The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-02
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lucrative Office of q Louisiana Republican.
Hon. w. 6. Howell who for some years has
filled the responsible position of collector of in
ternal revenue for this revenue district, has re-
Gently sent in his resignation, to take effect at
the pleasure of the president, and his successor
has been appointed.
By dint of much campaigning the Republican
party ia Louisiana has been able to muster up
enough adhersnts to filf the offices, with few
here and there to spare in cases of such emer-
1 geacies as this and as rule all Republicans
here are clamorous and strenuous ofice-chas-
| ers. Mr.. Howell is of a different breed from
| this and for some time it has been known that
he vas not aL1lous to continue as an office
| prise among those who knew him. 1t must be
| said in Collector HowelPs favor that the affairs
of the Office have never been conducted with
greater ability OF with more efficiency than
| characterized bis administration of it.
He is recognized as a clean, able and
courageous man, and Notwithstanding the bit
| ter feeling engendered by the secession in 1904
| of the large groupof sugar planters from the
| Democratic party. Mr.. Howell has retained the
esteem and respect OF his old Democratic as
| sociates to the present time. That he is vastly
different from the plain potwalloping variety
/ of Republicans to which we accustomed
IN Louisiana is shown not only by his able ad-
OF internal revenue, but also by the fact of his
voluntary retirement from so lucrative an Of
| fee. 1t would have required a charge of dyna-
mite to separate the ordinary Republican from
| an office to which he had become attached, for
| the idea of giving up anything voluntary is en-
| tirely foreign to his nature.
Mr.. Howell retires with the good will and re-
spect of all, and we are confident that he will
| find in the pursuit of his private business and
professional affairs a much more congenia1
Isatmosphere than he ever found in the ranks of
Republican oficeholders in this state.
Of course, Mr.. Howell richly merits
all the complimentary things which
The States says about him, as all his
friends and every body else acquainted
with him know; but there is nothing in
the character or career of the other
Republican federal officeholders in
this state which warrants such an in
vidious distinction between them and
Mr.. Howell as The States implies, and
it can be asserted as fact that no
one would be quicker to disavow and
resent the peurile imputation than Mr..
Howell himself. Hugh S. Suthon,
superintendent of the mint; Col. Elmer
e. Wood, naval officer of customs;
Henry Mccall, collector of customs:
Clarence S. Hebert, assistant United
States treasurer; Judge WV. Howe,
United States district attorney; Victor
Lofsel, United States marshal; Capt.
Thos. J. Woodward, postmaster at
New Orleans, and many other Re-
publican officials of lesser grade in
the service OF the general government
in Louisiana are also clean, able and
courageous men, and it is as true of
them as of Mr.. Howell that the affairs
OF their respective Offices have never
been conducted with greater ability or
with more efficiency than under their
administration.
MIR. Howell was the first leader of the
present Republican organization in
this state to receive federal appoint
ment-not because he was an "ofice
chaser" but for the reason that his
political associates and the president
OF the United States recognized his
possession of the distinguished merits
and abilities to which The States now
bears tardy witness. The same con-
siderations governed the selection of
the other federal officials we have
named. They are all men of high |
standing in social, legal and business
circles, and not one of them can be |
truthfully placed in the category of |
professional politicians, ward bosses
and chronic oniceholders, among whom
the managing owner of The Daily
States is king-pin and a shining
light.
There was no other reason for Mr..
Howell's voluntary retirement from
office than the one he publicly as
necessity for giving more
lime to his law practice and planting
interests. His relations with his Re-
publican colleagues in and out OF Office
1ave been OF the most agreeable and
harmonious character, without ex-
,eption. He entertains. for them the
same high regard and affectionate es-
eem in which they hold him, and
against the assumed confidence of The
States to the contrary we set the as
'ertion that the retiring revenue col
ector neither expects nor desires to
'nioy "more congenial atmosphere l
han he found in the ranks of the Re- ! !
ofdeeholders in this state. I" :
The animus of The States inVidious /
raise of MIR. Howell is plain. Just !
IS Little Phil Sheridan is said to have :
egarded the only good Indian dead 9
ne, so The States looks upon the 4
My good Republican oficeholder as
ne who either dies or resigns and
saves another place open to be chased
fter by some of the clamorous and :
trenuous Democratic patriots who J
onstitute the following of it's own {
rincipal and the other ward, parish ),
nd state bosses of the dominant party :
] Louisiana.
That one of these bosses-who live,
love and have their being in per- |
etusl struggle to get themselves and
leir friends into good seats at the
le-ccgateess should have the assur-
nee to berate his political opponents F
it'll such epithets as stclamorous and '
renuous Office chasers" and "pot- ;.
alloping Republicans is about as Z
riking an instance as has come under
IT notice OF pot-walloping kettle and
slling it black. 1
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