The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-12-03
SANDERSITES IN GREAT EXPEC-
TATIONS-CLAIMING
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Ridiculous Forecast-"General' Estop-
lnal Has Influence Limited-There
Was no Affinity Between Jastremski
and Sanders.

Keeping with the characteristic gall OF
the Sandersites:
From Staff Correspondent.
| Baton Rouge, Dec. 1.-The death o.
General Jastremski makes it certain thai
the first primary on January 20 will de
eide the nominee for Governor, since
only Lieutenant Governor Sanders ane
| ex-Congressman Theodore Wilkinson
remain in the race. To which of tn.
two candidates the Jastremski vote will
go becomes matter of considerable
speculation Both sides claim the bulk
of it.
That Governor Sanders will BE-
greatly advantaged is the opinion oil
conservative judges Of the political sit
uation.
There is only one parish in the State
that has been conceded to General Jas
tremski by his opponents. That is La
fourche. Both political factions there
have been lined up for him; but it has
been an open secret for some time thai
the majority of the men of influence in
the parish have held Governor Sanders
as their second choice and were pre-
pared to support him in the second pri-
mary. With the death of the general
therefore, it is reasonably to be expected
that Lafourche will be transferred tc
the Sanders column, as Representative
Angelica intimated last week.
THE EFFECT IN EAST BATON
ROUGE.
-Four years ago General Jastremski
carried East Baton Rouge over Gov
ernor Blanchard by decisive majority.
This year a large portion of the Jas
tremski following declared for Governor
Sanders, practically all of the Jastrem-
ski campaign committee turning over to
him. The principal portion of the oppo-
sition to the Lieutenant Governor for
Jastremski. There are very few Wilkin-
son men to be found in the parish. The
death of General Jastremski is believed
by the best judges in East Baton Rouge
to mean that the majority of his sup
port will go to the St. Mary man.
''In St. Landry and Acadia where the
Jastremski sentiment ran strong four
years ago, there has been this year re-
spectacle Jastremski following. Since
the general suffered his stroke people
from that section who have been in the
city have declared that fatal termina-
ton would transfer most of his follow
ing to the Sanders side. The same opin-
ions have been expressed with respect
to Lafayette, Vermilion, Terrebonne and
other parishes in the Third District.
In DeSoto, in North Louisiana, the Jas
tremski people seemed to have shade
the better of it. There is nothing yet to
indicate where they will go.
"THE VOTE OF THE VETERANS.
Throughout the State General Jas
tremski was especially strong with the
Confederate Veterans. Mey voted for
him in great numbers four years ago
when he pulled a total vote of 10000.
Next to General Jastremski there are
few men in the State for whom the Con-
federate Veterans have a warmer at
tachment than General Albert Estopinal,
who made brilliant record in the war,
served term as commander of the
Louisiana Division of the U. C. V. and
was the grand marshal of the last great
parade OF the Veterans in New Orleans.
General Estopinal during his many
years of service in the Senate, devoted
himself especially to the interests of the
Veterans and only last year went to
Baton Rouge to appeal to Governor
Blanchard to approve the appropriation
to mark the graves of thousands of
Louisiana troops who fell in the siege
of Vicksburg. General Estopinal is man
aging the campaign of Governor San
ders, himself prominent member of
the Sons of Veterans, and it is believed
that fact alone will attract many of the
Veterans to the candidacy of the Lieu
tenant Governor, no wthat General Jas
tremski has answered the final roll call.
General Jastremski polled six thous-
and votes in New Orleans four years
ago. Many of these were Confederate
Veterans and a considerable number
were of the laboring classes. Many of
the latter are already enrolled with
Governor Sanders and the probability is,
as already indicated, that he will get
also the bulk of the former.
THE PLAY OF THE WILKINSON
PEOPLE.
"The Wilkinson people have been
playing for the Jastrenski vote in the |
second primary ever since the campaign |
opened. They have claimed that Mr.. |
Wilkinson stumped the State for the
General four years ago, and that he was
entitled to be denomirated the generals |
legatee. Il is, however, matter Of pub
lie knowledge that General Jastremskil
ia npt welcome the candidacy 81 MI. 1