The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1904-08-11


DEMOCRATIC TIcLBT.
For President :. ALTON B. PARKER, of New York
For Vice-President HENRY G. DAVIS, Of WestVa
For Congress Judge J. T. WATKINS, of Webster
For Judge, Second District r. C. DREW, of Webster
For District Attorney J. N sANDLM, of Webster
Indiana Democrats had an opportunity to hear a
rousing speech from Lieutenant Governor Jared Y.
Sanders last week, the occasion being the reception
rendered Hon. Thos. Taggart the recently chosen
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee,
at French Lick Springs. He was made the leading
speaker of the evaning The Banner predicts a
brilliant future for this young Democratic favorits.
Mrs. Bob Fitzsimmons declares that she is a
woman of refinement and that she will go to see as
many prize fights as she can in the future. She
asks, regarding pugilism Is it any more brutal
than foot ball? Is it any more demoralizing than
the race track? where see every time attend the
races groups of women who they tell me from
New York's best society,"
AS there will not be a Louisiana Purchase Day at
the st. Louis Exposition the management has de-
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14th, the most attractive and the most perfect in
the history Of the fair. The railroads will grant
exceptionally low rates, permitting holders of the
same to remain in st. Louis from five to ten days
To win a thousand dollar wager William M Hoyt
hitched to sulky cultivator, pulled his wife
and their 4-year- old son all the way from Moline
ILL.,, to the st. Louis Exposition, distance of 316
mil ho tri, was made in NO.
probably next hear of some one undertaking to
make the trip to the fair on stills.
After nearly eighteen months of continued labor
and at cost of over million dollars, the great
Galveston sea wall has been completed. However,
it is more than comforting to the residents of that
city to know that they are now insured against
recurrence of such horrible disaster as was that
of few years past.
The Washington Post, in a recent ISSUE saws
that the lily white Republicans have been given to
understand that they are just good negroes 80
long as they behave themselves and vote the ticket
The negroes are showing their ingratitude to Mr..
Roosevelt by organizing national parties of their
own. The "Lincoln Republican party wants to
nominate Booker Washington for President.
1t is said that the Presidents attitude toward the
negro will lose him Indiana and Illinois and that he
has not ghost of chance to carry either West
Virginia, Maryland or Kentucky.
Illinois Democrats are also busy. great meet
ing is to be held in Chicago at which Judge Parker
has been invited to speak, and Grover Cleveland
has been asked to stump to state
Roosevelt is not SAFE" says the New York
Herald, and the cry has been taken up by the
from one end of the country to the other
No; Parker will not be the first ed-headed
President. The first President and the first man of
our country had hair of that color
The Igorrotes at the st. Louis Exposition are said
to be happy again. They have been permitted to
throw their clothes away.
grandson OF Grant and granddaughter of
Jefferson Davis were married the other day.
FROM THE COUNTRY EDITORS VIEWPOINT
Lake Charles Press: Tom Taggart should be a
good campaign manager His first start in life was
In running a pie counter.
Lake Charles Press: The report that judge
Parker jumps into the Hudson every morning and
takes bath has started Plat and Oden after the
vote OF the unwashed.
Crowley Signal: The car-window expert who
doesn't know the difference between forty acres of