Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
PRECEDENT WILSON'S ADMINI-
srRArIoN ACCUSED OF be.
u. rRAyINc SOUTH.
ELECTION OF PROGRESSIVE
10 CONGRESS FOR REVENGE
.rsnec,.l co.respondence.1

Especial Correspondence
washington, Dec. IL. - The resent
mont felt BY the people Of Louisiana
Against the administration was recent
" voiced here by Judge w. P. Martin.
the progressive congressman from the
Third congressional district Of Louisi-
ana. He has been here to attend the
national rivers and harbors congress.
He made this statement concerning
political conditions in his state:
II md II to be the general impress
sion In Washington that my election
In the Third district Of Louisiana was
due solely TO . desire on the part OF
our people to show their resentment
at the treatment accorded them by this
administration. We do resent the fact
tAat this administration. tho pledged
by its platform not to so reduce the
tariff as to injure or destroy any legiti-
mate industry, has, Notwithstanding its
pledge. sought the destruction Of our
greatest industry by entirely removing
ened the existence OF cur other indus
tries by materially reducing the duty
upon rice, corn, and lumber.
Now Propose 70 Fight.
"The fact that our people are con-
tinuing to plant sugar cane and rice is
owing to the small advance in price
Of these products, due to the effects of
the European war. These industries
are living today, not because OF any
thing this administration has done for
us, but in spite Of all it has done
against us. OF course. wc naturally
resent the unfair and unjust treatment
that has been accorded us by this ad-
ministra ton, and we would not be
human If we did not. Our people are
protectionists in principle. and feel that
they can no longer affiliate with q par
ty that for the second time has lost no
opportunity to strike . blow at the in
dustries Of the south. We forgave the
democratic party when during the
Cleveland administration our industries
were threatened and we had hoped for
better and fairer treatment at the
hands of this administration, which
was under solemn platform pledge not
to Anjure or destroy us. but when thu
administration regardless Of promises
and platform pledges, sought by adj
verse legislation, the destruction Of an
industry in which millions are involved
and upon which hundreds Of thousands
depend for living, our people con-
Guided that the time had come to leave
the party that had deserted and aban-
doned them, and join a party that held
out some hope for the future. Our peo-
pie were in the same frame Of mind as
the good and much-loved Louisiana
preacher, who when his enemy had
slapped him upon one cheek, turned to
him the other and received like blow.
The preacher then pulled off his coat,
rolled up his sleeves. and said, MY
friend, have followed the biblical in
junction which says that when your
enemy smites you upon one cheek you
must turn to him the other also. This
have done, and I shall now proceed
to give you the best licking you ever
received in your life,' and the preacher
was as good as his word. The Cleye-
land administration smote our people
upon one cheek, and the Wilson admin
istration has smitten them upon the
other. and like the preacher, they have
pulled off their coats. and rolled up
their sleeves and given the democratic
party licking that they will long re-
member. But, in my humble opinion,
this licking Is but a sample. II the
democratic party continues its policy
of destruction, the DETECTION from its
ranks will not be confined to the Third
district Of my state. but will spread
not only to other portions Of Louisiana,
and most probably to adjoining states
In the south.
Betrayed by Wilson.
Il Il have been democrat all of my
life. am now district Judge, elected
on the democratic ticket. 1 contem-
plate resigning this Office as soon as
the crowded docket. growing out Of the
disastrous effects Of the policy OF this
administration will permit so as to en-
ter upon my duties here in Washing
ton. I was also delegate to the Bal
timore convention. i went 70 this con-
vention as Wilson delegate, and with
Brougsard and others, was faithful to
the candidacy Of Mr.. Wilson ttruout
that memorable struggle for the demo-
cratic nomination. When Mr.. Wilson
received the nomination, and agreed to
run upon the platform that pledged the
party not to fnjure or destroy any
lei Intimate industry, I felt that our in
ddstries were safe, and that the party
would live up to its pledges. But when
this administration undertook to disre-
gard its platform, which President
Wilson said was not molasses to catch
HieS and sought to legislate our indus
tries out Of existence. the people OF my
dt1trict, an overwhelming majority OF
whom were life-long democrats, felt
that this was the last straw, and in
the face OF the opposition os national.
state, and parochial administrations.
and in the face Of hostile press.
elected 4 progressive protectionist by
safe and large majority. No one
who does not live in Louisiana can
realize the conditions that were
brouk1it about in my state ty the ruin,
GUS effects Of the Underwood, bill. Many
Of our sugar mills have been disman-
tied, and the vast army Of unemployed
Is upon. the Increase. Our skilled la
Dor u seeking other fields OF employ
ment; our people in desperation have
been reaching .out, and searching for
some industry to take the place OF
those which the democratic party has
sought to destroy. We are n 1w hoping
tbat the effects Of the European war
VIII enabIS them to survive the ruinous.
elkeots az the Underwood bill, un.tl
! thso ~ 8 eAAn9e OF administration.