The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-04-17
CANDIDATE PHARR
MAKES ADDRESS.
sents White Republican Party. Not
Party of 40 Years Ago, But
Party of 1908.

clean white Republican party to
divide with the dominant Demo-
cratic party.
Mr.. Bryant's speech was a
strong and forcible presentation
of the Republican side and he
was frequently applauded.
The chairman then introduced
H. N. Pharr, the Republican
candidate for Governor, who
said in part:
''In our campaign tour we have dis
covered a feeling of unrest in north
Louisiana, feeling of the kind that
eliminated in the Citizens League,
and we believe that this feeling will
crystalize in our favor on April q.
! We come to you as representatives of
the Republican party, not as it was
forty years ago, but the white Repub-
lican party of 1908, composed entirely
of white men. We propose to estab-
lish clean, white, honest, Republi-
can party. and to maintain it,
From this Mr.. Pharr turned his at
, tention to the primary pledge" and
quoted William Jennings Bryan's
declaration that no man is NOR
ally bound thereby, after which he
again charged fraud in the first pri-
mary, and declared that 1000 fraudu-
lent votes had been cast against Will
kinson in the city of New Orleans. At
this point Mr.. Pharr referred to the
Bailey -Lambremont contest, and con-
| tinued:
'sWhat does this refusal of the State
! Central Committee to 90 behind the
returns mean? 1t means that the prec-
edent established by that party in
. 1892, by which q man was unseated
who had been selected as the Demo-
cratic nominee, was reversed in 1896,
and the Democratic party of to-day is
living up to the same abominable rep
utation that it established at that time.
What does it mean? It means that
no matter how many ballots have
been stuffed into the boxes, no matter
how many dead men and absentees
have been voted-after those ballot
boxes have been turned over by the
commissioners there is no redress.
Even If the ward leaders had stuffed
In 1000 more votes, there would have
been no redress. Do the voters in
tend to stand for that always?
think not.
Il 81 want to ask you why the walls oi
wrath of the Democratic party have
been opened on the head of Mr.. Lam.
Fremont? Why. who ever heard o.
Mr.. Lambremont before this contest
lover the nomination? No; he was
the mere tool in the hands of tht
bosses, and there is man who heads
the ticket who is more responsible
than any other man in the State
Have you ever heard Sanders con
denim the ward bosses? No, because
, he does not dare offend these men.
At this point Mr.. Pharr repeated
the allegation that Mr.. Sanders ha<
told committeeman that all friend
: of his on the State Central Committe
/ lmust uphold Lambremont, and tina
Lambremont must be his running mate
Furthermore, Mr.. Pharr expresse'
the belief that only two honest cleo
tions had ever been held inL 0uisiana
3 those of the Young Mems Democrati
and the Citizens League, AM
) those only because the citizens ha'
!. carried their guns to the polls.
I'VE can never expect good result
under the present election system" b
!. Icontinued. I'VE can never expec
e good results until non-political, nor
! partisan men from both parties go +
the polls and see that the ballots NJ
honestly counted, and this. l think
will be done on April 21."
8 Diverging from this line, Mr.. Phar
e referred to what he termed the .spit
|. liable spectacle OF former Gov. Heari
!. declaring that he had once accepte
!. 1.-The n0mination s'only to save Il
: fparsy from naming John Fitzpatrick,
g now IL acknowlsdgsd dictator, sai
ytNr. Pharf. ~ III Deupocratfes boDel