The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-06-12
GOVERNOR SANDERS
PROMISED HE WOULD REDUCE
EXPENSES OF THE STATE.
PAY OFF THE STATE DEBT
Or a Part of It-Fas He Kept His
Or a Part of It-Has He Kept His
Promise "A Review of His Official
Record-Some of the Things that the
Governor Has Done.
(To the Caucasian)

(To the Caucasian
In view OF the fact that J. Y. Sanders
went into Office with the promise that
he would reduce the expenses of the
State and would pay of the State debt
or part of it, it is worth while to in
quire Just at this time how far and how
good he has kept the promise he made
in order to be Governor of the State.
Right here we will state that when he
made those promises he knew or ought
to have known whether he was going to
keep them or not. If he made them
with the purpose or with the secret in
tention not to keep theme then he got
the Office under false pretenses, and if
it had been bushel of corn instead of
the highest office in the State, he would
have been serving the State in quite
another capacity.
One session of the Legislature has
passed under his direction and control.
Nothing has passed that body which did
not meet with his approval. No laws
were passed over his veto and all of
them hereafter quoted were signed by
him and met with his approval. Let us
see
HOW HE HAS KEPT HIS PROM
ISE
of a reduction or curtailment of ex-
penses.
By Act I55 of 1908 he approved the
creation of the office of Commissioner
of Labor with salary of $1,000 per an
mum, who has a secretary at $1,000 Per
annum and office expenses of $1,000 per
annum.
He approved and had passed Act $50
of 1908 creating the Commission of
Military Records, to expire in 1912, at
an annual expense to the taxpayers of
the State of $I2oo.
By Act 278 of 1908 he caused to be
created the Game Commission, giving
the commission in words, but the Gov
ernor in fact, the right to appoint one
or more game wardens for each parish,
to be paid $500 each, with power to ap-
point chief warden, fix his salary and
that of other wardens, office help, etc.
This is one of the infamies of his ad-
ministration. By it he has built up a
political oligarchy in the State with its
hands reaching into every parish in the
State, where one of his wardens ap-
pointed, not by the commission as the
act provides, but by our Governor of
fair promises.
With no right or power to name an
attorney, with not a word on that sub
ject in the Act which he got the Legis-
lature to pass in the honest effort to pre-
serve the game of the State, he names
an attorney for the commission at a |
salary of $1,000 per annum, bestows it |
on one of his henchmer, names a secre-
tary at a salary of / don't know how
much, which likewise goes to one Of his
henchmen, when every honest lawyer in
the State knows that the commission
could have obtained the best lawyer in
New Orleans to do all of its legal work
at not more than one hundred dollars
per month.
THE INFAMY ABOUT THE THING
is that he has an attorney named when
he was not authorized to do so by the |
Act of the Legislature, and he thereby
usurped a power not given him by law.
If he had exercised any care in behalf
of the State to have employed an attor-
ney when necessary, no one would have
but that he employed one
without any authority or any necessity /
all honest men should protest and com
plain
But to proceed with the Great CD |
Reform (??) Governor.
BY Act I64 Of 1908 there was created
a Board of Commissioners for Uni
fornify in Legislation with a salary or
expense account of only $I2oo per an
mum. OF course the Governor is given
the power to appoint all of the incum-
bents in these Offices.
BY Act 100 of 1908 the Civil Code
Commission was created with three
each with salary of
5000 and allowed expenses of $4,000,
10 revise the Civil Code of the State.
The Governor was given the right to ap-
point these commissioners and he did
50, but he went step further and
named for the commission the secre-
tary, where he put the young man form
erly in his Office in some sort of clerical
capacity.
By Act I6r of 1908 the Criminal Code
was created with like NUM-