The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1919-12-06
Broken On The Wheel
by a Hall Man,

6tIOpR mdu OIUhcu VI VIC "uCCi
of the New Orleans Franklinstein.
The only surprise which this
epeech occasions is that it follows
so closely the speakers last effort
to break the cruel wheel.
As Q candidate for Senator. Gov.
Hall made his last appeal to the
people to erttheir manhood and
destroy the machine which was
destroying independence and
manhood in Louisiana politics. l
recall very wildly two speeches
! made by Gov Hall during the
Senatorial campaign one at
Hammond and one at Napoleon.
ville-in which the speaker was
particularly bitter ard rancorou-
in his attacks on the City Machine.
In these two speech | thought
then that Gov Hall had uttert
clarion call to all young men to
rise in their might and smite ths
vile reptile which was stretching
it's Shiny and envenomed tenta.
Giles throughout his beloved State
Noyoung man. said Gov. Hall at
Hsmmond. can hope to rise above
his humble country surrou ldings
as long as this octopus is in pow.
er. But 10! this lusty lion in the
path has been stung by one of the
tentacles and the poison has en-
tered deep into his body and
blood; the roar Of the lion ceased
and the path is unguarded.
Gov. Hall explains that he was
deserted at Baton Rouge in 1912
Deserted? Why, the Governor
told everybody in June after the
May in which he was inaugurated
that THE GOOD GOVERNMEN1
LEAGUE WAS DISCREDITED.
This declaration destroyed the
League for the City campaign OF
the following fall With this
fsigh,ful impeachment by the man
who rcde into flee on the League.
Of curse the League went do~L
in defeat in the City election
Deserted? Never in the history
of Louisiana politics were politi-
cal leaders IF NOV ment go sud.
denly and go woefully abandon.
ed, deserted and betrayed than
the Good Government League by
its beneficiary-Gov. Luther E.
Hall. Deserted? Ask Theodore
s. Wilkinson and Donelson CAT.
ferry who did the deserving. Ask
these gentlemen what deal Hall
had made to make Robert Ewing
National Committeeman and
about Halls plan to send Alex
Pujol, the boss of the fifth ward of
New Orleans. as q delegate to the
Democratic National Convention.
Ask these gentlemen why Hail.
quit the League.
John M. Parker aud the other
leaders of the Hall movement were
dumfounded and staggered when
they realized that their Governor
had turned his back upon them
and left them to tread the wine
press alone. The League had Just
began it's state wide clean up pro.
GEES when Gov. Hall chilled it to
the marrow.
Yet after this dull, dank ADD
staggering blow by the Governor,
come of his friends still stuck to
him out of q sense of decent ap-
pearance and tried to forget aud
forgive it all; stuck TO him
his Senatorial strug-
gle against the political monster
which he now defends and JUST.
fies in his Lake Charles speech;
s.out damned spots." The damn.
ed epot of Halls defense of the
City Machine will never out And
what eophistry t.e uses: $50 MIR
Parker says he will throw
Mayor Behrman out of offic. ano
every other official of ,ne city
government" and again "locaI
self.governmen," etc, nothing
q bout the Hammond aud Nap
leon tentacles which were chok
ing Gov Hall from the Uri ed
States Seustorship at the time;
10, no. Their. are no TENT c es now
about Parker aid his b,t,ling
hosts; they can't BE- seen as well
dor as plainly from the new Court
Building as from Baton Roug. I,
Ard Mources the lure Of a Cover {
noIship OF Sena.osship sili alone
bring them to view.
OF all the melancholy speci- {
meme of men brok. 90 the wheel, | 1
Luther E. H.il i.
The noet copspicu rus ana lbs.
This erstwhile cham.
pion of polite Il Independence aud
the rights OF mau could we'll and
gracefully vote for his friend
5tubbs Ia q political contest-o,
iof anybody else Tor that NATTER
but to turn against aud repudiate
he preachments aud habits vi .