The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-07

one II the deepest political game evct
PM upon the board HE ztpry ronrca
ffom the Washington Correspondent ii
the New York World
President Roosevelt Nv appninipr
Pearl Wight If New Orleans ,onni=
-ioiier Of internal revenue has completed
most remarkable barpain It is excel
lent FOR the President ~ political sense
and lucrative for Wight IL 4 business
way
Through the combination ~ ar
ranged President Roosevelt expects to
control the delegation from Louisiana
and Mississippi to the next Republican
National Convention Wight friends
and business associates stand to receive
te'nlii'ciatlve contracts fpr l.thnlan
canal contracts aud Other government
supplies. IN addition. these interests
will have = powerful friend At court to
lool, after their Interests.
Mr. Wight could have assumed The
Office N April, but did not lie said he
could not arrange hrs business affairs
50 ~ to take office before December
lie President ohllglngly appointed John
&, tapera If Soutl, Carolina 10 serve
the Sl< 81 eight months No otle, Pres
ldcnt has ever done anything like that.
Republican primaries will be held IN
January. the month after Wight wants
to assume Office. During the month be
tween Wight's assumption Of Office and
the holding If the primarlcs every one
Of the thousand or more Federal Office
holders i'll the internal revenue district
Of New Orleans will be Oh the anxious
scat. wondering whether the incoming
Of Wight will be good or i'll for them.
When onicehodefs arc wondering
what is going to happen will it be nat
ural or unnatural for them to use every
effort to ascertain what they must do to
be saved' While they are so wonder
ing will it be the hardest thing in the
world to ascertain what Wight would
have them do, The benghted political
workers Of the ancient regime assume
that 1t will not They also assume that
during that month Wight will do moth
ing III the way Of removals and appoint
nents. Those in Office will be working
for him and those n whom the wink
may be tipped that if they produce re-
suits III designated districts there will
DC appointments to hand out may also
&c expected to be persplringly busy.
Pearl Wight aud + r. Williams.
loosely allied III a business way. are the
read Of the Lily White organization.
] he former was appointed a member Of
he National Committee by George b.
sortelyou to fill a vacancy After that
President Roosevelt picked them up and
made them his referees in Louisiana.
All questions Of appointments in the
state are left to them for decision
The ship chandler firm Of Wood. |
ward, Wight & Co. Of New Orleans.
las had hundreds Of contracts and or
lcrs for supplies from the canal com
mission. the light horse board. the mint
nd the postofiiee Woodward, the post
master at New Orleans. was member
# the firm when he went into Office. |
Wight is his brother-inlaw
O. 4 |
which Mr.. Wight has said he is retir-
ng, has had many orders to furnish |
lumber for the isthmus, one. granted
rss than month ago. amounting to
I84,ooo.
The Panama Lumber K Trading Co,
mother corporation i'll which Mr.. Wight |
as an interest. was also in the business
f supplying lumber for the canal The
anne is true Of +. B Williams Cypress
Company, which is also known as the
: B. Williams Lumber Company. The
!. NJ Elliott Company. another concern
, which Wight has All interest, are for
'ardng agents. All are interested in
overninent contracts to the extent Of
1llions of dollars.
"The political enemies Of Wight and
Villains believe they are the central
CURES in many of the lumber COM
anies upstate and that they are using
lie political power placed in their hands
y the administration to further their
nancial interests.
There is combination among the
,mbermen of Louisiana and Mississippi
hich, in the opinion of a committee of
,c Legislature Of Mississippi, consti-
ties violation Of the antitrust statute
he question as to whether it does has
cen presented to the Department of
lstice, but the papers are all III a pig |
On hole accumulating dust. Wight and
Villains were prominent in this COM
nation. |,
THE lumber interests OF Mississippi II
C in close communion with the Fed 4
-al machinery in Louisiana. There is |