New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1920-01-10
Published by request.
REFLECTIONS OF A SILENT
VOTER.


I-of nervous, trained vandal>
feverishly trying to destroy the
tracks, the last vestige Of the
Parker blaze. 1t is not very edi
flying and less instructive. No as
Sertion made at the first meeting
escaped the scrutiny of the sue
ceeding Stubs axmen. A regu
lar political catechism was used
an essay on political blasphemy
by Stubs political orthodOxes
The profane cult Of Parker S
temple, with well termed execra-
tons and musical anathemas, was
branded willful heresy. malicious
apOstacy. In a word the horde
of near-Stubbs Huns came with
bloody cycle and scythe to NOV
down to the bare mother earth the
weeds Of Parker's heterodoxy.
They were determined to pull and
uproot any new shoots or blades
Of a purified political philosophy,
of a truer broader sense of real
democracy from the sacred pre-
serves of a selfish, grasping,
ravenous combination of place
hunters and tax consumers.
Everything, done, said and per-
formed was impelled by fear,
malice, revenge and hatred. No
injective or adjective was too Sc
we're and denunciatory to be ap-
piled to Parker, his running mate,
Hewitt Bouanchaud and his enun-
ciated policies. Only the limita-
ton of mispent, misapplied
VOCABULARY weakened the fury, the
fire of the SANDER. The oratori-
cal sparrows, in spite of their
recognized, harmless, stormy
noise, had their inning with a dis
play of breezy wing-fapping and
frenzied whistling.
The case made out by Philip
Gilbert, candidate for lieutenant
governor, on the Stubs ticker,
against Parker and his attitude
toward the sugar industry, is
about as valuable a contribution
to the sugar struggle and history
of the State than the discovery of
a moldy fossil of a mastodon-is
to the natural history of the
world.
The elucidation Of the tortuous
ways and maze Of contortiOns
through which a certain sugar
cane-committee of Louisiana had
to pass and act was as clear and
convincing as the fog and mist
into which the acid of Gilbert s
argument ended. DR.. Roy O.
Young and Ulysses Landry, our
parishioner, part of that COM
mittee term Mr.. Gifbert's clumsy
exhibition. suffering attempt at
sorcery that convinces nobody
and fills with contempt and dis
gust those whose loyalty to the |
sugar industry is beyond rel
proach.
Congressman O'Connor, her
aided as the orator with music in
his voice and acid on his tongue,
RECALLED with some degree of
agility and questionable resource
fulness, those of slower mind, !
calmer phlegm, dulled vision.
From a ring-born judge to a ring
labeled congressman, his training |
and accepted political ethics, have
prepared him to bestow his ca
resses. with well modulated spurts
and jerks of articulations, the hand |
that feeds him from the public
trough, that shakes the feshpots,
so its rising floating incense may
stimulate his future appetite. His
against Parker intrud-
ers are still Kissing in the ears of
the audience. His acrobatic eli
makes, with nimbleness of body,
chiseled his emphasizes. What a
terrible antagonist. welding
and thunderl He sent
terrors and shivers through the
Parker band! He was neatly
picked for the job by the unseen
hand that holds twenty-five, thou
sand votes.
Col. Frank P. Stubbs, the head
and real candidate for governor,
With commendable modesty, child
sh nativity. simplicity Of thought
and expression confessed his lin
itations. to ability, wisdom and
He offered the sub
stitute. the asset of all good men
and true, his honesty, integrity
and sincerity. While he could
not, in terse, lucid phrases, ex-
plain how the riddle involving his
connection with the New Orleans
ring organization, could be sa1