Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1914-08-15
TURNING ADMINISTRATION
DOWN.

The recent defeat of ex-Congress
man Thomas H. Ball in the primarie:
for the Democratic nomination TOT
Governor of Texas, by plurality OF
$4,000 votes, amounts to slap In the
face for the Wilson administration
Ball was distinctively Wilson can
didate. Letters in his behalf signed
by President Wilson and Secretary
BRYAN were extensively circulated
throughout that State. In an inter
view published in the New York
Times, John H. Kirby, member o
the last Texas Legislature, wealthy
lumber operator and a Democrat, i.
quoted as saying:
Texas is not in harmony with thu
Administration on several points
Ours is an agricultural State, and un
der the new tariff everything we pro
duce is put on the free list, and what
we have to buy is obtainable only III
a taxed market. We are not in har-
mony with the Administration on the
currency question, because its views
are at variance with the teachings
of the Democratic party for the last
fifty years We are wholly out of har-
mony with the Administrations Mex
lean policy, for the reason that while
as President Wilson says, this is
nation of service" we believe the
first duty of our Government is to its
own citizens"
And the above comes on the heel
of the news that the Democrats OF
Louisiana are going over to the Pro
gressives. This will surprise man!
people who have never believed i
possible that Democrats of the Soutf
would ever change their politics. The
Democrats of Louisiana who relied
on that portion of the Baltimore plat
form which pledged the party, if sue
cessful, not to enact tariff that vii
injure or destroy any legitimate in
dustry," have been buncoed worse
than any other part of the South
Louisiana had spent $20,000,0O0 to
dixie and drain lands for the growing
of sugar cane, making it in many re-
spects the best sugar, land in the
world individuals and corporations
had put in over $l00,000,000 more t.
establish plantations to grow the cane
and factories to make the sugar and
had the most modern and improved
plants Today many of these plants
have already been sold under the Sher-
ifs hammer. some of them have been
shipped to Venezuela and other coun-
tries, and some of the planters have
blown their brains out. being financi
ally ruined and at their wits end to
save anything from the ruins. And
Washington. d. c., has appropriated
100000 to teach the Louisianans how
to raise hogs to make up for he los
in sugar! The lands that have beer
prepared for cane growing at sucf
great expense are practically fit for
nothing else. They are too far north
for citrus fruits and too wet for north
ern crops to do we'll And sugar to the
consumers costs about the same that
it did before the tariff was shaped Sc
as to ruin a great American industry
Truly, the Administration has done
not only foolish thing for the coun
try in enacting this tariff law but ?
great criminal act against the people
of Louisiana Now that the peop'o
are sliding away from the Democratic
party and going into the Progressive
ranks in Louisiana it will be but a few
years before they become Republi
cans, at least so far as protection to
American industries are concerned.