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THE CLARION. OPELOUSAS, OCT. 29, 1898. St. Landry Clarion Co., Lim., Props. RAYMOND BREAUX, FAitor and Basiaex lamaager. $Ub;s riptlomi 01 Per Year. , tered at the Pot-Office at Opelousas, La., as second claae matter. EvOry Democrat should vote on November 8th, and vote for the nominees of their party. It is a duty you owe to it. R. N. Sims, Jr., is the Democratic nominee for Railroad Coinmission or, and every Democrat owe hid their hearty support. The Baton Rouge Advocate re marks that Mr. Sims "has some opposition in the person of an in dependent candidate from some where." Now we object to that; we want Chevis to distinctly un derstand that Settoon's got a name. Mr. Settoon was a candidate for the Democratic nomibation, for Railroad Commissioner, and was at Baton Rouge when the nomin ating convention met there. IHe was fairly defeated. Now- he r6omes out' as an independent candidate, sad asks the support of the voters of bis district He'll get 4--.in Sseek. 'las voe. for Congressman and RUleed Commissloner voters must regiter gouder Act 89 of 1896. le gltratism easently had under See tion 5 of Artiele 197 of the Consti tutton of 1898 does not entitle one to the right to vote on November 8th, 1898. All good citizens should register and vote. We- direct the attention of the voters of this parish to the tele gram from Judge B. N. Sims, the father of . N. Sims, Jr, the De mocratie nominee for Railroad Commissioner for this district, de nouncing the report, published and freely'. e4rculated in this parish, that he (Judge Sims) is the at torney for the Texas Pacific Rail road. We had paid no attention to the report, because we could not see where that fact, if it was a fact, had anything to do with the can didacy of young Sims. But weare gla¬d. that the rumor is.eorseted. It robs Mr. Sottoon and his friends of a campaign card that they had beelfplaying for all the : thought it was worth. We are told that Peace Obtil sloners Day and Reid get a fee of $25,oOat the'start. Comniaiiioner Moore's fee is put down at $20,000. The other commissioners get $150 a day, and this, with what is paid interpreters, translators, steno graphers and other attaches, foots up a neat little sum of $1,025 a day. But although the French govern mept will do the bulk of entertain ing in Paris, Uncle Sam f ses to go "well fixed" on towa a count. Out of politeues wlr wi pay the expenses of the women who'are iav4*d' mesibee of Mto party, and there are said to be up wards of twenty. Allowance is also made for a good time in Paris, which is not liable to cost loss than $20,000. In fact, there is a bill easily in sight of not less than a quarter of a million dollars for the coming ninety days, and who knows how long the proverbially slow business of making a treat3 may last? says the Boston GClobe. R. N. Sims, Jr., the Democrath nominee for Railroad Commis sioner, is a lawyer of standing; tht son of Judge R.N. Sims, an old veteran of the Ascension bar and a gleall~arown 'brouygetr the State. Young Sims possesse, admirable qualiceations for the oMee of Rallroad Commissioner; having lived on the line of the two roads which run through St. Lan dry-the Southern Pacific and the. Texas l Patet--be ies tho~ftgly acquainted with their condition, charges, etc. He Will be only lawyer on the Cominelmio, a shap py thing, as such an imaportan body should have a lawyer among Ois members to cope With 3l~w shrewd railroad lawyers that will be constantly at their heels impor tuning them. The other members of the Commision aeo C. L. -;D Fauntes, a New OrleanU merchant, and W. L. Foster, a farmer hfrom Cada4tarisL. THA T CIRCULAR. A cir`ulat.was issued this week by Mr. Settbon, orsoele of his Pop alls trainers in Opelousas, whic!h would be calculated to mislead the voters were not the statements made therein so absurd and false on their face that, as a prominent gentlemen remarked on the streets after reading them, "they could not catch a suacker." However, some people are so prone to-believ anything bad that is said aboat "a candidate, especially, as in this case, when they are notacquainted with the gentleman that is run ning on the Democratic ticket, that the circular needs attention. It first calls attention to the im portance of the office of Railroad Commissioner, and the great res ponsibility that rests upon the peo ple of selecting the proper man. Nobody considered this fact with more deliberation and caution and statesmanship than the nonidnat-. ing convention of the groat Demo cratic party when it convened at Baton Rouge to nominate a candi date for that office. Every parish in the District was represented by wise and broad-guaged men selec ted by the people of the District through prinmaries, mass-meetings or conventions. The field was full of candidates for the nomination; Mi. Settoon himself was there seek ing that nomtnation; Mt. Sims was there; the delegates could "sizo up". the men, judge their ability and fitness to fill the office. Asmsngthe lotthey picked out Mr. Sims; he wasnominated fairly and squarely, and4has one 6ofti-greatest parties in he world at his back that will laadl him in the office. "Msr. Simbs is the railroads' candidate; if bon own any railroads, tellaraph Lines or steamboats, it is to your interest and it would4 expected that you vote tor.·Mr. Sims, says the Circular. Such a charge, brazenly flaunted without a shadow of proof to back it, is so reprehensible, contempti ble and unmanly that it is only worthy of scornfal treatment. There should be a certain degree Af fairness in everything, even in politiecs, and especially when gen tlemen are concerded, and ,.such fabrications as the above, launched gut in an anonymous elrcular, can not be too severely condemned. Da behalf of Mr. Sims, we abso lutely deny it, and we defy the au lhoraof the circular to bring forth one iota of proof going to show that Mfr. Sims is the railroada candi fate! Talk is cheap, especially in sn anonymous circular; the people want proof, and the proof that Mr, Sims has anything to do with the rJlroads is nowhere to be found. "Hle is also called the Democratic lomtnee, but received the nomination j le~o than ten per cent of the votes of he distrtict;"-Circulat. That's another bald-headed one. fr;. Sims was nominated in a regu iar manner, at a convention where wvery parish in the District was *epresented by delegates duly elec id by the Democrats -of the Dis ;rict. "Is is not a fat tat his father, Jn..i Mmn, is attr the exas P&ac That'sa u' true as the bal ance of the circular. We'll let Jg Sims answer that himself: "I denounce editorial statement in the-4pelousas Tribune of Octo ber 22d, that I am an attorney for the Texas & Pacific Railroad, a=an infamous and malicious campsign lie. I am not and never have been attorney for the company. Give this all possible publicity in your parish. 1. N. SIMS." "He (Settoon) is the People's Inde pendent CamdidAte, subservient to no party or politloians, but bound to the People alone.-GCceular. What 'people are you talking about? Who brought out Mr. Set toon? He Was a candidate, as we said before, for the Democratic nomination, and when he failed to get htitsat ner a rrying his own delegation, he. went to training with the. Populists, sad l if any "people" besides : ssetoeo htmief brought hinm out; ,it is the handful of Populists In this town. It is hardly `knowna-oUtsIde of the limitdof St. I.andry pariehtiat Settoon is engageia Athemagaan imous task of "savnii the peeps" irom . otigultion at the hands of that horrled man Sims, so there could not have been such vocifer. es cli for him to btriu forth his falchion" after all. Settoo not a politician, says the cieqular. This will be news to these at Opeloumas who know that Settoon has had hifs litte :ight. ningrod aup ever sinee he quit the mp iktop&apl4 Ias tealpe PimarI4 ! x Wibs. ruzs4 office twice in one year is not a [ politician, indeed. 'Ho is a patriot of the old school. We had hoped that this cam paign would have been conducted I upon a higher and more honorable plane than the circulation of false hoods in anonymous circulars. Such questionable methods are i only resorted to when a candidate's only chance of. election lies in bamboozling the people. But in thi race camspaign lies can't win. DR. SOUCHON'8 EDUCATIONAL The educatl4nal ints concern ing yellow fever issued by Presi dent Souchon, of the Board of Health, affords nothing new and seems to be simply a rehash of well-known sanitary facts, with an accentuation on the removal of all quarantine restrictions, presum. I bly ihterstate and interparlsh, as we hardly think the Doctor would apply his theory to maritime quar antine. From the records obtaina ble the Doctor claims the mortuary statistics shoW about 4 or 5' pe cent and that "the yellow fever oBs to-day is not the yellow fever' of old times. It is now so compar-i tively mild that it stands to yelIoi' fever almost like variloid stands to variola i. e. small pox," and that "it should be called yellowoid." He then gives the record for the following places up to October,ý1, 1898: .Franklin...340 cases and 10 deaths Wilson ....303 " " 7 " E. RIouge...176 " " 4 " Hoiuma..... 40 " " 2 " Clinton... .. 40 " " 0 " Jackson.... " " 0 " Cinclaire.... 11 " " 1 " Total.......925 24S 4-1_&g is strangely silent about the record in New Orleans, the thing that interests everyone. The truth is that the policy of honest non-concealment laid down by the late Prof. Jos. Jones, and by that talented sanitarian, Dr. Jos. Holt, has been replaced by a policy that announces less than 100 cases in New Orleans - when it is an open secret that there have been" thopus ands, and while its is perfectly true that the Board of Health can not report more cases than are reported to them, yet the blame can not be attached so much to the private physicians who do not report their _ases, because to do so means abuse and villifieation world without end, as evidenced in the case of Dr. Kennedy,. whose: son was taken sick with yellow fever and the Doctor, as an honorable man, and a law abiding citizen, reported the fact and forthwith the flood gates of abuse were turned loose on' him. The truth is a wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse. Had the Board wanted the law complied with as it was their solemn duty to the rest of the State, they would have had.no difficulty in enforcing theb law, and in detectingand pun ishing offenders. What is the use of concealment? Like smurder yel low fever will out, and the more you suppress the newsr,. the more diur will it seem to an expectant public. The wide announcement of the fact that there were thous ands of cases in New Orleans, with less- than one death to the hun dred, would be more of an argu ment to convince and suppress panic than concealment. The key notes sounded by the Times-Demo. crat and taken up by Souchon and the exchanges are: "a campaign of Edueation, and the Sanitation of Cuba," an echo of the cry first raised by the Sfirte Sanitary Assoeiation organized in this town, the habrter of which we published last year, and the efforts of which were ig nored by the business men of New Orleans, who would havebeen the chief benefilciarIes of its tehethsig.. Let them come to the freat 4gtis /the sinews of war,~ and that ALsso -lation will wage a camaigai- eI Education thirough a Sanikry Journal and from the lectaue plat-. form that will rolse 1hiepgl. to a sense of the advantages of latel. Itgent seiltatlon. When pubtle opinion is eaucated then it will be possible to carry in to execution the 27th amendment I of Souchon: "Towns anid Parishes must orgaalse their Boards of I Health and be prepared at a .no ment's niotice to repair to any lo-' ca.lity where even a slightly suspi clous case exists and carne for It s cording to the most approvted methods as sewt forth in the printed pamphlets of the Louilsiana stati Until publc opin , in I etucted Parish ftosrII will be cbaselled comply with such absurd orders as the- ssd Iby President Son*lon to ~ls rir Board to r ' n? to the focus of infection in-`ew Or leans the -person of as- non-imman who had run the quarantine gauntlet instead of immediately isolating and disinfetinghhliiniir-l suant to Art. 27 of the Creed, for actiops, speak louder :than s'die tioarpof~woads.... .... The Clarion can not close with out eemrplilmentiugoDr sister town of Franklin, for her gallant fight, hor her ~rth- ld eandr in fairly repQrt' all eases, and there never Was a tie dtring this past epi demie noiw happily gone, when we would not have risked a trip to Franlklin fWith its known epidemic than to New Orleansr with its de, clared freedom. from epidemic vi sitation. On e b ur good.'. Democratic friends said the other day that he felt free to vote for ifr. Settoon be cause he had, not participated in the primary for delegates that nominated Mr.,eu.s. Thatis all a 4-f.e idea. ~4 DeItecra.is a, Demo croat, whethorse .far6 t nhrosag ne .le - or otherwise, lto pI9) gte n-a .primary1 pad lhe s:,.opuch bound to support the nominees as if he had participated. In the first place every .san sbould participate in party primaries, but. a failure to do so shi:ld not -ieaggravated by voting tor the opposition at the general jgejtion,1 N9, a person can not vote for the etlemy of his party ani it latin caim t*e M htparty. Editor Clarion.-I read that the several party devices thatwll p. pear upon theoflIealbaotl ett e: Demeratie, a crowing game roos ter.; Republican, 14d Glorl pseo pie's party, a plow. eery Adevice will appear in the center-of a cir cle, and to vote the straight ticket of a party, the impression of the stamp any place withnl thatparty' device :will suffice. Now, what Will occur in th9e ei of _aaindep ehdent ? F~or instance, what de vice will be used for Mr. Settoon, independent candidate for Railroad Commissioner ? INQUia. (WR -prasumei there -i be .-> blank circle. A soup toureen, how ever, would be an approplate de vice for Settoon.) Editor Clarion.-To comply wi. the request of R. N. Sims, the father of the candidate for Comn inssioner, of Railroads, I respect fully ask that 'you insert in the next iai.e of y6ur paper the follow ing dispatch received from him October s26, i89, and Oblige yours, E. T. LE WIS. . Donaldsonville, La., Oct. 26. Horz. T.T, Lewis, Opeloueas, .a I denuunes eitorial statement in Opeloraea Tribuno of Oetober Md that easeu attoney fortbxlaesa & Paelflt eailtrad as ani tlamous' and malicious campaign lie. - am not and ever ltave been attorney for the eoai iy. Gi ve ths atll possible u bile ty in your parisih S'.:. N.SIMS. ale getiel. Oct. 2S4aThe school was opened on the 3rd instant, by the asseis tant. The attendance was small for our school, the children having to remain at home to help save the rice that had been damaged-by the heavy rains. the princfpal wee absent. Her oldest son had died the day before. Dr. Herr7 L. Read was a Latin slholar as -grataste of a medt.al colleie line musician. He sang well, shd ·eld py . eh.via tR i the fute, thbe pai'o He was bily 47 years old. wep j =yfit w bable, out hoeu named #fter thw hero of Manila George i way le igtiu aned Georgi bab I sgoaed Lelaa Many valuable hersese have been. kille by the diss called Blind Staggers,but we hopw the freot will pat a ead toit,. - We also hope ta ter .rect say freeze the quarantine ! The qua. a tine is a giest deal -orse than the yellow fever scare. It is the only scare we have hsere. Respeptfully, ALte BoIUG XA. SPECIAL MEETING. opelomsms, Oeber 14 UgS8 The Boardl e Alderme met thfe - d with te tuhe ifms4w* a : ý. Iwdaea, .'W 'AT '4.IR -eTTm -eO t ½ - - SA- dP-e _ - L -)' . do-c i ·I~i ..'-C dp -' 'rl rc da- "R lnn 1-C -C -m to a- - a- - PCA -L-C i-C ·C C E·Sl- I~-e -- -e .," . ..... ..~ a- - a-I -·1 ·t 4" -a THAT'S -.r'» a a- . as Sr c·c .' - CE·.~ 1I :·a s a- r'Y 9~~l EE . ..nInn. It s WWWWWMW san, . IL ;R raSra Dobt. Ch.here, Chas. Saand LJ B. d The mayor ~eing absena on motion of Cha. 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Estoge was tel d rusmyor pro. tern.o your Ho TLoe mayin s ated bjQressi meeting entitled: a ea ring tion e fooment of Mnoiin tion Opelousas; Irb.Btu Ul .o theoug athe 6fates ur Utheir of wentlemen -.Your u nde d eti-f tioners, resident, freeholder. and oleg tors of your muniletp lit represent to your Ho e y, tha the General Assemblonf the-State of Louisiana at its regular sesslon begin ning March 16, I89, passedi Act No. 1ate entYoud: "An Act for thb reation andi government of Municipal Corporations thould h tot the Stata, add is towir to dopt an d duties, and o. iding for under whieh it should be verned, andii mite." having cmplied with N. oen No. 40 ofmateri asd A na ad 'taerto mnclpcip lities ado tin to an electing to tkve ndhe ill bthe .tvdnt electorb s pof -o tour pitioate s beleiab that ite to adopt i.d tef Ifthe en- be th laws ondefr which It bshould be hovsrned. and ha com. oed with Section No. 4 oof soura eo~E aherb . ta your take the will the rle ent ectors ofodeml the town of Op' as- to whether said Act No. 16 of the General Assem bly of the Stats of 1B, shall be adopted as the law, governin the-, town of Ope ou petlt r frther pray, that eetn of tbhi of Aldermen to LOuis -Deisfmarai Jr, Brai Gas .nthabais, B mood Breaux, Louis Prado., A Leoume. ?rirnlerg Bros, 10 Lawler, John Monhbinv e ; Ludovic Fonteont Ant aDietlein, E aBodemul r M aises CiBrand, CELemelle, 8raeobs,JKS tBro, JO Cha ch eooP ?Mornbrinveg Ar JonasJ~s, sea effe lorn, I Shute, B t Telephene Co per -A- B Plikett, R M LittellC 8ettoom, Jos.PDu eharme. On mdtion of Bi,.A se mivred, hat wberesf holders and citisons f the town of Ope Loua -have petitioned tDeaud teenli Wheresait is thatteatt up ate opcthe pma brtal r thb t G lion est.4 to ).eryt om tuorano d to fhi, rL . . 'j o b a c c o a'7 r 0ý ý, I o laoA , .irk the issusuc ofizueh tion andcitzes b .T nx o carried.. ,.. H. E. EtaK tQJ4 Lbozm a. THOS. HL 8HERXFWM BALE. A. C. S H 8 VS. SU,'TT0O i. M1LL Irk: Nothe ,roi tI-, t~~f utim t MI. , I. )Iget bidder. at the froo doar of the ýorbsart4 Oples O Nov. *0 *0 4A "Ac~tes . hefqfhwimg diueI Aocertain lot groun POMMI. . thd bild onr SALLIOW ALIAPCI A ply to JOfR B. *UFRA$T CEAOTUl' O? I!r' Magic Grease YSMg Without A I 'ee r. p i garr Dto ggist or Grocer for It. inehl IULCEAUDM . LA. Qos.- l wth copper Grszbd $. . ;,.L