The Natchitoches enterprise., 1919-10-02
8 u p NJ N T
HATS OFF TO BREAZEALE

lC ONCIou0OOWluk cHtlC VI LlIC I'd
fweek in Louisiana's f1uctuating polite
situation was the retirement of Phant
breazeale from the contest for til
governorship. 1t was the. act of
strong man sincerely wishful for tn
accomplishment Of the purpose he ha
proclaimed.
Mr.. Breazeale's act brings the settle
ment of our statewide political issue
closer by at least month. For h.
was powerful campaigner, had pitch
ed his appeal on compelling lines, an
could scarcely have failed to win fa
more votes than enough to preven
either OF the other candidates from
coming very close to majority on tn,
first connt. Everybody should thanl
him for sparing the state q secont
primary, though this, Of course, vii
i not repay him nor his more arden,
supporters for the possible persona
loss it may represent TO them.
His course likewise simplifes the
| issue before the people. reduces it tc
The barest and plainest outlines. That
is nigh service. For it is for the best
| i'll every democracy of our sort that the
political issues be so clearly defined
that al who believe one way may re
cord themselves that way, and vice
tween friends, which scarters them in
unnatural support of other ideas and
proo2ces public choices that do not
truly represent the people and are
therefor the occasion for continual
unrest until the condition is cured at
later elections.
All who are opposed to the rule in
Louisiana of single. unchecked po-
Utica! Machine, itself dominated by a
very narrow little ring of bosses, can
now express their opposition effective
iy, without scattering and dissipating
their ballots, by voting for John Nj :.
Parker. MIR. Breazeale, who stood for
same principles, is not in the way to
prevent it.
We had no more to do with Mr..
Parker's candidacy than with Mr..
Erea1eale's, unless our expression Of
.he hope, some years ago, that Mir.
Parker would again stand for the gov
ei aorsh!p had some influence on him.
j, t thought him definitely out Of the
deid at che time his candicacy took
shape We don't know whether he or
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ana his acfive asaistance Wit amnlifv
that service. For he has proved hin'.
self one of the few powerful craftsmen
and campaigners in Louisiana.
We are among those who believe that
John Parker should have told MIR.
Breazeale what was in his mind at the
time Breazeale wrote and asked him.
tho Breazeale's note was undoubtedly
= BIT peremptory in tone. The fact
that the two were SO intimately friend
" probably accounted for what hap
pened.
Boyism enters I. good deal into the
lives and actions OF the healthiest on
men. Those that never act on youthful
impulses are not the kind Of men We
like to be with and to tie to. Whef
wrote his let-me-know-ezact-
iy where -you-stand- or-l IL muddle-you
ail-up note to Parker, Parker evidently
said to himself, "Pil get real dignified
and tell him I'll do my own platforming
and he can wait till get done if he
wants to know anything about it.
Then I'll get up platform just like
his, and that'll be bird OF joke on
phan0r. =
Pi,anor. meanwhile, rising to the
occasion, got tremendously active and
proceeded to make mole trouble with
l.is aggressive campaign than the oppo- |
sition itself was making, doubtless re-
to himself, I'm show John,
plague-take-him, which one OF US the |
joke is on.
Then, after time, they ceased to be |
boys, became serious men again, in one
big, useful, common undertaking. And