The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-20
DEBLIEUX ACCEPTS.
Strong Letter from the Sixth Dis.
triet Republican Candidate.
Louisiana's Material Interests Promoted
by Republican Policies-0ur PoIiti-
cal Conditions Reviewed and
Halt Called.


and calmly considered by every citizen
who desires to enhance the common
veal and more particularly to serve
the best interests of the people of this
district and state:
PlaGuemine, La, Oct 13, 1906
Hon. john DEBLIEUx, Piaquemine. La.
Dear Sir-At a meeting of the Re-
publican executive committee of the
sixth congressional district of Louis
lana, held in Baton Rouge on the Bird
of September, your friends presented
your name to the committee as the Re-
publican candidate for member of
the sixtieth congress of the United
States. The suggestion met with unan-
imous approval on the part Of the COM
mittee, and you were accordingly NOM
mated. We have been charged with
the pleasing duty OF notifying you Of
this action.
Through the operation of Demo-
cratic primary election law our party
was unable to formulate a declaration
of principles in accordance with time
honored custom, but an address was
issued TO the people of the district
which we quote to you in full.
This address having already ap-
peared IN the columns of The Chief, it
is not thought necessary to reproduce
it herel.
In addition to the foregoing express
sion on the part Of the committee, it
is hardly necessary for US to say that
the party in this district stands upon
the declaration of principles contained
in the national platform of the Repub-
lican party, and upon the record of
that party as written in the statutes
and history of the nation. Republ-
cans here, as elsewhere, are in complete
accord with the programme mapped
out by our matchless president for the
next two years Of his administration.
We believe that what President Roose-
welt has accomplished is only the be-
ginning of what will be accomplished
if members in harmony with him are
elected to the sixtieth congress.
We feel that the party has honored
itself in nomin ating young, energetic
thoroughly trained business man as its
stand ard bearer in this campaign. The
time has passed when mere oratory
carries the day. 1t is the man Of abIl-
ity, keenness and alertness who makes
an impression upon his colleagues in
congress and aceompHshes results for
his constituents.
We are satisfied that the party has
nominated such man in selecting
you, and we trust you will accept the
nomin alton we now have the honor OF
rendering you. Yours very truly,
w. j. .BEHAN, Chairman;
HENRY MCCALL,
FL. w. ROBINSON,
Notification Committee.
Mr.. DEBLIEUx's ANSWER.
Plaquemine, La, Oct. 13, 1906.
MEssRs. w. j. BEHAN. Chairman; HENRY Nc
CALL and Il. w. ROBINSON. Notification
CoInmittee:
Gentiemen-I have the honor TO &C
knowledge receipt of your favor of the
18th instant, notifying me that at a
meeting of the sixth district Republi.
can executive committee held at Baton
Rouge, Sept. 3, 1906, | was declared
| the party IS nominee for member Of the
sixtieth congress of the United States.
When my friends pressed this matter
upon me I told them could not &C.
cept because my business eng agements
| would prevent me from giving the can
didacy the attention so grave ra
sponsibility merited. Since the com.
mittee insisted upon making the nomi.
nation, however, / have decided, after
mature reflection concerning the duty
q man owes to his friends, to accepi
the honor. In doing SO, I desire TO ex
press to your committee my sincere ap
probation of the kind language yot
employed in diseharging your duty
/ although feel that your encomiums
are nndeserVed. would fail in candol
If T did net also express my deep ap
probation of the distinction which tht
party conferred upon me. In the ad
dress to the people of the sixth distrie
the committee b as stated concisely ane
forcefully the party's position, and
commend th at address to all intelligen
and unpreiuaiced men. Before depos
iting their ballots for my opponent
i Democrats will do we'll TO stop, reat
and ponder over that address. WouIt
be willing to leave the subject wher
the committee left it, but the voter
will rightly enough wish 10 know n,
views, and I consider this my best op
portunity to get these views before ia
people at large.
l Measured from the standpoint OF sue
cess in elections at the polls, the Re
publican party Of Louisiana has fare
badly IN late years, yet can not bu
think that whatever may be the resul
/ | locally, Republicans have every rea
son to be proud Of their party. Fo
| half a century, with only two short in
termissions, it has guided the desti
nies of the greatest nation in the Worl
with singular success. In 1895, afte
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