The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-03
SENATOR r. C. BARRET
Is Greeted Enthusiastically by His
Friends In Baton Rouge.

FFicnuS III Baton Rouge.
There was held in the city of Bat
on Rouge few days since a mass
meeting at which Senator J.. G. Bar
ret Of Caddo was greeted enthusias-
llcally. As reported from Baton
Rouge he said he announced more
than Two years ago that he would be
IA candidate for lieutenant governor,
and did 50 because he thought that
tbe people Of this State would ratify
and approve his ambition To move a
step forward in the public service,
after sixteen years of faithful and
earnest effort in The Senate. He said
he had now canVassed a large part,
most of the State, and that
everywhere he went he was assured
~ the people that his election to
the lieutenant governorship was q
iGregone conclusion.
Senator Barret said in the life of
every public man there comes a time
when he must take his stand with
the interest Of the people, and that
The Senate journal, which he adopt
ed as his platform, you'd show that
lie had ever given his voice and vote
10 protect the struggling masses. He
called attention to his reduction of
the license on dealers in agricultural
products, his BARRIERS Sunday law,
his efforts in behalf OF the semi
monthly pay roll, full crew bill and
many others, as indication that the
short and simple annals of the poor
furnished much of the inspiration
for his enthusiasm in public life.
Referring to the full crew bill'' he
said 1t was "a bill to safeguard hu-
man life. To care for orphan and for
wife, ah! upon that Gueydan and
will sure agred. But here Is the re-
cord. Come and see. Gueydan voted
no."
He said that the more one saw of
public life the more one saw the
truth of the statement made ccntu-
ries ago ago that "the greatest study
of mankind is man."
He said there were men who in
business We're punctual, honest and
fair--but in politics would not hesi-
tate To make any sort of statement,
and tfiat If the primary election law,
in the passage of which he was a
pioneer, was ever repealed ii would
be dre to The unfairness, The inhu-
manity of man to man--Wholesale
shndeT iibei0us statements, unfair
criticism, vituperation would in the
end keep the best men from Offering
for office: then the disintegration in
the primary election principle will
begin. Let the people see to it that
candidates and their spokesmen
shall be fair and just and high
minded in their discussion of men
and measures, or rebuke them at the
polls on election day.
He said the day is gone when you
can fool the people. They know their
friends; they know the servants they
can trust with their political and
property interests. He took up and
explained and defended his votes for
Sanders for senator, for Judge
Thornton and the port commission
deficiency bill. He said these, like
other vote | ever cast, were dictated
by my conscience and approved by
my Judgment. Neither Governor
Sanders now any ward leader ever
spoke to me about either vote, any
where or at any time in my life. |
voted as Thought was right, and the
people who know me and who are
familiar with the independence OF
my public life know this without my
saying it. The broad minded people
of this State approve the great work
of the part commission, the fruits
of which will be gathered by our
Iehildren's children