St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-04-22
A SAMPLE ATTACK ON
The STATE ADJ
MINISTRATION"
Thus the States Heads q Caus-
tic Editorial on Dupre's
Miscarriage

exponent of fair play, published
the following editorial on the
subject of Judge Dupre's attempt
to discredit the State Administra-
ton:
'tOn March % we printed an
editorial calling attention to an
anonymous communication in the
st. Landry Conamoner, organ OF
the Good Government League,
in which the writer said that,
during a visit. to New Orleans,
the following had been related
to him as an actual occurrence:
A game warden was inform
ed that a number of gentlemen
were shooting ducks after dark.
He repaired to the scene. En-
countering one of the violators,
he cried out, Halt following
this up with the inquiry:
Who comes here?
The reply was:
A friend with a quart.
Then advance with the cork
pulled.
This being done, peace was
restored and the boys escaped
prosecution.
THE writer, who signed him
self Good Government Lacquer,
used the incident as the basis for
an attack on the Sanders ad-
ministration and the game war
den establishment.
The States asserted this was a
serious charge which demanded
a full investigation to the end of
bouncing from the public service
SO unworthy an ernploye.
Elsewhere we print the result
of an investigation made by Mr..
L. J. Dossmann, of the Game
C Commission, of the charge of
Good Government Lacquer and
offer it as an instance of
the utter baselessness and
recklessness of assaults made on
the administration.
It will be seen that as a result
of Mr.. Dossman's letter to the
Commoner, Mr., Gilbert L. Dupre,
a former republican and bitter
of Governor Sanders,
assumed the authorship of the
communication and directed the
editor of the Cornmoner to refer
Mr.. Dossmann to him. Mr..
Doss1nan thereupon wrote Mr..
Dupre asking for the name of
the warden or of the gentleman
who was responsible for the
charge.
''Mr. Dupre's reply is both
and humiliating. It is
a confession that no such incident
occurred.
Mr.. Paul Mizzi furnished
me with the information detailed
in my communication to the st.
Landry Comnoner, writes Mr..
Dupre. He volunteered the
facts. After the publication and
after your communication to Mr..
Lewis and my reply to him, Mr..
Mizzi informed me that the facts
furnished me by him was a joke,
manufactured by himself.
!" Tt goes without saying I
would not have written the COM
munication had known that the
information rendered me was
without foundation in truth and
in fact.
An interesting sidelight sup
piled by Mr. Dossmann is that,
whereas Mr.. Dupre represented
the charge as having been made
to him during his visit to New
Orleans, the whole matter origi-
mated in 0pelousas. Hence, the
most charitable construction to
be placed on the letter was that
Mr.. Dupre was romancing him
self.
Mr.. Dupre is a frequent con-
tributor to the press. He writes
always with a caustic pen and
his bette noir is always the San
ders administration when it is
not the city gang. Hereafter,
however, in the light of this
humiliating exposure, it is fair
to assume that all future COM
munications of the gentlemen
from st. Landry on the perfidy
Of the Sanders administration
and the wickedness of the local
regulars will be taken with a
grain of salt.
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