The Caucasian., 1911-07-11
PAPER is FOR HALL"
"Owners for AsWell - Remarkable
Confession Made by the Shreve-
port JOurnal-ThOmaS' Wall to be
Spared-Cadd0 Already Strongly
Lined Up i'm ASwell Column"

| LlIleu OD Ill ASWtIl NDiuIilu.
The heading above and the article
following is from the New Orleans
Estates. whose claims for Aswell ma,
be disputed seriously.
The States should bear in mine
THAT Michel has scores of stauncf
friends in Shreveport and that Hal
is strong candidate with the peo-
Iple and is growing steadily in pOpu-
llarity.
The States may be reminded that
it is not, as a rule, the loudest claim
ant nor the candidate who provokes
the greatest din at public gatherings
who is successful at an election
Oratory, so-called, is no longer the
medium of persuasion, since the
people are thinking for themselves
and propose to be governed and to
lact from their personal intelligent
conclusions.
Here follows the States article:
1.-THE Good Government League in
shreveport is said to have lost many
lof its supporters, following the de-
!velOpments of Mr. Aswell's can
didacy and the action of the con-
lvention, in which Governor Blan-
chard and the Caddo delegation par
lticipated, in ratifying the executive
committees selection of Senator
Gueydan as the candidate for lieu
tenant governor. Caddo is almost
solid for Senator Tom Barret, the
home man, for lieutenant governor.
and in consequence of the leagues
action its Caddo supporters have
been driven away in shoals.
MANY of the leading citizens of
the parish are said to be actively at
work for DR.. Asweil, and il is freely
predicted that he will badly beat
both Mr.. Michel and Judge Hall in
the primary
Evidence of the remarkable
swing to the Natchitoehes man is
shown by the fact that only by
throwing himself on the mercy of
his fellow stockholders was l.. f..
Thomas able to prevent the Evening
journal, the principal Hail organ in
North Louisiana, from deserting the
waning Hall candidacy and going
body and boots into the Aswell
camp.
The internal situation in the
Journal management is revealed by
remarkable statement, signed by
Editor A. j. Frantz, which appeared
in the Journal this week.
in his statement Mr.. Frantz ack-.
nowledges that gentlemen represent
ing three-fourths of the stock, all
of them leading and influential eiti-
zens of Shreveport, are for DIR. As
we'll for governor, but that they con-
sented to let the paper continue to
support Judge Hall on Mr.. L. E.
Thomas showing that he would be
humiliated and embarrassed if any
ether course were pursued, he hav-
ing indirectly pledged the papers
support to the Good Government
League.
"Mr. Thomas owns himself but one
tenth of the pair-up stock. The rest
of the one-fourth he represents is
said to have been subscribed for
Good Government League interests
in New Orleans.
Seven Out OF Eight Directors for
DR.. AsWeII.
According to the story brought
here by visitors from Shreveport
and eorroborated from other sources
when the directors met to determine
the policy of the paper, after it be-
came evident that DR.. Aswell was
sure to loom large as candidate, it
was found that seven out of eight,
headed by Mr.. j. B. Ardis, one of the
most most prominent business men
and capitalists of Shreveport, were
for DR.. Aswell, and that they de-
sired to reverse the position of the
paper and support MIN. Mr.. Thomas
was the exception.
Mr.. Thomas pleaded that he had
gone out and solicited subscriptions
for the paper. in New Orleans and
and that at the time it
had been understood he would be al
lowed to control the policy in the
interest of the league. If then the
policy was changed. he said, he
would be 'humiliated and embar-
rassed, as Mr.. Frantz shows, both
politically and financially.
@Dr. Aswell Was Consulted.
1T is said that DR.. Aswell's friends
who own, as stated, three-fourths of
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