The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1915-10-28
FROM OUR STATE EXCHANGES.

believe that the shade of John Paul Jones
is happy because he was not given place
in the Hall of Fame where he would have
found himself in the company of bunch
of mediocrities.
Webster Signal Democrat: The present
indications are that Mr.. Barrett will have a
very strong following in Webster Parish as
the campaign warns up. He is personally
strong with the voters of Webster Parish
and the great issue which he is champion
ing will greatly increase his strength. !
Mansfield Enterprise: If Mr.. Pleasant
does not stop his abuse of the Democratic
State Administration, of which he fills such
an important part, as attorney general. he
will be suspected of canvassing the State in
behalf of the election of John M. Parker,
for Governor, for his foolish TRADES can
have no other tendency.
Shreveport Caucasian: It would seem
that limited attention has been given to the
Importance of selecting men for the Leg
is!ature who will respond to the wishes of
the majority of the people. The Legisla-
ture is the very life of the State, and in
sense supersedes the Governor, whose ex
ercise of authority may be circumscribed
by this body.
Colfax Chronicle: Already the newspa-
pers favoring Mr.. Pleasant for Governor
are beating TOM toms and trying to raise
Juror in his behalf, in opposition to Mr..
Barret, the prohibition, candidate. Never
theless it is apparent that Barrett holds the
winning hand and is decidedly the favorite
with the Democratic masses. We have
heard this sort of anti prohibition racket
in several campaigns, and the whisky men
have lost out every time. The saloon folks
in Louisiana command fund Of seventeen
million dollars, and they can always be
counted on to make big noise whenever
it comes to parish wide or State wide pro-
hibition.
New Orleans Times Picayune: Wehave
protested against the nomination of men
like Col. Pleasant, whose public services
have shown him unequal to the difficult and
arduous duties of Governor, whose fac
tional abuse Of leading Democrats-simply
because they do not favor his candidacy
shows that his policy is one of disunion,
one that will leave the Democracy divided
and weak, unable to accomplish the relief
the people need, and that his apparent pur-
pose is to operate the governorship in the
interest of the clique Of chronic office
holders and office seekers whom he hopes
to rally to his support. A man who has
| begun his campaign as scold, defamer
of al! who will not support his nomination,
a sower of the seeds of discord, who mounts
the Democratic stump to assail his fellow
Democrats therefrom, is not the man to
lead the Democracy to victory against a
virie, active and united enemy.
Winfield Sentinel: With Thomas c.
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rying the prohibition banner; with this man
who commands much respect at the hands
of tee people of Louisany accepting the
offer made to him to run for Governor on
the prohibition platform, it appears to US
that victory seems at hand for those who
have toiled so long for cause, which they
knew to be for the benefit of humanity.
We believe victory is near. We believe
and children, and that they will refuse to
Turner has told the people that local option
is only an issue by which the liquor forces
are trying to evade the issue. In emergen-
cies they always attempt to deceive. The
prohibitionists sought Mr.. Barrett end per-
suaded him to run. 1t was not he who
sought their support, but, being in favor OF
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dition. he could not do other than accept
the standard which they asked him to carry.
Delhi Progress: We all know that local
option is the last stand of the whisky ele-
ment and interest. A few years ago the
whiskytes fought local option just as hard
as they fight prohibition to-day. We will
] ask Mr.. Pleasant why does the whisky ele-
uent so unanimously favor local option:
Is it because it is the whisky side of the
question? How strange that the whisky
ring and their followers will bring up that
old time worn gag, where is the revenue
going to come from? How are you going
to raise that revenue which will be lost to
the State if prohibition should be carried
in the State? We have only this to say on
the subject: Are we to sell the souls oil
the future manhood of our great common
wealth to meet the great financial indebt-
edness of our State? If the financial credit
of our great commonwealth is controlled
s by the soul-destroying, poverty breeding,
law defying, home wrecking business, we
believe it would be ultimately better for gu.
! State to go into bankruptcy and then starr
over all anew. It is the duty of every mar
who has home and children that he ex.
poets to raise in this great State, to have
the interest of his community and State a.
heart. aud he should know where every
candidate for Office in this coming election
stands and should vote for those who stand
out boldly for Statewide prohibition ane
not for those who stand behind the shield
Of the brewers and whiskyites under thu
guise and caption of local option.
Drives q Hard Bargain.