The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1907-12-20
THE STEADY DRIFT
OF DAILY EVENTS
Terse Excerpts and Opinions on
Some Occurrences in the
Worlds Broad Arena.

The National Democratic Con-
vention will be held at Denver on
June Z. 1908.
The Republican National Con-
vention will be held in Chicago
on June is, 1908.
Baton Rouge proposes to
eclipse all previous celebrations
on its annual Firemen's anniver-
sary, February p, 1908.
Morehouse parish was the scene
Last week of a lynching followed
on Monday by the assassination
of Peter Burton. a well-to-do ne
gro farmer. The cause of this
deed was not divulged.
Another man gone wrong. &.
r. Jetten, manager of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company in
Baton Rouge, recently skipped for
parts unknown with a large short
age i'm his accounts. 1t was the
old story of dissolute and immoral
habits.
The prohibition petition pre-
sented to the police jury of Caddo
Parish, was carried by u vote of
ten to four. The election has
been ordered for January IA,
Tbs campaign has become warm
at its very inception and will be
red hot by the date set for voting
on this question.
The recent extra session of the
Louisiana Legislature goes on
record as having spent only
$33,6S5.31 out of the $50, 200 APP
propriated for the expenses of
the session. Some $4,000, the
amount unexpended after paying
for the furniture for the Senate
chamber, will be returned to the
treasury.
New Orleans papers of the 10th
record the death of Thomas j.
Duggan, a gallant and fearless
officer in the war attached to the
famous Fenner battery. One by
one, as the leaves fall, the gallant
survivors of the war are recruit
ing the hosts who sleep under the
shade of the trees in the Great
Beyond.
According to Sheriff w. L..
Smart, of Livingston parish.
there is not an idle man in that
parish, and no tramps. He as
sures Governor Blanchard, in
reply to his letter to enforce the
vagrant laws, that he will enforce
the law if be can find man on
whom TO visit his wrath. Happy
Livingstonel
Judging from the reports of
Mr.. Wilkinson's speech in New
Orleans last week that gentleman
is following in the wake of Mr..
Sanders, on reform measures, a
position he will occupy when the
primary votes are counted. The
wagon is moving too rapidly on
the highway of success for Mr..
Wilkinson to catch it and take a
piece of a ride.
The Brownsville investigation
has become tiresome and effete
because of its prolonged continu-
ance. The country has long since
concluded that Brownsville was
'.shot up" by the negro troops,
and that President Roosevelt was
justified in the dismissal of the
men who shielded them from de-
lection and punishment. That
committee on investigation should
be discharged.
when. the people begin to force
needed reforms to the front and
demand pledges for their exist
ence, it is pretty certain that these
viii be forthcoming. The people
are in the siddle at last and that
means that their voice is all pot
emit. Then, as Webster declared.
will this become "thekpeople's
government, made for tbs people,
made BY the people, and, answer
able to the people," 4
The present condition. of the
United States has been well de-
fined as vicious cycle of prosper
ity saturated with rottenness The
Republican party is responsible
for this condition of affairs by