The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-12-14
A BIG DENIAL, BUT
NO REPUTATION.
The Promised VindicatiOn of Mr..
Sanders Proves FiascO.
Not One of Caffery's Original Charges Disproven by
Statement Taking up Thirty Columns
of Newspaper Space

made n signed statement denying |
these charges t., he correct.
IL il not denied that the statements
of March 81, 1904, and of May u,
1904, are correct, nor that they
we're taken from the sheriif's books.
1t is not denied that the slieriff'r
Office was assessed $S3.33 ~ month |
for buying the clerks office from j
| A. Loret, nor is it denied thntJ. 7.
Sanders insisted upon the slseriff's |
office puying this amount because he |
wanted s'to control the sheriff's Otfirp |
and the clerks otfices' M stated by
Mr.. Cooke. 1t is merely claimed by |
the clerk that he has not been con-
troled hy Mr.. Sanders in the dis
charye of any of his official duties,
hut this has never been asserted by
anyone, nor could it justly he.
The residuum Of the care, taking
Mr.. Sanders answer for all it Is
worth, is TINT he invoked one set ut
rules in the Young and Marsh casts,
against his opponents. while a dill
ferent vet hf rules WIS beiag applied
by his admitted client, the sheriff,
for favoring other people. The seIt-
serving declaration III Sheriff san
ders Of Dee. IL, 1902, is quoted to
show that he did not stand where
!, the Young aud Marsh suits show he
stood, hut that letter wns written
after Judge Allen handed down his
opinion, on Dec. 6, III the Young suit.
A letter from j. n PhHrr & Sons,
Ltd, and memorandum from the
Mira. E. D. Burynierps Planting COns-
pany, Ltd, ARE produced to show that
proxy payments were permitted, but
these documeirts were written IN
1906, three years Affer the decision
in the Young sHit, in which the
Messrs. Sanders were compelled to
accept proxy payments.
i The Pharr and Burguieres letters
merely show that the Messrs. San
ders do not carry their political op-
prpssions to theextent ri dpfying the
DEGREES of the ,urts of the land.
4 Innuendp and baseless dispersion
against r. X. Cs,cke's books abound
lin the phamphlet, but there h no Of
fer t0 produce the hooks as would
have been If there had beena bona
file claim thatt the books discredited
Mr.. Cooke. nor are they any specific
4 facts or figures given to show or to
suggest that Mr.. Cookies accounts
were incorrect.
Il The attack on Mr.. COcke'saccouuts
is desperate attempt to mike cap
, ital out of vague. airy and mysteri-
! Gus insinuations, and is the aeizing
upon a tangent, mot made an issue
], by me at Donaldsonville, nor ny Mr..
Sanders at Jeanerette. ltwould be a
. purposeless cireumventiOn OF the
issue fit did not appear to he done
: ia the hope that the public would
lose sight of the real issues Ia. the
t mass of idle detail contained in the
$ pamphlet. That the assault upon Mr..
3 Cookies accounts il purposeless Is
shown by the circunstanceth that they
= are notscalled into question in any
t direct, tangible and open way.
!. But to show the extremity tO
+ which the Messrs Sanders are now
:. driven, they seek to unjustly impose
!. ON respected citizen the 0dium %
y this shortage in the sheriff's Office o
|. st. Mary. That citizen, R. X. Cooke
e submits his statement herewith. and
J. it utterly demcl;shes this attack OF
e that gentleman's character.
l. How fictitious many of the state
T. ments of the Sanders pamphlet nre
after SO long a delay in preparation
3 il shown by the affi,lavits of John X
J. Parkerson and Il. r. Cooke estss blish
n ing that the handwriting OF .Henr.
le jacobs commission, alleged to be Mr.
Is Cookies, is, in fuct, Mr.. ParkersOn's
ID Such barefaced inisstntesBerts ar
IT enough to discredit this pamphle
n with every ight-thinking man. Il
have asked for judgement by tn
n people upon my charges, but Mr.. SssT
I. ders has anticipated tmt-he hn
he confessed Judgment by not denyin
il the tyrannies / showed had bee
I'd perpetrated in the Young and Mars
leases, and by not denying the incs,i
Mt sistent privileges extended by tn
Y. sheriff to himself and his fncti0n.
III Sheriff Sanders, althoughnotd den.
RS ing in any way the shortage OF b
Ie- office works up considera bic heat py'
re my setting forth the factn, ans \
al dulves I'M an irrelevant tirtfde agssin'
yo me. which shows that he also " u
ch able to discuss public questions
he any other than personal way, ~
RI. which l ignore with the Observable
ge that his lifeof open csncuhinage wit
ri, a negrpss in st. Mary parish, do
ies not entitle him to recognition.