Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1918 — UNITED STATES SENATOR BROUSSARD [ARTICLE]

UNITED STATES SENATOR BROUSSARD

In the death of United States Senator Robert F. Broussard, the cause of “Protection to American Labor and Industry” loses a staunch friend. Mr. Broussard served in the House of Representatives from the Fifty-fifth to the Sixty-third Congresses, both inclusive. He was nominated for the United States Senate at the general Democratic State primary in January, 1912, and this nomination was confirmed by the Legislature of Louisiana by his election to the United States Senate in May, 1912, for the term beginning March 4, 191'5. Mr. Broussard was a Congressman who could be described as a Protection Democrat. Indeed, he might be better described as a Samuel J. Randell member of the Democratic party. While classified as a Democrat he was a very earnest Protectionist and we wish that there were more men in Congress from the southern states of his views on. industrial and economic subjects. On the night before he left Washington for home, last December, he said td the writer, “There is going to be a revision of the .Tariff one of these days and I want to be here to have a hand in it.” Knowing his position and acknowledging his service to Protection within Democratic lines, we deeply regret that Mr. Broussard cannot be in Washington during the next revision of the Tariff, but trust that his spirit will move many of his Democratic colleagues on the question of Protection. . v