The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1899-11-18
The Campaign.

The campaign in this parish i
now in full blast, the candidate
are all atield, the soyereigns il
both town and country are bein'
indu>triously button-hoIed ant
occasionally publicly addressed il
small gatherings where FREE
lunches are dispensed with lavish
hands, and, while chaos and con
fusion reigned Il few short weeks
ago, matters political are now
fast taking definite shape. The
weather has been superb, and the
candidates, like busy bees, have
swarmed and buzzed and hummec
their little song, doing their levsI
best to improve each shining
hour.
The campaign has already
hatched out several surprises
and others are 10 doubt in store
Not least among them is the phe-
nomenal strength being devel-
oped by our candidate for Dis
trict Attorney, w. J. Sandoz,
Esq, who appears at one bound
to have landed on the crest of
a popular wave which will surely
place him in the lead in the sec
ond primary. And this is not so
very surprising, after all, when
one considers al! the circun-
stances surrounding this some
what peculiar situation. To be-
gin with, he entered the race un-
der the most favorable auspices,
for when he finally announced
his candidacy it was with the as
surance that he would have no
opponent from among the regu-
lar Democracy; and had that
condition subsisted he would have
had i Irregular cinch.' Mr.. Du-
buisson having entered the field,
however, matters of course as
sumed less rosy aspect; but he
had thrown himself into the fight,
with his accustomed vigor and
earnestuesS and had met with so
much encouragement that he de
termined to stay in and see it
through. Owing 10 the fact that
both Of his opponents were ''old
stagerS. co,nparce' to him-that
both had held the office and had
been in active politics longer than
he had-he naturally and at
once fell heir to all the lisa fleet ed
friends of both who nursed
against them Il grievance, person-i
II or political, real or imaginSfffyt \
The fact, toe. that Mr.. Duhuis-
son had been declaring for months |
past that he did not want the |
,ffice, and that lie could not at
end 10 its duties, without sacri- |
icing Il lucrative practice, set
people to saying when he did
inaiIy come out that they pre-
erred to give the Office to a man
Who was frankly asking for it
ather than to one who had beer
aging for months that he did not
want it. So that his pleasing
personality, his unimpeachable
'ersonal and political record, the
igorous and aggressive fight being
aade for him by numerous
launch and devoted friends and
dmirers-which, however, is
ardly more telling than the de-
ermined antagonism, in some
ases the positive enmity, of their
nemies towards his competitions
ogether with the peculiar cir
referred to and others
'hich strongly count in his favor,
II these powerful factors have
ended in large measure to restore
ne couie,r de rose lTue of the sit
alton which existed for several
,onths, and which was daily ac-
and deepened up to
le day when Mr.. Dubuisson an
ounced his candidacy.
Mr.. Sandoz is making d clean,
luare fight for the nomination
hicn months ago was conceded ..
Y intelligent observers to be- log
ally and inevitably his, and if
,aseless efforts on his part, sup
by the vigorous CO.
oeration Of many devoted
lends, count for anything, he
i'll be very much in evidence /
hen the second primary is held |
I December 90. il,