The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-08-29

Gentlemen: We have no Republi-
can party in Louisiana, but we have
a line of cleavage in the Democratic
party.
Judge John T. Watkins repre-
SCENTS the old point of view; Champ
Clark is it's best type; Charlie Muir
ply OF Tammany Hall its most no.
torious; Belmont and Ryan its
worst type. With these men, for
their candidate, Judge Watkins
stood before and during the Balti-
more convention. I stood against
those men for Wilson there.
Some men believe Bryan and Will
son are ahead of the times; some
men believe that Bryan and Wilson
are set before us as moral exem-
plars, rather than political leaders.
Machine politics has brought
about this strange delusion.
Character and principle are above
all needed among those who make
the Nations laws.
Mems law Is but the striving to
write in statute books Gods rules
of conduct.
All those who studied. as l ,dio,
under John Randolph Tucker of
Virginia, himself one time in Con-
gress, believe that this idea Is fun
damental Democracy and true
lawyers test.
| can not understand the votes my
opponent casts and he does not ex-
plain them.
He has voted to let corporation
issue watered stock.
To keep the only district solely
controlled by Congress and without
a delegate, from voting upon the
question of taxing itself.. :-.
He has voted to take three dollars
from the small eighteen dollars sal
airy of the private soldier and to add
two years to his enlistment.
To force the government to buy
powder from the Powder Trust at
Tic per pound more than the gov
eminent cost of making.
He has voted to raise the tariff
on the black pepper of the poor;
the harmless juices Of soda foun-
tain drinks, the antiseptio medical
bases, and to lower it on alcoholic
He has moved to side-track a bill
limiting the hours OF labor.
He has voted to permit the Phil
ippine government, chiefly Taft's
appointees, to dispose of large
tracts of land in the Philippines
Trading with the far off Western
points he voted to put a few thous-
and dollars into the New Orleans
mint, Republican institution.
He permits his son to draw fif-
teen hundred dollars per annum as
1is private secretary, although the
aw directs salary of twelve hun
ired dollars, and in addition gives
lis son two thousand dollars more
Is his committee clerk, and admits
hat during this whole session his
has made no report ex-
'ept On the cotton claim fad, and
lie as a member of Congress can not
yet Democratic House to conside.
lis bill. .~....
He has voted for q bill to permit
to interfere in the re-
Of civil service men,
md has attempted to put civil SER
ice back on the spells system. =.
Because Judge Speer-whom Bry-
n says is probably impeachable,
nd some other judges had kinsmen
Ike himself, acting as their clerks,
Judge Watkins voted to let kinsmen,
e re-appointed as clerks although
he law forbade it. :. ....
He voted against the proper con-,
ervation Of fur-bearing seals.
He voted to let a prosecutor try
man on a charge that the prose-
utor initiated. .. ~ .
He lodged the vote TO extirpate
he poisonous white phosphorus
1atch, and to segregate whites and
lacks in soldiers homes.
He voted against penitentiary SEN
ences for carrying concealed weap-
rs, and for minimum flne of one
ollar in the negro ridden city of
He voted for . parcels post bill