The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-08
THE INSIDER
SPEEDING THROUGH POLITICAL
CANVASS vs.. OLD FASH
IONED FLOODING.
A Friend With Money Ia Burn, and
Who Burns 1t for Friend-A Case
Of Jocbailcy. Only More SO.


| September 5.
The Passing Pilgrim records that
Louisiana has developed a case Of Zoe
bailey" from the throcs Of her pending
political canvass.
| 1t will be remembered tina, the orig
inator of the term, and the originally
| inflicted with the affection, met the
charge of having gotten money from an
off shoot Of the Standard Oil Company
by proving through his own testimony
that he borrowed the cash from the
perfect stranger" and paid him back
from the proceeds Of horse trade,
| The case in point in Louisiana is con
tanned in the charge made by Wilkinson
that the astute Sanders campaign-from
Jarad's own candidacy clear down to
Editor EdmoldS' hump to monopollzc
the limclight. was being financed by Il
stool pigeon for cotcrie Of New Or
leans banks. and Jarad's Ponchatoula
reply.
|
for candidate to dodge 4 charge like
this. or to meet it with a fiat denial.
mixed. Of course. with whitening ex-
pressions. But since Bailey made 1t
| fashionable to borrow the money from
the money power 1t has gone out Of style
to call the alligator nefarious names.
Quite the contrary. Louisiana goes
Bailey one better and-pauses for reply.
At Ponchatoula J. Y. exclaimed that
his friend Danziger's other name was
| Walter that he rid in All automobile.
smoked his two bit" cigars and burned
money to light up J. VS. pathway to vic
tory!
| Walter. proclaims the man from St.
Mary in substance. is in this canvass
simply as my friend" and is prodigal
millionaire in my behalf!
From this it will be seen that Walter
isn't depending on the result of a horse
traffic for the return of his money. He
gives it freely from his accentuated
millions and gives it for the unadulter
ated love he bears ]. Y.
| What is seventy thousand for the
Shreveport Times and thirty-five thous-
and for the State printing and fifteen
thousand for newspapers in Baton
Rouge?
| That is, what are these sums to-Wal-
ter?
A mere bagatelle!
Is not the total lavished for friend
Sanders and is not young" Enmonds
the lagniappe of the situation?
True Bradstreet and Dun rate Wal
ter nowhere, but what of that?
Jarad Y. Sanders says that Walter
has the price for all these things, and
except to the Unfortunately curious and
peevish people and the snarling. jealous
Wilkinites this should be satisfactory.
What an object lesson this The erst-
while poor boy holding psychic COM
mune with millionaire painting to sepa-
rate himself from his dough; the child
of destiny in payroll connection with
a man who rides in automobiles and
smokes two bit cigars!
Bear in mind that Danziger, the prod
igal mint of money, is in this wild and
barbaric game for benevolent purposes
only. J. Y. wants an organ to pipe for
him at Shreveport. Prcsto-there you
are with the Times.
What's seventy thousand dollars? \
new spaper in Baton Rouge? There's
two of them, including a polha-dot de
sign who can edit three at a time, and
who Raced us through Sherman 5
house-burning raid into Mississippi i'll
the sixties
And thus you sce-for Jarad himself
has said it-that Sanders is spending
nothing for his nomination outside the
wear and tear on his throat and the loss
of his St. Mary accent in talking poll
tics.
| Of course all this sounds very pretty
as Sunday school lesson. but-a case
hardened patriot, and some there be in
and around Ponchatoula, would regard
Walter in the spending act for Jarad as
the nub end of deal, and they must
feel, these casehardened patriots, that if
Sanders really believes that Danziger's
purpose in the campaign is to enjoy one
long Honolulu sunset, he ought to put
his conscience out of its misery
I The young girl with the auburn hair
had refused him
II never dreamed, Mr. Sonykins," she
said, that your attentions to me were
Anything more than those of friend :"
"Oh, you didn't growled Mr. Sony
kins "You thought | had been coming
here regularly once week during the
| last six months merely for the purpose
and pleasure of seeing you eat 5o-cent
tray of caramels, did your"
PASSING PILGRIM.