St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-07-19

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this willful misrepresentation on thu
part of those who are trying to take
advantage of this incident to ad
vance their own claims, by bringins
up this mysterious parsonage to his
fellow citizens of this state so thai
there won't be any further question
as to his identity. | say that thai
man is within the hearing of my voice:
was about to say he was on the
platform, but think he is within the
hearing OF my voice, and I want te
say that that man Is a gubernatorial
candidate, and am sorry he Is not
here on the platform, but I am going
to call out his name anyhow.
Ladies and gentlemen, now have
the pleasure to introduce to you the
particular gentleman who has aided
and abetted in the charge that the
mayor Of New Orleans defeated that
bill, and the gentleman whom I have
referred to, is none other than the
gentleman who has misrepresented his
| district on more than one occasion
on vital questions and in matters af-
fecting the interests of the people. I
refer to the Hon. E. Nj. Stafford.
Not to Be RIuffed
You know / am not a lawyer. and
suppose my friends Stafford thought
he would bluff me- / am Just a plain
business man. and know just what
Lawyer Stafford is going to say. He
is going to get up a brief to unload
the burden and shake off the bigger
in the wood pile and try to place it
on the shoulders of others. But. nv
friends, the records of the senate Jour
nal will show that Senator Stafford
voted against the bill better known
as the Fortier bill. I know Just what
Lawyer Stafford
At this iuncture Senator Stafford,
who was seated in the audinece.
sprang to his feet and exclaimed:
Il denounce you as a liar. | wasn't
present and say you are liar at this
minute
T know just what Lawyer Stat
ford's plea is going to be- continued
Mr.. Mouton, that by a coincidence
he was absent when the vote on that
bill was taken"
Il was in Jennings on that 4th of
Puly, filling an engagement to address
the people, made month in adj
vance of the day on which the vote
was taken, and you know it, shouted
Senator Stafford
Il can prove everything / say, and
| am going to say. he is the niger in
the wood pile, Z announced Mr.. Mou-
ton.
Il thought that amongst gentlemen
we wouldn't use any such language as |
that. / will make due apologies, es-
peeially to the ladies', for what my
friend Senator Stafford, for twelve /
years in the senate, said. t
Says Stafford pucked
AT Hot Well he challenged anyone /
20 take the senate journal from cover
% cover and show wherein lis vote
vas not cast In the interest Of the
people. The senator will agree With
ne, I suppose, that women and chn-
iren and laboring men, are people, and
ret on that occasion he voted against
hem. He knows. as well as every
me else convefsant with public az
airs, that it required twenty-one votes
o pass any bill in the senate, and so
lis absence on that day was more
han mere coincidence. It was
-ote against the bill &
Ny friends. in legislative parIance
We call it ducking, when man hasn't
he courage to stand up like man
nd vote for the interests of the pee-
lie to follow the route of least re-
istance. the political fence traddier's
cute, and that is what the senator did
n that occasion. Il
HE more than once, On the floor
I the senate, pretended to espouse
he cause Of the widows and children /
I the state, but when the opportunity /
,as presented to him to show his
incerity, he dueked. took TO water I
nd ducked the issue / repeat. I re-
eat the charge and reiterate without /
ear of contradiction. that Senator {
tafford. the candidate OF the so-calIed /
aferal ticket, is the real 'nigger in I
le wood pile on that bill, and it is t
ell for the women of the state and I
lose interested in that bin. to know t
lie fact. g
When Mr.. Stafford rose to his feet t
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