The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-03-18

fur the office of Tax Collector Of the city
of Donaldsonvile. subject to the action OF
the Democratic primary election TO DC
held Monday. April 3. 1911.
HENRY C. DUKE
hereby announces himself as candidate
for the office of Tax Collector Of the city
Of Donaldsonvile. subject to the action OF
the Democratic primary election TO De
held Monday. April 8. 1911.
The New York senatorial deadlock. poor
thing, is still with US.
Did Gov. Sanders ''duck" the Roosevelt
reception at New Orleans? lfso. why So?
The Democratic Good Government League
Is going 10 open the state campaign with
a vhoop at the New Orleans Atheneum
tonight.
Monroe is strictly on her good behavior
this week The Louisiana Sunday School
Association is holding its twenty-fifth an
NAL convention there.
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and there is some prospect Of ending the
Mexican revolution by arbitration. but the
senatorial contest in Mississippi still
seethes and sloslas.
While many other statesmen are Wor-
ryine over what congress is likely to do or
not to do at the extra session, President
Taft is placidly playing golf at Augusta
Georgia. He's playing mighty good
game. too.
Looks like Cousan Bob Broussard is hav-
ing heap of trouble to make up his mind
whether to run for governor or for senator.
He'd better keep in view the fate of the
man who couldn't decide which seat to
take and fell with a dull thud between
the two
Charles Fuqua of Baton Rouge, private
secretary to Gov. Sanders. says he is 60
ing to stick in the race for secretary of
state. no matter what others may do or
say. We know lot of fellows who would
make worse state secretaries than Char
ley Fuqua. Honest we do.
Troops are still trooping towards the
Mexican border, but there have been no
developments to indicate what mission, II
any, they are expected to perform there
beyond preventing the insurgents from
receiving reinforcements of men or sup
pies from the United States.
Work on the new United States Post
office and courthouse at New Orleans was
resumed several weeks ago and the walls
of beautiful Georgia marble are going up
steadily. Congress has made liberal
additional appropriation for the interior
furnishing and decoration of the building,
which assures structure of which the
city will have good reason to be proud.
The esteemed Monroe News-Star ex-
horts IT'S readers, in snndry paragraphs
bristling with capital letters. to turn out
on election day and vote the ticket nomi-
mated in the Democratic primary - to
stamp the rooster good and hard, etc
and then pleads for pledges to refrain
from the discussion of local politics for
four days. We fear the limit is too long
for Monroe
With sinister sarcasm and the very re-
finement Of cruelty the New Orleans
Times-D Democrat is reyamping the famous
ante-primary platform of Governor San
ders and showing how fully the leading
principles therein enunciated have been
honored in the breach rather than the OBJ
seryance. II there was statute against
cruelty to politicians, as there is against
cruelty to animals, the Times Democrat
would be subject to Indictment for aggra-
waited violation of the law
According to Cosgrove's Weekly the
commission form. of government recently
adopted in the seething metropolis of
Caddo parish isn't quite the altogether
lovely and bowling success expected, as