The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-01
Jones Versus Blanchard.


bola Jones, chief fugleman of the
Favrot campaign, to the effect that
Congressman Robertson and the gov
ernor are close relatives and that the
latter has appointed about all the
male members OF the Robertson family
to fat Offices. The gist OF the retort
was that the only semblance OF re-
latIonship existing between the gov
ernor and the congressman is that the
wife OF one is a second cousin of the
other, which is tantamount to the kim
ship that would have resulted from
their grandmothers swapping cats
and that the only Robertson relative
holding Gov. BLANCHE ard commission
is the congressman's brother, an as
sistant state engineer, originally APP
pointed by Gov. Heard and merely
reappointed by Gov. Blanchard on
the score of faithful and efficient per-
Torrance of official duly.
Our article closed with the remark:
"The meeting will please come to
order. Colonel Jones has the floor. !"
AS might have been expected by all
who know him, the colonel has not
only taken the floor, but has presented
his side OF the pending controversy
with a degree of spiciness. pithiness
and yigor that are essentially Jones'
ian. Having accorded space and
prominence to the Blanch are1ian brief,
it is but fair and just that The Chief
should give like consideration to the
surreioinder of defendant in "Blanch-
ard versus j nes'' and plaintiff In
ssJones verst. Blanchard We there
fore quote as follows from an inter-
view Colonel Jones has given out for
publication
/ have certainly been astonished at the state
ment and Interview recently given to the press
by Gov. Blanchard and especially that part
which relates to me- am not candidate for
congress, but if / were it seems to me that my
long fidelity TO the party and my devotion to
the governor long before during, and since his
election as governor ought to shield me from
lnwarrantable attacks For many days can
yassed with him, aiding and speaking with him
when be was candidate for the senate, and in
season and ont of season have been b is cham
pien ever since. The only oHense seems to be
that am exercising my right to support and
vote for a CANDIDATE Tor congress WITHOUT his
leave Until his innnendoes and attacks upon
me, had not been lighting him in this cam
paign. He is not candidate. 10 word of
comment could have been distorted into an
attack upon him or his administration. | said
thath he was doing neither more nor less than
others before him. but | pointed a moral
against a system. Many Of his appointees are
personal and political friends of his candidate
for congress- and would support him in any
case, but the fact remains that almost every
single man who bears his appointiye commits
sion is lined up for the administration eandi-
date. Without their influence and support
Judge Favrot's election would be certain and
accurate Is problem in mathematics.
Ican't go around correcting verbal inaceura-
cies OF reports I said | did not know the
degree of pfopinquity, but that the Robertson
and Blanchard families were related and that
they cousined one another. The governor sub
stimulates this fact. He says he had only
written TO friends in his candidates interest.
No one has ever charged his excellency with
appointing anybody to office but his personal
friends. Indeed this has been the complaint
against the system and is largely responsible
for its being swept off the statute books.
The governor in his interview denies Judge
FaVrotis charges and then confesses all and
The governor said that he had only APP
pointed one Of the Robertson family enumera-
were the product of the appointiVe system. If
not, why not7 He appoints the head; the head
appoints the others. The governors innuen-
does are most remarkable. The term of en-
Iistment for the army and navy is only three
years. / served his friend for twenty years,
as faithfully as one friend ever served another.
| may b5 an ungrateful and heartless wretch,
but what has that to do with the claims and
quaffica tions of his candidate for congress? He
probably wishes to weaken and discount the
arguments am presenting in this campaign,
against the administration candidate. Not
every enc serves their friend and supporters as
/ did him for twenty years.
remember that Governor Foster made Gov
ernor Blanchard senator, gratifying a lifes
ambition. believe that he and Governor
Heard gave the governor the most effective
support for governor in the last campaign. l
heard of any choice tokens recently from him
to his former benefactors.
But to my mind the most dimunitive piece of |
and unheard of ward politics from
such an exalted a source is the governor |
giving currency to the rattle of idle tongues |
that am to be paid for my support of Judge |
EaErot by being made district judge, when he /
is elected to congress. 1 have travelled some |
hundred miles in buggy and by rail with Judge |
Favrot and the matter of his successor has |
aever been discussed. Nor have had any CON |
ference of any kind with him or his committee |
upon the subject. think there will be va |
sancy very soon, but no steps have been made |
20 I'LL it.. can no more stop or be responsible /
Tor the idle gossip and ward tricks of poll \
5icians opposed to me and the gentleman am /
than the governor can stop or be /
responsible for the mean, contemplate, and I
statement OF his enemies that he /
ought for the craftsmanship of the state CEN |
raj committee and that he makes all moves |
With the view OF making sure his election to I
he United States senate. This cannot be true,
or he himself has said be- is rounding ont his |
;areer,'' and / would never think of giving I
currency to SO unjust and so outra geous piece I
If political gossip. am now answering his |
srgum ents, in favor of his candidate, upon the /
tump. / am exercising my inalenable right to
upport my own choice for congress. .sIf this I
70 treason, what are you going to do about it?''
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