New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-10-31
WHY WE SHOULD RE-
MAIN DEMOCRATIC.

owes its present firm posi-
ton in the worlds affairs
to President Woodrow Viii
son. it is really a striking
anomaly to hear a Wv dis
satisfied use-to-he Demo
Gratis, rail and fumc about,
That ther2 is method III their
madness. we zeal satisfied,
because their Bull Moose
ardOr is of but recent date,
even several months after
the passage Of the Under
wood Bill.
The people of the Third
Congressional District are
fair and liberal-mindc! and
will listen to reason in nOll-
ties and business when they
are appealed to in the right
manner, but they certainly
will not allow themselves to
be made the goats merely for
the sake Of furnishing polit.
zeal Office and politica. power
to a few use-tO-be Democrats.
We are moved to express
the above on the hypothesis
which the Bull Moosers are
basing their strongest argu-
ment to land Judge W. p.
Martin in the Unite'i States
House Of Representative s,
which is. that the Democra-
tic party gave us "frtr SUI
gar" and that for that rea-
son. and on that account. a
Bull Moose Congressman
should be elected in order TO
restore the duty on sugar.
No other explanation IS
deigned; no other pledge Is
made. The Democrats gave
You "free sugar" therefore
you must elect q Progressive.
Now, the citizens of the
Third District deserve to be
treated with more considera-
ton that these leaders arr
giving them. They should
be told how, when, and by
what means the Progress
sives will restore the duty
on sugar; they ought to DO
told why the only Senator
they have, voted in favor OF
the passage of the Under
wood Bill. The Progressive
party was born because the
leaders of the Republican
party refused to write in
their platform a tariff with .
reduction downward and
against one with a protective
tendency and Col. Roosevelt
himself in his talk in New
Orleans. though he deplored
the blow the sugar planters
had been given did not offer
them a protective tariff on
sugar. He dared not do it
then and he dare not do it
today. All he advocated
was a tariff Commission"
which he said would frame
an ideal tariff. one that would
be fair and honest to every
one.
The Republican party lost
their control of the govern
ment on a high protective
tariff. The Payne-Aldrich
Tariff Bill, which was a high
protective tariff and was
pronounced by ex-president
w. II. Taft. as "the best
tariff bill ever framed, was
directly the cause of the ter
rible defeat of the Republi-
can party in 1912. On that
tariff bill the Republican
party which held an over
whelming majority in the
two houses Of Congress was
reduced in both branches to
an insignificant minority
127 Republicans and Progress
sives against 300 Democrats.
is how they stand in the
House. In the Senate the
Democrats have a majority
Of seven.
With such an overwhelm-
ing majority in favor of the
Democrats, with the further
incontrovertible fact of ter
rible Progressive slumps all
over the country, isn't it the
very essence of Stiffness for
the people of the Third Dis
trict to send a Progressive
Congressman to Washington
Isn't it better business and
better politics to send a man
equipped like Henri Guey-