The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-02-08

me IdtICHdt GUiif 6HtloA foA tAo1
was pulled eff in New Orleans ali
right, but the crowd didn't do much
work. Guess not s. Hoboes aren' I
built on working models.
1t viii be tough On the Turks il
their desperate effort to hold onto
Adrianople causes them to lose Con
stantinopIe toe. It's going to come
to that eventually, SO why not now?
A luminous paint, making the ma
chine visible at night a distance OF
two miles, is the latest automobile
improvement 1t won't be as popular
as the old red variety with joy riders
who are out to paint the town.
There's food and drink for thought
in the suggestion of the South Mans
field Star that talking about the high
cost of living isn't going TO reduce
it any, and that the best way to turn
the trick is to get out and produce
something.
Only two Louisiana newspapers, we
believe, have voiced objection to the
proposed appointment of Senator
Foster as next collector of customs at
New Orleans It isn't easy TO make
anything connected with our politics
unanimous.
James J. Gallagher, the man who
shot Mayor Gaynor of New York at
Hoboken two years ago, died on the
Bird instant at Trenton, N: j., where
he was serving a term OF imprlson-
ment for assaulting Street Commits
sioner Edwards, who was with the
mayor at the time of the attempted
assassination. Gallagher was never
prosecuted for the latter crime, at
Mr. Gaynor's request.
inadvertently The Chief failed to
make mention of the fact that with
its first issue in November last the
esteemed Colfax Chronicle began it's
thirty-seVenth yearly volume. Under
the management of it's veteran edi-
tor, H. CD Goodwin, the Chronicle
has always been a neatly printed
and ably edited paper, a credit to
the town and parish in which it is
published. May it SO continue!
The Plaquemine Champion makes
a pertinent suggestion as to the rue
lions that would be kicked up in al
most any community if the editor
went back Ii kind at the people who
make practice Of knocking his
paper. It's a blessing all round, and
to- nobody more than the knockers
themselves, at the editor is filled
with the III IL OF human blindness and
returns good for evil In such cases
1t did listen sort of funny, that
testimony Of ex-Gov. Sanders in the
dock board custer suit to the effect
that he construed the law, which dis
,tinctly said the governor should have
the power Of removal and appoint
ment, to mean that he could only fill
vacancies and could not create them.
Does anybody doubt what would have
happened il that board hadn't been
composed of Jared's friends when he
was governor?
Judge Thorntoh Fletcher Bell of
Shreveport, who has been filling by
guberna torial appointment the district
of Caddo parish formerly
occupied by his late lamented father,
was nominated for election to the Of
flee at the Democratic primary held
on the 4th instant. There were three
in the contest and their
votes were as follows: Bell, 1885;
Cal. d. Hicks, 606: Emerson Bentley,
1926.
The Ayoyelles Enterprise, publish
ed weekly at Marksville La, last
passed from the hands Of
Miss zepher Lafargue into those of
O. b. and A. B. DeBelleVue, father
and son, the former Of whom be-
came editor and the latter publisher
Of the paper. 1t is already apparent
that the excellent reputation of the
Enterprise is going to be fully main
tanned under the new administration,
which Is as it should be.
The Sabine Banner, which claims
to have been elannehed on the
sea of Journalism by
fudge SoReIle when Many gas only
a wide place in the road reached
the end of it's tWenty-second year.
of life last month and 1913 will De
ss22s for it, The Banner is edited
and owned by Leo Yandegaer and
published BY John Belisie, TO,
whom our fraternal congratulations
and coed wishes are hereby handed
put.
Secretary l.. e. Bentley passes US
he interesting tip that the dates for
his years meeting Of the LOUISE
ina Press Association at Shreveport,
rs fixed by President VIM = HOY
Ind the executive committee, WI
oe Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs
lay, May 6, Z and s. Stellar attrac-
ions from near aud far are to be
staged at this reunion for the edifi-
cation of the states newspaper maxi
ers, of whom Shreveport expects to
a record crowd.