The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1903-12-19
,Jastremski's Love for the
Veterans.
New Orleans Daily States


Veterans.
New Orleans Daily States.
In strong and exceedingly
able address to the voters the
St. Landry Blanchard Club thus
strikes the mask from the face
of hypocrisy and exposes the in
consistency of General Jastrem-
skis appeal for the support of
Confederate Veterans:
Equally untenable is his
claim to the support of the Con-
federate Veterans of our State.
No class of our fellow-citizenS
are worthy of more honor and
tender consideration than the old
soldiers who bore the brunt of
the shock of battle forty years
ago, but no man should be ele-
waited to the high and RESPONSE
BILE Office of Governor solely
upon that plea and without re-
gard. to his merits or fitness for
the position. Such claim from
the lips of General JastremSki,
we repeat, is as inconsistent as
as his other pleas, for when that
typical war veteran, Francis Il.
Nichols, who had lost two limbs
in battle, came before the demo-
Gratis of the State in 1888 for the
nomination for Governor, Cen
eral JastremSki, if we are not
greatly misinformed, did every
thing in his power, by his voice
and with his pen, to defeat the
grand old patriot and statesman.
He preferred to follow the lead
of James D. Houston, the most
notorious and deSpOtic boss that
ever figured in the politics of
louisiana And here, we re-
mark, that never before in the
history of our local politics has
anyone claimed the support of
the democracy upon the ground
of his services in the COnfeder
ate army, and not a few of those
who are now supporting General
Jastremsk for that reason have
in the past local elections voted
against Confederate veterans
and in favor of candidates who
either were not yet born or were
children during the Civil War;"
The signers to this able docu-
ment are Thos. H. Lewis, Sr..
E. B. Dubuisson, r. Lee Gar
land, II. E. EstOrge and Sam
Haas. These gentlemen are not
misinformed when they assert
that General Jastremski did
everything in his power" to de-
feat that grand old patriot,
statesman and MANNED veteran,
Genera! Nicholls-who, by the
way, was a real General-when
he ran for the democratic NOM
nation in 1888. That campaign
was one of the bitterest ever
waged in Louisiana, and the
very bitterest things that were
said in that campaign were said
and written against General
Nichols by Editor Jastremski,
now Candidate Jastremski. The
States would much prefer to
have let things like this sink into
oblivion, but General Jastrem-
skis persistent efforts to cap
ture the soldier vote by adroit
appeals to sentiment and 10y
atty" make it necessary that his
inconsistency should be called
to the attention Of the public and
to Confederate veterans espe-
cially. The disgusting manner
in which he permits himself to
be paraded as the alleged hero
of Malvern Hill" and "Stonewall
Jackson the Second," together
with his own efforts to make
votes by playing upon the most
sacred sentiments of the South
ern people will undoubtedly re-
act, when the public under
stands his own former attitude
toward the most distinguished
of Louisiana's living Confeder-
ate veterans.
In 1882 an empty sleeve and
an artificial leg-evidences of he
roism on two of the hardest
fought battlefields in the South
possessed no attractions to
him, nor did they shield the
honored veteran who bore these
marks of duty nobly done from
the merciless shafts of Jastrem