The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1912-03-23

bert Hall, but they took John NJ
Parker's word for it that Luther was
the Man; and when John NJ. showed
him ia New Orleans they liked Luth-
er's looks and said he would do.
1t was no small job to get Luther
Egbert Hall into the field. 1t isn't
so easy to live in Northern Louisi-
ana and support a father and moth
er and rear family and get far
enough along to attain a seat on the
bench of the supreme court, cSpeC-
tally when all must be done by hard
work and with no mearned incre-
ment lying round. That salary of six
thousand dollars year for twelve
years seemed about as much to Hall
as was necessary for comfort; and,
even if he won in the primaries, the
salary of governor is but five thous-
and dollars a year and the term but
| four years, instead of twelve. Hall
had no money. He had practically a
life position, and one for which he
had shaped his Life; but he respond
ed. He said he would make the
fight.
The people found Hall a big, blond
man-not fat, but big-with hair of
that color the old folks call SANDY"
pale blue eyes and a ruddy face-a
red-blooded sort of person. He was
diffident, not used to mixing with
men. a slow talker and a slow think
er, and heavily judicial in all his
acts. Having entered the race to
down the bosses he selected his text,
Down with the bosses! and stuck
tic that. The bosses knew they were
in for a struggle, and they selected
their candidates and proclaimed plat
forms that embodied all the re-
forms any of them could think OF
. and some they couldn't. lnaSmuch
as this was the sort of a platform
Hall was running on all the contest
ants stood on the same base as to
principles, and the campaign imme
diately became one of personalities.
There were three candidates. The
Inquiry blythe people was: Which
is most likely to carry out the
pledges all are making? The candl
dates went at it, slang-Whanglne
strenuously. They said Hall couldn't
be elected because he couldn't make
a speech and because his name is
Luther. Hall learned to make
speech, and replied this his name
was Luther-and that Luther, in ha
lexicon. meant: Down with the
bosses!' The Creoles of the sugar
belt didn't seem to care much foi
the Luther part of it; and, moreoV
err somebody had started the stor!
that M. Michel, the candidate sup
POSED to appeal to this vote, WASH
: Michel at all, but was Mitchell. Anf
: when Michel showed up in the Tech'
country with band Of performing
: "Cayiins." and couldn't talk in thu
vernacular himself it helped Hall
. lot.
= They shouted that New Orleans
| wouldn't stand for Hall because h'
: was a Prohibitionist. Whereupol
. Hall said he favored local cptlol
D and self-government, drank few
l taddcs from time to time, ana re
, marked that he intended to dcW1
the bosses. They dug UP what the
said was a most damning letter, ina
showed dickering with the bose
for support. "If 1 wrote it mus
e have written it because need tn
: votes" replied Hall, land down VIZ
|. the bosses." Then they said n
n gambled in a bucketshop and wen
: ed "The welshing part OF 1t
n lie!" asserted Hall; land, as 10
Il the rest of it, l speculated some l
e copper was a SUCKER was
G good company-and down with IN
II bosses
# Hal" said the men Of New O
: leans. "He isn't such chilly, cox
{ unimpassioned person as we though
q He is a sport and will take
g chance" And Hall replied so'eml
ie ": Down with the bosses! The
e came to bat with the charge thai 4
8 owed money on piano and owed
Il grocery bill in Monroe. "f," sal
q hi; supporters, "he had manipulate
y his high office on the district benc
Is m cuch profitable purpose as his wv