The herald., 1920-07-15
0. D. A. Opens City
Campaign Moday Night
CHARLES ROSEN, IVY KIT
RIDGE, Y. r.. HUMPHREY, JNO.
l.. SULLIVAN, PRESIDENT OF
THE o. ID. A., AND LOUIS Nun
SHERMAN, PRESIDENT OF THE
18TH WARD CLUB, WERE
SPEAKERS.
JOHN X. NORMAN PRESIDES.
Ro>cn Charges That Present Admin
i>tration Has Never Displayed
a Lack of Sympathy for
New Orleans Railway
Company.

The Orleans Democratic AsSOcia-
ton opened the city campaign on
Monday night at their headuarters
at CIark's Hall. corner AliX and Ell
mira SITS A big crowd was present
to hear the speakers who came to
Algiers for the purpose of opening
the campaign. Among them being
Charles Rosen. Ivy Kittredge. y.
f. Humphrey. John p. Sullivan.
president of the Orleans Democratic
Association and Louis Munstermann,
president of the 18th Ward Club.
Mr.. John II. Norman Pre>idcs.
The speakers were heartily ap-
plauded and showed that those pres
ent were in accord with the ideas
advanced by the orators.
Mr.. Rosen. who made the princi-
pal address of the evening, started
out by flaying the present admins
tration, he said:
II want to congratulate you Al
gerans on this being the opening
of the battle against Behrman,
Behrmanism and all that Behrman-
ism stands for" he shouted. and
then proceeded to flay the ring.
1t was upon capital and labor that
Mr.. Rosen's address aroused the
greatest applause. Declaring that
/ New Orleans was in her greatest
crisis by reason of an industrial war
/ he counseled observance of the law
/ respect for the courts, and counseled
/ the advisors of both the street rail
way company and the striking mer
to get together
He cited the fact that for 1OC
years Louisiana always had beer
fair to capital and gave it full pro
lection, and then demanded that la
Dor be given eual protection.
Strike is Discussed.
Going into the political situation
at length, Mr. Rosen recited tn
making good by Governor Parker OF
all of his campaign pledges.
Mr.. Rosen in regard to capita
and labor. and especially the stree
car SIGlkt, SpOht AOiiO"S'
In the last campaign. things hal
come to such pass in this city tina
the great business element OF New
= Orleans. more than any other elias
! in the city. stood by Martin Behr
man. Bankers of the city, corpora
, ton financiers, members of tn
great Cotton Exchange, the bushes
men who could buy and sell you an
me a thousand times over and who
: above all men in the community
should have stood for freedom an
he willing to be free, were the mos
under the subjugation of the rims
The most humiliating and degradin
= spectacle that has ever come to tn
free people of New Orleans was b
the way the leading financiers G
. New Orleans. would make a beate
path to the mayors parlor in orde
p to seek favor at his hands.
t 81 believe that these men will sc
r a new light and will stand with u
in the great fight We are making fo
) the emancipation of our people.
5 there was one set of men more tina
another who made the cause OF job
t NJ. Parker successful it was the mic
| die class and the laboring men
the city. l spoke to bank president
t who were for the New Orleans RIM
4 but | spoke to their bookkeepers an
s their tellers and their clerks, an
they were for John NJ. Parker.
n spoke to financial magnates an
business men in the city of New o