The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-14
WHAT ST. MARY PARISH IS TRY
ING TO DO.
ALL FROM One LAW FIRM
0reediness Breeds Dyspepsia San
deE Appeal to Parish Pride-Wants
All the Cake and the Confectionery
St. Mary, Pass the Pie"

IN discussing the present guberua-
torial campaign, the Plaquemines Pro
tector Of recent date has the following
to say editorially
PASS THE PIE. PLEASE.
Virginia was once called the mother
Of the presidents. Some of the citizen.
OF st. Mary parish are trying hard to
achieve for that parish the same dis
tinctlon as to the Governors of Louis
lana.
1T was somewhat amusing to read OF
MIR. Sanders appeal to parish pride
when he recently claimed in his very
short speech at Morgan City that he had
come to his native parish to open his
campaign
We thought he had been on a g,rber-
material campaign for two years Posi-
bly, the Lake Providence meeting and
other places he made speeches at were
contributions to the political jack pot
before he had openers
But about that appeal to parish pride,
We, too, are proud of ST Mary. that
Eden of Louisiana, where everything is
lovely, and her men are brave and
brainy and her women are fair and &C
complished But St Mary. in all the
Democratic feasts of yore. has not had
an elegant sufficiency. and do you not
know that greediness breeds dyspepsia?
when III that splendid fight against
the lottery. your Murphy J. Foster ran
for Governor. and Theodore S Wilkin-
son was the presiding officer of the con-
vention that nominated him and chair
man Of the State Central Committee
that led his victorious fight, we glorifed
in your success.
strong, rugged old Democrat, Don CAT
frey, became our United States Senator,
we too said: Bully for St Mary!
when your favorite son, Murphy J.
Foster, was again nominated for Gov
ernor i'll 1896, St. Mary. you had our
helping hand
when another of your sons, Mr..
Fosters law partner. Mr.. J. Y. Sanders,
was elected to the high Office of Speaker
of the House. St Mary, he got the vote
of Our representative. r
when the same gentleman was can
didate for Lieutenant Governor from
your parish, St. Mary. he got Our votes
in the primary.
when again that Lieutenant Govern
or's law partner, your son, M. J. Eos
ter, was elected to the United States
Senate, ST. Mary, he got the votes of
our parish in the primary and that of
both our senator and representative in
the Legislature that elected him.
do you remember the story of the
little boy who on visit was asked by
the lady of the house after being helped
once to pie: Johnny, does your mother
let you have two pieces of pier and an
swered promptly: No, ma am, but this
amt her pie.
"Now, St Mary, your Ma, the State,
has already given you two pieces of GIT
bernatorial pie, with two big United
States senator pound cakes, State
House Speakership tart and Lieuten-
ant Governor custard thrown in. and
our parish helped to pass the confec-
tionery every time.
1.-THE last time the cake was cut Cad
do got the gubernatorial ring for north
west Louisiana.
"Now, the growing parish of Plaque
mines, increasing i'll size from river silt
five square miles year, feels little
gubernatorial hunger for southeast
Louisiana. The dessert is coming Our
way this time, so be polite and Just, and
don't snatch.
st Mary, pass the pie!'