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St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-31
Proceedings Democratic Exec
utive Committee, City of
OpeI0usas.
Opelousas. La. Jan. 10Th. 1914.

Opelousas, La, Jan. 18th, 1914.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of the City of fOpelousas, Louisiana,
met at the City Hall at 2::30 o'clock p. m,
this day, for the purpose of effecting a
permanent organization, and ordering q
democratic primary election for NUM-
cipal officers in compliance with the
provisions of Act 40 of the General As
sembly of the State of Louisiana, OF the
year 1906.
Present Allen T. Sandoz, E. S. Kerr,
H Bodemuller, Secretary; quorum pres
emf.
Mr.. E. S. Kerr moved that the com
mittee now proceed to the election OF a
chairman; motion carried.
Nh. Allen T. Sandoz placed in norni-
nation Mr.. H. Bodemuller, seconded by
Mr.. E. S. Kerr.
Mr.. Bodemuller, receiving a majority
vote cast, upon motion of Mr.. Kerr was
declared elected unanimously.
Mr.. Bodemuller assumed the chair as
chairman.
Mr.. Sandoz nominated Mr.. E. S. Kerr
as secretary, seconded by Mr.. Bode-
muller, and having received a majority
vote was declared unanimously elected.
On motion Of Mr.. Kerr the following
resolution was adopted:
Resolved that a white Demo
cratic primary election be held ln the
City of Opelousas, Louisiana, by the
duly qualified white democratic voters
of said city on Tuesday the 18th day Of
February 1914, for the purpose OF elect
ing the nominees of said party for the
following offices, viz: A Mayor, Marshal,
one Alderman at large, one Alderman
for the first ward, n Alderman fol
the End ward, one Alderman for the
3rd ward, one Alderman for the 4tE
| ward, and members of the city Demo.
cratic Executive Committee for said city
as follows:
One member from the 1st ward, one
member from the I'd ward, n mem.
Der from the Sd ward, one member
from the 18th ward, one member at
large.
That the fees to be assessed against
the candidates shall be for Mayor.
eight dollars, for Marshal, eight dollars
for Aldermen, four dollars. There
shall be no fee assessed for commit
teemen.
Resolved further, that all persons
| desiring to become Candidates Tor Ine
various offices as mentioned shall file
their declaration of such intention witt
the chairman Of this committee by mid
night Of the 31st day of January, 1914
accompanied by the fee assessed fol
such Office That this committee adj
iourn to meet on Tuesday, the Sd da.
of February, at II o'clock noon, t
ascertain who are the qualified candi
dates, to make said announcement AMI
select commissioners to serve at saie
primary election.
That each candidate shall submit II
the chairman of this committee the
name of one duly qualified elector 4
act as commissioner, not later than l.
o'clock noon, February I'd, 1914.
In all cases where there is only ont
candidate for an office the committee
| shall declare said candidate the Demo
cratic nominee for that office.
On motion duly seconded, the com
mittee adjourned TO meet on Tuesday
the Sd day of February, 1914, at /
o'clock, noon.
H. BODEMULLER, Chairman.
E. s.. KERR, Secretary.
jan "a ct
4 EGE& ==EIE
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-31
jacques B. Sandoz.

There died in this city on the
22nd inst, Jacques B. Sandoz,
a man whose life and work ought
be an inspiration to the young
men of this community. He was
truly the architect of his own
fortune. He was born poor.
His childhood was spent under a
roof with a widowed mother and
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-01-31
Store BUILDING Tor Rent

on Landry St, adjoining Dietlein's
Jewelry Store. Possession given Jan.
list, 1914. j j. HEALEY. 1888
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
TUESDAY EVENING,

had stood for forty years has been
overturned. the currency system has
been revolutionized. and Congress is
working on a large grist of new laws
to regulate business.
We are paying the penalty with
more acute depression than appears
in any other country. The railroads
are in distress through loss of reve-
nue., and half the industries of the
country are running on short time,
leaving millions of people out Of en-
ployment.
Congress two revolutionary measures
in a little more than a year, a money
law and the Wilson German tariff.
The business of the country was para
lyzed by the shock and did not recover
until after Cleveland had retired from
office.
President Wilson has forced through
Congress a far more radical revision
of the tariff than was attempted twen-
ty years ago, and money law scarcely
SeCoHu III importance u the CieNS-
land measure of 1898. In January
trade seemed on the way to recover
from these radical surgical opera
tions. but the improvement did not
last, and the trade depression has be-
come more acute in the past few
months, in the face of prospects for
large crops.
The patient has had a relapse be-
cause Congress has proved a surgeon
who doesn't know when to stop. The
instruments are being sharpened for
another series of operations on the
helpless business man, before he has
had time to get on his feet and re-
cover his strength. Business is para
lyzed and millions of people are suf-
fering the pinch of want in the midst
of plenty, because the. fanatical sur
geons don't know when to go home
and give nature and the nurses a
chance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
POLITICAL SIDELlCHTS

The harmony among the State
Democracy appears to be like unto a
number of axes being sharpened in
unison.
Palmer and Pinchot appear to
have failed to get many people excited.
-Pinchot has postponed his pro-
posed visit, to the Colonel from to-
morrow until Sunday.
-Pinchot and Palmer will be going
after each other for stealing ideas If
Sundays performance is repeated.
President Chairman Jones does
not intend to be any back number this
Fall. He says so.
Candidate Mccormick will find
many willing officeholders in this dis
trict awaiting his return from the pie
cutting conference.
Judging from Palmer's remarks,
the platform Is not that of the party.
but of the candidates.
The wise candidate is the one who
is fishing just now.
-Pinchot and Lewis left yesterday
for tour of northern counties.
-Congressional Candidate Focht
seems to be very we'll pleased with
prospects In his district.
Wonder how some Democratic
candidates will like McAdoo's spoilers
looking over their incomes.
Its about time for the new Demo-
cratic divisions to hold meetings.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
WHY PROTECTION


roTWlTHSTANDING an apparent
nj belief in certain quarters that
l u employers are bent on getting
from their employees a maximum
of work at a minimum of cost, the
average man who hires labor desires
to pay his help just as we'll as a rea-
sonable profit on the money invested
will permit. OF course, there are eX-
ceptions to this. but they are excep-
tions. and by no means the rule. With
this thought in mind the Pennsylvania
Protective Union calls the attention of
the public again as to one of the chief
reasons why it wants the protective
tariff restored. Its members can't con-
tinue to meet the cheap-labor compe-
tition of Europe without cutting wages
and they don't want to do that any
more than they want to cut dividends.
In setting forth it's position the
Union presents several tables showing
hourly wages in the cotton mills of the
United States to be all the way from
80 to 12O per cent. higher than in the
mills Of England.
In it's discussion of the wooden
schedule it shows wool sorters receiv-
ing SIC in the United States as against
1881 in England; laborers, 50 to s12
in the United States as against S4.91
in England; wool scourers, $40 as
against $6.13; wool driers, $3.50 as
against S4.91; comb jobbers, $40 as
aaginst $3.50; drawing frame tenders,
81 as against 1907; doffers, $3.50 as
against $2.45; warp twisters, SIS as
against SS.5S; stationary engineers,
$3.50 as against $3.50; machinists,
SIC as against $7.S5; carpenters and
joiners, SIG as against $500, and
blacksmiths, SIG as against S7.S5.
Three tables, each making a compari-
son of the earnings of one English
mill and one American mill, manu-
featuring the same class of goods,
based on actual payrolls, for a week
of sc hours. show that the average
wage of all workers in the wooden
mills of the United States is consid-
erably more than twice the average
wage of the same workers in England.
In the hosiery industry the Ameri-
can average wage is more than three
times as much as the average wage in
Germany.
Certainly. there can be no doubt in
these instances that American protec-
ton does find its way into the wage
envelopes and that any free trade
effort to put the industries of the
world on common level must be paid
| for out of the wage envelopes of
American workers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23

RESIDENT WILSON tries to meet
- the charge that he and his fell
low Democrats are running busi-
ness in the United States by the
program of experimental legislation
they have forced on the nation by re-
plying that the stagnation of trade is
not confined to this country, but is
world wide
This Is true, but the President is
careful not to inform the people of
what he must know. that this stagna-
ton abroad is due to the SINE cause
too many laws of the kind that un-
settle trade.
In England business has been de-
pressed for several years by a series of
radical laws. Trade has become so
unsettled that few months ago Abe
governors of the Bank of England, for
the first time in the history of that
institution, addressed protest to the
government
German trade has not recovered
from the staggering blow of a special
war tax of $3.50, 100000 which was
levied last year, no one knows why
France and other countries are de-
pressed by financial difficulties grow
ing out of the political troubles Incl
dent to the Balkan war.
Brazil is going through a period OF
liquidation and acute business depres.
sion, paying the penalty for a wild ex.
pertinent in legislation. The govern
ment tried to regulate the price OF
coffee, so as to make the crop more
profitable to the planters. The scheme
of ''valorization" or government regu-
lation of the price was proved a fail.
ure and a large stock OIL coffee must
be disposed Of
The root of the trouble in Mexico
Is that the country has broken dowr
under the burdens of the "cientifico'
system of legislation, the futile attemp,
of former President Diaz to make
the country prosperous by schemes
promoted by the government ..us.
tralia and New Zealand have their own
peculiar troubles. and even Canada
has growing pains" as result OF
too much government booming of the
northwest.
In our own country we have had q
tremendous output of legislation ir
the past year. A tariff system which
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23

ThE estate OF IhOmaS DOlan,
former president of the United
i Gas Improvement Company,
which has been estimated at
from s20,000,000 to $30,O00,O0O, is
bequeathed to his widow, his sons and
their descendants. Not one cent is left
to charity; not one cent goes to the
benefit of the public; not one penny
to any one of the faithful employees
without the aid of whom the gas mag
nate would have found it impossible to
have accumulated his millions.
When will our Dolans learn that
they are not the owners of the vast
estates that have come under their
direction, but merely the stewards
thereof. The swollen fortune" has
been held up as one of the great perils
of the Republic. 1t is not so except
when improperly administered. Ac-
cumulated wealth can be made one
of the greatest blessings of mankind.
But those into whose possession it has
come must understand that it is not
not theirs to do with as they will. But
it becomes their duty to use the tai
ents that have been entrusted to their
care for the betterment of the living
conditions of the less fortunate and
the advancement of civilization.
No family needs the income of
sSO,OO0,0OO for it's living expenses. But
humanity at large does need that
money in thousand different helpful
ways.
No true American can have any OBJ
lection to a man making money legiti-
mately, even in enormous quantities,
but the time is fast approaching when
an enlightened people will demand of
the possessors of great fortunes a
proper stewardship of the RESPONSE
bilities that have been entrusted to
them.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
IETERSTOTHE:EDIT0R
AS TO SUNDAY CLOSING
Editor of TIC. TeIegrdbh :

To the Editor of The Telegraph:
see from our city papers that there
is movement being inaugurated to
have the business places all closed UP
on Sunday. l think same would be a
grand undertaking; they should close
all drug stores, cigar stores, restau-
rants. diningrooms, ice cream parlors
automobile garages, telephone ex-
changes; stop all street car traffic
shut down the electric light and steel
plants so all classes of laboring folks
can go to church and honor the Sab
bath. Fine all persons found on the
streets without a copy of the Bible and
all those unfortunates who get dry on
the Lords day. let them go to one OF
the many club houses and quench their
thirst, then our beloved city will be-
come little Paradise for our good, not
Christian, but church folks.
Yours respectfully,
S. G. SWEETSER,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
1eSt Barber Shop In Harrisburg

ence several experienced New. York
newspapermen. who unanimously ad-
they they were % prepared to ' put U1f's up at % least
100000 in cash at the start. and be
ready to put up $4,000 more II 1t should
In a favorable field. In Asbury Park
the daily would have to meet the COM
petition of an old and well established
be required. to put it on its feet.
This advice was not taken. The
merchants who organized the company
believed they knew more about the
went ahead with the project After
having put much less than $4,000 into
the Times they now admit that the
paper is failure and o that they they can no
The hackers of the Asbury Park
Times are wiser than they were, and
doubtless, when, in the future, some one
comes along seeking for contributions
for. the starting of another daily they
will keep a firm grip on their bank
rolls. Their experience has been the
same as that of many others who have
been anxious to pose as newspaper pub
fishers.
1t takes something besides a crouch
against existing newspapers to warrant
the launching of daily or weekly that
is to be successful (1) There must be
one that has been artificially created.
CD The paper must be edited and pub
lished by experienced journalists and
not by amateurs, BARRIERS, storekeepers
or city officials. (3) It must be run
for the entire community and not for
any one part of it, (4) It must have in
bank. and not merely pledge on a sub
scription paper, a sufficient amount of
money to pay all bills for one year,
preferably for two.
Every one of the above needs Is alb
| solutely necessary. True, there have
been newspapers that were started on
shoe string and won out, but they
were the exceptions that prove the rule.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
THE FOOL AND HIS MONEY
tFrom the Editor and Publisher.1

tFrom the Editor and Publisher.1
AS will be seen elsewhere in this is
sue the Asbury Park Times, a daily
newspaper established last Fall by q
group of business men of that city, in
Guiding the head of it's largest depart
ment store, is to quit the field. Ac-
cording to the statement issued by the
board of directors the Indebtedness
above the assets is not large, but the
board declares that because of the i'm
possibility of longer financing the en-
terprise. they advise the winding up OF
its affairs.
The stockholders are probably now
convinced that, while 1t Is easy to start
a daily newspaper 1t is difficult to make
1t success without plenty of capital
nifty.
When the promoters of the Time.
were discussing the feasibility Of start.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

William d. Grimes. Pittsburgh at.
torney, has been elected president of
the noted Duquesne Fishing Club.
The Rev. B. MacMackin, of Phila-
delphia, presented the report of the
historical committee to the general
Baptist convention.
Burgess r. j. Hardy, of Carnegie.
was annoyed by firemen asking for
contributions. so he called a meeting
of council and a paid company was
established.
DR.. c. S. Turnbull, the Philadel-
phia physician, has gone to Europe for
the summer.
Judge Mayer Sulzberger, of Phila-
delphia, has just celebrated his sew
enty-first birthday.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
"ANIERICANIzINGv CANADA

THE London Times warns the
British government against what
Il it terms the rapid American
ization of Canada" 1t is point
ed out that the news that fills the
American newspapers takes the same
proportion in the Canadian press,
and Mexico bulks larger than Ulster.
Baseball has become the popular
game. ''Internationar' leagues for
sport, ''international' unions for la
Dor bring Americans and Canadians
together. The American magazines,
carrying American advertisements,
spread American ideas of life and
make American openings for trade.
The Canadian picture palaces are sup
piled with films manufactured In the
United States. presenting American
themes and glorifying the Stars and
Stripes, while English films are con-
spicuous by their absence. The re-
suit, if these conditions are perma-
nent, can only be a steady drift of the
Canadian mind away from the prac-
tices and traditions of the Mother
Country, the Times concludes.
Notwithstanding all that the Times
may say or all that England may do,
the "Americanization" of Canada will
continue. Whether or not the great
Canadian empire ever becomes a part
of the United States is a question in
which few people in the United States
are interested. But Canada is ma
turally more American than English
and the rapid colonization of her va
cant alands by citizens of the United
States and the steady breaking down
of the imaginary line between the two
countries will proceed regardless of
anything anybody may do.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
"ITs SO GOOD"

A general expression heard wher-
Is eaten. Made of the purest ingre-
dients and in accordance with the for
mula of Uncle Sans expert, who used
our plant for six weeks making tests
All cream secured from our own
creameries and pasteurized in our own
plant. Ask for Hershey's. because ITS
So Gnndn
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
DEMOCRATIC TRICKERY
TPhiladelphia Press.1

The Democratic State platform is
both false and malicious in many
parts, but nowhere more false and ma
licious than where 1t charges that
Pennsylvania has been made the most
conspicuous example of misgovern-
ment in all the Union"
1t Is only the Democratic platform
makers who find Pennsylvania "the
most conspicuous example of misgov-
ernment in all the Union" and they
only for campaign purposes. Such ac-
cusations do violence to the facts and
are an affront to the intelligence and
judgment of the people.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
THE TWO-DoLLAR MAN

who is accustomed to paying that
price for theater tickets has become
a regular patron of the motion picture
theaters. This was all that was neces-
sary to convince the great theatrical
managers and playrights that the
picture show is here to stay. The pro-
ductions of leading writer's and actors
may now be seen. first always, at the
Victoria. 4
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
Penny Wise,POund
FnoItah
GET OFF THE CURB
by Wing Dinger

Curb loafing," says Chief Hutchison,
"on Market street must STOP"
And those who do not heed the word
May journey with cop
Unto the station house. where they
viii have to pay a fine,
Or maybe go to Jail a while
/ And join the beansoup line.
The Chief is right, this loafing stunt
Along the curb is bad,
But with some chaps it's been for years
A Saturday night fad
That now wonder where this bunch
From this time on will go
And stand for hours while they view
The City's passing show.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
Business Locals
NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND

This does not apply to old shoes.
But we can mend them and put a
whole sole or a half sole or heels on
them If the uppers are in good condi-
tion. Let us see them and we will
tell you whether they are worth fixing.
We have the only Goodyear shoe ma
chinery in Harrisburg. City Shoe Re-
pairing Co, BIT Strawberry street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
NO GUEsswORK

In the making of Holsum and Butter
nut bread. Every loaf is always the
same-never burnt, never sour, al
ways that palatable and nutritive fla
vor which distinguishes Schmfdt's g
Butternut and Holsum from the ordi-
cally in surroundings especially sani-
tary. For sale at all good grocers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
IT'S INSURANCE
AUTOMOBILE

Can you prevent an axle from
breaking?
Can you guide car IL the steering
gear breaks?
Can you put out a fire with spittle?
Yes! Then don't insure.
However, If you care to know the
wise way, see-Aetna-E Essick.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
"ADD A MILLION A YEAR,
BY Associated Press

Chicago. June 23.-"Add a million n
year to the Sunday Schoo Trolls" is
the slogan of the four thousand four
hundred delegates to the International
Sunda" School Association convention
here to-day in readiness for the for
NAL opening of the convention to-
night.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
MWSf 81 4RHi2arHWE3AR

tF'rom the Telegraph of June %, 1851
Attacks Our Forces
Fortress Monroe, June %. - At 6
o'clock on the morning of the goth Gen.
erals Witzhugh Lee and Hamton made
an attack on our forces entrenched
there under General Ambercrombie.
Wound Few Men
Headquarters Army of the Potomac.
June %. = 5 A M. - Artillery firing
on the right and picket skirmishing at
various points along the line occupied
the day yesterday, resulting in the
wounding of few men, but causing no
change in our position.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23

Kansas is always in trouble. Some
time ago it was no crops, and now it is
crops too big to be harvested.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23

A picnic was held by the Catholic
Sunday school, yesterday. Those whs
were present inform us that they had ;
pleasant time, on Independence island
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23

The West End Democrats are going
to spend a week in camp. Getting
hardened, we suppose. for that Salt
River Trip,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23

The Standard Oil has just lost another
suit with the Government. Look out
for a raise in gasoline.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
IN HARRI SBURC FIFTY
YEARS AGO TO-DAY
[From the Telegraph of June 23. IS
Rededicnte Church

We would again remind our readers
that the rededication of the Ridge Ave-
nue. M. E. Church will take place on
Sunday next.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
AN EVENING THOUGHT

No really great man ever
thought himself so.-Hazlitt.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23

|. yOTWITHSTANDING an apparent
Nj belief in certain quarters that
employers are bent on getting
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE %
SWOLLEN FORTUNES

"HE estate of Thomas Dolan,
former president of the United
i Gas Improvement Company,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23
HERE AND ABROAD

RESIDENT WILSON tries to meet
u the charge that he and his fell
i low Democrats are running busi-
ness in the United States by the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-23

The Bull Moosers are all fused up
over the Colonel. In Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh the bosses are proclaiming