The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-09-24
Boss of the Peonle and the Bosses.


deep-seated in the city Of New Orleans
over the dietatorial interference Of
Gov. Blanchard in municipal politics
and his arbitrary employment OF the
great power Of the executive Office to
encompass the defeatof Hon. Chandler
O. Luzen burg for district attorney and
to force the nomination Of Hon.
Porter Parker for that position.
Not only is Mr.. Gutenberg the man
ifest choice of the people for election
to the district attorneyship. which he
has filled with marked credit and eff
ficieney since his appointment by Gov.
Heard to succeed the late J. Ward
Gurley, but he was the choice also of
nearly all the ward bosses, and would
undoubtedly have been dominated BY
the democratic convention on Wednes-
day but for the imperious demand of
the governor tb at the Bosses should
break their promises to Mr.. Luzen-
berg and transfer their support to
the gubernatorial fayorite, Mr..
Parker.
The fact that all but three Of the
seventeen ward leaders cringed under
the crack of the governors lash and
made Mr.. Parker the nominee for
their convention by vote Of 80 to
IS is startling exempliication of the
despotic influence with which the gov
ernor Of Louisiana is vested under
the pernicious system that permits
him to appoint the incumbents Of a
host of lucrative offices that ought to
be filled by vote of the people. Rather
than risk the loss of the valuable
patronage Gov. Blanchard dispenses
to them and their followers, the ward
bosses threw aside every other con
sideration, broke their pligRted faith
to Mr.. Luzenburg and supplanted him
with candidate whom neither they
nor the people preferred.
The three leading papers of New
Orleans-the Times Democrat, Plea
yune and States-all united in ad-
vocating the nomination of Mr.. Luzen-
berg, but even the boosted apoWer OF
the press was insignificant and inn
potent in comparison and competition
wish she greater power of the governor.
The press hasn't submitted to the
gubernatorial whip as the politicians
did, however. On the contrary, the
newspapers have voiced the righteous
Indignation Of the people in no un-
certain term and have denounced the
with merciless yet richly merited
torial expressions that have found
vent within the past few days will
serve to show the readers Of The Chief
hat we have nothing extenuated nor
aught set down in malice7 in this
statement OF the attitude of our demo
cratic contemporaries towards ''the
boss of the bosses" now rounding
out his career" in the gubern atorial
chair:
From the Times Democrat: mot
since the days Of W armoth and
Kellogg has the governor of the state
had the hardihood to dragon the
city as has the present governor, and
even those reconstruction governors
would not have proceeded SO brazenly
ID the eonsumm alton OF the crime. y
The man who thinks he has bought out
this city with few petty Offices has
several things to ask Of the people in
the future, and these things need not
be given to him. A pretty
spectacle Of home rule this, for cit.
izen of Shreveport to name the mu-
nicipal officers of city hundreds Of
miles away The bosses have
done many base and cowardly things
ia politics in this city, but they have
heretofore had a certain illy-defned
code of decency which held them iu
some check. They were supposed to
love their friends and hate their en-
emies, but under the lash of the gov
ernor they have not hesitated to betray
their friends-the friends who have
placed them ia the positions they oc-
cupy. y The governor of the
state since he has assumed the posi-
ton of Master Of the People seems to
have thrown reason to the winds.
His talk with gentlemen who called
upon him yesterday developed the
fact that his overweening ambition
had had its effect on his mental ap-
paratus.
From the Picayune: From what
was given out last night there is good
reason for the Picayune to confess
that it had entertained too high an
triotism, sense Of duty and regard for
the rights of the people Of this city,
not to mention his prudence, inte1li-
gence and sagacity as politician.
+ If the local political situation
shall prove today to be as it was rep
resented last night, then the people OF
this city will have to realize that their
official chief magistrate is really the
boss of all the city bosses, and that
these pretended leaders are simply his
crawling, cringing creatures.
Now is the time for the people of New
Orleans to resent and resist by all
means this encroachment Of their
rights, and show this usurper from
Baton Rouge that, although the city
politicians may be his eringing slaves,
the citizens Of this great metropolis
will submit to no such invasion OF
their city and its Interests.
From the States: In the name of
God, IS Newton e. Blanchard, gov
ernor of Louisiana. mad9 Does his
blind intoxication with power and
vanity blind his eyes to the fact that
there yet remains q modicum of self
respect and manhood in this commun-
ity: Can*he vainly imagine that by
binding with chains the elected leaders
OF the party to his chariot wheels he
thereby becomes the supreme power,
from whose fiat there can be no app
peal? Is he bent upon nothing short
al driving the people of New Orleans
into q revolutions Has he developed,
il this ruthless overriding Of the peo-
pies will, qualities that will encourage
the nennla of Louisiana to intrust him