Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-01-12
HON. JOSEPH {. RANSDELL
Candidate for Democratic Nomination as United
States Senator 1913 Term

Did you stop think of the real constructive Ransd
has done, and doing FOX Louisiana?
years before Foster entered the United States Senate has
Legislative experience at Washington than FOte AS to the value
Do know Foster Governor Louisiana for eight
viii have been in the Senate twelve when his expires
twenty years the highest offices within gift people?
% he been paid abdanty for service he have rendered
Governor and does his of inactivity Senate
you Chairman Committee of
che National Democratic Congressional Committee in the campaign
1910 which resulted the overwhelming defeat of the Republican par
Do you know the three candidates for the 1915 Senatorial
Sanders OF St. Mary Boussard of IBERIA and Puo of Casieua
elected the of Thornton will be South Louisiana
Would be fair to elect Foster who also resides in St Mary and give
precedent which for has Senator to North Louis
Do you know Foster during years the
has bean heard rarely having made only five speeches Of
which were eulogies on deceased members2
Do you nsde has worked hard and spoken often
er Louisiana; products-sugar,
yellow fever; the
for the establishment rural mail for the eradication Of Texas
qnce Of other practical and beneficial legislatiOn2
Do you know Rande has been apostle waterway improve
the United States; that has ectud The Commercial Growth of
UNFRAMED En- of the South Conservation ETC. and has writ
many artes-a the view Of upbuilding louisiana
Do know the whole South growing by leaps and bounds and
%6a il two great o speeches bs ou T D d., and
ukng called the attention OF the nation to the wonderful
pcrunies offered by Dixie, especially Louisiana?
tbs cattle tick eradication work. being rid oil
s terrible pest the farmers Of the South
V5,OOO,OO0 annually?
Do during the Congress Ransde has toured his
district Company with Government experts who preached his
ancy the gospel diversified farming urged the abandonment of
the sngop method impressed the advantages of drainage good
roads, rural free delivery and other things which promote the
ay Of our people generality
legislation appropriations for the protection of its lands from
How and the for navigation Its mileage Waterways
Do know improved waterways the best of all regulators
and the cheapest Of all freight carriers?
Do comprehensive policy OF waterway improvement has
Inv
Weir national Platforms that the Panama Canal but link gil
that include worthy
project in the United that magnificent work of rivers
mag become great freight bearing arteries Of commerce.?
Do know Ransde the leader of the national waterways
% that river and habor bills the result of the agitation caused
this Congress passed annually instead of trennuay and
amount than thirty millions instead OF less than twenty
Do you know Ransdel the Rivers Com
me the House, and has been active in securing large for
sne levees and waterways of Louisiana?
DO abandoned his the
ee the Senate which the Rivers and Habo Committee of that
% and thereby lost the best opportunity help vees and
Ways that his Congress shows he Is indifferent to these great
mteretsp
Do you every Louisiana pays nearly
one MILL and if the National Government induced
The evee system by making the river banks permanent this terrible
nn will be removed? Ransdel is laborng hard this end
Foster is doing nothing.
Do know tariff record ndefensbe that
ptedy with Adrch during the framing the nquitou Payned
hcn Bill, which written by and for the interests''2
DO know Ransde voted item of the Payne Adch
OIL as did Champ Clark regard to the lumber schedule and
on this schedule he
non and thtwo other Southern Democratic Congressman and
enteen out Of Southern Senator'S among them Daniel of
LOT the lumber duty?
Do know duty barley
n to 30 cents buel Foster voted with dh and that be