St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-09-09
LABOR DAY CELEBRA
ton USED FOR HALL
INTEREST.
Evidently Fearing that He
Would BE Lacking I'm Audi
enee. His Friends Used
Union AS A Stalking
Horse.
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Daily States OF Monday, tells a
story of desperation.
It tells of the Hall people
stalking behind union labor SO
that Judge Hall would get an
ovation in his home town.
Judge Hall should, naturally,
be popular in his own town, and
it is more than likely that he is,
although there is, we are told,
strong opposition there to him,
and it is almost incredible that
his friends should have resorted
to this means of getting a crowd.
Here is the States editorial in
part:
Organized labor isscelebrating
the day with a picnic in New Or
leans and a barbecue at Monroe,
with leading candidates for the
Senate and State officers as
notable guests. But while there
is peace and harmony here, an
acrimonious controversy has been
raging at Monroe, where it is
charged the stage has been set
for a political demonstration for
Judge Hall.
Subscriptions for the Monroe
celebration were accepted from
citizens without regard to their
preference for Governor or Sena-
tor. It was naturally assumed,
in consequence, that the barbecue
would be nonpartisan in character
and invitations extended to all
the candidates to be present. In
order to make the affair a sue
cess in point of attendance, the
Monroe Progressive Union took
steps to arrange special railroad
rates for the occasion.
When. therefore, it was dis
covered that the committee in
charge intended to make its poll
teal aspect exclusively in the in
terest of Judge Hall and those
candidates considered not I'M
friendly to him general astonish-
ment was expressed. An inVi-
tation to speak was extended to
Judge Hall, but the committee
declined to invite DR.. AsWell
and Mr.. Michel. Congressman
|Pujo, who is an avoWed sup
porter of Judge Hall; Congress
man Broussard, who has been
touring the State with him, and
who SO far has kept everybody
in the dark as to whom he will
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vote for Governor, and Congress
man Ransdell, who Judge Hall
has been telling the people step
ped aside to let him run for
Governor, were invited to deliver
addresses. But Senator Foster
and Gov. Sanders were ignored.
The Monroe Independent,
Judge Halls thick and thin sup
porter, has been trying to defend
the action of the committee on
the ground that Judge Hall, be-
ing Monroe's most distinguished
citizen, it was entirely proper
that he should be asked to be the
orator of the occasion; but the
slight to two of the five sena-
torial candidates removes the
props from that defense, and the
withdrawal by the Aswell and
Michel men of their subscrip-
tons adds further color to the
charge that Judge Halls parti-
sans are using the celebration in
his interest.
The case is made completewith
the dignifed protest Of a large
Of the union men, who,
that all the signers are
opposed to the candidacy Of
Hall, have placed them
selves on record as opposed to
the action of the committee in
a partisan political meet
ing out of our Labor Day cele-
bration. The union organiza-
tons are nonpolitical in charac-
ter, but the protestants maintain
that if the nalicu nf thoInha..