The Caucasian., 1911-12-03

Il Candidate for the United state.
Senate-Used His Office as Pri
vate Asset.t0 Build Up a Ring, !;
Political Oligarchy TO Perpetuatt
Himself i'm Power.
1t is more than strange that som'
our best citizens, at least SOM
hat are said to be among the best
itizens of the parish, are support
ng in the present political cam
laign the man who made such a
ampaign a necessity. 1t is surpris-
ng that any good citizen, having nc
interest save that of securing good
| government for himself and his pos
| Gritty, should support the man that
has used his Office as a private as
set to build up ring, political oil
yarchy to perpetuate himself in
| power.
They will tell you that he is a
Democrat, and that his opponents
are not Democrats, and will gleeful-
ly point you to the advertisement
under bis picture posted almost ev-
erywhere proelaiming TO the world
his Democracy. They will tell you
that if he is elected to the Senate of
the United States that he
VIII HObnob With Champ"
consOrt with Oscar" and vote with
the Democrats on each and every
occasion, and if you have any doubt
about it, they will point you to his
much vaunted. borrowed declara-
tion, Il am a Democrat"
Well, it is again surprising how
short the memory Of many men is,
how soon they forget and forgive
political sins, political crimes that
with reference to other things would
never be forgiven.
This man who is posing as a DEM
ocrat lived and voted in the con-
gressional district of Mr.. Broussard
for many years. He was stauneh
friend and supporter of the con-
gresham, was delegate to numer-
Gus conventions in which Broussard
was nominated, at one or more
times served on the committee on
resolutions, and he voted for and
perhaps wrote these resolutions
which
Commended and Approved BrOus-
sard's Course
in the Congress. And he now says
that Broussard is bad Democrat
and ought to be defeated because he
did what Sanders approved in the
years gone by.
Again, this same Sanders defeated
the income tax, Democratic meas
ure, appointed and elected Thornton
TO the United States Senate when he
knew and was advised beforehand
than he was rank protectionist and
believed in more protection than
Broussard ever advocated 1t was
his efforts that placed Judge Thorn
ton in the Senate, where he could
vote against the faremrs free list
bill and against the treaty with Can
aua, against measures that were ap-
proved by practically the unanimous
vote of the Democrats in Congress.
But what of his promises now? He
has been a candidate before and
made many and sundry promises toi
the people of this State, and if his
best friend can point to a single
pledge redeemed, a single promise
kept and performed, we will show
him that it was purely accidental
He Is Great Promiser
and great talker. II you give him
a chance to talk he will promise
you the moon, the sun and the stars
with no more idea of delivering
them than he had when he said he
would pay the State debt, put the
lobby Non the bum, reduce office
holders and Office fees and do al
dozen other good things for the
State if the people would only elect
him governor.
He made promises before which
he did not keep. He fooled the peo-
pie of this State by his platform,
which he paraded as a sacred pledge
to them. He deliberately promised
TO pay the State debt and wantonly
made no effort to do so. He solemnly
promised that, he would drive the
lobby from the halls of legislation
and wantonly throttled The only
having that object in view.
He vehemently pledged himself to a
reduction of the useless offices, at
torneyships and other sinecures and
Created the Game Commission
with its horde of wardens, attorneys
and employees to exploit free peo-
pie, a commission that has extorted
from the Deonle Of This State hnn-