The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1915-11-06
ADMINISTRATION INDICATED.
,oz. HALL Answers Cfireasns and Cites Accomplish
nents-Sone Significant Comparisons Illustrated
Says il Requires sNo Ability, Honesty Constructive
Genius to Make Critic


and well-received speech from Gov.
Luther E. Hall, who took occasion to
reply to some of the attacks made
upon the state administration, to de-
scribe the condition of affairs he
found when he entered the guberna-
torial office, and toshoW what he had
attempted to do and what has been
accomplished toward carrying out his
ante-election pledges to the people,
The following extracts from the
address. are interesting and import
ant, and deserve taS be carefully read
and calmly considered by every citi-
zen of Louisiana
It is gratifying 20. witness the sue
cess of your fair The excellent ex-
hibits Of agricultural products. poul-
try and live stoek show the progress
you are making. No local undertake
ing is generally more beneficial to a
community than properly conduct
ed parish fair. ItsiloWs what can be
accomplished by wise and well direct
ed efforts and stimulates confidence
in the resources of the parish and a
public pride and spirit so essential to
prosperity and progress
Il could speak to you about the
wonderful agricultural and other re-
sources Of the state and of the great
need of their development, but | de-
sire to avail myself of this opportun-
ity to give you some information with
respect to the management of public
affairs during this administration. 1t
| is not inappropriate for me to do
this on this occasion because one of
the highest duties of man is the duty
which citizenship imposes. In the
noise of political clanlor. when design
ING. men are seeking office, the truth
! Ii not often heard and the people,
having but inadequate facilities for
ascertaining it, are misled by the mis-
| Representations of those who would
profit by deceptions
About four years ago was cf1os-
/ en- to represent the people of the
state | have been your public SER
| want now for norethan three years
and my term of service is nearing it's
close The record is written and is
open for your Inspection. It is the
best evidence Of what has been done.
/ You will find tllatsit shows that the
promises made during my campaign
have been faithfully performed and
! that much more work of benefit to
4 the people has bean done.
..The administration needs no de
i Tense. 1t IS ofll necessary that YOU
should know the truth. Who are it,
1efanefs The men ane
bee il
llre that nothing has been done
They are the politicians. and news
j papers whom defeated and Whf
4 have been endeavofing since I came
/ into office to prevent me from doint
/ anything, and seeking from day tt
! day and week to week to discredl
+. me. They are the men who Wers
repudiated by the people and who ar,
q now making an effort to return tt
power.
t whose command is the assault
against me being continued7 an
not a candidate for any Office and an
4 not represented by any candidate
i Ny administration is not an issue
l,for it does not matter for the pur
poses of the campaign whether it ha
t been a good or bad one. To say
has been a failure affords no reaso
why its critic should receive you
votes. You should know that it re
quires no ability, honesty or cor
t structive genius to make a critic
: The harlot says there is no such thin
s as virtue The man who has neve
' done anything and is without capat
ity or industry to do anything hin
J. self will be found to be the man wh
!, busies himself on the street cornea
S and elsewhere trying to besmirch tn
j. good character and discredit the hon
: est work of others.
S "Those seeking public office shoul
h be required to tell what they do an
! not what others may have failed
t do, for there is nothing in the fai
" ure of others to commend their critl
and maligners to public confidence.
t'You will remember that my ele
: ton was bitterly opposed by the ms
l. who had been in supreme control !
IS public affairs for many years. Tit
s. were strongly entrenched. The co
l. test was perhaps the most spirited
E the annals of the state. But with
is the influence and power at their COZ
e. mand. with all the money that W
j. poured by them like water into t
la campaign, with all the prestige OF
t. apparently invincible machine, | &
id feated them because the people
to the state, looking upon the wreck tn
j. Law before them, became indigna
and rose up and drove them from |
litical power.
NJ I'm May, 1912, / entered upon
al discharge Of my duties and underto
at to build up where they had torn do
10 and destroyed.
n 81 There lay before me the wre
Il. which the people had but dimly se'
er The charitable and educational ins
,ir tutions of the state, long neglect
Le- and barely maintained, had to be
,e- stored. The school system, polite
as Iized as it was. had to be made M
cir efficient. The levee system, brol
down. with the waters of the n
sissippi river pouring through
breaks and flooding one of the n
an est and largest parts of the state,
Id to be enlarged and repaired and
country rehabilitai
IL Thousands were homeless and de
fit-Efute The bonded debt 0f.-thfe. 81
t Erss2egs;~Sralling due and had to-N-v-s-,s
H. TO avoid the financial collapse ;
HI would have followed default. Ia
other things had to be done whie
have not the time to recount. II
me was an atmosphere of pessimism
ro- gloom enveloping the state. All
rf- YOU should well remember.
ohf You can recall the condit
pie which eonIfonssa me- eollaleloiis = 7
history Of the state had to face,
cent raerhans Il. times Of war in