The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-10-21
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Although at a very late hour in the
campaign, | have consented to submit
my name to you as a candidate for the
office Of State Senator, for your dis
triet.
In doing so, l shall perhaps,
surprise many of my friends, who
have heard me declare, that / would
not, and could not, consistent with my
personal interests, be a candidate for
that office.
1t is true, / have steadily declined,
after many respectable calls made on
me from all portions of the district;
and have earnestly solicited other gem
tlemen of more ability and leisure
than can command, to declare them
selves, for the office but as each has
refused, and those calls, again made
on me, under circumstances that hard
ly justify further refusal-I have
| yielded, and am now before you in the
attitude of candidate.
Although am no politician By trade,
and am not in any way learned in the
acisdom of the trade, still l hope have
enough experience to be fully aware,
that the kindness of my friends have
chosen for me no ''bed of roses" Col.
Pierce, the champion, whom am call
ed on to oppose is old and aoary and
wise in the trade, an experienced tao
tician, and an eloquent and ready de-
batter, and he who meets him in oppo-
sition has no child's play. But to
crafty the kind partiality ofmy friends
who fatter me with an opinion, that /
may be equal to the emergency | will
try and not disappoint them.
The time is now too short to enable
me to see the people of the district as
would otherwise take pleasure in do
ing; l must therefore content myself
with giving the greatest publicity in
my power, of the fact of my being a
candidate, as we'll as TO the principles
I occupy before the people.
In regard to my views as to matters
of State policy
LIST, am in favor Of rigid and rad
ically reform in the administration of
our State government, to stopthe reck-
less extravaganza in appropriations,
and Tighten the onerous and CALLING
load of taxation under which our peo-
pie now labor. And to this end will
oppose all every appropriation, not abb
solutely necessary to carry on the ma
ehinery of the government or to sus-
tain its plighted faith and honor and
will specially oppose all appropriations
to build the proposed railroad from
New Orleans to Baton Rouge; to pay
ing lawyers fees for private service,
out of the State Treasury; to paying
the money of the State to carry out or
establish any special act for holding
elections for favored Of particular To-
calities.
I'd. / am opposed as matter of
I principle or precedent to the Legisla-
ture, addressing persons, claiming to
be elected to any Office, out of and
from that Office, under any prefix what
soever; but in favor of leaving all
questions # fraud arising in elections
for judicial and executive officers of
the parishes, corporations, and judi
cial districts, to the courts of compe-
tent jurisdiction.
Sd. I am in favor of radical
amendment of our Judicial system, so
as to keep our District Judges at la
Dor the entire year in holding two
terms of court in each parish annually
and for the establishment Of a court
of probate in each parish.
/ 4th. / am in favor of changing the
seeming policy of the State in the ad-
ministration of the Swamp lands and
especially The Scamp land office, which
has been the prolific source of so much
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES swindling Of
the State, and almost universal dissat-
isfaction to the people; and in this con-
nection declare my opposition, in the
Legislature and out of it, to any sys'
tenn of levees on Red River that pro
poses to close the bayous and natural
outlets of the river on the eastern side
Ia policy that must inevitably injurt
if not ruin the navigation of Lake
Bisteneau.
And in regard to my position OF