The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-29
IN NEW ORLEANS
An Ovation rendered Judge L. f.
Hall Tuesday Nights Welcomed
by Enthusiastic Thousands = 4
Voluntary 0utpouring

New Orleans Item: The biggest
assembly that ever moved OF the
/ Atheneum jammed Is auditorium
ami It's banquet hall Tuesday NIGHT.
oyerlOWcd INTO HE street ami
cIcered inside and oua. The main
auditorium was packed 10 the walls
by $50 pm, and the III" banquet
hall filled before tie appointed hour.
A few minutes after the big meet
ing was opened by Mr.. John NJ. Par
ker, the other began below and a
ClainorOus crowd began 10 enlarge
around the street entrances unable
to get in. Thousands We're turned
away. Four or five hundred re-
manned until nearly nine O'Clock,
cheering with the crowds inside.
New Orleans Picayune: Before an
. audience that packed the AtheneuIn
| from top to bottom and with an
overflow meeting running down
stairs, Judge Luther f. Hall of Mon
roe, Ouachita parish, candidate for
governor of the Democratic Good
Government League, opened his New
Orleans campaign last night. He was
supported in the opening effort by
John NJ Parker, chairman of the
city campaign committee, who pre-
sided over the main meeting.
1t had been arranged that in ease
the crowd warranted there should
be a second meeting in the cOnyen-
ton hall OF the Atheneum on the
first floor, where probably 800 peO-
pie jammed themselves i'll the seals
and around the walls al the height
.0f the evenings, unable to gain en-
tlanccsto the auditorium proper.
Times-Dcmocral: II there was any
doubt lingering III the minds OF any
as to the strength Of the Democratic
Good Government League movement
in New Orleans it must have been
dispeiIed by She reception given
Judge J. +. Hall. the leagues can
diddte for governor, at the Ath-
eneum last night Ten thousand per-
sons Went to the Atheneum TO hear
him speak: five thousand We're sue
cesSful in getting the chance at one
or the other of the two big meetings.
held. The rest We're turned away at
the. doors, unable 10 even get stand
ing room in the auditoriums.
Crowds SO cosmopolitan in char
acter as those which appeared at
the league meeting last night are
rare. Scores on scores of New Or
leans elect were there, and the clans
Of labor and the. middle class were
Z resent i'll hundreds.
Times Democrat editorial 1t was
not alone in numbers that the meet
Ing was Significant. but i'll The char
acter Of the audience, III the deter
mination and The enthusiasm dis
played. he confidence felt in the
success Of the cause. There We're
business men present by the hun
dreds laboring men. every class and
element that goes to make up the
population Of New Orleans An en-
couraeing feature was the presence
OF So many prominent citizens who
have not heretofore shown their
political colors. but who Iasi night
proclaimed their support of Judge
Hall. and greeted him as the winner
i'll the coming primary.
The meetings open the city cam
paign in most promising spirit. No
previous campaign against the ring
and il has been thrice beaten in
New Orleans. and the city. is better
off because of these defeats-has
ever started ont under NOR auspi-
cious conditions. With better or
eanization an Ola more determined
following. The Hall meetings were
III themselves a severe blow TO The
ring as showing how thoroughly The
voters are aroused. thai they apprc-
ciatc and understand the issues OF
the campaign and have made up
their minds what to do.