The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-01
CORPORATION COUNSEL.

The attempt TO confuse the support
accorded Mr. Wilkinson by certain and
numerous we'll known lawyers. promi-
nent in the social. business and political
life of New Orleans. with the fact that
Mr.. Sanders and the law firm OF which
pending began, and of which he will he
if dtfeattd-a member. are the leading
counsel employed for the public service,
the legalized and all other trusts OF I'M
portance operating in New Orleans. OF
from that city, will deceive no one.
In fact the change by Mr.. Nillery that
because such we'll known attorneys as
Farrar Spencer. Dufour. Carroll, Hen
derson, Dart. Back and others OF New
jOrleanS and elsewhere support MIR. VII
IklnsOn. they are actuated III 50 dong by
their attorneyships for the several cor
operations they may represent before the
courts is. if untrue. an insult to the
whole bar OF Louisiana. and if true re
vealS dangerous feature III legal prac-
tice. of which the great public has hlth
trtu not been aWarc-the feature OF IN
Icludln9 their services as citizens. eNerc1s-
ing the highest right and te mast patriot
ic duty-that of selecting Il Chief Alagls-
trate for the Commonwealth their
services Is attorneys. and To be reason
,bly inferred. receiving fees therefor.
| OF course Mr. Nillery did not see the
final analysis of his logic. but the deduc-
Ition The Caucasian here presents is the
Mr.. Nilery charges that the fact OF the
support of these lawyers is proof that
Mr. Wilkinson is corporation candi-
date
As usual with the Syndicate press and
the Syndicate advocates. this IS but an
other boomerang, lust as their State
debt Davment and other 'Slandering San
ders" arguments have been.
MIR. Sanders belonged to a firm COM
posed OF himself, a United States sell
ator and others. He was and Is the
| Lieutenant 'ItNtl lltl- NtN >pt.h'i VI ''iN
lower house Of the States General As
semblv, and 4 member also.
Not alone the Democratic party but
the whole people have declared against
he attorneyship of National. State or
local officials for public service corpora
lions. or such whose conduct would nat
: | 10 10 tat
regulation. Farrar Buck. Walsh. Hall
; Spencer. Carroll and others are only
employed because OF their we'll eStab-
llished legal ability. Mr.. Sanders firm
i eniovs no such repute, and public rumo1
has it of them. as of Bailey and Spooner
" and the like. that they are retained be-
cause of their political, not their lesa
power.
In proof, or at least IN evidence
Mr. Sanders aided in enacting law
10 tax the sugar trust III LOUISIANA witt
: Ia license. He did this as a legislator
: land while serving his term as such. an'
Il alter the law had become effective. he
Il personally appeared before the court
:, as an attorney for the sugar trust anf
) had the law pronounced unconStltu
Il tional.
y OF course there must have been som'
\ Idefect in the statute as framed becaus'
g the Supreme Court had in prevnou
decision confirmed the States right t
A. license the sugar trust.
:, As an attorney for the trust Mr.. San
ar ,lers saw that defect.
~ Then why did he not attend to 1t
,t a legislator?
Il Here is the whole crux of this attor
u nevship service for corporations.
e1 1t isn't in the fact that certain gentle
OF ment in private law practice, IN wh'c
S. thev appear for corporations, are SUP
le porting Mr. Wilkinson, ergo the COZ
he oorations will find Mr.. Wilkinson
much easier proposition to handle tina
We Mr.. Sanders. as Mr.. Nillery expresse
We il Rrt in the fact that Mr.. Sanders ha
er while serving as a public official, take
nd fees in the service of corporations sui
r. iect to legislative regulation-to-wlt, II
ot sugar trust.
ad No inferences here No Islander
ny Simply the plain unvarnlshed record
an That Mr.. Sanders knew this w
wrong: and that II would be charge
in against him in the campaign he reSlg'
Ike |his law partnership pending the electlo
,se If there was nothing improper IN h
,rv public conduct, why Withdraw from +
le- business.
no OF course his devOtees will proclal
that this was done in order to relic
;,im Of the exactions of his protessi
and in Justice to his associates OF I
firm. That is a plausible excuse, but
~. treason. Foster did not resign from t
ort firm when he contested for the onit
States Senate four years ago. nor