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Ta Donaldsonvlles iW Ofiial Journal of Ascension Parish, Town of Donaldsonville and Parish School Board. L. E. BENTLEY, Editor and Proprietor st. lD. BENTLEY, Managing Editor SATURDAY. MAY 23. 1908 ANNOUNCEMENT. FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY. To the Democrats of the Twenty-seventh Ju cicial District, comprising the parishes of Assumption, Ascension and St. James: I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of District Attorney for said district, subject to the Democratic primary election to be held at a time to be bxed by the Democratic conmmittee e.f the Twenty-seventh Judicial District. I solicit the good will and support of all the 7)emocrats * this district. and in doing so, I pledge them, if elected, that I will perform my fluty without fear or favor. Very respectfully, PHILIP H. GILBERT. The nomination of Secretary Taft on the first ballot at Chicago now seems ;s foregone conclusion.- The chances are that all the other candidates will be withdi awn and the coice an i:ounced by acclamation. The Chief is indebted to Dr. E. L. Stepheus, the brainy president of the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial In stitute, for an invitation to a:tend the .eventh annual commencement exer cises of that institution, which were held at Lafayette during the past week. Hon. Alex. Hebert of Plaquemine, The Nestor of the Iberville bar, is an nounced as a candidate for one of the .wo judgeships in the district com posed of the parishes of Iberville, West Baton Rouge and Pointe Cou p6a, and his eminent qualifications :or the post lead to the confident pre diction that success will crown his candidacy. "Mr. Hebert served the public interest with faithfulness and distinguished ability as district attor ney for twenty consecutive years, and his elevation to the bench would not be less an honor to the people of his listrict than to himself. It is announced from Washington that Senator Foraker's health has broken down and that he wi;l be comn pelled to follow Senator Tillman's ex ample in seeking recuperation by total abstention from work and excitement of all kinds. This doubtless fort shaloS the collapse of the movement intended to prevent, if possible, the nomination of Secretary Taft for pres ident by the Republican national con vention. Senator Foraker was the main reliance of the anti-Taft and anti-Roosevelt contingent, and with out his presence and active leadership at Chicago the "insurgents" are likely to cut but a sorry and diminu tive figure. The action of Gov. Sanders in with drawing from the senate all the nomi nations made by Gov. Blanchard dur ing the past two years, with the ap parent intention of supplanting every mother's son of the lot with a Sanders partisan, is a remarkable and probably unprecedented exhibition of personal and political spite. The tone and substance of Gov. Sanders' inaugura't address encouraged popular belief in his purpose to administer the affairs of Louisiana's government in a digni fied, statesmanlike and impartial man ner, and it is extremely disappointing to find one of his earliest official ac tions belying the fair promise of his inaugural and displaying the tenden cies of the peanut politician. If the new governor persists in such a course he will hurt himself worse than any of the decapitated appointees. The Louisiana Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, held its twenty-eighth annual convention on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, at Hammond. Past Chancellor Hbry L. Well repre sented Kenneth Lodge No. 41 of Donald sonville and Past Chancellor L. E. Bent ley of the same lodge was chairman of the grand lodge's committee on judici ary. The following grand officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand chancellor, J. W. Compton of New Iberia; Grand vice chancellor, B. Mendelson of New Orleans; Grand Pre late, B. F. Thompson of Alexandria; Grand keeper of records and seal, John A. McLean of New Orleans; Grand master df exchequer, T. C. Wills 01 New Orleans; Grand master at-arms, Judson Harris of Jenflings; Grand inner guard, E. T. Hailey of Slidell; Grand outer cuard, Geo. E. Boos of Hammon]. The session was very largely attended aid very satis. fa-tory in its results. Next year's meeting is to be held in Minden. Democratic Delegates Elected. The Democratic executive committee of Ascension parish met at the court house at noon last Sunday for the purpose of electing delegates to the I)emocratic state convention to be he;d at Baton Rouge on June 3. Chairman 1I. C. Braud presided and rill-call showed ten members present in person and one by proxy. The fol lowing were selected to constitute the delegation: Joseph Gonzales, 1. Mc t'ulloh, I. .1. hauvin, Ii. N. Sims, V. Misurio, S. V. Vega, G. II. leuss, II. C'. le aud, C'. ('. Weber, A. A. Kiling, louci"en (;autreau, E. I). )ixon, (;. A. t..udran, L,. A. Ambeau, Ger main Namrgssans, J. S, ilsarma. 1:. i-ear ting. I.. A. i).ipleasis, I'. Sid u' Vt, I Tp Hirlo'icr. It was ri. . , i-ed 'hat 'te,- dalegai'".l i vote as a unit on all qUestious cotaltg before the convfention n suh nu'Pu n'r as may bett-;rswit.ed biy a me Srity of tbote *lree nit, it Ierson or by proxy. No' otLhr ttats ;t.oa airen ism the deltegats. Mir. Phatl' and the Republican Patty. The Chief gave Henry N. Pharr zealous and loyal support in his re cent candidacy for governor as the nominee of the Republican party of Louisiana, and we have nothing to re gret or recant in that regard, for we still look upon him as an able, honest and sterling young man, who would make an excellent chief executive; but we feel under no sort of obligation to Ssubscribe to everything he chase to say in his campaign speeches. Particularly are we absolved from such.an obligation with respect to ut terances which were not only out of accord with his letter of acceptance and the address of his campaign com mittee, but diametrically opposed to at least one of the fundamental principles of the national Republican party. It has been the lifelong contention of this party that the civil and polit ical rights of a citizen should not be determined or circumscribed by his race or color, and so fully is this declaration identified and interwoven with the origin and entire existence of the party, that to repudiate the joc trine is wholly inconsistent with the allirmation of belief in and adherence to Republican principles. When, therefore, Mr. Pharr in jected into his campaign speeches the declaration that no negro should be sent to the Lational Republican c nvention from this state nor be per mitted to participate or have a voice in Republican councils within the state, he made an unauthorized and unrepublican assertion that received merited discredit and rebuke in the subsequent action of the state conven tion and several of the congressional district conventions. Not only have three colored delegates and four col ored alternates been accredited to the Chicago convention by the R[epublican party of Louisiana, but a vacancy in the Republican state committee re sulting from the death -of a former member has been filled by the selec tion of a colored man. Had the con tention been that the colored voters of the sltae were so few in number that they were pot entitled to repre sentation in the national convention or the local party organization, the position might have been defended as reasonable and equitable, especially in view of the fsact that a number of states-Republican states at that with a great many more negro voters than Louisiana has, send no negroes to national conventions. It is doubt ful If there are as many as one thous and negroes registered and qualified as voters in Louisiana today. States with five, ten, fifteen, twenty-and-more times this number of negro voters will have no negro delegates at Chicago., But the distinction is that none of these skates have excluded the negro because he is a negro, and in no in stance save that furnished by Mr. Pharr has it been proposed to go to a Republican convention seeking %dmis sion in the face of an emphatic repu diation of a basic Republican princi ple as embraced in the declaration that. citizens were excluded from the delegati n because of their I ae and color. It is doubtful if the Democratic na tional convention would openly sub scribe to such a declaration by admit ting delegates chosen unuaer it; and it is a matter of political record that no Democratic national convention has yet been willing to adopt the shibbo leth of many southern Democrats that theirs is exclusively "a white man's party." The Democrats of the north don't drive away votes because they may be cast by negroes. On the con trary, such votes are desired and sought, and not a few are secured by northerp Democratic candidates. There is no real negro issue in Lou isiana politics. This state does not and never will stand in danger of "ne gro domination," even if the negro vote increases a hundred fold. The white man will always dominate the state and the country and every state in the country, as he does now, and nobody appreciates the fact better than the sensible and intelligent col ored man. No sensible and intelligent man, white or colored, desires a re turn of the abnormal conditions that prevailed in the southern states dur ing the unsettled and troublous re construction period following the civil war, nor can such a man believe a recurrence of those conditions pos sible. There is a general acceptance, by Republicans as well as Democrats, of the suffrage qualifications as now prescribed by the constitution and laws of Louisiana, based on educa tional and property. holding require ments, supplemented by payment of poll taxes. The platform upon which Mr. Pharr entered his campaign pledged the Republican party to the maintenance of these requirements, and both in this platform and the Re publican committee's address issued just before the close of the canvass the utterances of Hon. Wm. H. Taft in defense of the reasonableness and propriety of such suffrage qualifica tions were quoted with approval and indorsement. Mr. Pharr's interven iog declarations that a certain class of citizens, though otherwise qualified under the law, would be excluded from Republican councils because of their color, Kai in clear contravention ofthe spirit, if not the letter of I is owe ovious 5sm5m'_Aur . ;mod of .lo.h the- .:. a. spi.-t of all au thoritati ve I publican pronounce "e:ntsa (.n the same subject. Mr-. |'ca ' claiml that certain lead t,o it O 'e ae'lj n aotKi were onuialt. teo to the esuppr of the rotlcy hi ad •x-eate-f but itis ivy vvident shat a grert vp der. s . of thbe rs'.dl ,I of the iUarQ did at aare therlTgab-r eateial. eamd Mlt's ies d M P. udices on this question, since the fe publican state convention that Wet in New Orleans on the 11th of May up held by a vote of 462 to 49 the report of a committee on nominations that proposed the election of a colored del egate and a colored alternate fom the state at large to the national Repub lican convention. This decisive re sult showed conclusively that no man or set of men, however prominent and influential, hold a brief to commit the Republican party of Louisiana to the proscriptive and heretical doctrine, as viewed from a Republican standpoint, that a citizen's col6r should be made the sole basis of his right and privi lege to have any share, however small and humble, in political and public, affairs. Some attempt has been made to claim that all Republicans who spoke from or appeared upon the same rostrums with Mr. Pharr, and all who listened to his anti-republican utterances with out openly expressing their dissent, virtually indorsed his views and are bound by them. The claim is untenable. Any public demonstra tion of the character suggested would1 not only have been violative of com mon courtesy and public order, but demoralizing to the Republican cam paign. It is unquestionable, however, that many of the Republicans who sat and spoke with the gubernatorialcandi date, deprecated his attitude as to the subject under discussion and deplored its injection into the state campaign as irrelevant, unnecessary and unwise. We have in mind a conspicuous in stance of this dissent, where one of the state's oldest and ablest Republicay leaders officiated as chairman of a meeting addressed by Mr. Pharr and subsequently in a personal letter avowed his inability as a Republican to accept or indorse the candidate's opinions. Surely, it could not be ex pected that the chairman, while acting as such, would then and there pro claim his disagreement and thus break up the meeting or destroy its effect. Mr. Pharr was privately advised of the injudiciousness of his course, but declined to be influenced or dissuaded. The duty of the Republican conven tion to put the party of this state right on the issue forced in the front by Mr. Pharr was plain, and the manner in which this duty was performed was emphatic and satisfactory. It is appar ent that the Louisiana Republican or ganization is in line with the national party, as it should be, and that lead Lrs who refuse to subscribe to Repub lican principles can no longer be re garded or followed as Republican leaders. Golv. Sanders Inaugurated. Jared Y. Sanders was inaugurated as governor of Louisiana on Monday last, the 18th inst., and expectations were fully realized as to the elaborate and imposing character of the civic display and social entertainments in cidental to the important event Baton Rouge probably never had a larger number of people within her corporate limits, and in the throng were repre sentatives of every part of the state. The parade that preceded the inaug ural ceremony was a big affair; the crowd that listened to the inaugural aadress was of vast proportions, and the inaugural reception and ball at night was a brilliant function. From a spectacular point of view the ad vent of the new administration was a great success, and the governor's speech outlining the policy he pro poses to pursue and indticating the reforms that should be effected.in the government of the commonwealth, i. eli3iting general praise and indorse ment from the people and the press. If the results to be achieved during the next four years even approxi mately bear out the assurances of this address, Gov. Sanders will have established a large claim upon' the confidence and esteem -of his fellow citizens of Louisiana whes he surren ders the gubernatorial trust to his successor. Among the more important topics and recommendations of the inaugural ad dress are the following: A higher state liquor license should be exacted, with a minimum of $500 for parishes and municipalities; groceries and saloons should be separated, liquor licenses should not be issued to women, and the practice of women and girls serv* ing in barrooms should be prohibited; local option is preferable to state-wide prohibition; race-track gambling should be penalized by law; so should miscegenation; annulment of the "Tu lane lease" is favored; the primary election law shQuld be amended so as to protect the purity of the ballot, require declaration of party affiliation and safeguard the count; the legisla tive lobby should be driven from Baton Rouge; dual oftlceholding is denounced; child labor laws and more liberal provision for old soldiers should be enacted; the state board of education should be given advisory control over the higher institutions of learning, and the salary of the state superintendent be increased to $5000; secret sessions of public boards should be prohioited; corporations should be compelled to bear their just share of taxation, and surplus revenues applied to reduction of the state debt; legisla. tion for the refunding of this~debt at a lower rate of interest will be proposed; further reduction of the state taL.rate cannot now be made, if all legitimate demands upon the revenue are to be met; an improved system of checking public accounts should be adopted to prevent defalcations; exemption of manufactories from parochial and municipal taxation is recommended as a means of attracting capital; the work of the New Orleans port investi gation commision is praised; the practice of borrowing money by the governor without authority of law is condemned, and the assent of the board of liquidation in emergencies is suggested. The address was concluded with the declaration that every pledge made by the speaker in the late cam paign will be fulfilled so far as the governor's power permits. Lieutenant Governor Paul M. Lam bremont was also inducted into office on Monday and made a well-timed speech to the state senate upon assum ing his seat as presiding officer of that body. : -:, '.-r,.uF m c-mmitttes of both, houses of the general assembly have been appointed, and many bills have already been introduced in both houses. The work of legislation should be In fail swing next week, and a bei rop 6f 1aporUaa enw laws is la What the Cohenltes Amount- To. When the Cohen faction of the Re publican party in Louisiana announced the withdrawal of their state ticket several weeks before the recent elec tion the belief was general in political circles that the action was superib duced by the inability of the faction ists to obtain the signatures of 1000 qualified voters prerequisite to the placing of their ticket on the official ballot, and that, even if these signa tures had been available, the Coheiite leaders would have shrunk frot! a trial of strength with the regular and rec ognized party organization of which Frank B. Williams is chairman. The announcement that the Cohen-Coleman ticket had been withdrawn in order to give the Williams-PSarr nominees a clear field against the Democratic party, was intended for political effect withhthe Republican national commit tee and convention, but -it could not and did not deceive any one familiar with the political conditions in this state. It is well known here that if the Cohenites could have got their candidates on the ballot and had dared to measure votes with their Republican competitors, the opportunity would have been eagerly embraced for the sake of the political capital the result of the .contest might have yielded at Chicago next month. The Cohenites did venture and invite a little test of strength in the city of New Orleans, where they succeeded in mustering the 100 votes' required to nominate a candidate for the single tax collectorship, and their nominee, Ed. Young, was supported with the avowed purpose and expectation of re ceiving a larger vote than that to be polled by Louis P. Bryant, the regular Republican candidate for the same office. The returns show this result: Bryant, 2617; Young, 232. The Cohen ite candidate was beaten more than eleven to one, and jn a state-wide con test there can be but little doubt that the factionists would have be'en dis tanced still further. Reunion of Louisiana Newspaper Workers. The literary program for next week's meeting of the Louisiana 'Press Asso ciation, which is to open on Tuesday at Baton Rouge, has been formulated by President C. C. DeGratfenreid of the Shreveport Times, and includes the following papers and addresses: "The Editor in Politics," Horace A. Mangham, Richland Beacon-News. "The Country Newspaper." W. H. Scanland, Bossier Banner. "'The Duty of Journalism in Shaping the Poli cies of this Government," Will A. Strong, Winn field Sentinel. "Journalists, Men and Women," Mrs. Cam milla L. Breazeale, Natchitoches Enterprise. "High Ideals," Col. J. W. Nicholson, Baton Rouge. "Tax Reform in Louisiana," Solomon Wolff, New Orleans. "Child Labor in Lodisiana," Miss Jean Gordon, New Orleans. "National Monuments in the Vicksburg Mili tary Park," Gen. A. B. Booth, New Orleans. Hon. Joseph Ransdell, member of congress from the fifth district, has promised to address the associatiopn if congress adjourns 'today as expected, and will select some topic of state wide and national interest, probably improvement of waterways. Hon. John Dymond of the Louisiana Planter has been designated to respond to the welcome addresses on behalf of the press association. * Taken in connection with the attract ive schedule of entertainments al ready outlined in these columns, the literary feast arranged by President DeGraffenreid should assure the news paper people of the state one of the most edifying and enjoyable reunions they have yet held. Strenuous Journalism in Iberville. Rev. John J. Holtgreve, the able and fearless priest in charge of St. John's Catholic congregation ai Plaquemine, has found the running oi a newspaper in connection with his clerical duties rather too strenuous a taskeven for his well-developed energy, hence he has retired from the editorial staff of the Iberville Sentinel. Father Holtgreve declares that this step was prompted by "cowardly attacks upon his character" which had no other provocation.than his "efforts to build up a sound and healthy public opin ion;" that his sole purpose in en tering the editorial arena was "the betterment of Plaquemine and Iber ville parish;" that because he "could not be used as a tool" he becamethe object of foul and vulgar abuse to which as a gentleman he could not re tort in kipd, therefore, rather than expose himself to such unwarranted attacks, he retired from the Sentinel, "begging an appreciative public to give its full moral and financial sup port to those who will continue the good work." The paper is now in the hands of J. Howell Pugh and Alfred G. Whidden, both former residents of Donaldsonville, and they are making it one of the best looking and spiciest little sheets in the state. Bascball Bulletin. The redoubtable Phelps-Tulanes, of New Orleans, will try conclusions with the local Blues at dCleveland Park tomorrow afternoon, and it is safe to assume that the game will be peppery and interesting from begin ning to end. The Phelps Tulane team is one of the fastest and best in the New Orleans Semi-Prof. League, and has held its own against such classy clubs ai the Parker-Blakes, O'Harrigans, Chalmettes and Eddies. Among its players are Bonafee, Hauck, Skelly, Miller and other well-known stars of the baseball firmament. The Blues will present their usual nifty line-up and may be depended on to give the visitors a run for their money. Cleveland Park was "dark" last Sunday, no game having been sched uled by Manager iehe u, account ci the holding of th annual Catholic fair. On Sunday, May 31, the Blues will travel to New Orleans and tie up with the far-fasmed Parker-Blakes of that city. Dupleasis Notes. Among the prominent citizens of this locality who visited Baton Rouga for the inaugural ceremonies were W. A. Babin, Gerard Hebert, T. B. Mar chand, A. P. Marchand, S. B. Bourque, V. J. Marchand, and Bazil Berteau. Hon. Joseph E. Gonzales and Ulger Bourque, of Gotzales, were visiting friends here last Sunday. J. J. LeSaicherre made a business trip to Gonzales last Tuesday. Fernand Rich-ard, a prosperous farmer of Dutchtown, was here Tues day on business. Parish Treasurer A. A. Kling and son, Edwig, were business visitors to Duplessis last Saturday. John McCrory, of Gonzales, was circulating among his friends in this community during the early part of the week. / Louis Parent visited relatives at St. Amant on Wednesday. The farmers of this section have been blessed (?) with a little too much rain. JULIAN J. LESAICHERRE. St. Amant 1Notes. M. J. DdVernay, of New Or.kans, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Bourgeois last Sunday. Amadee Savoie went to Gonzales Sunday. Edmond Bourgeois and Justy Thom assie, accoinpanied by their bright lit tle sons Allen and Earl, visited Gon zales last Saturday on business. Sidney Morin, of Acy, Aas here Monday. Joseph, Louib and Camille Bour geois, Louis and Camille Guedry and Sidney Babin attended a meeting of LeBlanc Lodge of the Farmers' Edu cational and Co-operative IUnien at Black Bayou last Tuesday night. The heavy rains of last week dam aged the crops in this locality to a considerable extent. Practically all of the fields are inundated and many farmers will be compelled to replant. 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