The Lafayette gazette., 1900-04-07
a New England Wow Of Senator
CafEery.

A Now England View Of Senator
New Orleans Fcayune,
1.-THE course of Senator Donelson Caifery
in Louisiana politics is incomprehensible to
US folks up in New England, where we had
: John Quinn, yr., of Boston. Mass, in his
room at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, where he
rested from q journey to Cuba. ''We can
not understand how he can go square back
on the Legislature that elected him and the
people who had sent him to the United
States Senate, a position which we look upon
a. about the highest of any IN the gift of the
people. New England-and speak ad
visedly, for Senator Caffery of Louisiana,
was known all over the States of that dis
Districts surprised beyond expression.
1--WE all supposed that there was some
secret to this flop that we could not aPpre-
ciate, but have searched in vain for one.
If it is because his son is running for gov
ernor on a Republican fusion ticket, why,
we do not recognize that as rational ex-
cuse, for politics divide households in Bos-
ton. The father and the son often in
different parties. Owing to his views on the
money question and other sound doctrines
on national issues, Senator Caaery, Of Louis
jana, was held by US as great Southern
statesman. And I must confess that our
ideas have been shattered"
The tall, smoothly-shaven, keen eyed gen
tleman, who gave voice to the above EXPIRES
sion on Louisiana politics, needs no intro
II
here a paragraph to refresh the memory
would not be out of place.
Hon. John Quinn, Jr., of Boston, comes
from family of statesmen. He served in
the Massachusetts State Senate for three
years. He introduced the original subsidy
bill in the Massachusetts, Legislature in 1893
that led to the building of that wonderful
piece of engineering construction that has
given Boston rapid transit. He was the
author of the Quinn legislation that led to
the clearing out of the opium joints of the
Hub.
In company with Hon. M. F. Sullivan,
who represented the Seventh ward in the
State Legislature for years, Senator Quinn
made trip to Cuba and thence came to
this city. They will go from here to Little
koss and FROM S. ,Se m
81 wish could remain in New Orleans
long enough to get out with your campaign
party and make one good, hot Democratic
speech" the Bostonian continued. 'sAnd
would like better still to attend one of the
Cadery meetings and tell Senator Cafery
why he should stay with the people who in
trusted their interests in his hands.
"Havana," added Senator Quinn, ring
cleaner than Boston or New York, or Phila
delphia, and excuse me for saying it, but you
have more dirt and filth in one of your
streets than they have in all of Havana.
city / ever was in. I don't know where
they get them, but the Havana police are
models. 1 never saw any set of men SO at
tentive and oblieing. They would walk 4
block to point out your way.
s'We came back by Florida and the coast
route. I find the general southern senti-
ment strong for Bryan, with his I6 to sill
yer doctrine eliminated. The people are
willing to take him if you leave off that Io
to I.
''Let me give you a new point on this ex-
pansion question. The administration ad
vocates say we took Florida and we took
Texas, and we took louisiana, and we did
this and we did that; did, but when
we took those territories they were covered
with primeval forests, and the people in
habiting them were Indians or class of
savages that we were killing as fast as we
could. The added possessions were new,
uncultvated, unnhabited--they were good
for future immigration.
s'The Cubas and the Philippines al
ready thickly settled. They possessed
by races of people who are older than our
own, and who have dominated them even
longer than our own. The comparison is
not synonymous at all. The new posses
sions of the Mckinley administration are
not fit for American emigrants.