The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-22
JUDGE .J,R, THORNTON
IS HE A PAWN IN THE HANDS
OF THE Willy EXECUTIVE?
A POLITICAL SCHEM E
Deliberately Planned to Forse Sanders
Nomination in IoI2-Are the People
to Be Again Deceived?-Will the
Legislature Approve the Barter and
Trade of the Rights of Great State?

Proof will be forthcoming in a few
days that can not be disputed, denied or
|counteracted that Judge Thornton is but
the. stool pigeon of Governor Sanders
that he.has promised the latter to resign
after the primary of 1912 in order to
make way for his creator-that he is a
party to the scheme of the Governo; to
hold the governorship to tide hin over
the shoals of the primary election-that
he is but pawn in the hands of the
willy Executive who is playing the most
desperate game OF politics ever suffered
by a free people.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
ABOUT IT?
Has it come to pass in Louisiana that
so-called representatives of the people
will turn over their State to any mar
to be used as a plaything-to be kicked,
shuifled and buffeted about in aid of his
inordinate ambition, to be used so that
he can control the party, control the
State and make himself its dictator in
deed?
What becomes of all the encomiums
heaped upon the act of this great Gov
ernor when he declined the nomination
to the Senate, all of the 1audation which
his subsidized, constitutional amend
ment newspapers" dished out to wait
ing public, when it is known and will be
proven that his act was done in his own
interest, for his own selfish purposes in
order that he might hold his machine
in order to
FORCE HIS NOMINATION IN 1912.
Will the representatives from this
parish join in the scheme and lend their
votes and influence to help fasten on the
people this bargain, conceived in iniquity
and heartlessly executed to help hold
the people in subjection2
Will the representatives in the Legis-
1ature from North Louisiana vote for
the proxy Of the Governor and thus ap-
prove the barter and trade of the rights
of a great State?
Be not deceived. The people have got
their eyes on you, and they are not go
| ing to forget again soon.
Judge Thornton is an agreeable gen
| ltleman, man whose private and public
life is above reproach, but when he en-
| ters into bargain with the Governor by
which a great people are to be fooled,
by which they are to be tricked and
lplayed as pawns on the chess board of
politics, he descends from the high plane
which he has always occupied and be
comes but petty politician in the hands
of one who is an expert "in ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain.
What does it mean?
Ii means that the party machinery will
be used and manipulated in the primary
lIof 1919 in the interest of Sanders. Il
means that the statutory majority If
New Orleans will be maintained or in
creased, if necessary. to land Sanders
and his cohorts. It means that nothing
Ishort of a revolution can
SHAKE THIS PAPSUCKING GANG
ILOOSE FROM THE PUBLIC CRIB
lit means that the Register of Voters II
New Orleans is worth more to the gane
than senatorship, that by him and witt
him they can perpetuate their ufhoE
power, fair or foul, and that it make!
but little difference what the eountr,
Imay say or think of the matter, success!
lis theirs.
/ Ask your representative about it. Tel
him he is supposed to stand for you
that you will not approve any such bar
lgain and trade in an Office belonging t
the people. Tell him that he owes
duty to you higher than he owes to tn
Executive of the State. Tell him tha
Iif he don't represent you that as sure a
there is a God and little fishes you vii
!, lrepudiate him when the election come
Iagain. Tell him he is the servant an
you the master, demand of him squar
/ deal Tell him you want senator, nc
ia dummy, a king, not a pawn.
q May be they will succeed, and may b
they won't. May be they will ram dow
lyour throat and mine this political dea
: as dirty and unholy as was ever hande
Ito free and liberty loving people. BIT
, l1et's give them fight for their live
5 Lets say to them that we are not VI
2 lquite ready to be traded as cattle an
/ lbartered as slaves. That we have son
rights somewhere and somehow, and !
9 lthe God eternal are going to assert thel
: some time, somewhere and somehow
SExTUs.