The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-08-31

such useless jobs that are costing us mucn
money and depriving the State OF funds
that might be used to good purpose. he
can be depended upon to do this.
New Orleans Times Democrat: Prof.
Aswell's interference in the New Orleans
school fight to help the ring out of the hole
into which it had gotten itself; his resigna-
ton of the office of Superintendent of Edu-
cation to which the people had elected him,
in order to help the Governor out of SIM
liar scrape over the Normal School; the
fact that he had always come to the assist
ance of the State machine or city ring,
whenever it needed his aid; his centraliz-
ing and politicalizing of the State school
system, the Aswell speller and dozen
other reasons rendered him impossible as
a candidate on the platform of the Demo-
cratic Good Government League against
the machine, the ring, politics in the pub
lie schools, etc.
New Orleans Item: Aswell is political
school master, product of our debauched
and politicalized public school system. His
whole course as public educator has been
marked by servility to the Machine. He
let himself be used as the tool of Sanders,
he resigned and took positions as his Mas
ter Sanders babe him. He has shown utter
executive incompetence, he has used his
offices for private gain, he has been ex-
travagant with the public money entrusted
to him and left no vouchers to show how
he spent it, he is not yet done with explana-
ton of the queerness of his accounts as
State Superintendent of Education. By
his own mouth he has repeatedly testified to
his service to Sanders and the State Ma
chine, and he has accepted their favors.
To-day, with his dubious record behind
him, he stands before the people as the
candidate of ward boss.
Lake Charles Americana Are the
voters satisfied with the present method Of
conducting their affairs? Do they approve
of the constant imposition of new taxes by
the legislature? Are they content to have
useless and costly commissions piled upon
their shoulders? Do they desire the State
debt made perpetual, and the payment of
interest chronic burden upon the State?
Do they approve of the Game and Fish
Commission with its petty tyrannies and
its collection of large sums of money an
nually to be used in keeping up soft jobs?
Do they approve of the policy by which
the taxes they pay are used to pay excess
sive salaries, while the State Insane Hos
pital and other institutions are unable to
care properly for their charges because of
insufficient funds? The political
cuttle-fish have a great talent for becloud
ing the waters when they are hard pressed !;
but the issue before the voters is simple
and straightforward: Is the present ad-
ministration Of the State affairs satisfac-
lory? And, if not, which of the three
candidates for Governor is most likely to
try to change it?
Lake Charles American Press: The peo-
pie of Louisiana demand change in the
rotten system Of government in Louisiana
and know that they can never get it from
candidates backed by ward bosses. It will
take something more than Bernstein's pic
ture show vaudeville to make them forget:
That the public money has been spent with
nothing to show for it but pay rolls and
interest coupons; that the salary list
Of the State is s250,00O year greater
than it was four years ago, without any
, improvement in the public service.
That that the game and fish resources OIL
the State are merely being used as pre-
text to levy new tax on the people in order
to pay salaries to a fresh supply Of Office
holders. That the mining and manufac.
turing interests of the State, unless relieved
by the courts, will be mulcted by new
form of taxation to support another bunch
of salary drawers. That the money
which should have been used in the proper
support and enlargement of State institu.
tons, in reducing the State debt and for.
warding schools and public improvements
, have been used to day larger salaries anc
, more of them, and thus strengthen the
, machine. 1t will take much better play
than Messrs. Aswell, Sanders, Ewing
) Bernstein & Company have devised to dis.
, tract popular attention from these rea
issues.
News and Notes.
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