The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-13
AN EXTRA SESSION
SANDERS PRETENSE FOR HIS
PRETEXT IS EVIDENT.
But HE CAN FOOL NO ONE
The Purpose Is to Correct Gigantic
Mistake in His Appointment of Judge
Thornton-The Politicians Are in the
Saddle but Reckoning Time Coming.
(TO the Caucasian)

o the IauCdS1dn)
The news comes from New Orleans
that the Governor is to cali an extra ses-
sion of the Legislature very soon to fix
up some mistake in the bond issue for
the city of New Orleans, and it is
gravely stated that the extra session will
also elect senator to succeed MCEnery.
To a man up tree it is getting tire
some, this using the State for political
purposes, and the statement that the
session is to be called to fix up some
bond matter for the city is all buncombe
pure and simple and fools no one.
The real purpose and the urgency for
the call is that Sanders and his two or
three Ward Bosses have discovered that
gigantic mistake was made in the ap-
pointment of Thornton, and it is their
purpose to elect a senator to correct
THIS MISTAKE MADE BY HIM.
Will the new senator be Thornton or
will the worthy Governor himself now
conclude that he can safely leave the
machine with Lambremont and take the
plum HIMSELF? One thing is quite GER
tain, it is going to be Sanders or some
one who will pledge himself not to be
a candidate in 1912. 1t is likely. that
Judge Thornton, who is an agreeable
man, will accede to these conditions, and
if he does, it is dollars to doughnuts that
the Legislature will swallow the dose
and carry out the bargain
Nor does it make any difference
whether it is Thornton or some one else,
good, bad or Indifferent, Sanders and his
cohorts can and will make the Legisla-
ture take the dose just as the directions
say take it, and they will then adjourn
and come home with a breast swelling
with pride at having done such yeoman
service for the State.
1T IS A DISGRACEFUL CON-
MENTARY
on the State that one man as small as
Sanders and a few bosses in New Or
leans can thus play shuttle-cock with the
State. It makes an honest man hang his
head to admit that he lives in a State
where such conditions exist and flaunt
themselves in the faces of decent men
and women.
But it can not be helped Just now.
The politicians are in the saddle and
New Orleans seems to be conducting the
State to suit its varying whims and
caprices. It had the extra session called
a few months ago, and the people who
had no ak to grind sincerely hoped that
it was the end of the present domifa-
ton, but this is not SO. They may slug
in their nineteen thousand votes that
were.not voted, in favor of the amend |
nents to the Constitution, but the time
IS coming, and
IT IS COMING IN THE NEXT
ELECTION. =
when the few men i'll that city who have |
not lost their manhood are going to the
polls with guns and demand, as they did |
n 1896, free ballot and fair count.
When they do, and not till then. need
he rest of the State vote on any man
1r proposition
What's the use of calling an extra
Sanders and Ewing and Behr-
nan have the thing all fixed and ready
Q dose out to the people of the State.
Why not let them elect the senator and
tx lip the defect in the proposed bond
ssue and save the State both the trou-
de and chagrin Of witnessing the farce?
Df course the delegation from New Or
cans will vote as a unit for the agree
nent, and what makes us mad is that
he country representatives chime in
me too" with such willing a1acrity as
o show that it suits them as we'll as if
hey had something TO say in fixing it.
WILL IT BE SANDERS
II Thornton or some other willing tool
Q the first named, who is willing for the
tile Of senator to don the robes of
makeshift in the United
states Senate? Or will it be a man
vho will represent the State and learn
nd grow SO as to help the State in the
uture? If it is to be a real man, if it
vas possible to get real live and pro-
5ressive senator, not the proxy of the
governor, nor makeshift for him, we
would welcome the news.
But nit, it will be Sanders or one of
is tools, one of his proxies, some one
hat will agree in advance not to be a
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