St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1915-07-03
To Citizens Of St.
Tammany Parish
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upon my family record, but. solely
upon my own record made and to be
made by me.
Mr.. Ellis further says that he has
never run for an office before, and
that / have, and therefore should not
covet this honor, but that others
should be considered in the distribu-
ton of offices. Who are the Others
Mr.. Ellis speaks of? We two are
the only candidates aspiring to this
honor that l know Of. Who are the
'others?" Mr.. Ellis himself.
If Mr.. Ellis never ran for an Of
fee before, whose fault is it? Mr.
Ellis has had as fair an opportunitS
to place his name before the people
for office as / have had, or as any
one has had. If he has not done sc
before, it is his fault 1t is certain
" not my fault, nor the fault of the
people Of this parish. Or is it pos
sfble that he expects the people to
bring him an office upon golden
platter and humbly beg him to ac-
cept it.
The truth is that my opponent has
a very bad case of pique and resent
ment. He resents the fact that he
has had to face opposition in TINS
election. His pique and resentment
is so great that he has thrown dis
erection to the winds, and has at
tempted to impose upon the credull-
ty of the citizens Of this parish by
trying to force them to believe tina!
l have leopard 'zed my chances foI
reelection to the judgeship OF this
district. He has gone SO far as tc
say that my action in this matte.
will cause this parish to lose the
judgship in the next judicial cleo
ton, What a bowling calamity:
How is this dreadful event going tc
occur? Is Mr.. Ellis going to bring
this awful condition about, and de
prive the people Of this parish OF the
judgeship in order to punish me, be-
cause / dared to oppose this dis
tinguished gentleman as a delegate
to the coming Constitutional Con
vention? My opponent, to say the
least, has a most wonderful estima-
!, ton of himself.
It is certainly most startling as
sertion to make that the people oi
this judicial district will refuse to
elect me judge solely because !, 8
citizen of this parish, dared to ask
the people to send me as a delegate
to this Convention. 1t is apparent
that Cars do not live and thrive in
Russia alone, but they evidently live
and have their being in st. Tammany
parish as we'll.
Mr.. Ellis piQue and resentment is
such that, although he admits in his
public announcement, that / am fully
qualified to go to this Convention
and do credit to myself and to this
parish, yet, in the next breath, he
does not hesitate to reflect by yelled
inuendo my official integrity, and by
yelled suggestions infer / will do
something unfair or dishcnOrable in
order to carry out some personal in
terest of my own, and therefore viii,
not properly and honorably represent
the people of this parish and State in
said Convention. This issue we will
now settle.
In his announcement Mr.. Ellis
said: IF judge Lancaster is sent
to the Constitutional Convention as
a delegate, he will either have to
adjourn his courts until the Conven-
ton is over, which will necessarily
keep any one who is in jail without
trial and put st. Tammany and
Washington parishes to the expense
of feeding these prisoners, or he
would have to hold his term o. court
while the Convention is in session,
in which event st. Tammany would
be without delegate to represent
her interests" What a dreadful
state Of affairs! What horrible mis-
conduct! This statement Of my OPP
ponent's is solely that of q shreWd
lawyer for the defense.
Let us examine this statement
carefully, and see just what the &C
tual facts are, and to what dreadful
and extravagant extent it will affect
the "pocketbook' of the people OF
this judicial district; and to what
extent 1t will affect the interests of
these poor prisoners languishing in
a prisoners cell awaiting the tende,
mercies Of trial by jury.
It is true this Convention will con-
vene in the city of New Orleans on
September IA, 1915, for a period OF
sixty days. AS a matter of fact, the
Convention may complete its bust
ness in forty or fifty days. But, we
will consider that it will be in SEES
sion the full sixty days, in which
event the Convention will not close
until November IA, 1915. 1t is also
true that the October term of court
in this parish will convene Monday,
October 10, 1915, which will be dur
ing the period of time in which thi.
Convention will be in session. If !,
am elected, suppose do have to
postpone this term of court until
Monday, November Is, 1915, which
will be after he Convention ad-
journs, and will be for a period OF
twenty-seyen days: let us see what
tremendous costs to the taxpayers
this action will entail. To my GER
tain knowledge, and the records OF
the court will bear me out, there
has never been more than three pris-
Oners in jail awaiting trial, who are
unable to give bond. Suppose there
are three prisoners in Jail in this.
condition, awaiting trial at the Oc-
tober term Of court. It costs the
parish fifty cents per day to feed
each prisoner. 1t will then cost