The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-17
UNTRUTHFUL STATEMENTS BY
]. Y. SANDERS.
THEIR POLICY TO IGNORE
Will the Decent Citizens Of the State Of
Louisiana Be pecoyed and Misled by
the Pleas Of the Demagogue Plain
Statement Of Sanders Record


able i'll law, if not in person. for any dis
credit or reflection not provable which
may be damaging to Candidate for Gov
crnor Sanders
In The Conflict there has been pub
lished charges and discredits Of Lieu
tenant Governor Sanders which should
not have escaped his attention nor that
of his boosters, and which, if not true OF
liable to be proved as true, should have
enlisted their most vigorous denials by
challenge direct and by such action as
would have left the publishers and the
editor Of The Conflict in a contemplate
attitude, if the facts alleged were not
sustained
In view of these oft-repeated state
ments,, which have been uncontradicted
and which it is apparently the policy OF
the Sandersites to ignore, Sanders is left
i'll an attitude which good men, con-
cerned more in the honor and glory of
their State than i'll the success of party
leeches, will not approve.
The Conflict says:
We want to warn the decent citizen
ship of the State against political decep-
ton. The Lieutenant Governor is max
ing lot of statements in his speeches
over the State that have no truth in
them They are only calculated to de
ceive honest voters. Pay absolutely no
attention to what he says; that counts
for nothing. He has shown that he is
liable to say anything in his desperate
efforts to catch the crowd and slip into
the governorship, if possible. In the dry
sections of the State he has been declar-
ing himself for local option Now, any
body who will follow him through can
easily see that he no more wants local
option than the devil wants to break into
the Methodist church. Let us look at
him for few moments.
l. He has always stood with the liquor
crowd. There is not one of them who
knows him but will tell you that che is
one of the boys This is not secret. We
can call tip his best friends and get
abundant testimony to this. He will not
and can not disentangle himself from
his crowd They will control him. He
has no desire to further anything his
gang does not want.
r. He has never at any time or anywhere
stood for reform measures. He has had
abundant opportunity to do so. He voted
against the Sunday law in the Legisla
ture He does not obey it now himself
nor teach others to do So He did not
and would not help any of the several
moral measures before the last Legis
lature. On the contrary, he deliberately
tried to pack the committee he appointed
to pass on the legislation with those
whom he had reason to believe would
vote adversely on such measures He
can not show to the voters of the State
any fruits meet for repentance.
3. His character is SO absolutely char
/ acterless that nothing could be expected
Of him. "Alen do not gather grapes of
thorns nor figs Of thistles." What he
has done in the past is i'll consonance
with what he is the same will be true
of him should he become Governor.
His impulses are wrong and he will
gather about him set of politicians, so
called, who represent the never reform,
Stun, bum element Of the State-the
very men that the heightened citizenship
of this Commonwealth is anxious to
keep down and out of it's official life.
The arraignment of his private life is
supported by undoubted and corrobo-
rated evidence and the half has not been
told.
The voter who wants to be honest and
do right can satisfy himself as to the
absolute truth of all that has been pub
llShed about him. Neither he nor his
most ardent admirers will undertake to
deny the Tuth of the charges against his
private lie. Their policy is to ignore
it all and push ahead to try to persuade
the voterst of the State to do the same
Will the decent citizensNof the State be
deceived by the smooth things he says
and be decoyed to their destruction?
If the Christian voters Il the State
VAN to nullify the work If the Anti
Saloon League, turn bact the tide OF
moral refcrm in the laws snd personnel
of State officials, and give the affairs OF
the Commonwealth over to the TN
scrupulous and immoral, let them walk
up and vote for the Lieutenant Gov
ernor. That is tie surest and quickest
way to do it.
Down in Red River parish the old po-