St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1907-10-05
Is Wilkinson a Farmer 7

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public Office should be sincerity
with the people. In this campaign
it has become the fashion and the
habltual custom of one of the
candidates tor Governor to advar.
tIse and haunt in the faces of the
people the alleged fact that he Is .
"farmer, and, as such, he has ap-I
pealed to the cotton, rice and sugar |
growers of the State tor their sup
port, torsooth, because he.ie one of
them. This candidate 10 Mr.. The.
odore s. Wilkinson, who has as.
sailed on every busting the candi-
dacY of MIR. Sanders on no better
ground than because he Is a law.
yer. little investigation of the
manner and character of Mr..
Wllkinson's farming will make
clear as the MONDAY sun the fact
that be is no more a farmer than
Is MIR. Reginald Vanderbilt, who
owns and operates his vast Blltnore
estates in North Carolina and re-
sides the year round in the city Of
New York. That this appeal to
the little cotton farmer and rice
grower ls fallacious and insincere
and demagoglc will appear by the
fact that the only manual toll that
MIR. WllkinGon ever does is to sign |
checks to pay those who till the
soil of his thirteen sugar estates in
Plaqusmins parish. His soft, |
aristocratic fingers have never felt
the rude jolt of the pillow, and have
never in his long life guided that
useful instrument down the fur
row of a cane field. His perma-
uent habitat is in the city of New
Orleans, and he lives in pallatial
residents at No. 1924 jackson
Avenue, near st. Charles Avenue.
He signs his cheeks and makes his
Office OH the third toor of the big
Godchaux Building. If you will
consult the Cumberland Telephone
address book you will find the fol-
loving legend:
"Main 44Os, Wilkinson, Theo.
s., planter, third floor Godchaux
Building"
"Maln 440l, Wilkinson, Theo.
S., residence, 1924 Jackson Ave.
The ST.. Tammany Farmer yields
to no one in Its admiration for the
real and honest tllIer of the soil,
because 1t knows that the farmer
in every age, in every land and un-
der every sun, is the backbone,
the sinew and the mainstaY of
every commonwealth and every
government that has ever risen and
fourlshed. But we, IN common
with all mankind, are opposed to
hypocrisy and demagoglsm. We
cannot see how a man who has
never titled the soil, sowed the
seed or feaped the harvest with mis-
own hands, and who lives many
miles from his vast suguar estates
fronting twenty-three miles on
the Mississippi River, can pose as
an humble farmer and seek the
votes of this Industrious and hardy
class of citizens as one of them.
The farmers that we admire and
respect have never been the pets Of
government or a favored few of a
special class. Mr.. Wilkinson, IN
three years, from 1891 to 1894, |
drew $1O4, 6l9. Is from the national
treasury In bounty on his sugar
crop. This bounty-fed patriot
does not even farm in his own
name, but under the classical title
OF the "MYrtIe Grove Sugar and
Planting Co, Ltd.," and manu-.
features his crop in sugar rein
cry which cost nearly q half mil
lion dollars. Cato would blush at
the claims of such a farmer, and
Ceres would dlsown him as son
of the soil and tell him to "avaunt
and quit my sight, Such hypoc.
risy should merit the condemna.
ton of the voters. such demsgogy,
If INDUCED in by Mr.. Sanders,
would deserve the Withdrawal of
our support.
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