The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-11-02
DoNALDsoNyILLE La. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3 lal2
LET US WATCH OUR FOOTSTEPS

w aEH vN MQIl w I'll
Baton Rouge New Advocate Advise
louisianians to Consider Care
fully What Being for Wilson i
Going to Mean - Enliahtenin
Campaign Literature Sent soutI
by Mistake.
We're for Wilson,
The vast majority of Louisianian,
say that.
1t is well for some of our people
In Louisiana to watch just what .sbe
ing Tor Wilson" is going to mean,
In the interest of keeping the rec
ord straight, it is well to note what
being for Wilson" is interpreted te
mean elsewhere.
ID the mails today, under cover OF
an envelope bearing the stamp OF
the national committee that is di.
rect1ng Mr.. Wilson'S campaign. there
| comes a neat four-page folder, among
| others, entitled:
What High Tariff Sugar Means to
YOU, Mr.. and Mrs. Consumer-25
pounds for a dollar under free SUI
gar; lb pounds for dollar under the
present tariff. The Democratic house
voted to place sugar on the free list,
and the Republicans killed the BILL
All that is on the front page, with
a graphic cartoon showing the big
and The little piles of sugar. Inside
IS strongly Worded, cleverIy written
appeal for free sugar and against the
tariff on sugar. 1T concludes with
this: Reflect upon these facts, Mr..
Consumer. and then impress your
views upon your congressman and
senators and vote for Wilson and
Marshall z
There is another campaign folder
to Mr. and Mrs. Consumer abeut the
high cost of living that stresses fa-
Vorably the noted Underwood free SUI
gar bill.
All this is intensely interesting
down here, where we shout for Viii
son and Marshall and "Cousan Bob
Broussard-and elect congressman
VINO publicly apostasize from Demoe-
facy on the crying issue of the day,
the tariff, from every stump on
which they seek votes.
- als isl
still the one on which We must main
tain our lines.
We pause over that, and then care
fully slit the end Of another enve1- /
ope and draw out a letter addressed |
% us from Washington. On the let
,erhead are two cuts, Wilson and
Marshall. and the phrase Our choice
sor president and vice president. 2
The letterhead elaborately declares
t is the National Independent Polit-
cal League, formerly the NationaII
Political League, CO.
operating with the National Demo
,ratic Committee"
The letter goes on to say: Eve
ire carrying on a vigorous campaign
.mong the colored voters in the
forth, east and west, urging them to
,ecome independent in politics and
1ote for Wilson and Marshall as the
,est men for ali the people,"
The letter encloses to the news
'aper, with the request that we pub
ish it, circular, which on its cover
tates in bold type:
Fifty years of physical freed dom-
nd political bondage. This Jubilee
ear is a good time to strike for po-
itica1 liberty, equal rights and oppor- ];
unities for all American citizens
The pamphlet is a clever defense
t the Democratic party and state
lent that there were perhaps more {
than Republicans in the ]
orthern armies which freed the ne t
roes. 1t stresses the fact that the it
egroes have not political freedom i
nder the dominance of the Republi- {
an party. Compare possibilities, !"
says, .the Republicans must from t
oW on have diminishing returns Is
le Democrats will have increasing S
sturns, so far as co1ored men are
oncerned.' Again it says: 'sIn e
le north, in every city government /
lat is controlled by the Democrats ]
e find colored men employed. 2
It concludes: lr
.'Vote for Wilson 1t will rebuke q
9th Taft and Roosevelt wounding q
Yo birds with one stone. Cast It." t
The circular is for northern con- S
1nption, sent south by mistake. s
This is the league which vowed po. v
teal enmity to Roosevelt for dis t
issing from the service the negro e
atta1ion which ashot up Browns
lle..' {.
Verify, politics brings queer align d
ents. |p
Mo Good Anti-Floosi Plan Vet.
Marshall G. Leighton, chief hydro a
,apher of the United States Geo "
gical Survey, in an address before C,
e American Reclamation Fedora O
On at Chicago on Oct. 2S, declared p
at none of the plans advanced h
r controlling the floods in the Mis-
ssippi river is practicable or an
of safety.
The water itself, he said, is worth q
ore to the nation as an avenue of r