The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-11-21
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pathetlc ana almost tragic In at
tempting to defend a 'promi-
nent public man." now deceased,
whom nobody ever assailed. AS
is well known, the burden of
General Jastremski' song ever
since he discovered that he
could not get the support of the
New Orleans democratic leaders
has been denunciation of the
bosses. In several of the coun-
try parishes he has gladly well
coined to his arms such local
bosses as have come to his sup
port, hence it would appear that
in the Generals classification
there are good bosses and bad
bosses, the good ones being
those who agree to support the
General and the bad ones those
who are opposing him.
But, as we were proceeding to
observe, it was General Jastrem-
ski who, regardless of the glass
house in which he him self lived,
first set out to throw rocks at
bosses. This quite naturally
brought the retort that, while
the General never measured up
to the stature of a boss, yet he
got as near to it as he was ca
pable of getting, which was to
become a willing lieutenant do
ing cheerful service at the be-
hest of the biggest boss that
New Orleans ever produced.
The retort was perfectly legiti-
mate, and it was made inevitable
by the readiness of the thought
less candidate, whose attack up
on the bosses constituted in it.
self a most ungracious and I'M
grateful attack upon his own
benefactor of the past. If any
attack, therefore, was made
upon a public man now dead"
as General Jastremski. with a
copious flow of crocodile tears,
alleged has been made, that at
tack came from General Jas
tremski him self. and not from
Judge Blanchard and his fol-
lowers.
Judge Blanchard is not pa
rading the State making the
bosses an issue in this cam
paign. He has taken the emf
nently sensible view that the
support of any white democrats
who may choose to favor him
will be appreciated. He is not
seeking to raise false issues by
stirring up sectional antagon-
isms, nor does he, with hypocrit-
ical cant, denounce those whose
support he can not get. He is
not making the dead-dead in
the physical sense of the term.
an issue in his campaign, and
therefore it is not necessary for
him to engage in such horse
play as his antagonist treated
his patient audience at Lafayette
to on last Saturday. Nor will
General Jastremski be permitted
to shift, as he adroitly sought to
do, the merited excoriation
which he provoked and received,
TO the helpless shoulders of the
deceased gentleman he so will
ngly served in the past.
1t is unworthy of a candidate
for a high public Office to seek
20 hide behind the dead in the
effort to side-step an issue which
las been pressed uncomfortably
lose upon him, and which thor
,ughly exposes the insincerity
# his now blatant denunciation
# the men he formerly loved to
erve. When General Jastrem-
Xxi raises the issue of the bosses
o suit his purposes in the pres
mt instance, he can not wriggle |
ut of the record he has made |
" the puerile plea that the boss
le once served is now dead, and |
hat therefore it is dissertation |
f the dead to refer to the Gen
RAILS record in the days when
e was a consort and political
of bosses. The peo-