The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-01-24
BIG Meeting FOR SANDERS.
jefferson Theatre Packed Wednesday b.
Interested Audience to Hear J. Y.
Sanders Present His Claims for
the GOvernOrship.


would be one of the best walters in
America. He then went on to say he
was not in favor of shifting the bur-
den upon the children.
He then ridiculed the idea OF Mr..
Wilkinson being farmer, saying that
Col. Wilkinson had lived in New Or
leans a dozen of years to his knowl-
edge and that he had suite of offices
in the Godchaux building, and then
asked what kind of crop the Colonel
could raise in the Godchaux building.
Further, the Colonel did not farm un-
/, der his own name, that the fifteen
miles of river front which he owned
was farmed under the name of the
Myrtle Grove Sugar Plantation. OF
which Mr.. Wilkinson was president,
secretary, treasurer, general manager
and stockholder. He then asked if
Mr.. Wilkinson was farmer why he
wasn't q member of the Farmers
Union, answering the question by
saying he wasn't eligible. Next he
declared that all the public service
corporations were fighting him and
supporting Mr.. Wilkinson. They
couldn't handle him. When he was
speaker he kept the lobby away from
the House and when presiding officer
of the Senate kept them away from
that body, and if elected governor he
would drive the lobby away from
Baton. Rouge never to return. The
corporations had right to fight him,
for they knew they conld not handle
him.
He spoke of the charge that the
bosses in New Orleans were support
ing him by saying that last June he
was in the country and Mr.. Wilkinson
was in the city in the warehouse of the
Parker Blake Drug Co., trying to gel
Alex Pujol, the biggest boss of them
all, to support him. That the Colonel
in June was begging the bosses to sup
port him and in January was denounc-
ing them as forces of evil. Mr.. San
ders then exclaimed, How big and
sour was the bunch of grapes Col.
Wilkinson didn't get and how big a
lemon the people will hand the Colonel
on January the 28th.'' Mr.. Sanders
then told of his fathers service in the
y army, his death and the loss of his
property. leaving his family without
means. That, he the Oldest, only thir'
teen years of age, in helping to suppor1
them had done every kind of work
He closed by speaking of his ambi
tion and appealed to the fathers and
mothers present to know if they die
not want their children to be smbi
tious. He was ambitious and wanted
to be governor, but that his heart die
not hold sentiment that did not cen
ter on the, glory and welfare of hi.
native State.
i Mr.. Sanders was cheered again ant
again and the close of his speech wa.
marked by an enthusiastic demonstra
ton.
II Chairman Elliott then introduced
Mr.. John P. Sullivan, of New Orleans
who made q short speech, in which h
tried to ridicule Mr.. Wilkinson. HI
spoke slightingly of Mr.. Wilkinson
ambition to- be governor and coul,
see no reason for his aspiring to tha
Office except that Jim Wilkinson nigh
be brother to the governor. He thel
made merry over the fact that Col
Wilkinson risked his life in closing
crevasse in the levee on the Missis
sippi, ascribing it to mercenary mo
J tives and asserting that Mr.. Wilkin
, son then discovered that he had
I reason for running for governor. H
, made fun of Mr.. Wilkinson's recor,
in Congress and then said lot O
; things about Jim Wilkinson. He ais,
, scored Gov. Blanchard for allege,
orders to deprive old veterans of thei
votes and wound up by assuring hi
audience that Sanders would carr
, New Orleans by $1,000 majority. Hi
} talk pleased some ofthose present as q
different times he was loudly applaud
: led.
II 81. M. Gill of New Orleans followe
: in short speech and after him MI
Grow Girard spoke in the interest Z
his own candidacy for the Legislature
! The meeting then closed.
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