The Donaldsonville chief., 1914-03-28
AN EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT.

AN EXCELLENT APPOINTMENT.
It is scarcely necessary to say thai
The Chief regards with the utmost
pleasure and approval the appoint
ment by Gov. Hall of Hon. R. N
Sims of Donaldsonville as state eX
aminer of state banks, and that this
view is shared by all classes of this
community. Mr.. Sims has spent
nearly all of his life here, and It's
record has been as an open book to
our people. hence no better tribute
to mis- fitness and worth could be
desired than the enthusiastic anc
unanimous Endorsement which his
preferment has ELECTED from the peo
p' who have known him longest ano
most Intimately.
In the prime Of physical and in
tellectual strength, Mr.. Sims, tc
quote the encomium of an esteemed
contemporary, "adds to very large
technical qualifications one of the
most winning personalities in the
public life of louisiana He has
been an assistant plantation man
ager, a bank clerk, principal Of AS
cension Academy, since called the
Donaldsonville High School; a mem
Der of the Louisiana railroad COM
mission, a member of the state board
of prison control, and served in last
years constitutional convention as
the unanimously elected delegate
from Ascension parish. He conduct
ed a successful insurance business
in Donaldsonvil1e, and for several
years past has been manager for the
West Kentucky Coal Company in
Louisiana, with headquarters in this
city. He has long been active and
prominent in state and local politics,
and resigned from the board OF prl-
son control to manage the campaign
of Hon. Theodore Wilkinson in the
primary contest for governor in 1907
which resulted in the nomination OF
Hon. ]. Y. Sanders. In the primary
of 1911-12 Mr.. Sims supported Hon.
Jno. T. Michel for governor for per-
sonal reasons, and the fact that Gov.
Hall went outside the circle of his
own partisans and supporters to find
a state bank examiner is indicative
alike of the governors impartiality
and regard for the public interest,
and of the pre-eminent qualifications
of the appointee.
AS one of the founders and vice
president of the Peoples Bank of
Donaldsonville, Mr.. Sims became
identified some years ago with the
Louisiana State Bankers Association.
He was elected vice president of the
organization in 1908, elevated to the
presidency the following year and
has served continuously as a mem
Der Of the executive council. Having
thus been thrown into contact and
personal association with representa-
tives of the banking interests from
all parts of the state, it may be ta-
ken for granted that his appoint
ment as bank examiner will be as
acceptable to them as to the rest OF
his friends and fellow citizens
throughout Louisiana.
There has been some difference of
opinion as to whether the office of
the state bank examiner should be
located in Baton Rouge or New Or
leans, and Mr.. Sims is said to favor
the latter city because of its pre-
dominance in banking matters, both
as to the number of banks domiciled
there and the volume of their busi-
ness. The matter of the location of
the office is of no great importance,
the essential point being
to have the right kind of a man in
charge of it. Such a one has been
found in the person of R. N. Sims,
and there is not the slightest doubt
in the minds of any of his friends
that he will make good" in every
sense by an efficient and judiciops
administration Of the important and
delicate duties attaching to the po
sition of the examiner of state banks.