The Donaldsonville chief., 1912-08-24
MORGAN meeting. HELD At
HAMMOND.
Answers His Opponents and Reads
Exoneration of Gay-shattuck vio-
Iation Charge.
(AdVertisenent.)

Hammond, La, Aug. 21.-A train
load, consisting of six coaches, and
more than 600 people, arrived here
from Covington tonight, to attend the
meeting held in Perry Hall in the
Interest of the candidacy Of Lewis
L. Morgan, from the sixth district.
On its arrival the windows Of the
cars blaZed forth with the multicolor
ed balls from hundreds Of roman can
dies and cannon crackers fired by
the enthusiastic supporters of the
St. Tammany candidate The meet
ing was presided over by Hon. NJ
G. Wilson, mayor of Hammond, who
delivered short address in Mr.. Nor
sans interest. Senator A. j. Afford,
of Amite, and Henry l.. Garland, of
st. Tammany, delivered short adj
dresses.
In the course of his speech Mr.
Morgan replied to the charges of Pom
der and Jones and his legislative rec
ord as follows: 1T occurs to me.
that my friend Sambola Jones should
first have looked into his own record
and found that it was absolutely clear
before copying from Mr.. Ponder and
telling the people of the district of
my absences from roll-calls. It APP
pears from the record of 1912, the
sixty days session that Colonel Jones
attended, that though he lived in
the city of Baton Rouge, his home
being within the shadow of the cap
itol building, he found it convenient
to miss 10T roll-calls. Colonel Jones
a Iyn ia nf n fria af
your confidence and tell them why
you were absent from these 1O1 roll
calls
"Tell the people also, Colonel
Jones, why you ducked the vote Of
house bill 499, by Mr.. Buie, chairman
of the committee ON game, fish and
oysters. On the same day why did
you duck the vote on the joint reso-
luton, by Mr.. Butler, levying a
tax of not less than three mills on
the dollar, by parishes, cities and
towns, for the support of the public
schools? Why did you duck the vote
of the Clayton and Fontenot fer
tilizer bills, though you were pres
were up on final passage? Answer
lueSS questions anu HOW 81 W "a
planning your own record.
In reply to Mr.. Ponder's charge Of
the St. Tammany violations of the
Sunday and Gay-shattuGk laws,
amid thunderous applause he read
the following resolutions of exoner-
alton by the Catholic Federation OF
| Women:
"Coyington, La, Aug. 21.-At a
meeting of the Catholic Federation
Of Women, held this 21st day OF
August, 1912, it has been brought to
the attention Of this society that
| when the resolutions of June II were
forwarded to the district attorney
Ehe, Mr. Morgan, was absent from
his office, and the matter was re-.
ferred to Assistant, Acting District.
Attorney "a. .. Schwartz, who, IN
fortunately, did not reply until July
liz. This fact, together with the
fact that no further attention was
given by the acting district attorney,
Mr.. Schwartz, to the resolutions,
caused the federation to resort to
other means. In view of the above.
statement the Catholic Federation OF
| Women commend Mr.. Morgan to the
| favorable consideration Of the public,
with best wishes for his success III
his political endeavors. Signed:
Mrs. ]. Bokenfohr, president, Miss
Florence Lavelle, secretary, per Mrs.
| 3. B. Warren