The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1915-11-25
Ward BOssism May Not Dominate Orleans
Situation In Primary.
utenans Threaten Knife Pleasant Because They Fear Sanders
VIII Keep Threat to Get Even-Feared Claiborne
Choice of Sub-Leaders of Ring.

they night expect from him if
he ever got back into power. 1t
Pleasant is elected, Sanders will
try to 90 to the United States
senate is the general belief. And
it is belieys d that the first thing
he will do after the new state adj
ministration is inaugurated is to
try to build up, through Pleasant,
opposition to the ring crowd in
New Orleans.
do you SUPPOSE for one second
that the !ieutenants are going to
let Jared do anything of this kind?
Not if they can help it, and they
think they can. They are going
to knife Pleasant as systematically
and as heaAily as they can in the
primary. The gang doesn't love
Barrett, but it doesn't love Pleas
ant either.
so far as the liquor vote is
concerned, it is talking Parker
morning, noon and night.
The liquor yote isn't worried about
political lines. What it wants
chiefIyis politics that will help its
business. 1t mistrusts Pleasant.
who is wet one day and dry the
next. But it doesn't mistrust
John M. Parker.
THE office-holding crowd is ex-
pocted ALWAYS to take its cue from
the mayors Office. But it doesn't
do that always. Remember when
the lieutenants knitted Estopinal
in the first district, and came near
sending Dick Otero to congress9
that was three years ago. The
leaders wanted Estopinal, but the
Iieutenants wanted OterO. If it
hadn't been for Estopinal's st.
Bernard and Plaquemines vote,
Dick would have landed the per-
simmOn.
Move around a bit and talk to
the ring lieutenants. If you don't
find that Pleasant is going to be
knitted, then you are not much of
reader of political signs.
ANOTHER KNITTING Due.
The heutenants are going to
fool the losses on the lieutenant
governorship. too. Porteus Burke,
of iberia, was picked out by the
leaders for, that job. 1t was a
piece of political strategy, II
believe. THE third dlstricr was to
be placated for Pleasant with the
election of Burke. Well, Burke
will not be elected If he depends
on New Orleans to turn the trick.
The boys are pledged to support
Field Claiborne OF Point Coupee,
and they are going to do it.
Why's Simply because they
promised Ferd that if ne would
make the fight in 1914 for repeal
of the Locke law, he would get
their support in his race for
governor. You remember how
valiantIy Ferd fought on that oc-
casion He had previously been
lined up with the others side, but
he quit the reformers and fathered
the Rhinehardt bill, which would
have placed racing in the hands of |
a racing commission and put bet
ting on the basis of the pari |
mutual. The business men of
New Orleans were strong for that
bill. They sent special train to
Baton Rouge to impress the legis-
lature with the strength of bust
ness sentiment being the measure. |
But it wouldn't go. Locke had
tied up the house against the bill
before the business men appeared |
on the scene.
Claiborne fought stubbornly |
and well, and the gang is grateful
to him. Ferd pointed out the way
for the resumption of racing and
betting, in spite of the Locke law. |
His advice was followed and Dis.
trict Attorney Gutenberg couldn't
touch the betting crowd. The
bosses are trying to get him TO
withdraw. Burke was also slated
for the discard when the leaders
found they couldn't control the
situation for him. But Burke /
wouldn't be discarded. He is