The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1910-11-24
THE STATE PRESS.

THE STATE PRESS.
Haynesville News: Three sessions of
the Legislature in one year ought to cap
ture the blue ribbon.
Mansfield Enterprise: The servility of
the Legislature to the will of the Governor
is humiliating to a proud people, who
elect men presumed to represent them.
Shreveport Journal: Wouldn't it be a
joke on Jared if the Legislature should de-
eide to kick over the traces and elect some
body of their own choosing for the United
States Senate?
| The truth in nutshell from the Shreve-
port Caucasian: 'The majority of the
amendments are vicious, but these with
those of worth have been approved, but in
time the people will be worried and plagued
with the record of Tuesdays election in
Louisiana.
! Arcadia Argus: Bob Taylor didn't get
enough votes to land him for Governor of
Tennessee. We have no tears to shed be-
cause of this fact, for while Taylor may be
all right himself, he had a following that
deserved showing under and a showing
under deep.
Colfax Democrat: Some four or five of
the amendments, in onr opinion, were good,
and we singled them out and voted inde-
pendently for them, but as whole we
considered them the most vicious amend
ments to the Constitution that was ever
submitted to the people of Louisiana for
their approval or rejection.
Shreveport Caucasian: The political
conditions in Louisiana are becoming grave.
There is too much politics of the boss kind
for the good of the people, and it will not
be surprising if the proverbial straw which
broke the camel's back may be demon
strated most effectively and at no distant
day. The limit has almost been reached.
Welsh Journal: The fifteenth or con-
servatiom amendment is one of the most
pernicious of all. It not only lays tax
upon the ultimate consumer Of these vari-
Gus articles, and establishes another COM
mission to curse the State, but it is the
entering wedge that will render it possible
to levy a tax against every industry in the
State.
Extra sessions of the Legislature are
expensive luxuries, and the people are
getting tired of paying for such luxuries
just to satisfy the political whims of Gov.
Sanders and the Ward Bosses of New Or
leans. Three sessions of the Legislature
in one year is an overdose.-Ruston Leader.
All of which is conceded, but the protest
of the few is of no avail. As long as what
is called the people will stand it, the Gov
ernor and the bosses will Grub it in.''-
Shreveport Caucasian.
New Orleans Times Democrat: The vote
in the fifty-nine rural parishes Of Louisiana
is distinct and clearly cut reputation OF
the Governor and his policies and warn
ing to the Legislature. A majority of the
parishes voted against the amendments
approved by the Assembly, and thereby
declared their disapproval of the action OF
their representatives in voting for the San
ders programme of more taxes and more
bond issues. It remains to be seen whether
the Legislators will take this warning, and
how their constituents will deal with them
when they come up for Office again.
/ Hammond Vindicator: To read what
some of the papers are saying about Gov.
Sanders, one would naturally think that he
was responsible for all the acts of the Leg
islature. Why all this criticism of Gov.
Sanders? If criticism is in order, the
members of the Legislature are the ones
who should receive the brunt of it. If the
members of the Legislature allowed them
selves to be controlled by Gov. Sanders,
against their better judgment, it does not
1 reflect very mnch crndit ,.non that hodx,