The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-21
The "psor Boy" Racket.

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by the Sanders supporters to the dis
paragement of Mr.. Wilkinson, where
in he ia referred ,is wealthy aristo- ,
crat. born with a silver spoon in his
moutl while Mr.. Sanders has been
represented as ''poOr boy" strug- I
Cling under adverse circumstances.
The truth of the matter is that Mr..
Wilkinson WAS the poor boy in the
ease. while Mr.. Sandersinherited con-
siderable wealth.
At IL meeting in New Orleans few
davs since, Mr.. james Wilkinson.
brother of Theodore Wilkinson, was
one of the speakers, and gave out
some interesting andnuthentic infor-
nation on this subject.
MIR. Wilkinson spoke in part as fo'-
lows:
IAN attempt has been made. ana
il still heing made, throughout the
entire State tn creute sympathy for
Mr.. Snndrrs and prejudice against
nv brother by saying that the form
er was poor hoy who had built him
elf up from the common people, AMI
had supported n widowed mother
and orphan brothers and sisters.
while the latter was. as Judge Elring-
ton said, ''lor,lly sugar planter,
born with silver spoon in his
, mouth"
"My father, n country doctor and
planter. was never really rich in his
D life. His estate, which attended to
: in our Plaquemines court. being ap-
1 praised at his death in 1902 at lit
:. tie over $500. My mother received
. this. Theodore never inheriteda dol
lar in his life, and what he hns now
!. he slave COR winter and summer.
: .In the Fitzpatrick meeting in the
Third Ward two nights ago the RES
olutions there describe MIR. Sanders
!, as IN man springing from the peo-
/ Die; n man coming from humble, but
J. honorable. origin" How MIR. San.
y ,lers could be a man without spring
ing from the people the resolutions
do not explain, but it was unwise fo'
them to pattern after u character il
III David Copprrtield and make him out
n Nd very "humble" in his pnrentagr
ce i'm fnct. of the fact that he comes from
he one of the most noted and prOminen
I'd families of st. Mary.
lis 81. Y. Sanders, ST., may have com
home from the war in 1865 as poo
ny as his son states he was, hut that sol
Ike was born four years later, and hi
or father lived sixteen years after tn
I'd war WAS over hold in my hand
he copy of the inventory of that luther
succession, No. 2450 of the docket
NJ the st. Mary court. dated Dec. ~
nj 1881, wherein the community estat
oh between the deceased and his wid0'
err is appraised at the price and sum
oh sea. 800 80, and this, Lam told 10y
ms prominent former attorney OF .
in Mary, did not include his life insn
ancp.
,o- This inventory il witnessed h
NIL DR.. Henry J. Sanders and DIR. doh
on E. Pugh.
ut "Any debts that Mr.. Sanders fatl
lie Or NAV have owed at his death wei
of. debts that must have been INQUIRE
mt hy him long after the war. His WI
ION ow the GOOD mother of ]. Y. Sander
The subsequently, bought nice home
Franklin. now worth about 800
.se, which she still occupies. l am a
be SO advised that DR.. Henry j. Sander
ire who was devoted to his relative
nat was then very fatherly in his dev
to ton tn this family, and gave }.
ire. Sanders, himself, employment late
is and that it was while in the empls
of DIR. Henry j. Sanders, ON his pla'
the under the management of II. Shell
en- Sanders, i'm December, 1883, that
has Y. Sanders left the State.
the Il am further advised that, AT
ing his return, both Gov. Foster a
, of United States Senator Gallery aid
the greatly in his political advnncemel
.ar. and that no man ever had bet'
Or chances nor stronger influences
ted his back than J. Y. Sanders hns Ia
evil "Mr. Sanders has been in office
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