The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-12-02
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

Mansheld Star: The level headed voters
OF Louisiana know that Mr.. Barrett has
adopt the right platform upon which to
stand as candidate for Governor.
WINFIELD Sentinel: Vote for Tom Bar
ret, who is at the head of grand cause
and promises, if elected Governor of this
grand and noble State of ours, to do all in
his power to place the State of Louisiana
in the white column.
A center shot from the New Orleans
States: tits estimated that there are thirty
thousand feeble minded persons in the
sanitariums of the country, but there are
ten times that number on the outside who
write communications to the newspapers.
New Orleans States: The Ford excur-
sion will be mistake, fraught with posi-
blities of injury. So far as is possible, the
fighting nations ought to be made to under
stand that it is merely millionaire's va
gary with which the American nation and
people have nothing to do.
Lake Charles American Press: The es-
teemed Ruston Leader last week published
an editorial attacking the grand cause of
personal liberty" We hope our North
Louisiana brethren will be careful about
making faces at J. Barleycorn until the
campaign is over. Their political allies in
New Orleans may not like such conduct.
New Orleans Times-Picayune: The
State of Louisiana has been trifling too
long with jefferson officials; they need a
taste Of the law framed to protect the pub
lie; and, even if it is necessary to use mar
tial law to enforce the statutes and assure
justice, it should not be spared. That Or
binary measures will not suffice is shown
by the experience of the last twelve years !;
they only encourage the bosses and other
officials to more impertinent and lawless
methods, under the belief that they are
above and beyond the law.
Colfax Chronicle: The same hue and
cry is being made over the proposition to
vote on the question of Statewide prohibit
ton. Here in Grant Parish we are familiar
with this threadworn howl of the whisky
crowd. We first had prohibition by wards,
and then extended it to the whole parish,
holding several elections on the subject,
and winning in nearly every election. We
have had over thirty years experience in
Grant Parish with prohibition, and our
people are firmly convinced that the wider
you can extend the dry territory the better
it is for the mass Of the people.
Leesville Toiler: The Hon. Thomas c..
Barrett stands unequivocally for the issue
Of immediate submission of prohibition by
congressional districts and for Statewide
submission during the next four years. In
him the Louisiana Anti-Saloon League
presents to the people of Louisiana as it's
candidate, man with courage to stand out
for great moral principle, with bravery
to declare for immediate war on the LIQUOR
traffic and ring rule of the State, war in
which there can be no peace until the peace
of victory for that moral principle, strong
enough to lead the forces of civic righteous
ness to glorious victory, and true enough
for the protection of that great moral prn-
ciple.
Says correspondent Of the Bastrop En-
terprise: While the battle lines are being
drawn where do we find the Hon. Ruffin
Pleasant? By his decision to advocate
local option and by words that 'palter with
US in q double sense" he indicates de-
termination to stand or fall with the saloon
forces. The fact also that he was able to
obtain so quickly a reversal of feeling to-
wards himself by the New Orleans ward
BOSSES proves concIusively that ne wears
the machines collar. Only short while
ago he was thoroughly hated by these same
city leaders because he had denounced
them In no uncertain terms in thousands of
unsigned circulars sent throughout the
State. How can he justify his position to-
day when the seventeen ward bosses of the
city are lined up solidly in his support.
Jeannerette Herald: Col. Pleasant is
claiming that he defeated the proposed
Constitutional Convention. We dare say
the activities of Col. Pleasant did not affect
the issue to the extent of dozen votes ::
and the rantings of Mr.. L. E. Thomas less.
The people in the country voted against the
convention mainly because Col. Ewing.
Mayor Behrman and the other City Bosses
endorsed it. AS soon as the City Ring an
nonnced in favor of the convention the
people became suspicious of jobbery-they
were afraid of being flimflammed. The
observations and protestations of disinter-
estedness by the ring leaders inspired no
confidence. In the convention fight Col.
Pleasant denounced the ring; day he is
ring prove an asset to him or a liability?
We believe it to be liability. The people
are tired of the dictation of the New Or
leans Ring. Despite Col. Ewing's profess
tations Of patriotism and disintestedness
they have no confidence in him; nor in Mr..
Behrman, who it is said now rivals Mr.
Ewing in the leadership of the ring. Still
believing in the potency of the city organ
ization, the office holding class of politicians
in the country have climbed in the Pleasant
band wagon; but the people who are only
interested in having good government are
joining the standard of Mr.. Barrett.
Items of Interest.