The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-08-09
JENNINGS FEARS CT REPUbLI-
CAN SUPREMACY ABSURD,
Tries to Muddy the Parish Seat
Issue by Seeking to Inject Poll
tics Into it.

An unsigned artlCle, written bv an
ex-republican(?) entitled, open Letter
TO Governor L. L. Hall, Truth IS
Stranger Than Fiction which recent
" appeared in the the Political-Comic
columns of our esteemed contcmpO-
rary, the Jennings Times.ReCOrd, eX-
GELS anything that has yet appeared
In the columns Of that worthy journal,
for msstatements, nonsense and
foOlishness. Through fiction. fool
ishness and misrepresentation the
writer seeks to cloud the real issue,
the location of the parish seat, by
setting up wall that the parish has
been turned over to she Republican
rule. The fears that the writer
evinces, that should the parish seat
be located at Welsh, the parish would
go Republican,, is toe absurd to APP
peal to any one. The fact that In the
last election this section Of the parish
cast less than ten per cent OF Repubii-
Can votes, and the further fact that an
inspection Of the registration books
will show more than half of the voters
in this parish are native Louisianans
is assurance doubly strong that
Jefferson Davis parish is In no
danger of going Republican, even
though Jennings should go republican
as she has done before and rs the
writer threatens she will do again, in
the following language addressed as
especial" to the Governor: "If We
vote Republican next election, it is
you that made us aud net we our
selves
Since, for veracity, this article is
about on par with the general run
of the argument advanced by the Town
on the Border, we will take time to
note few of the more glaring in,
accuracies it contains.
The writer says: "For 16 years
jennings has been asking tke Legis.
lature to Divide Calcasieu parish
The principal objection and generally
the only objection came from one
small town, Welsh" HOW NNAl
THIS COMES TO BEING TEE
TRUTH can be seen by q reference tt
the official returns OF the Parish
Division Election in 1910, which show
that PIP votes were cast agains
Division while but 1927 were cast il
favor of it, and out of the 80 votiny
precincts in the parish % OF then
gave u majority against Division
while but 10 gave majority Fol
Division, one precinct being equal
divided. DOES THIS SEEN TO IN
DICATE THAT THE ONLY OBJ
LECTION CAME FROM WELSH,
OF tlldU tD6 tutnoI has IlklLb IL
: MISREPRESENT THE FACTS?
In the same manner the writer &C
2 cuses Governor Hall of turning tn
Z political organization of the paris
: over TO CT. e. Robinson Moss & Co.
: Now as to the truth Of this Statement
t Every appointee Of Governor Hall
in the parish of Jefferson Davis
b and has been u lifelong Democra
L Every appointee, with possibly on
S exception and he was recommends
n by Jennings, is u native SoutherneI
l TWO of the members of the Polio
a Jury which the Governor appointe
s we're recommended by Jennings, TIVE
by Welsh, and one by both Wells
o and Jennings. Now would this seel
to indicate that the Governor WI
g turning the organization OF the paris
over TO the Republicans, or that tt
II writer of the Jennings article va
>. TRYING TO MlSliEPRESENT TIL
:. FACTS?