The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1911-08-24
THE STATE PRESS.

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issue before you. It is the People VS.. The
Machine.
Cosgrove's Weekly: Myesteemed friend,
DR.. Aswell, will yet learn how difficult it is
to convert wind into popularity.
Lake Charles Times: The fact that
Judge Hall wanted the support of the game
wardens is not against him. following
of that kind is telling factor in any cam
paign.
Morgan City Outlook: Hall represents
an organized body of electors; so does
Michel, but Aswell stands glorious in the
fervor of his personal ambition to be i'm
portant.
Vermilion News: 1t now appears that
the only literary (?) work Prof. Aswill did
on that little speller was to put his name
on the title page. So much the better for
the book.
Peoples Democrat: There is one thing
that all the New Orleans ward bosses are
agreed on and that is that Judge Hall
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in touch with him.
Louisiana Democrat: Aswell is only
ga stool pigeon" to take votes away from
Hall for the benefit of Michel, and will not
receive more than ten or twelve thousand
votes in the aggregate.
Referring to the unnecessary Aswell
Speller, the Lake Charles American Press
says: The best commentary upon the
claim that his speller is superior to all
others is that the only State that has
adopted it is the one in which its adoption
was virtually forced by law.
Louisiana Democrat: He is wit,
humorist and a joker, who deliberately and
with malice prepense advises the people of
this State that statute which confers upon
the Governor and Superintendent of Public
Education absolute control and dominion
over the public schools of this State ire
moves the school management form poll
| tics.''
A correspondent in the Shreveport Jour-
nal says: What difference does it matter
whether ''Sister Aswell' got cent in
royalty or not? The crime was the unnec-
essary expense for an unnecessary change
in school books. He and his colleagues
admit they have received S1,271.75 from
the missionary boxes of the children as
royalties.
Peoples Democrat: A number of Gov.
Sanders hitherto friends in Grant Parish
| have turned their backs on him because of
his many Misrepresentation about the
cost of model roads, etc., when he (San-
ders) was campaigning this parish for the
modelled road tax ordinance last year. If
this was the only count we had against
the Governor we might overlook it, but
this is only one of them.
Lake Charles American Press: If DR..
| Aswell was in any way instrumental in
having an unnecessary change made in the
text books used in the schools, he is just
as censurable if his royalties we're only
few hundred dollars as though they were
thousands. Let us review, for
moment, the acknowledged facts in this
caee. The frequent changes of text books
in Louisiana for some time had been a
scandal that smelled to heaven and had
aroused sharp criticism. Preceding the
meeting at which the list of the text books
was again to be revised, the Louisiana
Legislature enacted law which made it
obligatory to show preference to Louisiana
authors of text books. This law was en-
acted, we believe, while DR.. Aswell was
State Superintendent. 1t opened the door
for the school book publishers to secure
new lot of text book changes.
New Orleans Item: Instead of being a
large grab the Doctors little speller is
merely small graft. This we have always
known it to be. It would have been larger
had the people of Mississippi and Tennes-
see stood for the UP which the Doc
tor put over on those of Louisiana. His
two co-conspira-we mean co-authors-
in those two States were unable to turn the
trick there as he did here. They had no
Governor behind them. The hardship
which Aswell has needlessly put upon the
overwhelmed parents of the State lies not
in what HE received, but in what THEY,
lost. More than 100000 of them had to
trade away or throw away better spoilers
than his tripple-written masterpiece in or
der needlessly to buy it, and the cost of
the process was tax running far into the