The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-15
SPARTY FEALTY" AND PEI
SONAI. SINCERITY.


The Times of September Il has repro
(6tced verbatim the editorial % Oh
Baton Rouge State a September Il, il
which, as usual for the want of argu
Inent is attempted denunciation Q
newspapers not favorable to the can
didacy of Mr.. Sanders as Journalistic
Hessians.
In this instance the ire of Che Sanders
ties q stimulated from the publication
IN The Caucasian of excerpts from al
open letter written and signed by James
T. Edmunds," which appeared in the
New York Sun August 3, 1904.
The Sandersites would make 10 appear
that certain newspapers in the State
controlled by Wilkinson interests, have
busted themselves with vitrolic attacks
on the Democracy and ancestry OF the
editor of the Shreveport Times and OF
the Daily State Of Baton Rouge" which
is untrue
The excerpts in question were printed
in The Caucasian and reproduced by
other newspapers.
There was no attack or discredit on
the Democracy or on the ancestry
of the editor Of the Times and Of the
Daily State of Baton Rouge"
The Caucasian said:
''It is clear that the chief editorial
pilot chosen to steer the Democratic
voters into the Sanders port is James
E. Edmonds Democratic editors must
have been mighty scarce when one who
boasts Of his devotion to the Confed-
eracy chooses. or helps to choose chief
editor for both the Daily State of Baton
Rouge and the Shreveport. Times, self
declared Republican who proudly pro-
claimed only three years ago that his
father came 70 Mississippi from Ohio
via Sherman's march from Savannah to
the sea.
AS to the political affinity % Mr. Ed
1nonds The Caucasian's information is
derived from statements published in
New Orleans and from politicians well
known throughout Louisiana. No tess
an authority as 70 Mr. Edmonds' politi
cal faith is Mr. Doninick OMalley
Another authority is Che New Orleans
Item In its issue of September in ee
ferring to the publication a these ex
cerpts, says: Mr.. James E. Edmunds,
Republican State printer of the Sanders
Democracy, proclaimed his Republican,
ism to every one in New Orleans up to
recent data but published in the New
York Sun of August %, 1904, an open
letter"
If Mr.. Edmonds has been or is now
Republican, it is one of his inalienable
rights, guaranteed to him by the Consti-
tuition of the United States.
If he is a Republican and is the chief
editorial pilot who is to steer che
Shreveport Times and the Baton Rouge
State, it is the concern of the Sanders
ties and not of The Caucasian
If Mr. Edmonds is not now and never
has been Republican, this fact, when
affirmed, will be given the fullest pub
licity in The Caucasian
If Mr. Edmonds is or has been Re
publican it is the right of the Democracy
of Louisiana to protest against his at
tempt to steer Democratic voters into
the Sanders port.
The Caucasian has not reflected on
the ancestry of Mr.. Edmonds, and to
have referred to any of his ancestors in
a sense political and to the discredit Of
Mr.. Edmonds would have been cow
ardly and contemplate.
In his letter as it was published III
the New York Sun of August %, 1904,
are these words:
The viewpoint may be appreciated
when one adds that it is from one whose II
father came to Mississippi from Ohio
via Sherman's march to the sea-
Whatever may have been the purport "a
IF this reference quoted is subject to Ia
surmise. Perhaps it was to impress his Ia
etter more forcefully and favorably on
ha readers of the Sun throughout the 6
North. {
Without DEPRESSING from the issue t
presented it may be said little Boosting S
S left from the viewpoint of the South a
.rn man of Sherman's march to the sea. 6
In Sherman's army there were great il
oldiers, heroic fighters, men who were g
lonest and in earnest in fighting for t
What was called the Union, but there r
we're buns by the thousands, unhanged 5
illains who despoiled defenseless wom S
Il of their possessions; buns and p
who ravished women, who S
ssaulted old and defenseless men, who n
tole and carried away everything they o
lid hands on. In their track was left W
isolation and ruin. We have read of g
lie cruelty of Attila, the ''scourge Of il