The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-04-18
DoNALDsoNYILLE, La. SATURDAY, APRIL IS. 1908
NEW ORLEANS LETTER
Close of the State oampaign-G Garry The
Amendments-Theo Outlook for
Better Government.

/ po ueC1dSQ Inc VIII OF Inc voters In re-
gard to the matters affecting the vel.
fare OF Louisiana. Mr.. Sanders and
his lieutenants have carried on their
''perfunetoryn campaign against the
Republicans most strenuously and the
/ whole force of the Democratic party
has been actively engaged In a tour
through the parishes in an endeavor
to square" themselves with an out
ragged populace for their past miscon-
ducts. Will the people swallow the
same old lies which have been served
| out to them for twelve years and
blindly submit to the mfsrule of de
! gang, = or will they assert their Amer
lean manhood and rebuke the bosses.
throw off the Old Man of the Sea in
the form of the Democratic party and
accept government at the hands OF the
cleanest body of white men ever as
sembled on a state ticket?
Mr.. Sanders stated rather proudly
the other day that the Democratic
party does not declare itself as reorga-
nized or reconstructed, because it is
the same now as it always has been
and always will be. It is the same
old Democratic party. Isn't it about
time the citizens of the state came to
believe this statement, and taking its
past record into consideration, retire
it into deserved oblivion? We have
hoped and waited fer change which
comes not, and upon the assertion of
its accredited leader thatsthis change
will never be, it seems our hopes are
groundless.
1t is announced upon what seems to
be good authority that the ward bosses
Of this city will make q determined eff
fort to defeat the proposed amend
ments submitted by the special session
of the Legislature. By the adoption
of these amendments they will forfeit
to the taxpayers considerable of the
apap" which has nourished their or
ganization SO long, and the statement
that they will make fight to retain
every perquisite they have formerly
enjoyed does not sound incredible.
Both the Democratic and Republican
press of the state is urging that these
amendments be carried, and it be-
hooves every voter next Tuesday to
see that he does not omit them when
marking his ballot.
Henry N. Pharr, the Republican
nominee for governor, closed his cam
paign in this city on Tuesday night,
addressing large audiences at two
meetings. Mr.. Pharr's stand on the
subject of sending a white deleg alton
to the Republican convention at Chi
cago in May was unequivocal, and the
leaders of the lilly white movement
will endorse their candidate in the
stand he has taken. 4 will denounce
publicly from the stump, said Mr..
Pharr, any mana who attempts to
force negro deleg ate upon our COM
mittee. / look upon the vaporings of
w alter Cohen, the black and tam
leader, the same as upon those OF any
other negro politician, and / warn
Cohen not to interfere with me. II Z
have anything to say at the state con-
vention-and expect to have-We
will send an absolutely white delega-
tion to Chicago, and will demand full
recognition there. Rather than di-
vide the vote or accept hall represen-
tation, we will quit the convention, if
it costs US every federal Office in the
state. q
The negro question is the only one
urged by Mr.. Sanders and his cohorts
against the Republicans, and with this
emphatic promise from the Republican
leader this issue is absolutely settled.
Whatever the outcome of Pharr's
campaign, it's worth to the state will
be felt for years to come. With abso-
luteiy no motive other than a high.
sense Of patriotism, he has made the
most remarkable campaign of recent
years, at great personal sacrifice.
He has developed from a tolerable
speaker into one of the foremost plat.
form orators of the south, carried
forward mainly By means of an honest
zeal and consuming passion to see
his native state honestly and fairly
governed. His qualities of leadership
are indisputable. His private and
personal character has lent greater
impetus to the sentiment for honor and
strength IN politics than any other
force could possibly have DONE He
has brought himself from a hopeless
recipient of empty honors to a guber-
material possibility, aided somewhat
it il true by the conditions of the
times, but mainly By proving to the
people that he IL d man worthy the
honor more worthy than his oppo
nent.
Whether or not he is given the Office
ofchief executive of the state Of Louisf-
ana, he has shoan the people a new
type of manhood: the figure of a man
unsullied in name who is willing TO
give up his entire time, desert his en-
tire interests, TO acceptthe nomination
for an Office which could not possibly
recompense him for his great sacrifice.
Would we had more man Iflras Hanru