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PU3LISUKD IEVERY SATERDAr 1.. P'. CAILLOULET. Prop'r and pub. -i. It. I)UPRE, - Business lanager. oficial Journal of the parish of Lafourche. I Bred 4t tAU Pp.t O()le at hfib dies, La a$ second class matter. BUBSCRIPTION PRIOE: PEr YEAB, IN ADVANCS......... 2.00 All communlcations should be ad dressed to The TUHIBoDAUX SEN''INEL rhibodaux, La. Correspondence on subjects of general Interest solisited. To Insure notice of theiremmunlcations, writers must furnish their real name, even 4hough they should desire to withhold its jrublIcatioi, as an evidence of good faith. Matter intended for publication should bo -AittUn only on one side of the abhe , and to Insure Insertion the week's lue. co. {unOieatiolls should reachll this oloe by --ednesday's mail of that week. SubscriberS who fail to recellS their paper On t"'ne should notify us without delay. Wlrurl7 prepared to do job work of every description. SATIJIRDAY, MAR. 10 1900. Democratic Statq Ticket. FOR OoVERNOK W. W. HEARD, OF UNION. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOe ALBERT ESTOPINAL, OF ST. BERNARD. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN T. MICHEL, OP ORLEANS. FOR AUDITOR W. S. FRAZEE, OF ST. LANDSY. FOR TREASURER LEDOUX E. SMITH, Or RAPIDES. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL WALTER GUION, OF ASCENSION. FOR SUPT. OF PUBLIC EDUCATION J. V. CALHOUN, OF ORLEANS. Democratio Judicial Ticket. FoR JUDGE OF 20TH, DISTRICT. L. P. CAILLOUET, of Lafourche. FoR DISTaICT ATTORNEY, SAME DIeT W. P. MARTIN, of Lafourche. Democratic Parish Ticket. Foa REPRESENTATIVES, OSCAR ANGELLOZ, 31. DELAUNE. • Foa SnIERIP. JAMES BEARY. F.In (I'LERK OF COURT. C'!. Il.;1lS J. BARKER. Fo, CORONER, Iii:. A. J. PRICE. Democratic Ward TiQkete. Fox POLICE JURaos,-Ward 1, J. .. Basset, Ward 2, J. L. Aucoin, Ward 3, Charles J. Guedry, Ward 4, J. P. Bourg, Ward 5, E. U. Morvant. Ward 6, Lovincyg Hodrigue, Ward 7, J. Alcide Chauvin, Ward 8, R. M. Batcher, Ward 9, James Moran, Ward 10, F. P. Parrsa FoR JUSTICES OP "'dr PEACE, Ward 1, A. E. Hoflmann, Ward 2, C. A. Engerran and Oscar L. Caro, Ward 3, E. P. Bernard, Ward 4, E. P. Delanne, Ward 5, J. B. Bourgeois, Ward 6, Joseph Meyer, Ward 7. H. L. Youngs, Jr., Ward 8, Marcellin Boulrgeole, Ward 9, John Lyall, Br., Ward 10, Auguste CreUti. FoR CONSTABLst,-Ward 1, Charles Brand, Ward 2, Adrien Roger, Max. Dupr~6, Ward3, Jo. D. Bernard, Ward 4, Clement Hargis, Ward 5, D. L. Laperouse, Ward 6, John L. Rodrigue, Ward 7, Robert L. Askew, Ward 8, lBud White, Ward 9, J.lohnu Lyall, Jr., Ward 10, Joseph R6mont Wbat is the Otdeseion to Our Zltion JawsP Of course, little Don Caferv doesn't know what he is talking about when he says the force bill would be pre ferable to our present election sys tem. A young man of his years knows very little of the practical workiogs of forue bills, and his declaratii n in favor of the force bill only serves as an addltional proof of the truth oi the old saw that a certain class of Ieopl "rush *bere angls fear to tread(." Come to think of it, the "lo)- from St. Mary" doesn't seem to know amuch of the laws which he is pleased to call "trick" laws. The present election laws are better adapted to pecure honest elections than any laws on that subject that we have ever hadL They were enaotted to msc** th re free expremion of the will of tie wAil. people of the State uA the goverilent of their internal saurs; pand whatU is the obj-ction to thait T What ol*jction to that .eas Mr. Vaffery ? What oblt'ti'Hn has any white m.ap ? Stop that Cough DR. DAVIS' Compound Syrup Wild Cihrry and Ta Cures Co r:s, Colds, Asthm-, Cr l. Th~rot and L.. g A'fectio:.s. 5-c. Cott! . Large Cottle $1.00. I All do+ IShI and redicine dc'er;. The law guaranttcs a secret hallot, I and a secret ballot means a free ballot; what is the objection to such a ballot ? The law frees the voter from all outside infliences, when making his ballot and while casting it; who.: would alter this provision ? The law guarantees a fair count and allows l:artics the means to secure it; who can complain ? Let those who inveigh against the law, and grow purple in the fsce'shouting fraud, fraud, present their bill of particulars; a blanket indictment will not answer. Glittering generali ties prove nothing; specific charges must be set forth. The Australian ballot law, our present law, lb in force, in one form or another, in nearly all the States of the Union, and has given satisfaction. Why condemn it in advance of a fair trial in this State, simply because it curtails, in some direction, the possi bility for trickery and fraud ? We contend that the law is one in line with the ballot reform of the day, and when justly administered, as we have a right to presunle it will be, it will greatly tend to secure a free ballot and a fair count-the very thing our friends, the enemy, are shouting for. Foster To Catfery. If Senator Caffery. has read Gov. Foster's lake Charles speecch, in which the Senator was roasted to. the King's taste, we reckon he is sorry he ever uttered a word in the Wash ington Artillery meeting. Foster has knocked the foundation from un. der Caffery. and left him not so much as a peg to hang to And he has done it in true Ches t rfeldian style, so that Senator Cat. firy, as strong a master of invective as he is reputed to be, cannot now resert to the use of that weapon, in any attempted reply to Foster, with. out logerirg himself in the esteem of thoughtful men. There is only only one answer which the Senator can make to the Governor, and that is, 'o keep a dig. nified silence. Any other answer will only involve him in greater Sdifficulties, lie is already in the plight of the unfortunate parrot in the story of the "Parrot and the ,Dog;" he has already talked too much, and old Tige has done him up. If the Senator is wise in his day and generation, he will further imi State the bird by climbing back into his roost, and staying there. Th.earch of Imperialism. The country is making rapid strides in the merch of imperalasm; every day the present federal admin. i istration takes a few steps in that direction. The imperialistic policy has now become the policy of the Republican party, so far as the t federal administration can bind that party. Last December in his message to congrems President McKinley said -our plain duty is to abolish all 'tl nustoms tariffs between the United' A Bevy of Beauties ... IS MY LINE OF TRIMMED HATS. IT INCLUDES EVERYTHING Stylish in that line, from the ready to wear Tazm O'Shanter crown Walking flats with fine eagle quill to the Full Dress Shapes, with heavy ostrich plumes and finest qual ty trimmings. Tam Crown Hats with long eagle quills that sell now are all the rage. Velvet Ribbons, Fancy Feathers and other M4illinery Goods, also fancy Dress Goods and Capes of all kinds, at prices that will astonish you. DRESS MAKING A SPECIALTY.4- )4tNT FOR THE RELAIILE sITTERICK PATTIIIS. - , C-ALL AB EXRAMINE y ST e0A. MRS. J. N. WRIGHT, THIBODAUX, LA. of so! of f t States ant Pu, rto Rico rt:-1 give hert products free naccess to our mrrkets." As the Chicago Timcs-lle:'ad, a Republican paper, says : ",W!i it was out plain duty last December is oaur plain duty to-day. Puerto Rico is as much entitled to be consid.er.d a part of the United States as Alaska." If a part of the United States. as sound col,siitutional lawyers think it is, then the President was emincently right in saying that it is "our plain duty to abolish all customs tariffs" as to Puerto Rico, and to admit her products free; for the constitution provides that "all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform through out the United States." There can not, therefore, be any discrimination against Puerto Rico in the matter of tariff legislation, any more than there could be against any other territory ot the United States. And yet the majority of the Ways and Means Committee has reported, with the sanction of the President, it is charged, that: "The term "United States" in the provision of the con. stitution which declares that all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States means and is confined to the States that constitute the federal union, and does not cover also the territory belonging to the United States. "That congress has power to govern Puerto Rico and the Philip pines independent of the limitations of the constitution." Here is a direct and unequivocal assertion of unlimited power in con' gress to do just what it pleases in the government of the territory of the United States, regard:ess of any limitations placed upon it by the very constiution which gives that body existence. It wipes out, in a few I lines, the constitution of the United States, and places the life. the liberty, and property of all the inhabitants of all the territory of the United States, outside of States, in the absolute power of congress. to be bartered and disposed of, without let or hindrance from any human power. These in habitants have no rights which con e gress is bound to respect, if this fin du siecle doctrine of the imperialists be sound. r Now, if congress pos=osses this un limited power to the gevernment of b tLe territory of the UTlited States, outside of States, it may delegate the power of governing to the President, . so that, under the new dispensation, e we .nay have a President, possessed v of the unlimited power of the Czar a of Russia as to the territories of the - United States, and with limited pow f era as to the States of the federal union. Under such a condition of r things, how long could the constitu. a tion stand the straiu which will bear on it? r What power will withstand the r pressure of the tide of imperialism e thus injected into our system of gor. a ernment ? e Truly, when we view this subject a in the light of the history of other . nations which have gone before ours, vthese questious awalken possibilities . that are fearful to contemplate. The a adoption of the imperialistic canon of construction of the constitution will mark the beginnuig of the end of the great Western Republic. It may for some years to come, remain a republie in name, after it had ceased to be one in fact. But that canon of construction has not yet been adopted by the Amnri can people, and we fervently pray it will never be. . The opponents of imperialism propose es an antidote to the imperialistic poison the sound doe d trine of construction : "the constitu. II tion follows the flag." d' Wherever the flag waves over _ CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have . Always Bought A g etable PreparationforAs simimating it'oodaRguua PrmoesiestionC heeof nessand kest.Containsneither OpmmMorphine nor Mineral Of NOT NA COTIC. ' The ApefectRemedy forConstip-Kind lion, Sour Stomach.Diarrides .__...'. . *- You Have uessi mdLOSS OF SumoI musia. Sitgnture of WLW, YO Always Bought. xACT COWYOA B CASTORIA iN CEUAV @-. NA, U. e rm·w.t n territory of the United States, there, under its protctiig fo!d', must the constitution, with its life-giving priu ciples and privileges, live and rule. The flag over territory of the United States, without the constitution, is worse than meaningless; it is a delusion and a snare, the emblem of force and tyranny, instead of a badge of freedom. Let, therefore, "the constitution follows the flag" be the rallying cry of all anti imperialists. Wherever it is inexpedient to establish the reign of the constitution, pull down the flag. It has no business to be where the constitution way not follow. Senator Caffery's Plight. The CafTery aggregatior., as the combine ticket is d&nominated, held their ratifleation meeting in New Or. leans last Saturday night, The Dai y S'trtes says that by act ual count there were 828 persons 300 of whom were negroes present, when dMr. Caffery began orating. The Caff.rys, father awl son, were among the pak re, and the father made a most pitiable exhibition of himself in his attack upon the Demo cratio party, the party which has showered unmerited honors upon him, and gave him all the fame that he has ever acquired in public life. Well might the ingrate Senator, in his de-peration, borrow the ungram matical inquiry: "Where am I at ?'" If we thought It would serve any I useful purpose, we would like to en. t lighten.- the distinguished Senator. j But his clise s a desperate one, and has passed beyond remedy. He will soon realize, in all its force, the truth of Josh Billing's saying: when a man begins to go down hill, it looks as though every thing had been greased for the occasion. The worst of it seems to be that the distinguished senator h ud no bet ter sense than to -do the greasing himself which wdil help him to slide down hill. We wonder if it was in a moment of semi consciousness of the rashness of his act that he was prompted to borrow from Tom Watson in making i the despairing inquiry quoted above. We really feel sorry for thq erratic gentleman; he has done some good in the past, and on that account we would that lie had been a bit more discreet, as it became a United States Senator and a man of his age. But, then, there are men who al. ways want to rule, and when and where they cannot rule, they would ruin. They have their protot3pe in the proud lhader of that fallen band of angels who preferre:l to role in that bad place, which we don't like to call by name, than to .-eive in Hearv en. Such men are often more to be pitied than to b:ame for their little weakness. They are not always rese ponsible for what they do; in the fury of their wounded pridle, they strike blindly, and oftener than other 'wise succeed in ijurying only them seves. That is about all that Senator Car fery's attack 'nupon the Dem'mcatic party will amount to; he will suc ceed in laying himself out for good , and forever. He may inveigh and II E[VILE J. BR.[ID, SOLE AGENT. COIl, MAIN & S'T-PHIIILIPI STS., iil Oriers Tromrptly FiL snort, oratnce and kick as he will, his d(loom is sealed, and when the feeble flurry of the present cam. paign has dicl away, the very men, who now pat him on the hack and utilize him in their attempt to pull the chestnuts out of the fire, will cast him incontinently aside and contemn and abu.e him, as they have done in the past Poor Caffery ! Mr. Don. Cafftcry, Jr., has written a lettel to the liRepublican Populist out fit, formally accepting their nomina. tion for Governor. The letter is pitiably weak from every point of vi-w, and is alts'lutely unworthy of a man of young ('effry's reputed abild ity. From fir-t to last it is a sickly whine about fraud, without pointing out a single instance where fraud'l has b'een cotmwittel. It does not attack Gov. Foster's alministration ly ;n dienti'ig whet, whrc or how it has comimitted sins,. if oinissi"n or com missaion No.r does the vonthful gubernatorial aspirant prosinse any plan of gove:nmnontal polity whereby the present exceedingly satisfactory condition of the State can be better ed. lie simply sits down on his haunches aidl howis ' fraud !" Caf' fery's letter of n 'ceptance will fall "fiat, stale and unprofitable" upon th'e people of Louisiana.-~S~,ar Planter. O(r list of eustomers ahstill increases, good sign, isn't it ? If you are not one, why not ? live us a chance to please you. ' The Racket Store." RAILRAODING PATENTS. A sitngle tirm of Patent Lawyers, C. A. Snow & Co., of Washington, . C., have in the last year procured 1,630 patents for their cleints, nmny of them for rejected inventions. C. A. 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