St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-10-04
COL. STUBS ELAYS
GOV. PLEASANT AT
DERIDDER MEETING
Parker Says That He Ap-
proves of Dismissal of N.
o. Dock Board
5000 PEOPLE
HEAR SPEECHES
Col. stubbs Promises Hearers if Elect.
ed He will Do All in His Power
to Remove state Boards
From Politics

FROM FoHItcS
De Ridder, La, Sept. 27.-Remc
val OF the New Orleans Dock Boart
by Governor Pleasant and the firing d
L. ]. Amiss and Judge George K
Favrot of Baton Rouge. and what Col
Frank P. Stubbs charged was "ar
outrageous prostitution of the execu
tive power of Louisiana to foist upon
the people his hand-picked candidate
for governor" figured as sensational
climaxes in a series of charges hurled
at the state administration by Col
Stubbs in his address here.
Stubbs Scores Pleasant
After charging that the executive
power was being prostituted to the
last degree, Col. Stubbs, leaning far
out over the railing, addressing the
crowd of some five thousand people
exclaimed with all the physical force
he possessed;
My comrades and friends OF Louisi-
ana, what spectacle was witnessed
in Baton Rouge few days ago when
two of my life long friends-old school
mates-were fired because perchance
they had expressed preference for
me in democratic primary.
"And in New Orleans, on what
spectacle, the most outrageous and
palpable prostitution OF political pow
er that has ever disgraced the annals
Of Louisiana! Five men, all promi-
nent and honest citizens, and serving
their city and state without compen-
sation, giving of their own time and
money, and what do we see? Men who
had accepted these places of trust on
the earnest solicitation of the COVER
nor himself were removed as members
of the New Orleans Dock oBard solely
because they had not registered their
approval of Governor Peasants can
didate for governor or had possibly
failed to express a preference for the
man now before you.
"It Is time this political role in
Louisiana should end. If elected
governor Of this state, ! promise
you ! will urge legislation thta
will forever make it impossible
for a repititIon Of this political
behauchery Of the NeW Orleans
Dock Board. will see to It that
the governor Is shorn OF the power
to remove from office for the
sole reason that they may differ
with the governor politically"
Col. Stubbs, by a series Of gues-
tons, admitted tried to fasten upon
Mr.. Parker two accusations, THE
Daddy of the Dock Board removal and
the political godchfld of Governor
Pleasant and L. e. Thomas" He
said:
Qulzzes Parker
And / now ask Mr.. Parker, who is
present, and he can answer me in the
ten minutes allotted to him:
rs it not true, Mr.. Parker, that
you knew these men we're to be re-
moved from the office for solely po-
litical reasons and that you sat by and
approved it?
Is 1t not true, SO far as you know,
that their only offense was that they
favered my candidacy and not yours?"
Mr.. Parker, when his time for re-
Duttal came, replied: T.
did not know that Governor
Pleasant was running for governor
or Louisiana again. have never made
suggestion to him in my life in re-
gard to appointments, but my distin-
galshed opponents says that power in
New Orleans was the work of the peo-
PIE themselves.
Governor Pleasant at the Atne-
Aaeum in New Orleans declared thatA
e had never made a request OF the
ing for the appointment of any man,
gat that the ring had come to him; I
.Pat he had acted square and fair
~ gave the appointment of three or :
9T thousand office holders and office j
ers on these boards to the ring, !,
Ma'p had used them to build up a po- !,
ntles machine
distinguished opponent said I !
aa Nrred to him as a professional J,
is mistaken never made !.
~ pe.sOhs remark of any kind Of J,
,u... asAd me the question
whether snew that Governor
.sasant wa going to fire this
.s s'ard down q Nre. did NOT. He II
s,. sssea me- do ~ approve Of the p
s's'alssaI Of thar poarda And an "
''ed that BY sying approve u