The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-02-03
POLITICAL PROCLAnATIONs.

POLITICAL PROCLAMATIONs.
Addresses to the Democrats of Lou-
isiana by Or. AswelI, Mr.. Michel
and Gov. Sanders.
Three days after the Democratic
primary election Of last week, the iol-
lowing publication was made by DR..
J. B. Aswell, the candidate for gov
ernor who polled the least number
of votes for that office:
"To the Twenty-three Thousand -Four
Hundred and Seventy-seven Of
My Personal Friends in Louisiana
Who Voted for Me Last Tuesday,
Greeting:
my every heartbeat pulsates sin
cere gratitude for your faith in me,
and for your loyalty to the principles
for which we stand. Your candidate
was not elected; but your votes were
not lost. A patriotic vote for a prln-
ciple is never lost. Men pass away.
Principles are eternal The prln-
ciples of independent Democracy,
honest service and home rule, are
imperishable; and l have mistaken
faith in their ultimate triumph.
stand today exactly where I stood
April /, 1911, when began, without
money or organization, the fight
against machine politics and in favor
of restoring this government to The
hands of the plain people who now
have little or nothing to do with its
control
GAS a defeated candidate, 1t is
my duty to bow to the will of ne
majority, and / do it cheerfully;; as
a Democrat and a patriotic citizen,
it Is my duty to support my party
in electing a governor for Louisiana.
In the performance of this duty, !
shall support Judge Luther E. Hall,
and do what | can to secure hls
| election; believing as I do that the
faction led by him offers the only pres.
ent available means of securing the
reforms imperatively demanded.
"In making this statement dis
claim any intention of delivering
the vote Of any of my supporters.
urge them to go to the polls and
vote according to their own conVlc-
tons. JAMES B. ASWEiLL.
| At midnight of Saturday last John
n. Michel, the second candidate in
the gubernatorial race, issued inc
following statement:
"To the Democratic Voters of Lou
isiana:
.For more than six months the
state has been embroiled in all the
turmoil incidental to a general pri-
mary During this time / have ap-
| pealed to the white Democrats OF my
! state for their suffrage as the nolnl-
nee of the party for governor.
81 have received the kindest treat
ment and am indebted to many
throughout the state for courtesies
shown. The splendid majority given
me by the citizens Of New Orleans,
who have known me best, has aWak-
ened In me deep sense Of gratitude
and this has been added to by the
Iconfidence reposed in me by the
country electorate, as expressed by
the vote cast for me on Jan. 3d.
i "This has not lessened because
have failed to receive majority OF
4 the votes cast. During the campaign
much feeling was expressed and bit
4 terness engendered. Business has
Il been unsettled and generally dis
4 turbed. a condition which do moi
Il wish to prolong. Whatever may be
! my personal ambition, / believe that
my duty to the state and to those
friends who stood by me SO Loyalty
demands that sacrifice my asplra
lions, and in that manner lend what
effort I can to the dispelIng all bit
terness and thus relieve the state
of the vexation of another election
tsFor Judge Hall, who received q
plurality of the Democratic votes,
lhave feelings only of Kindness.
trust and believe that he will do al
within his power to further the in
iterests of the united Democracy.
will support him as strongly as | op
posed him, and will lend all my Ell
forts to his candidacy, as the nomI
tnee Of the Democratic party, and te
that end / formally notify the Demo
Gratis of Louisiana that I Withdraw
as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination as governor of my state
JOHN T. MICHEL.
i On Monday last Gov. Jared
Sanders, who had run second in The
three-cornered contest for the United
1 States senatorial term WHICH Ut5lIs
in 1915, gave out the appended ad
dress:
ITO the Democrats Of Louisiana:
To-day my friends gathered at my
headquarters from every nook and
corner of this state in numbers and
loyalty that even victory could not
have increased.
| after a careful survey of the stu
alton, they believed that ] still had
a chance to win, and whether | lid
or not, they rendered me their en-
thusiastic and loyal support in sec,
ond primary for the United States
senate.
Deeply sensible of this mark Of
confidence and loyalty, deemed that
under all the existing circumstances,
it would not be fair to them, or to
the issues of the campaign, to longer
continue the contest, and SO mott
fled them in a speech in the banquet
hail Of the Grunewald Hotel.
1t now becomes my duty to notify
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