Bogalusa enterprise and American., 1919-11-13

to go and invited them to go with
me in the automobiles to the said
headquarters. Mr.. Harry Gamble,
who was at the Cosmopolitan for
lunch was also invited to 60, and he
did SO. We were shown through the
building, where the paper hangers
and other employees were at work
overhauling the building. When we
came out Mr.. Gamble went over to
the court building to attend to pro-
fessional duties and took the ladies'
to Canal street. Then went to the
convention hall.
That afternoon invited distin-
guished congressman from another
state, state official of still another
state, and his wife and brother-in-
law and one or two other visitors,
whose names / can't remember, to
form party with me for the purpose
of visiting points of interest in New
Orleans, as above described.
That evening I entertained them
at my own expense at dinner at West
End Possibly two or three of them
took some wine at dinner, but not to
any excess whatever. Here is where
the chauffeur purposely mixed up
the two parties, but as he is apt pupil
of the ring school Of politics we can
expect nothing better of him.
And now comes the Daily States,
in an effort to capitalize my courtesy
to some Of Louisiana's finest ladies'
and my hospitality to distinguished
guests into a suggestive incident to
the detriment of Louisiana's woman
hood and me, the governor Of the
state. One Of the ladies mentioned
is the president of the National
Woman's Suffrage movement in
Louisiana, and the others are leaders
associated with her. These ladies
were among the foremost individuals
in the state in helping me and the
federal officials in putting over Lib
erty Loans, Red Cross, X. M. G. A.,
Knights Of Columbus, Y. w. G. a,
Jewish Welfare, Salvation Army aha
other drives in Louisiana, and in en-
rolling and employing the great wonis
an power of the state in war work.
The Daily States had previously
publish falsehood to the effect that
two former governors, at my solici-
tation, had gone to the New Orleans
Regular Organization and requested
its support for me for Governor in
1915. These governors positively
denied that ! did any such thing.
It has now published its third
falsehood to the shame Of the great
city in which it is domiciIed. AT the
very time that the incidents which
comprise the infamous allegations Of
the Daily States are alleged to have
occurred, was trying to boost and
acclaim New Orleans to the states
men, bankers, merchants and farm-
ers who had assembled in convention
there at my invitation, and at the
invitation of leading citizens Of that
city. svSlA
God help the clean, courageous,
progressive, forward-looking citizens
in the city of New Orleans, rein-
forced by the determined and stall
wart manhood and wonanhood Of the
rest Of the state, to hurl forever into
the inner darkness of oblivion such
system as the Daily States repre-
sents, system that would try pub
licly to besmirch the good name OF
ladies and gentlemen in Louisiana
while it throws its protecting arms
around the unclean places and hum
dreds upon hundreds Of unclean men
and women who live in that city,
When appointed a new jury COM
mission, which had a legal right to
do. a great howl was made by the
ring because one Of the former com
missioners was an employe Of The
Daily States office, and another was
devoted follower Of Robert Ewing
in the Tenth Ward. | determined
that the jury commission should no
longer be embarrassed by ring sur
roundings and influences, which have
winked at wicked dives, indecent
shows, horse race handbook gambling
and many other similar violations Of
law. When they touch the rotten
ring then you touch sacred thing,
and there is nothing too mean, low
or underhanded that it will not do in
order to win. Against all the rules
of manly political warfare Bob Ew-
ing is poisoning his bullets and at
tempting, coward-lie, to transfix in
noncent, loyal, public spirited ladies
upon his brutal Prussian bayonet.
I trrsf that the good people of the