The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1912-03-23
LOUiSiANA'S HALL OF FAME.

pooned in the who's Who" column
Of the Saturday Evening Post, and
it IS gratifying to the majority CT peo-
Pic in Louisiana to see under the
above caption a very just, apprecia-
tive article on G0V-elect Hall. The
article reads for the most part:
There is this to be said for the
Sunny South: When they get ready
to swat the bosses down where the
cotton grows they swat the bosses
real swats, not contenting themselves
with the sIaps on the wrist that pass
current for boss-rebukers in other To-
calities. 1t may be urged it takes
them long time to get ready, but
that is boll-weevil comeback, and
to be classed with other lepidopte-
rous retOrts.
The kernel of it is that they swat
EN-; and the proof Cfsit is found in
that little affair that recently at
tracted the attention Of Louisiana,
where, if you have a smattering Of
the history Of your own times, you
know they had bosses with bark on
them, and where they were bcGsed
from morn until what is held to be
dewy eve in that vicinity. A prima-
ry was responsible for it-a real up
boys -and-at-them primary-Which was
one of the first primaries the voters
of Louisiana had ever enjoyed-f
not, indeed, the first-and positive
ly the first chance the citizens OF
the state had to do little thinking
and voting on their own account, In
stead of on account of the bosses
and to their account.
This is what happened: The men
in power had succeeded for years in
holding things as they wanted to
hold them by invoking the power OF
regularity. They made a fetish OF
Democracy. To be irregular was TO
be un-Democratic, and to be I'M
Democratic was some sort of high
crime and misdemeanor that would
surely call down dire disaster on the
heads of those who strayed from
the beaten path. And the bosses
were the judges of this highly-easen'
tial regularity. InaSmuch as the Re
publican party in Louisiana offered
vague refuge to those who were in
clined 10 revolt, it was held TO be
necessary to be bossed and regular
or ioin the pariahs by leaving the
bosses. And the bosses saw to it
that the list of pariahs was kept con-
stantly on the standing galleys, ready
for instant use.
Meantime long succession OF stat
officials had had things pleasantly
! their own way, and there had arrived
a governor who was even more gen
ia)ly a dictator than his predecessors
He carefully took over all the per-
cuisites in the way of machinery and
machin;sts that he found in working
order when he went in, and added
4 few little improvements OF Nils
own from time to time, including a
choice collection of workers calico
game wardens, whose duties were to
ward the governors game. Then tne
people took a hand. They began tc
mt a fed timid why's. No attentlo1
was paid to these queries naturally
but they kept on asking: and it was
Mt so long until the timid why's be
came Generous Observation-Disclosures
the Hour was at hand.
When the Hour-Capital H, please
arrives in politics the next lmpor
tant factor is the Mau-capltal M
At this exact moment, when the Mar
WAS needed, John M. Parker, d cor
ten broker, with ideas of his owl
akout government, and a reputation
- a hunter-Itdeed, he taught fh'
Colonel how to shoot bears in liz
canrb:ake-ieft his office on Tn Il
Street. nd walked to the center "
-. , -wn of New orleans, remtrE
", the while that now was the 1t't'
f. =. III good men to come 10 th9 "''
Ut new party. SO he organized IN
1,a,nocr. tic Good Government LeagH
and organized it in a state"'d
eonae, This was held by the Do'se
~ oesecrate the sacred principe &
ne urinary, for which they had ia'
the dissertation privileges for many
o,y vaars The bosses were Stfoh