The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-07-03
PAUL LAMBREhION Mt
Becomes Chief Executive-Two Sen
ators from Same Parish and Governor
from St. Bernard or Orleans-The
Dogs Tail and Who Is Doing the
Wagging-A Warning.
ITO the Caucasian)

succeed Senator McEnery in the United
States Senate by the Legislature now in
session 1t is stated in the advices from
Baton Rouge that he will not resign his
office as Governor until December, just
in time to qualify as United States Sen
ator.
By his resignation Lieutenant Gov
ernor Paul Lambremont becomes Gov
ernor of the State until May 1912, with
all of its rights and Prerequisites.
Thus runs the news items of the do
ings of the State.
We will then have two senators in the
United States Senate from the State of
Louisiana hailing from the same parish,
coming from the same law office, the one
a protege of the other, and we can boast,
if we feel inclined to brag about
THE VILLAINY OF THE THING
that Louisiana is represented solely in
the highest legislative body of the world
by the parish of St. Mary or the parish
of Orleans. nobody knows which or
cares damn, by two senators like Da-
mon and Pythias, as like unto each other
| i'll some respect as two black-eyed peas.
We can boast also, if we do not care
very much about. the State and its peo-
pie, that we will have a Governor from
the parish of St. Bernard who was de
elared the nominee of the Democratic
party, as Lieutenant Governor, in the
face OF the grossest frauds that were
ever perpetrated on an innocent and I'M
suspecting people.
We can boast, if we are at all given to
self -adulation, that the parish of Orleans
is the body of the dog and the rest of
the State is but its tail, and that there
is no mistake that the body of
THE DOG IS WAGGING THE TAIL
at this date, in the year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and ten.
But, as the preacher would say,
Waterman, what of the night" or some
words ike these, meaning the same
thing.
It is but fair and has been long the
custom to give to the various parts of
the State representation in its govern
ment and recognition in the administra-
ton of its affairs. There is much diff
ference between south and north or CEN
trail Louisiana in the habits and thought
of its people and in the necessities of
their government, and for that reason,
if no other, the city of New Orleans
should have been fair with us and al
lowed us to name the senator to succeed
the lamented McEnery.
But they preferred to hog it Jail, and
while hogging it to put in the highest
Office within the gift of the State man
who went into office
UNDER FALSE PRETENSES
who has made many and varied promises
in his public career and who has kept
none of them to the memory of the old
est inhabitant.
In his inaugural address the present
Governor declared that he believed in
the separation of the departments Of
government, and that he would not in
terfere with the legislative branch in its
enactment of laws.
The fact is that he has stood, so to
speak, at the door of the General Assem-
| bly, and legislation has advanced or been
defeated at his imperious will The fact
is that he has kept on the floor of the
House a floor manager. whatever that
| is, to direct and control legislation AMI
7 to deliver to the members of that body
his ultimatum and command The fact
is that he has personally appeared before
COMMITTEES of the House to demand that
certain legislation be given favorable
report and has wrested from such COM
mittee an unwilling compliance with his
opinions and policies The fact is that
| nothing has passed without his frank
upon it, and he has franked with APP
proval or disapproval nearly all of the
legislation of both the Senate and the
| House.
In his inaugural address
HE COMPLAINED BITTERLY
about the third house or the lobby
with which the Legislature has been in
tested in the past, and promised with
lone hand on his heart and the other
pointing to the tree tops, not to God, for
| it is inconceivable that he evsr heard
of Him, that he would rid the State of
this spot of infection.
But the fact is that he has done moth
ing to prevent the lobby going merrily
on. The fact is that his friends defeated
the only measure looking to the elm
nation of the lobby, and we have sus-
picion almost strong enough for US to
charge that it is or was fact, that they
defeated It at his request and command.
In his prediction promises, he prom
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