The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-09-10

FAILS TO MEASURE W.
The Caucasian refuses to treat Lieu
tenant Governor Sanders candidacy II
other than a respectful but candid man
ner. We do this because we have we
have profound regard for The poS'tioi
he seeks, and for the Democrats OF
Louisiana who have honored HIM III the
past with honors overmuch. lrhe
Mr.. Sanders at times eXcltes | ne eau
casian's contempt, but however much he
NAV deserve verbal castlgation, we have
refrained to consider him as, at mo-
ments. and many moments, he richly de-
service
The Caucasian's opposition to MIR
Sanders is founded upon the fact that
he fails to measure mp to the character
and quality of the man now required as
Chief Executive for the Common
wealth of Louisiana.
This quality other men may, and dc
fail to reach, and this without disparage-
ment to other and excellent characters
tics they may possess.
Mr.. Sanders is positively and essen
TALLY politician, not in the terms
higher sense, but of the most offensive
character.
He has never i'll all his career pursue
a good public measure as an end.
Only as means has he used all that
came to his grist, and used them to fur
their either his own or his factions pur-
poses, no matter how injurious to the
public or to public morals.
His record as public man-wlth
which we have only to do-conhrms this
reproach, and convincingly confirms it..
His speeches during his tour of the
provinces illustrate his studied con-
tempt for public intelligence. He pro-
poses that all of us beyond the confines
sNew Orleans are ordinary Rubes,
who can be .gulled. with words, noisy and
furious, but which mean nothing.
At one point he declares himself a
whisky man." as he certainly did at
Marthaville if the then and until re-
Gently uncontradicted press reports are
at all to be relied upon. In Avoyelles
parish, strongly prohibition, he denies
he Said it, and trots out convenient
and ever ready witness to prove his de-
NAL. He claims parental relationship
with the Grandfather Clause in the
State Constitution. In letter to the
Tinles-Democrat four years ago he de
clined that honor He asserts that the
local option measures in the Legislature
had his power and his support, as he
willingly recognized those Senators who
moved their passage! This is not so.
Members of the Senate who favored
legislation looking to prohibition joir
in denial of his eminent services, and
proclaim to the contrary, that he opposed
them as far as his political hopes per-
mitted opposition.
Why is it, if Mr.. Sanders prohibition
and high license record is on straight,
that the saloon element, the anti-prohi-
bition element, as we'll as all the ele-
ments which thrive through lax law en-
forcement are behind Mr.. Sanders in the
pending contest?
Surely New Orleans political ring
is not moral means to secure moral
ends. For that ring has its principal
seat of power among the saloon men and
those who seek to secure Or to maintain
special privileges. These, from the race
track gambler down to the lowest dive,
pay tribute to Sanders New Orleans
henchmen, of whose fidelity he boasts
Ordinarily a person who had traversed
his State delivering speeches as he has,
full of denials of plain facts, and of
claims for character AMI conduct which
a political record and political life en-
phatically refute, would be denounced in
terms that would drive him from the
contest. As II IS, respect for the place
he seeks tolerates if it does not excuse
him in his illogical. verbise and puerile
effort to life himself up to the standard
now required of Southern Governor.