St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-01-20
SPEAKING At
THE PAVILION
Gov. Sanders Speaks Before
a Large Crowd.
Local Candidates Place their
Claims Before Voters.
Special Train from Slidell
Brings $50 People.
Gov. Sanders Speaks to IS
People at Abita.

| OODl0 dL 11UlLde.
Gov. ]. Y. Sanders, candidate TO
the U. s. Senate, and F. ]. Heintz an,
e. Elmo Bollinger, candidates TO
the legislature spoke at the Parl
Pavilion Wednesday evening. TIL,
speaking was first scheduled to tax,
place at the court house, but it 500,
became evident that the court room
would not hold all who wished t,
hear the speakers, so adjournment
was made to the pavilion. The ar
rangements were that Mr.. Heint;
land Mr.. Bollfnger were to speak frs,
and that Mr.. Sanders was to follow
but the train on which Mr.. Bollingel
was to arrive from Slidell was delay.
ed so Mr.. Sanders spoke first. The
meeting was well advertised and
every subscriber of the Cumberland
Telephone Co. was notified by phone
that there was to be speaking. The
night was warm and pleasant, the
music of the brass band echoed
through the streets and attracted the
crowds returning from the electric
theater, the joint debate of the local
candidates aroused interest, the rep
utat'on Of Governor Sanders as q
speaker who is always amusing and
worth hearing added to the interest,
and the largest political meeting dur
ing the present campaign was the re-
suit. A crowd came up from Abita
and the Slidell special brought in
about $50.
There were on the platform:
Mayor F. G. Marrero, Chas. Bradley,
Judge Thos. M. Burns, Hon. C. S. r.
Darlington, B. M. Miller, Arthur
Bear, T. Gabriel, Jos. Federico,
Ulysses Depriest, r. +. Planche, E.
Eeaucoudray, Anatole Beaucoudray,
II. I. Addison, Sr., D. I. Addison, Jr.,
P. J. Lacroix, Mayor Paul Gardere,
of Slidell, Gov. J. Y. Sanders, E..
Elmo Bollinger and F. J. Heintz.
After waiting some time for the
Slidell special, it was concluded not
to wait longer and Mr.. Miller open
ed the meeting by announcing that
Gov. Sanders would speak first and
then introduced him in a short ad-
dress.
Mr. Sanders expressed his pleas
ure at finding such large crowd
present. His speech was pretty
much the same as he has been max
ing throughout the State. He pre-
sented figures to show that his ed-
ministration had not been an ex-
|travagant one He stated that there
had been a natural increase in the
o~noncoc of tho ocvorpn ont FROM, ~ a
time Of Governor Nichols. That the
Confederate veterans were receiving
the full amount of the appropriation
allowable under the constitution for
the first time during the administra-
tion of any governor and that there
had been more money spent for the
schools. He charged the Times
Democrat with assaulting every DEM
ocratic governor and Pujo and
Broussard with voting with the Re-
publicans. He declared himself as
opposed to the policy of protection
and stated that his good roads prop
osition was resulting in good roads
in many of the parishes. He said
that he had been accused of being
la bad, controlling, dominating man;
that he had controlled the leoisla-
ture. If this was true, he was the
right man to send to the Senate, for
they needed man there who could
control men; and that if he had con-
trolled the legislature, then he want
ed the credit for all the good laws
that the legislature had passed.
Mr.. Bollinger said that he had
been accused of being stranger in
the parish. This was not true. He
came from family whose members
had fought on the side of the Con-
federacy and had owned slaves in
war times. He had lived IN st. Tam
many parish for five years. It il
true that he was born in Missouri
but this had happened many years
ago when he was very small. He
could not help it and it should moi
happen again. That his part of the
parish was entitled to some represen.
tation. That al the offlce-holders
were from Covington and he thought
it was due to Slidell that the repre-
sentative should be from that town
That it was not true that he was try.
ing to have the county seat removed
to Sndell. He outlined a plan fol
making land easier of transfer anl
more valuable as security for money
| Fred ]. Heintz, in his answer tt
Mr.. Bollinger, said that the time hal
been pretty well taken up by the
Governor and Mr.. Bollinger. It wa.
late and he knew the people were
tired, SO he would not detain then
long. He said that he was born anl
raised in st. Tammany parish, bu1
unlike Mr.. Bollinger, he had no ex
cuse to make for his birthplace, an6
ii it was to be gone over again hi
would choose dear old st. Tammanl
to be born in. AS for Slidell beinl
entitled to representation, he did MOI
believe the people of that section o
the parish were SO ignorant Of theil
political rights that it was necessar,
for q man from Missouri to show
them that they had been asleep
The people of SHdell have alway.
known that they could put candi