The Donaldsonville chief., 1922-12-09
Burnside Notes and Leaks.
Rv Henry C, Braud.

With the coming Of the New Year,
Joseph and Thomas Waguespack, sue
cessful cane tenants for the past tive
years on the Conway plantation, VIII
move to DutchtoWn to continue the
cultivation of cane on lands belong
ing to Picard & Geismar. Our loss
will be the gain of Dutchtown. They
are industrious, hardworklng men,
surrounded by younger brothers and
other relatives pf the same class
They will undoubEedly make sue
cess in their new home.
The fight against the boil WeeVll
the cattle tick, the bootleggers, the
K. K. K. and all the internal eternal
nuisances that plague us will have to
be fought to finish. "Lets go get
them"
The postmaster at Burnside recelv'
ed notice on November 29, the post
office at Brewerton would be abolish.
ed. Later he received advice that
the order had been recinded. While
J. H. Brewerton has resigned as post:
master at Brewerton the office Will
be continued. -.
Fifty-six years ago, in Franklin
Tennessee, General W. B. Forrest call
ed together a handful of war worn
patriotic southern men and 'urget
them to form an organization IN the
southern states, the object Of which
was to intimate the negroes, carpet
baggers and "scalawags" and to pre-
vent them from controlling the politi
cal activities of the southern states
thereby preserving white supremacy
Thanks to Gen. Forrest, conditions
were made secure for two genera
tions past. Today, we in Louisiana
who elected Francis T. Nichols gov
ernor exactly forty-six years ago, ant
have controlled the election of ever.
| official since, from governor to con
stables, are unafraid Of any dire ca
lamity happening, whether we pa,
or do not pay our poll tax for 1922
1928. The negroes, carpetbagger
and "scalawags" will not give us an.
fight. We never have any republi
| cans (outside of the customhouse
| entering our family squabbles fo
the spoils every four years. Their
may I ask, what is the impending
crisis? The solicitous, patriotic, lii
erty loving, broadguaged, high MIND
ed chairman of the Democratic Stat
Central Committee Of Louisiana
gives me and thousands of othe
voters Throughout the state, who ar
neither members of the Knights O
Columbus or the Ku Klux Klan tn
following gratitutious advice. "It
the duty of every good democrat t
pay his poll tax so that the power c
the electorate will be behind men VIII
bravely proclaim the principles ft
which they stand and who acknow
edge no invisible government" wis
to 60 on record, emphatically, thu
I do not and never will "acknowledg
an invisible government" whatevt
it means. Governor Parker vel
properly refuted the existence of an
such anarchy in Louisiana two weel
ago. Will Mr.. Looney please be MOI
explicit in his urgent demand and r
quest for the payment of poll tax,
|now than in former years? Is it b
cause he fears that south Louisian
| from Baton Rouge to the gulf, fro
/ Hammond to Morgan City, which W
take in New Orleans, will go DIR,
invite him to issue one more bull
, tin and omit all cutie fish matte
from it. Let him come out in t
open. I beg him to ignore
) questions of religion and let h
come out like Senator Broussa,
7 Governor Edwards Of New Jersey,
Smith of New York, squarely, wet
dry.