Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-05-29
PLATT AND HIS PURSUER.

Neither Senator Thomas C. Platt nor Miss Mae
Wood emerged with credit from the court trial
which has just had such sensational ending. While
the senator won the snit, the testimony including
his own showed moral lapses which were especially
disgusting on account of his age and position. The
woman, no doubt deservedy, is facing q prison
sentence for perjury.
1t was not delectable case-this suit of an ad-
ventures against grandfather of distinguished
position. The publication of the details will not
contribute to the moral uplifting OF the educative
enlghtment of the nation, bat it serves as warn
ing to men who are "worth sueing," that wrong
doing or indiscretons will almost surely bring dis
grace. Since the Breckenridge Pollard case there
have been few public held up to the scorn
or laughter of the world for actual or alleged Of
lenses against morality OF course all are not
gutless because they have escaped publicity, but
we not among those who believe there is low
standard of morals among American men, whether
they are in public or private life.
AS to the Platt-Wood case--no sympathy is to be
wasted either party to tia suit for divorce GER
tainly not Oh the woman. This was young girl
seeking reparaton from betrayer, but cold
blooded attempt of q mature experienced woman of
the world to wiring money from decrepit old man,
whose wealth and position as we'll as his apses from
the straight and narrow path, made him particular
ly vulnerable. Her story of how the alleged mar
rage occurred decidedly questionable, if not ri
diculous, and it was not difficult to read between
the lines that the woman aud shrewd lawyers were
taking GAMBLERS chance to get stake from
the rich old senator.
Senator Platt has been discredited so long in his
politics, his financial methods and his morals that
the present suit cannot injure his already blasted
reputation, but no one but Mae Wood or a yellow
w 70 her. mn onod d.
reject in public life. From all accounts he tot
tering OH the brink of the grave. Let.us not con-
done his offenses but let him go the ong-way un-
bounded and in chattanooga Times.
1t is probable that in no other way except by
deed or gftcoud the public schools of louisiana
and Mississippi be provided with large picture of
jefferson Davis the lamented President of the Con-
federate States OF America, hence the generous act
of the Now Orleans Daily Picayune in presenting
5816 large engraviDgs of Mr.. Davis, as It's gift to
the public schools, is something which deserves the
greatest appreciation on the part of the two States
The presentation was made i'll response to reso-
tuition adopted by the Confederate Southern Me-
mortal Association, declaring that picture of Mr..
Davis should be placed in every school in the South
on June 3, 1908, the one hundredth anniversary of
his birth, and this has been made possible for the
schools of Louisiana and Mississippi by the generous
and patriotic act of the Picayune. The gift is a
splendid tribute to the memory of the Lost Cause
as well as to the schools and will be appreciated as
such by the people of the South.-Natchez Democrat
''Most of the great annual expenditures of our
Government like the rain falling the parched
sands of the desert, only to disappear and leave
trace behind. But waterway improvements in
vestments which will last forever."-Jos. E. Rams
dell:
Congress appropriated million and half toward
government display at Che Japanese exposition of
1912. The naval display we're going to give Japan
in the meantime will do lot of good, also.
Those Kentucky night riders who prayed and sang
sNearer My God to Thee when they set fire to a
tobacco barn, evidently thought they were making
o burnt offering,-Ex-