Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-03-26

SONS enSaS OUeTeu scarcely wore
Of suggestion even as to the success
sion, and in each case supported
unreservedly and without opposition
! Concordia's choice for the honored
place, in spite of the fact that on
each occasion overtures were made
from Concordia to Tensas attorneys
to enter the race, but which were
positively rejected on the grounds
that the Judgeship belonged to Con-
cordia and it would be bad faith IN
! the part of Tensas to enter a candi-
date.
More than that another matter is
worthy of note. When the present
Levee Board was appointed in 1912,
Madison parish offered candidates
for both President and Secretary Of
the Board, both high salaried Of
fees, and which offices had been
held in that parish from time inl-
memorial. Largely due to the az
gressiveness of one of the members
OF the Board from Tensas, assisted
by other members, from other par
ishes, who followed his lead, Mr..
f. c. Rhodes was elected President
and Mr.. o. w. Campbell, Secre-
tary, Of the Board, respectively, and
both of whom are from Concordia
We repeat: but for Tensas' friend
illness toward Concordia both OF
these important and lucrative places
might have remained in the parish
which hasIclaimed them for 50 many
years, but due to the influence men
toned, were given to two excellent
citizens of Concordia, and whose adj
ministration Of the important affairs
of that Board has reflected greatest
credit not only upon themselves but
upon all who were interested in their
selection.
tits claimed by Mr.. Reeves follow
ers that his nomination. came from
Tensas. The only contradiction we
can make to this is that he was in
vited to run by a very small per
centage of the voters of one ward
and who do not by any means rep
resent the sentiment of the parish
as we are confident same will be ex-
pressed at the polls next Tuesday,
when Mr.. Clinton will carry Tensas
by fully one hundred majority, not
even the ward where Mr.. Reeves
candidacy was launched being as
solid for that gentleman as his en-
thusiastic supporters are prone to
think. AS a matter of fact, barr
ing the Sixth Ward, in which Mr..
Reeves candidacy had its origin, We
do not believe he will carry a single
precinct in Tensas parish.
And now a word as to the candi-
dates and their fitness for the office
and its important duties. The Ga
zette has no wish to offend Mr..
Reeves or any of his friends, nor do
we wish to do him an injustice, but
a comparison of the legal ability and
intellectual attainment of the two
candidates would not be to his adj
vantage. 1t is true that Mr.. Reeves
is a young mai of great promise
and will in time, when ripened by
years Of experience, be well quail
flied for possibly any Office that may
lie in the path of the honored pro-
fession he has adopted and in which
he has already attained prominence,
but in the present instance we think
his opponent better fitted by nature
and training for the discharge of the
obligations that must rest upon that
office.
Mr.. Clinton is an attorney of
many years experience, inheriting
from his father, that able lawyer
and Appellate Judge and Christian
gentleman, the late Hon. Thos. p.
Clinton, an intellect and judicial
mind possibly second to none in
this section of the State. A man OF
broad mind, well versed in the law,
of even tempeG and unmoved by
the baser passions, he is admirably
fitted both by natural endowment
and education for the high Office to
which we confidently believe he will
be elected. receiving not only a
handsome majority in his own par
ish, but from Concordia an endorse
ment that will convince the world
that her electorate, apprecia:ive Of
the fair treatment that Tensas has