Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-08-11
HOW SHALL We yorEa

when Gov. ]. Y. Sanders opened
his campaign for the United States
Senatorship.
The Governor devoted the first
first part of his speech to defense
Of his administration, answering the
attacks of his opponents, and the
latter part to his position on ma
tional issues.
While the Gazette believes that
the Sanders administration has been
honest ard efficient and that the
Governor may well ask the suffrages
of the people in his candidacy for
the Senatorship because Of his rec
ord as governor, we still feel inter-
ested in the position of the aspi-
rants for the Senatorship on the
great questions Of the day which
are to be solved by the Congress of
the United States.
Governor Sanders leaves us in no
doubt as to bis attitude toward these
questions. He tells US he is Dem
ocrat and stands squarely on the
last Democratic national platform.
and as to the questions of tariff. the
question Of an income tax and the
question Of corporation control and
regulation, the Governor is for q
tariff for revenue only and will
abide by the action Of a caucus Of
his party on that and other ques-
tions.
Now, what is the attitude of his
opponents, Messrs. Broussard and
Pujo, on this vital question-this
question Of the tariff which affects
the prosperity and happiness Of
every man, woman and child in the
nation. this question which has rent
the Republican party in twain, led
to the great Democratic victory Of
last year and is leading to the great
er Democratic victory Of next year.
when the people, coming into their
own, shall elect Democratic Pres
ident and Congress. and wipe from
the statute books the infamous laws
which have made the rich richer
and the poor poorer, fattened the
pockets of tariff barons and trust
magnates and so entrenched in
power the special interests and priv
LEGGED classes that it will take all
but armed resolution to dislodge
them?
Do we find Messrs. Broussard and
Pujo in company with the great
Democratic leaders, VIM. J. Bryan,
Woodrow Wilson, Champ Clark,
Oscar Underwood and hosts of 9TH
ers. bearing aloft the banners Of the
people in this great national and
Democratic movement. Let us look
at their records.
Mr.. Broussard entered Congress
in 1897, taking his seat during the
first term of President Mckinley.
The attitude Of the two great parties
was then, as now, on the tariff
question. Mr.. Cleveland's admin
istration, which had just gone out
Of power, had given the country the
Wilson tariff law, which greatly re-
duced the duties imposed by the
Mckinley law, Republican meas
ure carrying the highest rate OF
duties ever levied in this country
up to the time Of its passage. The
Wilson law was repealed by the
Dingley law, Republican measure
which greatly increased tariff rates
over the Mckinley law. What did
Mr.. Broussard do when this Ding
ley law came up for passage2 He
soted for Il, aligning himself with
the Republicans and putting him.
self squarely against the party to
which he claimed then, and now
claims, TO belong.
Eleven years passed without furth-
er tariff legislation. Tariff reform
became again a burning question in
the Presidential campaign Of 1908.
The Democrats adhered to their old
position, even the Republicans adj
mitted that duties were too high
and should be lowered. The Repub-
lican candidate, Mr.. Taft. promised
the country. that, if elected, the
Republican party would lower duties.
Only such champions Of special in
terests as Speaker Cannon in the