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de Ut e lf tae but eited and printe" I. wT S. LnANDRY CLARION. - W Ne M gu a the w h~es huth --A lEE IC'lANr .*. * .. "Here Shall The Press The People's Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence and Unbribed byt ain." VOL. XVIII.---NO. 1. OPELOUSAS. LA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1907 $IpR YEA A PEOPLE'S WELCOME TO FAVORED SON. Enthusiasm and Songs of Love Well Hot from The Hearts of St. Mary People. "01 WHAT WOUU( I DO ?" Rlnging Response from Home Peo le of St. Mary Man to Query oft Opelousas ator at the Wilkinson Meeting. "He that stands upon qý slippery place makes nice of no vileold to stay him up." That Wilkinson must stand, then Sanders needs must fall. '"The purest treasure of mortal times," Reputation, without which "man is but a gilded trunk, or painted clay," if needs be must bleed from the assassin's knife-so HE falls, so HE falls! A crown, a crown, is the reward. Sepulcher Reputation! We want a living sceptre! A few months ago there gathered at Franklin, the home of Gov. San ders, adherents of Col. Wilkinson, from different portions of the State. It was the occasion of a rally in sup port of the candidacy of Mr. Wilkin son. There was no objection to that that was a right of theirs which no one could question. There also gathered a number of ladies-two hundred or more, or less -and there was organized a Ladies' Wilkinson Club. That was a right of theirs which no one questioned. But what followed? Throughout the State, from every stump where Mr. Wilkinson spoke, the formation of the Franklin Ladies' Wilkinson Club was seized by the adherents and magnified until they had it that the womanhood of Mr. Sanders' home had entered a protest against his candidacy! From every stump they pointed to the organiza tion of the two hundred women in 1 Franklin as a corroborating circum stance to the covert slanders that r had been circulated throughout the f State at the incipiency of the cam- c paign against Mr. Sanders, and which s Mr. Sanders' ringing challenges for proof had quieted. t "If the women of my town were to N thus raise in protest against my can- a didacy-O! what would I do?" we f heard one of the Wilkinson orators t at the Opelousas meeting exclaim f with horrifed expression. After the Sanders Rally at Frank lin last Saturday, the 26th, the duty of the author of "What would I do" is plain. For there the women, the men, the children-the greybearded men and the tottering grandams, the blushing maidens and the chattering school children, the silkrobed and the plaid robed-cried down in one mighty chorus the vile imputation that the people of St. Mary, the home people of Gov. Sanders, opposed his can didacy. Aye, with the same echoing chorus they told the world that the home people of Gov. Sanders admired him, trusted him-loved him. They told the world, these women and children and men, from Franklin and from the neighboring towns, that Jared Sanders is the idol of their hearts. 1 "What would I do," O! "What would I do," if I with mouth were t to make one incision into Character, and find that my knife had been guided by Malice and not Truth! The Sanders Rally at Franklin is admittedly one of the grandest poli tical demonstrations ever held in the State outside of New Orleans. It is not possible to accurately estimate the crowd present. People came by trainloads, by boatloads, over the country roads-from everywhere. The streets of the little town of Franklin resembled Mardi-gras day in New Orleans. When the excursions began pulling out after the speaking people were at the depot several blocks thick, waiting for their ex cursions to depart, and the -railroad employees experienced much difficulty in putting people on the right trains. The boats were crowded, towing large barges fAlled with people. The country roads were specked with re turning vehicles. The excursion train bearing Gov. Sanders, and on which the writer was a passenger, arrived at Franklin at 1 o'clock. Gov. Sanders boarded it at New Iberia, accompanied by some six hundred men and women, including the New Iberia Ladies' Sanders Club, which numbers 537, ladies of Bob Brbussard's town. The sixteen coaches were already overcrowded, but the ladies entered notwithstand ing, taking their seats-standing room seats--on the platforms and in the aisles. When Jeanerette was reached the Ladies' Club there stormed the NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. Two Singular Tragic Deaths of Little Oirls--Bank President is Troubled--Large Per Centage of Qeacherr ass Examinations--Other News Tt. A 11 .: 1 sa 4 L1 « 1 7 .L 4.L T . 1 L.« .. .« ......4 .. The Abbeville State Fair closied at Abbeville on Sept. 30. Alexandria has installed and tested its new fire alarm system. The grand jury of Caj-.sieu parish will convene on OctobeF 21st. Rains are doing considerable dam age to the crops of Lafayette parish. Norfolk, Va., capitalists will erect a hardwood factory at Alexandria which will employ from 150 to 200 men. M. A. McAllister defeated N. B. Hunt for Mayor of Waterproof. Hunt had held the office for twenty years. A runaway boy from Mississippi had both legs crushed by falling un der a log train at Hammond, La. His name was May. Everette Battles was shot through the heart and instantly killed by an other negro, Lewis Joseph, at Oberlin, Sunday, over a crap game. The United States Recruiting Office at New Iberia has been closed. Dur ing four months only two men were enlisted to do service in the army, Will Thompson, a negro, ambushed and shot to death a white man named Charles Hapgood, at Cravens, Vernon, parish, Sunday night, and escaped. The report of State Examiner Young on Louisiana banks shows $100 338,000 to be the resources of one hundred and seventy-five institutions. In the recent examinations for cer tificates of qualification to teach in the public schools of this State, 1135 took the examibation, and 75 1-5 per cent passed. Under the stimulus of recent heavy rains, and warm weather, cane in the sugar parishes is making rapid growth. Some refineries will start grinding the latter part of October. The Elks and Eagles Clubs of Mon roe were indicted by the grand jury for violating the Sunday Law. These clubs operate buffets where drinks are served to members of the order. John Wilbert, president protem of the police jury of Iberville parish, and vice-president of the Iberville Bank and Trust Co., was indicted by the grand jury for "preach of public trust," in that he voted to award the fiscal agent contract to the bank of which he was an officer. Hon. Ludger Barbin, Confederate veteran and former representative in train and in some inexplicable way got room. The men from that town who could do so also boarded the train, but the most of them waited for another train. There were three bands on the train-Lake Charles, Rayne and Church Point, and Bob- Broussard's town was given an ovation, the strains of music being drowned by the cheers of the people-but not for Bob. When Franklin was reached an ovation greeted the Lieutenant-Gov ernor that surpassed anything we have ever seen. Gov. Sanders, his mother, wife and boy, were hurried to a waiting car riage, and the procession formed-a procession two miles long. The streets were overhung with decora tions of the national colors in zigzag fashion, and EVERY BUILDING BUT ONE GROCERY STORE on the way from the depot to the meeting grounds was decorated with Sanders colors. When the Sanders carriage reached town it was beseighed by cheering men, the horses taken out, and ropes attached and pulled to the meeting grounds, the multitude cheering all the while. There were seven bands in the parade, and Sanders Ladies' Clubs from every section of St. Mary parish. The ladies predominated in the parade -the ladies had prepared the recep tion, and the men stood up and cheered them on. It was the woman hood of St. Mary hurling into the teeth of the enemies slanders of a chivalrous son. We could go on and on for pages writing about this grand reception of a home town to a favored son, but space forbids. The meeting was a success, the reception was a success, the barbecue was a success-every thing worked smoothly and without a hitch. An account of the speaking will be found on another page of this paper. Good Washington Property. Attention is called to the sale of the estate of John Courville, which will take place :at..:Washington on Tuesday, October 8 The estate includes a choice 'piece of property in our sister town, as well as a lot of immovables. the Legislature, and prominent in politics shortly after the civil war, died at Marksville Monday, aged 82 years. Thh iAtchafalava Bay Ship Canal wil' comnplefted by October 10, and! there is considerable rivalry as to who will send the' first ship from Morgan City to the sea through it. It is said that some ships will have trouble on account of the swift current in the canal. A foul double murder was uflearth ed a few miles above Bolinger, on the afternoon of September 28, when the bodies of J. F. Delaney and L. F. Roole Williams, two highly respected citizens were fouud on the roadside, both having been shot to death. There is so far not the slightest trace of the unknown assassins. Negroes are suspected, and robbery the mo tive. The State' reasurer has ' ed the following statemedb of e nounts on deposit with the rious 'fiscal agents at the f business on September 3 : New Orleans National Bank $454,410.93, Hibernia! Bank and Trust Company $456,341. 96, State National Bank $459,946.31,1 Canal-Louisiana Bank and Trust Com pany $456,287.93. Total $1,826, 987.13. The following new enterprises are scheduled for Lecompte for 1908: $20.000 electric light plant, wagon and spoke factory at a cost of $100,000, a $50,000 glass and bottling works, an other opera house, a five-story modern hotel, three fine two-story mercantile house and a large concrete industry is now being discussed. In addition I to these certainties, many local enter- i prises are making nice and substantial improvements. Singular mishaps, which resulted in the tragic death of two little girl babies, were reported from two sepa rate points of the State Monday. At New Roads, Pointe Coupee parish, the child of Mr. and Mrs. Omere Porche swallowed glass in some unaccountable way, and died after experiencing ex cruciating agony. While Theodore Woolerson, residing near Winnsboro, Franklin parish, was watering his hdrse at a pump a dog ran up and bit the animal, which plunged forward. The 18-months-old child of Woolerson, who was playing about the heels of the horse, was knocked down and trampled, causing instantaneous death. FATHER JOUAN DEAD. Eminent Catholic Priest Ex pires at New Iberia. _ Catholics in St. Landry parish will be grieved to learn of the death of Rev. Father P. M. Jouan, which oc currod at New Iberia on last Monday morning. Father Jouan was Pastor of the Catholic church at Washington, this parish, for fifteen years, and while there endeared himself to the whole people, his earnest work for Christianity and his many deeds of charity marking him as a learned and good man. He accepted the appointment to the Immovable Rectorship at New Iberia in 1891. There he has de voted his life to the upbuilding of the church and the people, and his devotion and unselfishness is- shown by the fact that he died without leaving an estate, although the par ish at New Iberia is one of the rich est in the State, and it would have been an easy matter for him to have acquired property. He devoted all of his income to the poor and to the church, Father Jouan was born in Britan ny, France, in 1844, and came to this country whan yet a young man. Goat? "Commend to us the nerve, pre sence of mind, or whatever you will, of Judge Coco of Avoyelles," dramat ically exclaims the Abbeville Meridion al. "He was at the big Wilkinson blowout at New Iberia the other day when only star orators-the peculi arly favored few, were to hold the boards and by all ordinary rules Coco was shut out. But with the spirit of Jasper at Fort Moultrie, or Ethan Al len at Ticonderoga, the Avoyelles candidate rose slpreme to the occasion. He mounted the rostrum, introduced himself and made a speech which captured the crowd. Now who says that with such a courageous spirit for attorney general there would not be a faint possibility that he could see and locate a trust?" The wise advertiser selects the pa per with the circulation. Bill LAND COIAY OiANEIU Pmasylva-lat s and Home Will ay and Sell lands and 'bLk ct CAPITALIZED AT 300,000 illS Have Already Acquired Several: Flatatioss, Formerly Property of iulom, rgatlouis Ce.-Alled With LattaegP pauy. The Colonial Land Compny is a! new corporation domiciled at.Opelou sas and capitalized at $300,000. As we understand it, the new con cern is closely allied with the Union Irrigation Co., J. Franklin Schell's great canal project. There will be a close community of interests between. the two corporations, and they are composed largely of the same stock holders. The purposes of the .new corpora tion are to purchase, sell, and lease lands, and to improve and coustruct buildings thereon, and to carry oi inj all its branches the business of farm ers, planters and shippers of any and all kinds of farm and other products. The conJern has already acquired much of the lands bought by the Union Irrigation Company, among them the following places: Philips, Cooke, Evans, Perrault, Peckham Harris. Bidstrup, Pitre and Plonsky. The Union Irrigation Company trans ferred all of its rights to these places to the new corporation, aggregating about 5000 acres that can be con verted into rice farms-or any other culture. The Union Irrigation will retain for its use only such lands as it needs for its canal and pumping plant. As will be seen by the charter of the Colonial Land Co., which is pub lished in another part of this paper, the stockholders are largely Pennsyl vanians, members of the parties brought here some months ago by Mr. Schell. Their investing in this section is evidence that they were favorablg impressed .with the possi- 1 bilities of this part c touisiana, and may mean more in the way of devel-1 Dpment of it by the same source. The Board of Directors and officers Df the new company are: Henry f Drachbar, President, Lancaster, Pa.; Raoul LeBourgeois, Vice-President, i 3pelousas; D. J. Eckman, Treasurer, < Lancaster, Pa.; J. H. Albert, Secre- I bary, Lancaster, Pa.; A. R. Bomberg- I )r, Lititz, Pa. 1 "IT'LL BE BIG MEETIN(." Dr. Lewis Prophesies on Out come of Sanders Rally at Eunice on Oct. 26th. "The Sanders meeting at Eunice on October 26th will be a successful and largely attended affair, unless, I am sadly mistaken," remarked Dr. M. D. Lewis, on the train to Franklin last Saturday. This view of the Sanders meeting was shared by others from Eunice who were also on the train on their way to hear Gov. Sanders in his home town. While the meeting will be a local One, it is expected that there will be an attendance from other sections of the parish. We learn that there will be a good crowd from Opelousas, and an effort will be made to get an ex-i! cursion on the Frisco road from this] place. It is possible that the other roads I leading into Eunice will run excur sions, and if this is accomplished a I delegation from Crowley will be I present. Elaborate preparations are being! made, and there will be enough bar- I becued meat to feed the hungry no a matter how strong in numbers they! come. Among the French speakers will probably be Omer Villere, of New! Orleans, and Tony Muller, of New i Iberia. It is understood that the Eunice section of St. Landry will give thei St. Mary man a handsome majority.l NEW DEPUTIES. Sheriff Swords Adds to Clerical and Executive Force., With Deputy Tax Collector Wig gins, in the tax collection department i of the Sheriff's office, can now be found Mr. HenryLastrapes, Jr., who assumed duties there this week. _ As riding deputy in the criminal 1 department of the offiee, Mr. George 4 IDjean is now vftving, -having also i assumed duties this week. Both these gentlemen wia prove vanluable additions to the SherifEs offica of St. ,Lapdr arish. ON. WM. S. FRAZEEr IS A CANDIDATE Announces For State Auditor On Strong Platform-I Has Unexcelled Record As Official ln Same Capacity--Friend of Schools. HON.°W.S &FRAZEE, OF'-ORLLANS. Hon. W. S Frazee is a candidate I for the office of Auditor of Public Aoounts of the State of Louisiana, and he ought to win. Mr. Frazee filled the office from t 1900 to 1904, and the record made s there is one of his strongest recom ,endations for another term. It is' freely admitted that he made one of c the best Auditors the State ever had, and the State of Louisiana needs the I Services of such a man, particularly b it this time, when it seems that all l( the crooks in the country have fo used their hungry eyes on the State t; treasury and there seems a woful b ack of ability to stop the plindering. p Vith such a man as Mr. Frazee the l'arion honestly believes that there b would be a stop put to the stealage s1 f public moneys, if he were armed, s f course, with prer laws to effect vely safe-ga ý . ee Mr. Frazee dtring his teri of of ie not only kept the accounts of the w State of Louisiana and its collectors ci n tangible and correct shape, but he e.dered valued service to.the, State n many other ways. He compiled b, he State laws into a compendium b, hatis to-day used in all offices ;hav-. rg dealing with license and collec- t ions, and his recommendations to m he Legislature were accepted as full r ,d able and many of them are to- 1( ay laws on our statute books. r His great work in behalf of public t ducation while Auditor marks him I a a valued friend of that cause. It oi ras through -his recommendations tl hat the first advances in the mill ge of the State for education were w made, and he announces in his plat- of arm -that he is still a friend of the gi anuse. As we remarked last week in st peaking of his then probable candi- dl acy, Mr. Frazee was prevented from of faking a second race, whichimany elieve would have won him the office, t the last primary on account of me enormous cost-over $6000-a econd race would have entailed. Y his $6000, it must be remembered, 'as.the amount necessary to have is name placed on the ticket, and id not include the personal expenses w, f the campaign, which would havegi rought up the aggregate to a.small ompetence to make the race. Like ea r. Steele, who was a candidate pl ar Treasurer against Mr. J. M. in mith (the latter now a candidate 3: )r Auditor), he witihrew fois the in ce, and Martin i~ehr~i. , now as ayvor of New Oigans, was deiared V he nominee, and Mr. Smith, although le everal thousand votes behind Mr. ea tele, was declared the nominee for w e8surer by the State Central Com- as ittee. Mr. Frazee, .iOibnmki his n-. hi oecement, gave odt the following: E "Bttecause Tident to' * ra o tierthe e late rima i abcoinittee to eliminate or recom- bi imite to the central committee the W iination of any portion t ea I was sopgllef d to t'f 1esecond ra ce,and an ow it se tfo nomination to that o- t * ~e I favor an increase of the bond of the State tax collector, in such parishes as may be necessary, to an amount suffi cient to cover such possible sum as iay come into his hands in any one month, the tax collector being now required to settle each month; in the parish of Orleans one State tax collector in stead' of seven, with a reasonable de crease in excessive salaries. "As to assessments and taxation, I believe the system of assessments, based upon a fair valuation, with a low tax rate,,to be correct, and that railroads, etc., should be assessedand taxed upon the same basis, including both their tangible and intangible property. "While Auditor, and hence a mem ber of the board of liquidation, I sub stantially took the position whio) seems. now -adopted that the fiscal agency should bie given to ~the bigal est responsible bidders; and the. re i~: of the pireceding dadgition will show that I voted against a de crease of the interest then paid, from fifteen to ten thousand dollarse. "As to the adjustmient 'of the bonded debt of the State, etc., I will be better prepared later to state my `piosition. In the distribution oft.M then six-mill State tax each r t.r made by me while Auditor shows a recommendation to increase the cur rent school fund until, in 1904, I recommended as high as two mills of. the six for that purpose, and, should I be honored again with the position of Auditor my efforts will continue in that direction, in so far as may be possible, with a low tax rate and to ward increasing the efficiency of that office my very best attention will be given." Mr. Frazee ii making the race strictly for Auditor, and is not med dling with candidates for the other ofices. He is emphatic on thi.point. WANT EARLIER MAIL. Ville Platte Complains of Uncle Sam's Schedule. Mr. Paul Castenado, of Ville Platte, was in Opelousas on" Monday last, and gave the Clarion an appreciated call. He was here in the interest of an earlier mail for Ville Platte. That place is dependent on the Star Route method for its mail, it leaving here at 3:20o'clock every evening, and arriv isgthere at 7:30. A thie ilast`i;aa arrives in Opelousas ' at 2* 10, th, Ville Platte people tifi that Eidts onl leave here earlier, and reach there early in the evening. The matter will be takenup by Postmaster Ias salle for the people of Ville .latte.. Mr. Castenado also complains of the high freight; :tom`' °' lfe:: ` East & West Railroad at his point. ror Ope oa t of the F h$r f , For in ttj e itseJ bil of billed to Ville Patte via the L i. W. cost him $5 freight, 'whilel e RAe uleof primes on fright, and that the people of Villae Patte hoped Y9 ojY-.rp 4Y 11 ý `4 1r Tiý F PRIMARIES ON THE 25 OF JANUARIY. State Ceatral Cmulne met And lse Fearml Call SANDERS FOCES IN CONTROL The Democratic State Central Com mittee of Louisiana met in New Or leans laist Tu.sday -ind named Thes day, Januar~y 28,1908- asiie day of the first primary election. In case of a second primary, it will be held four weeks after. Only white Democrats will be per mitted to vote. "It is- repugnant to the spirit of the primary law and to the tenets of the Democratic party that Republicans, or so-called inde pendent Republicans, should -vte or participate in said Democratic pri mary election," clearly spikl. a part of the resolutions. The commission era uf election . are vs$ed w~.ith power to ask a pers n dtf erg to vote if he is a member of the Deangc cratic party, and will he support the nominee. All parish committees, must meet: within twenty days from the day of the meeting of the State committee, or not later than October 21, and ten days after the meeting of the parish committee of any giver, parish candi dater must ~havedcle i their inten ti"ops -nd`f;i theie e d rations of ca.didacy with the parish committee.. This applies to parish and ward of ficers. The friends of Gov. Sanders wore' in absolute control of the meeting, and run things to suit themselves.. All resolutions and plans were ar ranged at Sanders Headquarters in advance of the meeting, and when, the committee met all there was to be done was to adopt the pre-sa. ranged progtramme. Hon. Edmund McCullogh, one t the most ardent Sanders men in "the State, wasg nanimously elected Vice Chairman of the .Central Committee, which carries with it the Chairman. ship of the State Executive Com.' mittee. The Wilkinson forces were in seeh a helpless minority that they did:. attempt a fight on anything, but seconded the motions of the Sadeair people. Chairman Sims, of the WIl kins :.mpaigna. .it ee, tbS n.a fght w : a ty time eoa This fact is Hinted to by- the friend of Mr. Sanz[ an evidence of a tremendous revulsion of sena ment in favor of Mr. Sanders among the big Democrats of the State i= a. few months, as it will be remembered that at the last meeting of the State Committee the Sapder& forces were routed. the same flei t now sap p.orting Mr. Wilkiisoa, The Parish Iemacratri Executelv Committee of St. Landry has been called to meet in Opelousas on Thra day, October 17th. --- __ ,. W ILKINSON'S ACADIA SWING Candidate for Goveuor Cm n Tmenes Itinerary at Ray.. : on Oct. 16--Other Points. Co!. Theodore S. Wilkinson will in rade our sister parish of Acadia coi tencing on October 18tU on which late he will pk at Raye. - The swing will end itha gr rally at Crowley'on the 19th. On the afternoon of the 17th a meeting will be held at- Church P~;t, but no barbecue has been announced ror that point. On the afternoon of the 18th the speaking will be at Morse, and on the next day, the 19th, the big rally at 'rowley. m the speakers will be Colt W''nm Vgessman Broussard, u ey LJ Oi*. .14ee Garland, : H. Pavy, Judge Lewis and R. N. inims. Mr. Broussard will speak at Rayne and Church Point, and probably at ;rowley. .he tcamro wi, under tlt i-spices tWhle on C..u of Crowley, and arter will be hed in the buildin[ in dro rdtirrng Rev., Brown, pastor of 1 .: SChurch, has ,u' RHe will pireak . Ias al moe AM -M M4