St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-08-05
OF The
GOO.GOOS' PLEA OF
"SAVE The STATE"
Shreveport Times Tells Some
thing Interesting About
Boss Parker's Scheme to

Boss Parker's Scheme to
Control Patronage.
The Shreveport Times is an
AsweIl paper, but notWlthstand-
ing this fact it tells the truth
very often.
A recent editorial says:
According to Boss Parker, he
had to be very careful as the
oficial-picker of the Goo-Goos.
The man who was to lead the
Goo Goo forces had to come up
to certain plans and specifications,
which have, in part at least,
been made public by Boss Parker
himself.
In the first place, the Goo Goo
candidate for Governor must
promise to let Boss Parker and
his committee control the patron
age of the City of New Orleans.
Mind you, the Goo Coos have
been telling the people that the
IGovernor's patronage is a crying
shame. They were going into
this fight, they declared, to re-
store all patronage to the people
to whom it belonged. They pro.
posed to take every bit OF
patronage from tn e executive
office. In order to lead the peo-
pie of Louisiana to believe that
they were not after the apple OF
office, they declared that when
they got through stripping the
executive of appointive power
there wouldn't be any apple left.
In the language of the boy who
displayed such fondness for ap-
pies upon one occasion, these
Goo Coos went the limit and
soIemnly assured the people of
Louisiana that there ain going
to be no core"
Despite all these high-sounding
promises and pledges, we find
the leaders, even before they
select a candidate, agreeing
among themselves how best to
distribute the patronage of their
Governor-to-be. Surely If Boss
Parker and his coadjutors are
sincere in their promises to strip
the Governor of his appointiVe
power and restore the offices to
the people, they would not be
found insisting upon controlling
Pill of this patronage themselves.
Surely it would be better to leave
this appointive power in the
hands of the Governor and hold
him responsible for the way he
used it; if the people are not to
figure in it, than TO put it into
the hands of Boss Parker and
his committee, in order for them
to build up machine of their own
It seems clear, therefore, that
these Goo Goo leaders have not
b considering the people
at all. 1t has uot been a ques-
ton with them of restoring the
offices to the people, but a ques-
ton pure and simple of controll-
ing and using this power them
selves. Boss Parker has admit
ted it and in so doing he brands
with insincerity and fraud the
most ~glittering pledge in the
Goo Goo platform and the very
source and foundation of their
attacks upon the present State
administration.
There was still another pro-
vision in the Goo Goo, specifica-
tions. Boss Parker made it
known at Monroe and has since
admitted it. The Goo Goo can
didate for Governor must not
have been identified in any way
with the political system" now
in power in the State. That was
one of Boss Parker's objections
to DR.. AsWell-he had been a
part Of this system, according
to Boss Parker, and for that rea-
son was persona non grata.
Here again We find Boss
Parker avoiding the shadow and
embracing the substance of
utilization with and beneficiary of
this obnoxious system AsWell
has long since declared his indie
pendence of the system andthe
machine, but, up to the time of
Boss Parker's arrival in Monroe.
Hall, recent beneficiary of this
system, had never uttered d
word or made a move indicating
that he was ungrateful for the
aid given him by the system
in his campaign against Judge
Land, or that he was opposed to
the system and its methods.
Nor has Judge Hall denied that
he received the support of the
system in his judicial eam-
paign. Nor has he denied that
he sought such support and was
glad to get it. He has not de-
MED nor can he disproye that
the machine, or system" as
Boss Parker calls it, gave him
the votes necessary to defeat
Judge Land.
Judge Hall and Boss Parker
may protest until doomsday, but
they will never be able to get
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