The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-09-09
coIFAx, GRANT PARISH La. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER O. 1911
Labor Day and Great Labor Man.
IN. o. Picayune, Sept. 81

N. u Pleayune, Sept o.
Labor Day, coming in the
midst of an active political cam
paign in Louisiana, would have
offered great opportunities to the
political shouters and candidates
for Office to put themselves be-
fore the multitudes assembled at
the picnics yesterday, but for the
fact that while all the candidates
were invited to make speeches,
local and partisan politics as
themes for oratory were all barr
ed, and other subjects had to be
discussed.
While the opportunity was Of
fered the candidates to make
friends with the workmen enjoy
ing their holiday and to pay court
to their wives and daughters,
and even to kiss the babies,
which is a mighty taking feature
of electioneering, few of the can
didates could claim even to have
been laborers in the specific sense
of the term. They may have
plowed, they might have peddled
chickens and other commodities,
but they never did any work that
would have entitled them to be-
come members of a labor union.
Doubtless Jared Sanders came
nearer to it than any of them.
for he was a steamboat clerk
when there were steamboats, and
when the steamboatmen had their
organizations. No matter, he
knows what hard work is, as al
so he knows because he has had
conferred on him by the people
of his State the highest public
honors and dignities any State
in the American Union can give.
Jared Young Sanders, freed
from the commotion of vitupera-
ton by his foes and undue adula-
ton by friends and flatterers, is
one of the strongest men in Amer
lean public life today. He came
up through hard work and strait
ened circumstances to the prac-
tice of the law, and he made for
himself a place among the prom
inent men at the Louisiana bar.
He was elected a member of the
State Legislature in 1892. He
was a member of the State Con-
stitutional Convention in 1893.
He was speaker of the Louisiana
House of Representatives in
1900. In 1904-08 he was lieuten-
ant governor of the State, and
| in 1882 he was governor. In
1911, being then governor, he
was elected by the Legislature
|of Louisiana a senator of the
United States, but the contest to
bring the Panama Canal EXPOSE
ton to New Orleans being then
at its height, the senator lect
was so urgently entreated to re-
sign the senatorial toga and keep
| his place as the chief executive
| of the State, so that he might
bend his energies and exert his
influence to gain the much-desir-
ed Panama Canal celebration
that he complied with the popu-
lar demand.
This is a remarkable record fol
a man yet young, who started al
the bottom and who from the
first won his way to the top Of
human political honors bestowed
by his fellow-citizens with his
faithful services and his undoubt
ed talents, for Governor Sanders
has wrought up to the mark Of
high distinction in every public
station in which he has beer
placed. He is of almost herculear
stature, he is a wonderful speak
er on the popular platform of to.
day and possesses a powerful
personality.
Such a man, while he has al
army of friends, has neverthe
less aroused no little of the envy
hatred and all uncharitableness
which success engenders in thu
defeated and disappointed. Blu
this is the price of distinction
and high public favor, and it onl,
testifies to his ability. All tina
he has gained was the gift of tn
|pet pie Of this great State, ant
they surely know what and whom
| they delighted to honor. ADV,