St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1911-08-05
'LET him WHO NEVER
SINNED CAST THE
FIRST Stone"
An Incident In the Political
Life of Judge Hall, the
moses OF Louisiana

Judge Hall, candidate for Gov
ernor on the so-called Good Gov
eminent ticket, is heralded as a
good, consistent, immaculate
man.
Never has he sWerved from
the righteous path in politics, so
say the Goo Coos.
But in truth and in fact, the
record proves that he has been a
political Migrate and inconsistent
throughout his political career.
Here is another nail in his
coffin. It is taken from the
Daily States:
sSome time ago The States
showed that, although he is now
posing as a reformer, the only
bill credited to Judge Hall during.
his term as State Senator ere
ated an ornamental attorneyship
for and increased the salary of
the secretary of the Tensas
Leyee Board, which was then in
such financial straits that shortly
after it sold it's lands to the
Lacey Tensas Delta land syndi-
cate under suspicious and it is
alleged corrupt circumstances
very much under what they were
probably worth. We suggested
that the Judges legislative rec
ord was scarcely in keeping with
his present professions of oppo-
sition to sinecures.
"A further examination of the
Senate Journal. however, shows
that while Senator Hall fathered
measures granting salaries to
useless officeholders, he a
against the establishment of
Institutes for the training of the
white children of South Louisia-
ma in the arts and sciences,
telegraphy, stenography, pho
Biography, needle-work, agricul-
tural and other practical indus
when in the session of 1893.
Martin introduced Sen
ate Bill II, for the creation of
the Southwestern Industrial In
stitute, located at Lafayette and
which, under the splendid direc-
ton of President Stephens, is do
ing such magnificent work for
the white children of its section,
Hall as shown by the
page 102, voted against
the bill.
When later on Senator Mar
tin succeeded in putting the bill
on final passage, Senator Hall, as
shown by the journal, page 116,
voted against the welfare
Of the white children of Louis
lana. Fortunately, however,
there were tWenty-four broader
minded members of the body,
men like LaWrason, R Y a n,
ST. Paul. Webb, Wilbert,
Fenner and Williams, who be-
Lieved the State owed an obliga-
to the people of southwest
ern Louisiana to give their child
rem the opportunity to fit them
for the struggle in life and
the bill was triumphantly passed.
1T is timely to recall this in
eident in the legislative career
If the Ouachita jurist when he is
about to appear before the peo-
Die of Lafayette to ask their
support on the ground that he is
capable of giving Louisiana a
more efficient administration than
Heard, Blanchard and
Sanders, all of whom owed their
election to the regular organiza-
ion, of which Judge Hall him
;elf was a devoted member until
he Hon. John M. Parker, in an
talk, convinced him that
hat organization was a menace
o the people and that he was
he Moses to lead the masses of
into. a purer political
atmosphere.
Judge Hall had no qualms
Igainst saddling on the taxpay-
rs unnecessary offices; but he
to have had no hesitancy
n standing out against provision
or the industrial benefit of the
White children of a section which
lie is now canvassing in search
f votes"
-@eS-
Notice.