St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-08-19
MI DIR. MAYER COMES
BACK AT MIR. CHEVIS
@ Controversy Between the Two Gentlemen Is Very Interesting
Controversy Between the Two Gentlemen Is Very Interesting

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which Mr.. Chevis at no point in
his protest did or could deny, be-
cause the cold and clammyrecord
is there, dated and laundering
in the index? My consistency
or inconsistency in the matter of
condoning the sins Of others has
no relevancy whatsoever; t h e
position of the late lamented Nc
Emery and the Representatives
from the 3rd and 7th Cong. Dis
tricts or any other Representa-
tive for that matter, excepting
Mr.. Ransdell, cuts no figure in
the equation; as for Mr. Rams
dell, | hold no brief in his de-
tense; he needs none, and he is
well able to take care Of HIM
self; indeed at this point I could
well afford to leave the case to
the jury impaneled by Nj. Chevis
the voteres of ST. Landry, by
asking whether the several
counts in the indictment of
Foster or true or not; that they
are true, Mr.. Chevis has not
questioned, for the record is pub
lib; if they are true and the jury
is conscientious, it will bring in
a verdict of guilty as charged in
the indictment, and relegate the
Senior Senator to the shades Of
private life.
What Mr.. Chevis takes partic-
ular exception to is that the
Senior Senator should be selected
as a target and that should con-
done the offense in others; well,
this may be a matter of taste,
good taste or bad, depending on
the view point; having fought
McEnery as a private in the
ranks in open and honorable war
fare on almost every battle
ground of the party, I do not
feel disposed now, to invade the
sanctity of his last home. I fain
would forget his economic errors
and remember only that charm
ing personality and FIDELITY
TO FRIENDS, that has woven a
chaplet of immortelles around
his memory; I am perfectly well
aware Of the fact that Mr..
Chevis calls my attention to, that
the constituencies" of "Sena-
tors Foster and McEnery are
being the entire cleo
Of La" and when he
says:.that I can explain my ex-
cuses for McEnery and denun-
citation of Foster upon no other
theory" he does not let his mem
.ry drift back to the peculiar
conditions existing at the time
that Senator McEnery responded
20 the save-me-ere-I-sin Cassius
Try of Foster when the latter
was confronted with the posi-
oility Of Denegre's election, and
when to circumvent that to him,
Undesirable contingency, he was
compelled to eat crow, and crow
lie did eat; what | wished to con-
'ey in that paragraph of my adj
lress which reads as follows:
the electorate knew where they
TODD on the tariff before they
lected them and they faithfully
Interpreted the wishes of their !
onstituencies," a that the
lectorate Of the 3rd and 7th
,ong. Districts k where
heir representatives stood be- !
ore election, and that so far as }
1cEenery a concerned, he &
erved notice open and above i.
GARD, where he stood and THAT
n DESPITE OF THESE :,
they still continued their :
1pport of him; the truth is that {
lie economic views of McEnery q
ere not considered at all, the
zee trade element of North :
.uisiana joining hands with the :,
venue tariff men from Middle :
ouisiana and the high protec- :
of South Louisiana in ;