The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-04-25
The state Election.

Last Tuesdays election IL this stats
passed off without a breach Of the
peace or any undue excitement, and the
Democratic caudida tes for state and
local Offices were elected almost with
| out exception, as was to be expected.
Considering the active campaign made
by the Republicans aud the voctferous
expressions of satisfaction on the
part OF Democrats with the rascal
| ity developed in the conduct Of tkeir
party IS primary election, the vote Tor
the Republican state ticket was dis
appointingly small. This is doubt
| less accounted for to some extent in
the city of New Orleans by the pre-
sumption tha the devious methods by
which the ward bosses and their myr-
| midons always carry elections swell
ling their own vote and diminishing
that OF the opposition to such extent
as suits their purposes or whIms-
| were employed against the Republican
candid ates, just as these methods were
used openly and successfully to roll
up big city majority against the con-
stitutional amendment consolidating
the seven tax collectorships OF Orleans
parish into one office. At many of the
city polls the Republicans were denied
representation and the Democratic
officials had free hand in the conduct
and control of the election. But with
all due allowance for these drawbacks,
| it is still evident that several thousand
dlsgruntied Democrats, who had made
no cnuceaIment Of their avowed inter-
ton To rebuke the crookedness in their
own party by casting their ballots for
the Pharr ticket, didn't vote as they
talked.
Tne conspiracy On the part OF the
New Orleans ward bosses to save the
six fat tax collectorships by defeating
the constitutional amendment abolish
ing six of the sinecures, came very near
achieving its object, the heavy country
vote il favor Of the amendment over
topping the counter machine-m made city
ma jortty by only about 25U0. Had the
bosses foreseen the contingency they
would in all probability have worked
the election machinery little harder
and sWamped the country vote as they
did in the primary when they landed
Lambremont a winner over Bailey.
According to the tabulated statement
of the returns published in yesterdays
issue of the New Orleans Picayune the
totalvotes and maiorities for governor
and lieutenant governor were as fol-
lows: Sanders, So, 1913; Pnarr, 1888;
majority for Sanders, 5o,784. Lam
bremont, 81, 731; Leonhards, 1851;
Lambremont's majority, 1914.
The vote on ,hetax collectors amend
ment was as follows: Orleans parish,
for, 5562; against 1864. Country
parishes, for, 1859; against, 32l7.
Totals, for, 25,l51; against, 22,58l;|
majority in favor OF amendment, 2570.
Orleans parish vote1 for governor
aud lieutenant governor thus: Sanders,
25, 239; Pharr, 2779; majority for San
ders, q. 460. Lambremont, "a, ESQ;
Leonhardt, 3l72; Lambremont's major
ity, &c, 888.
The Democrats carried every parish
ia the state and the new general as
sembly will be unanimously Demo-
cratic, as was its predecessor. The
parishes that gave 100 votes and over
to the Republican ticket we're the fol-
lowing: Orleans, 2779; Calcasieu, 612;
Terrebonne, 431; Iberia, $50; ST Mary,
$50: Acadia, BIZ; ST. Landry. 3o8; Yer
million, 207; Lafourche, 200; Tangipa-
hoa, 1874; Assumption, 1873; Aseensin,
l27; VIM, 105. A few Republicans
were elected to ward Offices here and
there, but the party did not have local
tickets in dozen parishes.
The four constitutional amendments
o.her than the one consolidating the
Orleans tax collectorships were carried
by very heavy majorities, amounting
almost to unanimous approval by the
electorate. No parish voted against
these measures