The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-06-28
BEWARE, PROFESSOR, BEWARE!

The Monroe Star is out for Prof. J
B. Aswell of the State Industrial lnsti
tute. for State Superintendent of Pub
lie Education. A better selection coult
not be made, but the Office has gone 81
long to New Orleans that the cit.
bosses claim it as their own. Hragrov'
was cheated out OF the nomination, ant
Aswell might be, therefore the professor
may not be an aspirant.-Manshele
Journal.
To our headline, suggested as warn
ing, we may add that when Our friend
the lamented H. H. Hargrove, wa:
cheated of the nomination for State ST.
perintendent of Public Education it wa:
in the opera house in the city o:
Shreveport, for the nomination, so,
called, of State ticket. When Mr.. Har-
grove was placed in nomination without
the consent of the few who were man,
ipulating that convention, there was q
manifested surprise which, however
was dissipated under the assumption
that he would be defeated, but his nom
ination on the first ballot threw the
bossing gang into paroxysm of con-
sternatien from which they soon rallied
and then orders were quickly given, He
must be defeated, "He was not norni-
mated, There must be another bal
lot, Beat by all means. Now let the
reader Of this article. bear. in mind that
no objection could have been urged
against Mr.. Hargrove, who was Dem
ocrat tried and true, one of the most
Jealous and untiring in the State in be-
half Of education an the public schools,
but in that convention if an angel had
come seeking this or other nomination
he could not have escaped the defeat
which followed. The program as car
Tied out in that convention had. been
formulated before the convention had
been convened, and to have permitted
the nomination of Mr.. Hargrove to
stand would have discounted the lead
ers and defeated their plans. Indeed
there was open revolt by the New Or
leans delegation who after jumping. in
"a hgurative sense, on Dudenheffer who
had voted for Hargrove, compelled him
70 line up with them in opposition to
the gentleman he had favored on the.
first ballot, and so it was with every
delegation which was thea under the
control of the Foster administration.
Alter spirited squabble, which at one
time threatened to become ritous, order
was restored and it was declared BY the
chairman that second ballot must be
held, and when the result was announc-
ed the administration had triufnphed
over Democrat and his friends who.
had always been steadfast in every
emergency, had cheated men whose low
atty IS So strong that they could not be-
sWerved from duty. The cheated men,
protested but finally acquiesced in an I'M
democratic act perpetrated in 4 Demo-
cratic convention.
. I therefore, since This instance Of mn
fairness, our views in opposition to the
convention system have become fxedly
confirmed. No sane man, not bound 10
the political machine and to the few
who have manipulated and controlled
conventions, so-called, can favor the
nomination by convention. The only
method which gives assurance OF fair
ness, where the will of the majority
must prevail, is through the primary
system Of nominations which is ssuffl-l
clently safeguarded BY law to secure |
the conviction of political thieves and |
ballot box suffers and their punishment
~ flrae and Imprisonment, Or both At
lhe discretion Of the court. As the
Mansfield Journal has well suege stefi
Prot. AsWell ID a Democratic State CON-
venf1on, so-called, would share the fate
q Mr.. HargroVe unless he has already
secured the assurance of approval BY
The select who will formulate The nro-
gram and have their trusted allies On
haad 70 carry It into effect with a grand
a1irrah But if Prof. Aswell has not
'uch assurance, if a convention be held I;
instead OF primary, he may as well lay
aside all ambition.
seriously We would query Where IS
ne young man who can rise politically I;
% ms merit, if he has not subscribed to
ne rule, the wishes o. the dictates oil ]!
he machine?
Opposition to the Louisiana Lottery
was crystallized into its defeat, not sol
ntien 81 moral grounds as because ii
'ad become as dangerous autocratic
'oWer through which It's friends we're
eWarded. e sense the power Of the
'resent political machine III Louisiana IS
s aiifoeTatlc as was the Louisiana Lot
efy, and therefore the machine must be s
rushed. these are plain words d. tered
rom couvicfias, ~ fa;~,,<,1 Is. -szs,