The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-10-04
THREE TYPES OF men seen
In the Contest for the Governor
ship of Louisiana.

we Glit my
sketch Of the three candidates
for governor by j. Il. Webb in
the Monroe News, because we
believe it will prove interesting
to our readers:
The gubernatorial campaign is
well under way. although the primary
election will not be held until late next
January. Three candidates are be-
fore the people: three men OF as many
types. and they are all rock-ribbed
Democrats. The Democracy OF Louis
lana is not peculiar: I have failed to
find the brand down here different
from the kind Democrats boast of
elsewhere: the Louisiana Democrats
are like the Ohio Republicans-al-
ways fighting; there is a divided
party: at least two factions are al
ways at war.
What Northern States have-two
distinct political parties of power
Louisiana has not: but the Pelicans
swear eternal loyalty to their sainted
Democracy and proceed to damn n
another during election campaigns.
This was shown in the last municipal
campaign in New Orleans. All the
political sores are not yet healed.
The personality of the three men
seeking Ote in the gubernatorial
campaign is striking.
Colonel Theodore :. Wilkinson is
a man of brains, speaks French and
English: has been trained in the ways
of politics: served in Congress; held
a federal position, and is credited
with being one of the richest and most
successful sugar plantation owner
managers in the State He is a many
sided man.: he is honest, radical in
some views, clean morally: is a steam
engine when working; a pile-driver in
%hammering facts before an audience:
rather too quick at thinking for most.
people who come in contact with him
either in politics or business: and has
no fOOlishness in his makeup. He is
a man of individuality in action, a
big boy when you get close to him:
kind, generous and full of the attrib-
utes of a good citizen. Quick-temper-
ed, his anger flashes forth at times,
and he is ever ready to back his own
opinion with his fist.
Lieutenant Governor Jared Y. San
ders is q man who has climbed to
where he is by persistence. nerve
and hard work. He Is q type far
different from Col. Wilkinson: San
ders is a spreadeagle orator, has
ability, is a fair judge OF human ma
ture and q clever COLLIER" when he
has a purpose is view. Coming from
the ranks of printers devil he has felt
the hard knocks of life: he has been
before the public almost continuously
since he was of age; has mingled with
the masses and acquainted himself
with politicians of the new order in
Louisiana. He is a machine politician
no matter what he says to audiences
in the country when asking for votes.
If elected, he will try to fill the exec
utive Office with credit to himself, for
he is ambitious to make a name
which he can leave behind him; ambi-
ton is nine-tenths of a politicians
stock in trade, and Sanders believes
in asking for what he wants. This is
to his credit.
Last We come to General Leon JAS
tremski, the independent candidate
for governor. The general is a civil
wal veteran: he blazed the way
through the Louisiana political will
derness for many of the reforms adj
opted during the Blanchard admins
ration. No machine, no banks, nc
wealth, no political power stand back
of the General in his free-handed cam
paign for the most coveted Office in
the gfftof the States voters.
HisfNpkness is commendable; his
p~rincipAabs s1e strong; he may not be
right in his declaration for two-cent
passenger fare. on railways, but he
Has touched a..popqlar chord; he is no
''quittefSi when thes>odds are against
him..
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