New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1916-03-11
POLITICAL ITEMS.
Absolute confidence i'm the II,

democratic majority at the poll
, on the 18th of April IS the krynnt
& Of hundreds of letters received n
! the headquarters Of the Demorrn
tlc campaign committee at \cN
! Orleans from every section of til
: State during the past week. This
also. has ocru the mv,>ag.
brought TO New Orleans by hun
dreds of callers from all owe
Louisiana during tho ,atu,l. So.
son .Ust closed.
Col. Ruttiu g. Pleasant. demo
cratic nominee Tor GOVERNOR. VIII,
completed his FIRST tour IF tn,
state SINCE his nomination, benz.
N the parishes Of taddo. OuehIra
Lincoln. HapjdcS. East Eator
Rouge. CaIcasjcu. Jefferson Davi.
and Lafayette. sad Of his trip
. Everywhere we have been M
to this time we cLavc been erect
tu hv lrtn'l,t}, ...t'li cur -,
croWt> OF toNai dnocrats. The
people of Loolsia,,a understand
that this is the same old FIGHT of
democracy against rcpupIlcaul>m
ana they are preparing to roll up
tue usual democratic majority at
the polls on the 18th of April.
There has not been break in the
line anywhere. Democracy is
thoroughly in harmony every
where and workln" to the end of
rolling hp an immense majority
for the entire ticket in every con
grcsSional district.
After a two-days' rest IN New
Orleans during Mardi Gras. Col.
Pleasant resumed his capaiynlng
Wednesday in Iber>illc- parish,
speaking at Whitccastlc and PIau-
ucmlne. Thursday he spent in
Ascension parish. speaking at
Gonzales and DonaIIsonvillc.
Saturday he will speak at .Jcanc
rctte in the parish of iberia, and
the following week will be de
voted to the third congressional
district.
\ feature of the Plaqucmlnc
meeting was the answer of former
Governor j. Y. Sanders to charges
made by John NJ. Parker in a
recent address in New Orleans.
The republican progressive candi-
date asserted that in June. 1914,
former Governor Sanders sought
the bull-mooSc nomination for
congress in the third district. Mr..
Sanders. in his Plauuemlnc add
dress Wednesday night, made his
first public statement at length
III answer to the assertion, de
nounclng the report as absolutely
and maliciously false. On the
contrary. former Governor San
lers, declared, he had been asked
BY John NJ. Parker and other pro
greSslves to come in with them,
his allegiance to the
icmocratlc party. but he positive
y declined to even consider such
4 proposition. lie added that
Mr.. iarker. himself, suggested
hat the conversation, being fruit
css. should be kept in confidence,
put Parker is now guilty Of max
ng it public. 81 did not make
lim any propositions he made the
propositions to me. And | de-
sire to relteratc and emphasize
ny original statement at Baton
Rouge, that when he states that
at any time sought to join his
'arty in any way, shape or form,
lie states malicious and wilful
alschood. y
United States Senator Joseph
}. Ransdcll will come TO Louisi-
ma during the final two weeks of
he campaign, and will make sew
raj speeches for the democratic
Senator brousSai
las stated that his duties at Wash
ngtOn will not permit him to come
o his home state to do any cam
aignIng.
North Louisiana is practically 1
old for Pleasant and the entire
icket, is the concensus of re
Orts from that section.
The Parkerites are not going
O carry the Third District, as
hey have been claiming, is the
tatement from many leaders in
everal parishes, the confident
lain being made that LAFAYETTE,
'errebonne. VcrmiIion, Assump-
ion and Iberia will all go demo [
ratio. with a fine chance to win
n the others. I
"Parker is losing strength :
ally" is the report that comes
rom parishes in the sixth and sew I
nth districts. where he has been I
pnOrted aS having considerable