St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-10-11
cLLs PARKER AT TREMENDOUS
GATHERING HELD IN AND
OUT ATHENAEUM
THOUSANDS KEPT
OUT OF TWO HALLS
Speakers From the City and Country
Join in Denounclna John M.
Parker's Right to Run as
Democrat


candidate for governor, before fhe a
sembled Democratic hosts of New q
leans numbering thousands upo
thousands, at the Athenaeum. Tues
day night, tore the mask from tb
political record of his opponent job,
M. Parker and answered his Donald
sonville speech, when he had imphati
cally appealed.
Col. Stubbs, tell these people t,
their face If there is a single reaso,
why | should not be elected fioverno,
of Louisiana
Yes" shouted made Col. stubbs
Tuesday night, there are score q,
reasons why Mr. Parker should not
receive the Democratic nomination
for governor, and thereby be recogni
zed as the tituular head of the Demo
cratic party in Louisiana. He has for
twenty years, in season and out of
season, been the open enemy of the
Democratic party in Louisiana. Now.
fourteen months Democrat, still on
the mourners' bench, is asking the
people Of this state to elevate him to
the highest office within their gift.
Col. Stubbs held high above his
head the political record of his op-
ponent, initiating his Donaldsonville
dramatics. Without personality or
invective he rolled back the curtain
He asks me reasons why he should
not be elected governor.
Il will give them to him.
$50 far as any one knows he hasn't
voted Democratic ticket since 1895.
and what did he do that year? Why.
he bolted the regular national demo-
cratic ticket and voted for Palmer
and Buckner, according to his own
statement.
What did he do n 1900 when it was
contest between Bryan and Mcr,in-
ley? No one knows.
What did he do in 1904? He was a
squaw-man and could not vote.
What did he do in 1908? He voted
for William H. Taft. the Republican
candidate for president.
What did he do in 1912? He vot-
ed the Bull Moose ticket. I
What did he do in 1916? He tried
to destroy the Democratic party in
Louisiana and would have done so but
for the Gray Wolves of New Or
leans.
And what does he say from every !,
stump. I am proud of this record and
have no apologies to make to any liv-
ing being
And now ask my distinguished op-
ponent:
rs he proud of the fact thta he bolt
ed the regularly selected Democratic
ticket in 1896.
is he proud of the fact that he was
a squaw Man in 1904 and could not
vote. j
rs he proud OF his record in 1872 I
when he came to Monroe and induced
one Of the best iurists of the state,
Judge Luther F. Hail who had just !
been elected to twelve years on the +
supreme bench, to set aside :his am !
bition of his life anj run for governor 3
and after he got him to Baton Rouge Z
End placed him hths firing line, - g
and behold! Mr.. Parker heard F2ose- h
Velt call and ne was gone. Is he
proud of his record in daserting llaliI
N 1912? In that campaign he RAD :
gone from one emil Of this state 10 :,
he other, shouting down with the
ing: 1t must be destroyed ed'-the same
IDENTICAL slogan the has adopted now,
When he got to Baton Rouge and it !,
vas thee hance of his whole career :
o accomplish what he now claims his :
ife is consecrated to do-destroy this :
fng-and with every weapon at his :
ommand to do what he had promised
he people to do, he deserted the task
nd left Hal sitting in the governors !,
hair. e
Now what's he telling every one OF :
S audience now: Don't snd me to !
'aton Rouge. and then drop me like !. :
OF potato But, that's precisely what !. :
e did Governor Hail.
Il ask him again, is he proud OF n
his record with Gov. Hall in 1912? :,
J he proud of the fact that he ran
way when Roosevelt called? oC
"Ah, and there in 1915? Is he 50
roud of the fact that he exercised di
very ounce of energy he possessed vi
J destroy the white Democracy of tr
ouisiana elect himself governor and iii
lrn the state over to Bull Moosism? fr
Such is my opponents political rec ar
d. II that be Democracy God save an
le mark" pr