New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1911-12-23
CANDIDATE HALL A MSFIT

fee seeker. selected to I'LL the I'LL
portant position Of Governor byI
John NJ. Parker, as he says, be-
cause he was the only man in the
State fitted for the exalted hon.
ors has at last met his Waterloo
it being proven to the satisfaction
Of the electorate of the State
that while he was District
Judge he had gambled in a buck
Of shop at Monroe and when fav-
ored with luck accepted all ne
had won, but when the cards
turned against him refused to
make good his losses, something
that is reprehensible among men
in the humber walks Of life. On
Thursday last Chairman Richter
of the Michel campaign commit
fee made the subjoined additional
charges against Mr.. Hall which
is bound to react against him on
the dav of the election. Had not
these champions of all that was
enobling slaudered and abused
Mr. Michel to the extent they did,
no doubt Mr.. Richter would have
allowed these serious reflections
upon the gentleman's honesty and
integrity to have passed off as
Mr.. Hall will do on january I'D,
unnoticed, but the time had come
to even up things a bit and none
more than Mr.. Richter could put
quietus on the manner in which
the Goo Goes were conducting
their campaign:
First now charge that Judge
Hall owes more than one hundred
dollars since 1901, as balance due
ON a piano bought by him for his
home, and that he avoids the pay
ment Of the debt by the laws OF
prescription and retains the
piano.
Second-I charge that Judge
Hall has owed the Ouachita Lum-
Der Company over one hundred
dollars for over six years for lum-
Der used in the construction OF
his $4,000 home in Monroe; that
he has acknowledged this in writ
ing, and that after repeated and
unsuccessful attempts to collect
same, and strenuous efforts were
made to compel him to pay, Judge
Hall wrote the manager Of the
firm that he was trying to en-
barrass him in his candidacy for
Judge Of the Supreme Court.
Third charge that Judge
Hall executed a note for $500 to
J. s. Simmons, Of Monroe, in the
year 1904, and that note today
lies prescribed in the possession
of the liquidators Of the State
National Bank and has not been
paid.
FOURTH charge that Judge
Hall has avoided the payment OF
his debts through the protection
against suit afforded by his posi-
|'tion ON the bench, and while
he was thus dealing dishonorably
with his fellow-men, he was
gambling in bucketshops.
Fifth charge that he accept
ed the profits Of these ventures.
and according to the statement of
the owner Of the bucketshop with
whom he operated, he welched''
on the losses incurred by him in
a deal in Amalgamated Copper.
Sixth charge that Judge
Hall owes the University Re
search Extension Of Milwaukee,
Wis, $44 for books purchased by
him in September, 1909, and that
unavailing efforts were made to
collect this claim.
Seventh chal ge that Judge
Hall has been indebted for sew
eral years to the Famous Dry
Goods Store of Monroe in a sum
less than one hundred dollars for
dry goods, and that in conse-
quence of his failure to pay, he
has been placed on the suspended
| creditors account in that es.
Enlistment.
Eighth charge that Judge
Hall was blacklisted by the Retail
| Grocers' Association of his home
town, because Of his failure to
pay his family grocery bills, and
in accordance with the rules of
that association, to take such ac-
ton on the names of the men
whose credit was bad, was placed
on an official "dead beat" list.
Ninth charg that Judge
Hail drew $4,000 a year for the
many years that he was district
judge, and $4,000 year for the
years he was circuit judge, from
the treasury of this state; that
he has been continuously on the
bench, and that no lawyer could
be found to sue him for these and
other debts, because the attor-
neys did not dare to antagonizc
q judge upon the bench.
Tenth now finally charge
that Judge Hall is at present the
judge-elect Of the highest tribun-
al of this state. sworn to enforce
all of its laws, and that while the
courts are constituted to throw
their sheltering arms around the
honest and unfortunate debtor,
he has used the. confidence and
power the people have imposed in
him to avoid both his debts of
honor and his honest debts.