New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1918-12-14

tribute, lasting panegyric for
my, and our distinguished dead
brother and friend.
Born on the land amid the
seventies Of the rugged, rustic
simple life, where may be. the
poison Of narrow bigotry bred.
fed and stimulated in past and
fast waning traditions, preiudices
and passions Of a prosecuted race
where stories of despotism, vivid
accounts Of tyranny and man s |
lngratltude to man were scared |
INTO his sympathetic nature and |
sunshlny temperament, where the |
stern lesson Of want arising from
Ethe ruins, the devastation. the
ashes of civil strife imposed that
unylelding discipline upon his tai
ents and marvellous versatility. Nv
sheer will power, indomitable
courage, faith and confidence in
the future, he became leader of L
men, towering strength in the
final settlement Of the question of
the States self-government and
the equitable solution of the race
question. For nearly a fifth of
century he was in the fore front
of the battlefield, where eco
monte questions, vitality affecting
the economic life, the industrial
fabric Of his constituency, had to
be finally decided by the strength.
the logic, the justice of the intel
lect. In the forums. as well as in
the councils of the nation he tried
lances with the most doughty de-
batter and commanded the respect,
esteem and admiration of his Do,
litical foes.
As a fearless, steady champion :
Of the honor, the life and cause :;
Louisiana and the Third Congress =,
sional District, he so devotedly =
represented in the halls of Con- a
gress, he had no peer, and when :;
the nerveless fingers dropped the :, -
tools with which he wrought, and r
the Master called in the golden -
voice, the lyric heart, pail Of T
sorrow, like milestone on the =
road to Eternity, marked his de- a a
mise. ~
II
Amid the frenzy of stirring po- i
itical campaigns, surrounded by Il
he fury following political hostil- D.
ties harbored by envy and jeal- ic
)usly he never lost touch with his a,
'heery nature, an Unborn genial liz
ty and kindness absorbed at the in
Preside. Always a hard, indus ii
rious worker in the interest Of in
lis State and party. eschewing no fl
rksome duty, avoiding no contest lie
where right and liberty were in 10
'olved, scorning dishonesty, de- re
eption and injustice, battling o,
.gainst imposture. sham, hypoc- o.
isy; fearing nothing but wrong, eli
vii and the dark forces Of the ST,
onspirator, he attained the high nj
st honor within the gift of the B,
eople Of the State. Equipped be
nth an inexhaustible fund of
launch home morality and the na
ugged virtues of happy home t;1
fe, no finger of contempt, no A,
Dngue of SANDER and defamation, ~
o studied, organized, sedulous at eli
ack, could ever assail his honor, M
is integrity. his genius, his MAN. IN
God. az,
His advance, progress and pO- 10;
teal preferment were not St;
cries of synchronized accidents, a de-
lrrent Of luck and chance. 1t ou
as the achievement of pythian me
'yalty and friendship for those da
18th whom he bore all burdens, tn,
arried the cross of heavy re- thu
,onsibilities through the vicissi- on
ldes of Time, the tempest and
lrmoil of political conflicts, the ne,
Eat and the strain Of political Gas
titles. Friends and fellOWclt- th.
ems forged for him in the cruel 49,
e of their heart, the melting pot tn,
sentiments, personal popu- bo,
rity, a hallow of public glory, ON,
'ne of his colleagues, no other hn
lblic man of the State since the ~,
vii war, has So long and modest wb
borne. ,
All the fibre and fabric of his 81;
lture stirred with magnetism. 1t nol
as in speech. in greeting, in ev- tha
Y movement, in the presence of +b a
'ide and Poverty, money and mis- ho
y, distinctions, castles. Classifi- r.;
lions of men in society were '
ntemptuously prescribed. His