The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-06-01
IS DUPRE BEING
CR0OMED FOR GOV?
A Baton Rouge Paper Says that Mur-
ply Foster is at the Back of Ex-
St. Landrian.
WILL SANDERS SUPPORT HIM?
SAME PAPER THINKS NOT.
Says That Perhaps Present Governor
Will Measure Swords With Fos-
ter for Senate.
st. Landry Clarion.

ST Landry Clarion.
Curious ripples are stirring the
hitherto for many month unveXed
surface of State politics, and in them
the supposedly well-informed, par
ticularly those who are sitting quiet
hooks more brazenly baited in the
pool, profess to read signs of under
currents of counter-ambition destined
to whip the waters to more than COM
| mon commotion.
In queer ways the gossip mas spread
through Louisiana. One silent watch
man away up in northeast Louis
lana has a friend who has friend
who writes too many letters; and one
| garrulous soul who dwells not far
from the banks of the Atchafalaya
| has an acquaintance who loves the
sound of his own prophesying; ana a
third, keen-witted individual, who is
learning the difference between Off
bearing cotton and irrigating a rice
| field in a boll-weevil ridden parish
sometimes seeks solace in company
with band Of regulars" at the Cos
mopolitan bar; while yet another, a
| lawyer who halls from the silk-stock-
ing Fourteenth, finds something of
news interest even in the homelike
precincts of the Boston Club, says the
Baton Rouge State-Times =
And so these witnesses gathering
their evidence from many sources tell
the story. And the story is this:
At the next session of the Louis
lana General Assembly. Speaker H.
Garland Dupre. native of st. Landry.
resident Of the Fourteenth ward of
New Orleans. country boy who has
made good in the CITY," will essay
the role Of young leader" with gu
bernatorial honors held distinctly in
vfew-groomed in this by United
States Senator Murphy j. Foster,
group of New Orleans ward leaders
who represent the brains of that ag.
gregation as opposed to those who
represent the brute force of mere nat
ural majorities.
WILL THIS BE OPPOSED BY SAN
DERS?
Here curious situation develops.
Governor Sanders has never made
/ any secret of the fact that he does
not expect his political career to be
ended when his present term expires
in May, 1912. Yet there are only two
paths open to him-either to re-elec-
tion to the gubernatorial chair, which
| cannot occur unless the Constitution
| is amended as his cousin, St. Clair
Adams, suggested, or election to
the United States Senate against
Murphy J. Foster. To run against
McEnery would subject himself and
Foster both to the onus Of seeking
to have two United States senators
from the same parish, and what was
once the same law firm.
| Governor Sanders Is said by many
to have lost almost too little time
since his Inauguration in preparing
for his own political future, and by
many more it is said that his eyes
have been turned more constantly to
the country than his one-time ardent
city supporters relish. In his inaugu-
raj address he took the step which
made possible the enactment of the
Locke law, and while some support
ers of the law sometimes believe he
repented at certain moments during
the session Of his boldness-the law
was passed, and, after it was passed.
his determined stand resulted in its
| effective enforcement. The Gay
Shattuck law has cut down the power
Of the liquor interests in New Dr.
leans. and this has left feeling in
some New Orleans political circles
not too kindly to the Governor. He
4 has launched movements for good
roads, has talked and written about
parish fairs, and agricultural courses
in the public schools, has sent his
travelling auditor proving into the
dead leaves Of ancient institutional
accounts with sad results to more
than one reputation-all Of which 10
the sore Of high politics" calculated
to win country applause and country
good opinion.
II WHICH DOES HE WANT?
j Thus the question recurs: Which
would the Governor be. Governor