The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-02-24

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70 Danger OF the issue being revive
LII tne next General Assembly.
All OF these facts ought to suffic
: 70 convince the fair-minded thai ia
ISSUE OF prohibition, even with
referendum attached, Is q dead en-
in Louisiana. >. -
After having grasped the neanin
.! recent events in Alabama, Missis
slppl, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas
after having taken note of on
Aeisheerlng states costly experienc.
with statewide prohibition, 7 nov
stand opposed to any attempt to re
we Tue issue In any manner, way
sndpe or form in this state. I an
IN accord with the principle of loca1
optlon as enunciated bv all three
gentlemen who ran for governor and
| as approved by the Democratic con.
stltuency in bestowing the nomina.
tlon on Judge Hall
"A progressive and thinking mans
views are changed when he receives
lnore hight and larger experience. NV
views on the liquor question changed
as the result of the observations 7
nave Just mentioned. 1 want to call
me notlce of the constituency that
tney changed not since I became a
candidate, but at a time when 7
never mad any idea Of becoming one:
mat Is to say when my distinguished
,rlend, the late lamented Senator
McCulloh, was still in the midst of
MS career of usefulness and pub-
lie service.
1903 it was sought to deter me
from introducing the referendum bill
y, reporting to me that some of the
lquor dealers among my constitu-
81. enls resented my attitude bitterly. |
me press predicted the loss of nv
'cslp both physical and metaphori- |
cal at their hands. Still I was not
AFRAID to Introduce the bill. IF RI
am elected senator, 1 shall not he
AFRAID to vote against any statewide
'lll or constitutional amendment
aimed at prohibition should any mem
1 :, oe .Iooish enough to introduce
ne same IN the General Assembly.
But have something to say about
nose who go about crying or in
lHuatlng that / ought to be pun
sned for having once upon time
Imported a measure which simnlv
ut the prohibition question IN to
ne people themselves for a decision
'lnety-nlne out of a hundred of
aese gentlemen, including nv two
lstlngulshed editorial friends of
le interim and the Weekly Demo-
rat, opposed Gueydan for lieutenant
oVernor. Still, Gueydan voted in
le senate against my bill. Gueydan
an uncompromising anti-probihi-
onist These people, then. inc11d-
s the TWO uncompromising local OPP
ol.ist EDITORS, opposed with all
elr main and might and helped to
efeat candidate who if elected
governor would have been
a position of vantage to help them
'feat a policy which they pretend
pc afraid Ct at my hands. This
the rankest insincerity or incon-
'tency, It it is not the most child.
I SELF qualification on the part of
ose who have raised the prohibition
' 'ue against ne. Again these same
ople, including my two editori-
friends, supported Mr.. Barrel and
lped to elect him lieutenant gov
1or. Now, Mr.. Barret was in the
ohIbltlon caucus of 1908. He also IN
.ed Tor my referendum bill until I
was killed. He was statewide |h
and perhaps still is
:. These people then, including T.
Two uncompromising local option ]
tors above referred to, were not 4
aid to elect Mr.. Barrel to a high
ltion where he can help the pro-
ltion cause, if he wants to do so,
ut one thousand times more eff 4 4
lively than I could help it if ting
e elected senator and were faoI- =
and dlsloyal enough to want to
SO. This again is the Eankest in I
'erlty and Inconsistency, If it ]
2ot the NEST childish self-stultifi-
ON GA the part Of those who have
ed the prohibition issue against
UGH inconsistency, insincerity and III
prove the pothing-Fa
OF the one issue raised against
by Mr.. Henry T.. Himel and his -
IDS, especially if it be remen-sH
d that I campaigned and voted
Gueydan. who had voted against
bill, and I campatgned and voted Azaaa
nst BafreF, Who had voted for
bill,
hava not brought my friend Mr.. DO
ct into this argument for the IL
ose OF impugning his sincerity appl E
ne liquor question. If Mr.. Barret
that he ran on a local option np
orm | take his word for it and III
mly believe that as lieutenant full g
rnor he will live strictly ND to D oesh
plank of his platform. But by - -
same token / have the right to
It THAI my sincerity and honesty QDt
he same issue shall not be SoV'
Toned by any one, let alone at f fffb ,
d by insinuation and indirec- Darro
adore
pbeal To the fair-minded people -
is district against these insin-
rs and indirect attacks. There
e i'll thing which Is not in my NJ
cal record-insincerity. I have 11nfta,
my people somewhat beth in caused
'lic and in a nfghly responsible PEND
e capacity. / have been I'M 800 800
to avoid mourning some polit-
and a few, a very YHyHF
am happy to say, personal en- III c
t4tft T tfave MT a r,arco,,a1 ~ Place.