The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-12-11
MAYOR CALLS
PARKER SLAADERER
AT BIG MEETING IN ST. MARY'S
HALL, SPEAKERS LOUDLY
APPLAUDED, HALL
CROWDED.

campaign, mayor Benrmdn, WedneS-
day night, hurled a challenge at John
M. Parker to run for mayor of New
Orleans.
"The people of New Orleans" said
Mayor Behrman to approximately 900
voters of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth
and Seventh Precincts of the Fiji
teenth Ward, ARE as moral and as
God-fearing as the people of any
city in the world"
THE people of New Orleans have
risen before, and am confident that,
if they believed New Orleans to be
one-tenth as immoral as it is pictured
by John M. Parker and other SANDER
ers, they would rise again, and throw
me out of office.
Slandering His Own City.
But the people of New Orleans
know what conditions are. They are
on the ground. Few people of the
parishes know what real conditions
are in New Orleans. John NJ. Parker
takes advantage of this, and goes out
among them slandering his own home
town in an effort to satisfy his wild
desire for power.
Let John NJ. Parker put his case
before the people of New Orleans.
will put mine before them on John
NJ. Parker's own charges of alleged
vice and immortality. Let him run
for mayor, and not attempt to hood
wink and humbug the people of the
parishes with his slanderous accusa-
tions.
Every time John NJ. Parker talks
about vice conditions in New Orleans,
he insults every father in the city.
He insults every man who has a
sister, a wife or a mother. He tells
the people of the parishes that the
fathers, husbands and brothers of
New Orleans are willing to let their
wives, mothers and sisters live in
the midst of vice and immortality.
Insult Will BE Answered.
These insults will be answered
January 20 John M. Parker will
find that he cannot unfortunately
SANDER the people of New Orleans.
The majority against him will show
what the people of New Orleans
think of his ISLANDERS"
Mayor Behrman then pointed to
the fact that he was unopposed for
mayor in 1916, and if opposed in
1920 he will stand for reelection
on his record.
1.-The searchlight has ben on me
continuously since 1 have been in
office. My record as mayor is open
to ALL l am vain enough to be proud
of my record.
LET any man compare New Or
leans of today to the New Orleans of
1904, when l first was elected mayor.
Let any person read the leading
magazines of the country. In them
they will find articles about New Or
leans written by trained observers,
who came to New Orleans TO inves-
tigate conditions and improvements
here as they are, but who did not
come here to distort facts in an eff
fort to ride into office.
"You have seen the city grow; you
have seen it prosper. You have seen
new public undertakings year after
year. Many of our public utilities.
owned and operated by the city, are
the models of every large city in the
country
would these accomplishments
have been possible under corrupt
administration?
Il am proud of my city, and any
man who is not proud of New Or
leans 10 not good citizen. Good citi-
zens are not slanderers of their home
town.
Recalls War Potato Sales.
81 believe l have shown that l am
the friend of the people of the whole
state of Louisiana-thef friend of the
people of the parishes to whom l
am being slandered by John M. Park
err, I believe / have shown by many
acts that am the friend of the coun-
try people-the people John M.
Parker is attempting to array against
me.
ST will cite one instance. During
the war the farmers were asked by
their national government to raise
the largest crops possible. The farm
ers of Louisiana responded, as they
did to every call. In South Louis
lana the farmers grew so many pota-
toes that they could not market them
in the usual course for more than
| 60 cents.
"These farmers appealed to John
M. Parker, the food administrator,
for help. ohm M. Parker wrote
them saying: 1t is too late for me to
do anything for you
Farmers Turned To Behrman.
"Then the farmers turned to me.
and the administration of the city OF
New Orleans. You remember the re-
suit, and l have no doubt that the
farmers remember the result. The
potatoes were distributed in city
wagons; collections were made by
city employees. The potatoes were
sold, and sold at $3.50 a barrel. a