc
| greater act of craftsmanship is recorded or
| the pages of history than the purchase from
Napoleon by Thomas Jefferson of the vas
Louisiana territory. This purchase and al
other extensions of territory were simply &C
ouisitions of lands. The people that inhab
tied these territories were few and 81
widely scattered that whatever their nation
ality or their training they could not stans
in the way of the new system, or proven
the upgrowth Ct Republican institutions. l
remained for our day to go across the SCI
and purchase nations. By the treaty o
Paris we bought some 100000 people
more than three times the number which in
habited the American colonies when the
took up arms against Great Britain, AM
these 10000, 900 of Filipinos belong to tina
race which has never shown capacity TO
free government. and majority of them ar
but half civilized. 1t cannot be the exPec
tation of any conservative man that either i
| this or the next generation sovereign State
which intend 10 enter this great nation ca
be formed of any such citizens. The pro:
pect of any such contamination Is too remot