The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-10-19

formal ana Illegal from UCs inning W.
end, and the chances are that Cohen
and his advisers know this fact as
well as anybody.
In response to a notification from
the Cohen committee that a primary
has been called by that body for the
nomin alton of state candidates, Sec
rotary of State Michel has replied that
| the board of contest three years ago
/ declared the committee headed by
Hon. T. B. Williams to be the only
legally constituted Republican state
committee in Louisiana, and that none
other can be recognized as entitled to
the designation and emblem of the
Republican party.
The Cohenites have made bald
pretense of seeking harmony and unity
with the Williams organizatio but
the hypocrisy and utter insincerity of
the by-play is clearly exposed in the
following reply of Oh airman Williams:
New Orleans, Oct. 2, 1907.
Walter L. Cohen, City:
"Dear Sir-As our sub committee of
the state central committee of the Re-
| publican party of Louisiana was com
| plotting its work last hight communi-
cation was received by myself from
you purporting to act for yourself
and others.
previously, Mr.. Pearl Wight, as
national committeeman from LouiSi-
ana, acting for himself and for me as
chairman of the Republican state
central committee, with a desire to
bring about harmony in the party in
this state, had met you and had OBJ
| tanned your promise to cooperate
with US to the end that one harmoni
Gus state organization might be
| evolved.
'In view of the foregoing, and in
| answer to your several communica-
| tons to me d chairman of the Re-
publican state central committee, to
Mr.. Wight as national committeeman,
and to Mr.. McFarlane as secretary OF
the state central committee, and speak
| ing for these gentlemen as we'll as N.Y.
self and the organization over which
I have the honor to preside, I desire
to characterize your action of calling
a pretended primary eight hours in
1
central committee as piece of po-
litical treachery and chicanery, and
your further action in appointing a
so-called subcommittee on harmony
as a palpable fraud, in view of the
provision of the law under which you
pretended to act, to the effect that the
late and rules of the primary must be
set on Oct. and by the state central
committee itself, not by any subcom
mittee.
/ If this were not sufficient to prevent
| further conferences between us, the
| speeches made by members of your So
called committee, and seemingly &C.
quiesced in by the few who were pres
ent at your so-called meeting OF a state
central committee, in which the ad-
ministratlon in general and Mr.. Wight
| in particular, were abused, would at
ford ample ground for the statement
which | now make, that no further
communication with you is desired.
The inclosed copy OF resolutions
adopted by the state central committee
| last night point out the duty OF those
who honestly desire the triumph of Re-
publican principles. Respectfully,
IF. B. WILLIAMS,
"Cbairman Republican State Central
Committee -
The Cohenites took a new tack on
| Thursday by Professionally withdraw
ing their call for primary and offer
ing to go into the primary called by
the regular Republican organization,
but coupling the pretended offer with
conditions which are impossible of &C
ceptanee and execution under the. law,
irrespective of the question OF their
expediency as matter of party policy.
It is very plain that the entire
scheme and sole purpose of the Cohen
cabal pertains to the making no of
case for presentation to the Republican
national convention next year in sup
port of the pretensions of contestipg
delegation. All their talk about hold
ing a state primary, either independ-
emily or in conjunction with the rec
ognized party org anization, is empty
fustian fulmin ated in defense of pal
pable fraud.