The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-08-29
lin Hddre$$ 10 tbe Democratic Uottr$ Of tbe
fourtb Congressional District

aimed to help great eastern mer,
chants and express companies.
And for a bill to give rental on
roads already built; nothing to help
build roads.
He voted to help the Republican
organization put their machine men
on the Rules Committee.
He spoke and voted against the
bill to give publicity to primary ex-
penses and contributions; and all
ehis during a Democratic Congress
When the Republicans needed
him in the last Congress-, he voted
for protection.
He has never cast a Democratic
vote except at the behest of Dem
ocratic caucus.
II | become your congressman
the same temperament and the
same political convictions which
make me stand against corporate
greed in municipal affairs will in
tluence me in Congress.
l shall labor not only to reduce
the tariff but to master its details
and do real service as one of the
men who being posted are useful in
Democratic councils.
No Edward Hines shall receive
letters of praise from me.
No Thomas Fortune Ryan shall
see me following his spokesman's
banner as Watkins has followed
Flood, the man who slipped Ryan
into the Baltimore convention.
Strange as it seems, Judge Wat
kins has openly attacked me only
with misstatements and ridiculous
charges that I would do something
for the negro.
I would vote with old Jim Varda-
man to disfranchise the negro just
because he is a negro and render
useless the temporary enabling acts
now in force.
His only brother, Lynn X. Wat
kins, himself a candidate, is trying
to bring religious belief into the
contest. If Judge Watkins can per-
suade his co-religionists that theil
consciences will be made unquiet
unless they vote for him, that is
their business alone. My own faith
teaches me the grandeur of the
Sermon On the Mount:
do good to them that hate you;
and pray for them that prosecute
and calumniate YOU"
And again: And if you salute
your brothers only, what do you
more than others? Do not also the
heathens this?"
And again: Judge not that you
may not be judged" !
1t is more than strange that any
man who is able to qualify as a
voter sticks to Tom Watson and
John and Lynn Watkins, for
ignorance too rank to per-
nit the proper filling out of
! registration blank can alone ex-
,use. man who follows Thomas
Fortune Ryan and indignates with
Hines, two men who exploit
II attempt to exploit men and news
papers of my faith as Watkins at
,empts to exploit those of his.
AS a Democrat of North Louis
ana who deplores condition
which can only eventuate in divid-
ng North and South Louisiana and
irving power in State affairs into
he hands Of men who if my core
igionists lean too much toward
protection, | ask my fellow Demo-
rats to aid me this time, and |
make no appeal to prejudice or pas
ion.
Vote for me because my vision is
learer than my opponents; my
trength is greater and the years |
more full of promise; but most of |
II. my friends, because l have
leard the voice of those in need and |
have seen the hand of greed as it
las reached toward mine and me,
lst as it has toward yours and
'ou. And on the fighting line l
will stand with Wilson as I stood
t Baltimore for Wilson, with not
o much a hope for personal vic
Dry as tits a conviction that in de-
eat or victory l will give my mite
owGd the triumph of true princi-
lie. II you can, help me. |
FRANK J. LOONEY.