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Tije flonai1sonvillle O1ieI Official Journal of Ascension Parish, Town of Donaldsonville and Parish School Board. L. E. BENTLEY, Editor and Proprietor *. D. BENTLEY, Managing Editor SATURDAY. NOV. 14 1908. If any weekly paper in Louisiana gave anywhere near as lull, fair and accurate a report of the results of the national election as that published in last week's Chief, we have overlooked the production. We are not tooting iur own horn yaingloriously, but merely and modestly directing atten tion to a simple fact. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Hayward, ,vhose marriage at St. Paul's Catholic cburch in New Orleans on Wednesday evening, Nov. 4, was chronicled in last week's Chief, were the recipients >f over two hundred bridal gifts of sil ver, cut glass, bric-a-brac, etc., and among the beautiful testimonials was a handsome toilet mirror from the po lice jury of Ascension parish, of which organization Hon. G. B. Reuss, father of the bride, is chairman. Thomas J. Comes, a native of this parish but for many years past a resi dent of New Orleans, died at his homr in that city at 4 o'clock a. m. Wednes day, aged thirty-four years. The funeral took place at 10 o'clock Tues day forenoon from his late residenc, at No. 932 St. Peter street, interment being made in the Soniat street ceme tery. Mr. Comes is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Eva Dacaze, t( whom the profound sympathy of a wide circle of friends and acquaint ances is extended. It is to be hoped the town counci won't go off half-cocked on the mar ket question. That it has two sides y manifest, and the members of the coun cil, who are chosen to represent the people and the town as a whole, should carefully consider both sides before helplhg the big fish to eat the litt'e ones. The small dealers and the smai buyers have rights as well as their more fortunate brethren, and the scales of justice should be equally balanced between them. The stockholders of the People's Bank met in annual session Wednes day and unanimously re-elected the present board of directors, to-wit: J A. Dalferes, R. N. Sims, G. B. Reuss, L. W. Armitage, F. L. Trepagnier, C. D. Gondran, H. C. l3raud, D. D. Dal feres, S. V. Vega, E. K. Sims, A. Net ter, J. P. Armitage, E. C. Watl en, Leon Kessler. The vacancy on thu board caused by the withdrawal of J. R. Duke will be filled by the directors at their annual meeting and electiot of omicers during the early part of next month. William Adler, the absconding pres ident of the State National Bank of New Orleans, ivoluntarily returned from Honduras last Monday and gavt bond of $10,400 to answer indictments for misuse of the funds of that institu tion which caused its suspension. Tht fugitive was given a cordial welcome by his relatives and friends, and thea all seem to share his feeling expres slon of confidence that be will be able to clear his skirts of any wrong doing It is claimed that he has established a profitable mercantile business in Hou duras and that his mining properties in that country are very valuable ano productive. Notwithstanding an unfavorable re port from a subordinate of the post office department who was detailed to investigate the matter, Postmaster General Meyer has decided to es tablish a division of the railway mail service with headquarters at New Or leans, pursuant to the authority given him by congrrss to take such action. This is a notable victory for the New Orleans Progressive Union and its committee on train and mail service, of which Norman Walker is chairman. The new division will comprise the states of Louisiana and Mississippi. H. M. Robinson of Atlanta has beer assigned for duty as superintendent, with Chief Clerk John Day of Net Orleans as assittant superintendent. What promises to be one of thi most interesting football games of tip present season is to be played at Pelican Park, New Orleans, next Mon day afternoon, between the Louisiana State University team and the noted Haskell Indians. The L. S. U. line-u, is the strongest the institution has ever had on the gridiron and bids fair to capture the southern champion hip for 1908, having easily w, n every game so far played. Several hundred cad'ts and rooters will go down from Baton Rouge on a special train Monday morning, and a big crowd will no doubt be attracted by the promise of a spectacular struggle between the "Louisiana Tigers" and the quick, lithe, swift footed Indian athletes Donaldsonville ought to send a good delegation to see the fun. For Coughs, Colds, Throat an? Lung Troubles Use Dr. Davis' -men Syrup and Tar The Old Wild Cherry and Tar Cough Syrap. Be sura you get Davis' Wild Cheasy and Tar. N b~ sai SLoe per Dofte.. Drsgisstad Deaes Result of the Election. When The CliAf went to press last week there was still some doubt as to the exact status of the electoral col lege as between the Republican and Democratic national tickets, the vote in Missouri and Maryland being so close that it could not be positively determined just bow the electors from these states were to be aligned. The presumption that Taft and Sherman had carried Missouri was confirmed by fuller returns, however, thus giving the eighteen electoral votes >f that commonwealth to the Repuli can ticket. In :Maryland the count was still closer, indicating that two of the s'ale's electoral votes would go to the Republicans and the remaining x to Bryan and Kern. The division of the electoral college will therefore be as fellows: Taft and Sherman, twenty-nine states and one fractional state--.-------------. 321 Bryan and Kern. sixteen states and one fractional state -------------------------- 162 Majority !or Taft and Sherman, --------- 159 For the information of those of our readers who may wish to make com uarisons with the presidential electinn. >f the last twelve years the following figures are given: Election of 1896 \lcKinley, 271 electoral votes; Bryan, 176; McKinley's majority, 95. Elec tion of 1900-McKinley, 292; Bryan, 155; McKinley's majority, 137. Elec ion of 1904-Roosevelt, 336; Parker. 140; Roosevelt's majority, 196. The most recent compilation of the returns from the congressional dis tricts of the country indicate that the aext house of representatives will be 3omposed of 218 Republicans and 173 Democrats, a Republican majority of 45 as against 57 in the present house, vhich contains 224 Republicans and 167 Democrats. Perhaps the most rotable gain mape by the Republicans is three members from North Carolina, attributed to the growing sentiment in hat state fivorable to the Republican principle of a tariff for the up'iilding mnd protection of domestic industries rhat come into competition with similar, ndustries of foreign countries. The bulk of the Democratic gain in con gress was made in Indiana, as noted in our last issue. No official or complete return of the vote of Louisiana has yet been oromulgated or published, so far as our observation has extended, and the fact demonstrates how very far we are behind most of the other states in the legree of popular interest taken in na tional elections, and how dilatory our officials and newsgatherers are in ascertaining and announcing the de tailed results of such contests. Ac cording to a table printed by the New Orleans Picayune on the 5th instant, admittedly incomplete and largely composed of estimated figures, the to tal of Louisiana's vote for president was 651,740, of which Bryan received 57,317 and Taft 8423. The vote of the first congressional district is given as 13,185 for Estopinal and 1730 for War moth; that of the second district, 12,509 for Davey and 634 for McDuff. We have yet to learn the figures for the other six districts of the state. The return of "Uncle Joe" Cannon to congress by a large majority not withstanding the desperate efforts nade to defeat him by Democrats, Prohibitionists, labor and church pol iticians, justifi s the expectation that he will be re elected speaker of the house without serious opposition. Accurate Election Foreca:,s. In The Chief's issue of October 31 appeared an editorial entitled, "How the Election is Going," which cited, smong other indications of the im oending defeat of the Democratic ticket, the estimate of the New York Herald ghat 280 electoral votes would go to Paft, 156 to Bryan, and that 47 were loubtful; that Hughes would probably I be elected governor of New York, and ,hat the new house of representatives would be composed of 219 Republicans and 172 Democrats. We characterized the Herald as "an independent news paper that is noted for the fairness and accuracy of its pre election esti mates," and the outcome of the recent national eitction attests the correct ness of thisdescription. Taft received a larger number of electoral votes than the Herald accord ed him, the difference being mainly due to the generally unlooked for Re publican victory in Missouri and the split in the vote of Maryland. The election of Hughes further indicated the reliability of the Herald's calcula tions, but it is in the remarkably close forecast of the congressional elections that we find the most striking proof of the newspaper's admirable nes s ser vice and well merited reputation as a reliable and painstaking medium of public information with reference to volitical conditions and contingencies. According to latest returns, the next house of representatives will contain 218 Republicans and 173 Democrats, or only; one Republican k ss anm one Ddmecrat more than the Hex aid's es timate. The fox ecasts of the New York Times and Chicago Tribune, to which refer ence was also made in our editorial above re'erred to, were likewise framed t with regard to ascertained facts and conditions and untinged by partisan bias or prejudice. Niteithstanding both papers were favorable to the 1-Re publican ticket, their estimate f e I I short of the real extent of the Repub lican triumph, forming a striking con trast to some of the wild and woolly 8 pre election claims sent forth under a the authority of the Democratic na tional committee. t The United State: sunreme court has rendered a decision sustaining the a Kentucky law requiring the separate a education of white and colored pupils ri In the schools and colleges of that a Why Such Duplicity Not a few of the Li-mocratic rce spa pers of Louisiana a!d other southern states have confessed eince the election that they doubted the wisdom of Mr. Bryan's nomination at the time-it was made and have all along felt more or less firmly convinced that he would meet with a third defeat at the polls. Yet these self s:me papers, almost without exception, have not only con cealed their true opinions on this sub j-ct from their readers, but have te peatedly declared with every appear ance of candor and conviction that they consid-red the D-mocratic candi date for president the best man who could have been nominated, and re garded his triumphant election in the light of a foregone conclusion. What reasonable excuse can he of fered for such glaring duplicity? Are the people of the southern states so hide-bound, so steeped in partisanship and prejudice that they must be fed on the pap of political misrepresentation like spoiled infants because their tem pers and palates rebel against the solid food of wholesome but ill tasting truth? Is it to be assumed that intolerance has grown to such a degree among southern Democrats that-they will not brook candor and truthfulness on the part of their party newspapers, or have the latter sunk to so low a plane that they prefer to deal in deception and misrepresentation rather than ad mit anything to the disadvantage (f their party or its candidate? Is there a popular demand for duplicity of this character, or are the papers that prac tice it actuated merely by political ex pediency? b There can be no objection to a news raper putting the best possible face on the facts and issues )f a campaign in behalf of its own patty and its favor ite candidates, but even the influencing of the floating, weak kneed and unde cided vote cannot justify the deliber ate misstatement of conditions a n d perversion of honest beliefs and opin ions to which many of our Democratic contemporaries are pleading guilty in connection with their course during the recent campaign. Law Fees in the Newcomb Will Case. The Chief takes the liberty of ques tioning the propriety of the comments of the New Orleans daily papers on the fees supposed to have been charged by countel in the Newcomb will con test. The liberty of the press, above any other liberty, ought not to be al lowed to degenerate into license. To publish the facts is entirely proper. To make comment on them-especially comment derogatory to the character of gentlemen of high stmading-is not only impertinent, but in a high degree improper. The Chief does not pre tend to judge the propriety or other wise of the amounts said to have been charged. It is not in possession of sufficient facts even if it felt competent to pass on the question at all. The question of newspaper propriety it does feel reasonably competent to pass on, and it feels that the tone of most of the comments it has seen is unworthy the dignity of its metropolitan contem poraries. For a headline writer with his snap shot view of the situation to stigma tize counsel fees as "excessive," as was dote in one instance, is not only an impropriety, but is little short of an outrage. The offense is aggra vated by the fact that the injury is well nigh irreparable. There is no real excuse for this sort of thing and it ought to be stopped. It does and can do no good, and be sides operating a grievous injustice to the irtividual reflhcted on,.ir jures the standing of both the legal profession and the newspapers as well. The truth is that the injurious effect is even more far reaching, for the indul gence in such license will by an infal li ble psychological rule lead to more or less moral degeneration in the individ uals who indulge in it. In the particular case it is entirely conceivable that the largest sum so far mentioned might be exceedingly moderate compensation for the ser vices actually rendered. A Prominent Tennesseean Shot to Death. Ex United States Senator E. W. Car mack of Tennessee wa; shot and al most instantly killed on the street at Nashville last Monday afternoon by Robin Cooper, a prominent young lawyer of that city. T"he difficulty grew out of the recent bitter factional fight in the Democratic party, when Mr. Carmack was defeated as a candidate for the gubernatorial nomination. Among his most strenuous opponents was Duncan B. Cooper, fathet' of Robin Coopr r, and the publicat~on of editorials in Mr. Carmack's paper, the Tenness-en, criticizing the elder Cooper, was the immediate provoca tion for the fa'al affray. Mr. Carmack was wounded in three places and his antagonist in one place, but the lat ter's wound is not serious. Duncan B. Cooper was present during the street duel and held a revolver in his hand, but did not fire a shot. The killing is being denounced by thb friends of the dead man as a premedi tated assnswinatian, and has created intense excitement and feeling through out the state. The New Orleans Daily States makes the amende honorable to United States Senator Doiliver of Iowa for having published, during the recent campaign some caustic editorial comments upon an alezed declaration by the senator in a political speech atReno, Nevada, that "God made the trcsts, and their regulation is in his hands." Senator Doiliver characterilzes the reto; t as an absurd Hie from the whole clo'th, and the States gracefully extress s regret for, having unoioterntiior lly aided In olscing the Iowa statesman t in a false Ilght. 4 LETTERS FROM TIlE PEOPLE. The Chief is not responsible for the views expressed by correspondents. Again Mr. Arceneaux. New Orleans, La., Nov. 2. 1908. EDITOR ;HIrF: Mr. J. F. Arceneaux attempts a re ply to our recent criticisms upon cer tain views of his, publicly expressed, and derogatory to religion. He says he is "not prejudiced towards the indi vidual Catholic, who honestly believes in his creed;" from which we may infer that he is prejudiced against Catholics collectively. With the private feelines of Mr. Arceneaux, however, we are not concerned; but, when, of his own accord, he ventilates opinions errone ous and injurious to religion, we feel called upon to intervene. In his last, the gentleman returns to the charge in relation to the matter of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day. In this connection he says: "In a week's time 100,000 Protestants were cut to piece4 in ditferent parts of the kingdom. Our critic will think this an astonishing statement. And so it is." Yes, we do find it "astonishing" that any one, pretending to be a student of history, should state as a fixed his torical fact that 100,000 were slain during the massacre in question, and that all the victims were Huguenots. The American Cyclopedia (Apple ton's) has this to say, (vol. 2, p. 348). on tbis sutj-ct: "The Lumber of per Sons put to death in all ["rance is va riously stated at 100,000 to 1500. TLe former number is doubtless much too great; the latter much too small. Tl-f estimate of De 'Thou, 20,000, is pro1 ably neater. the t: 'h." Again th same authority: "But the sung:htei was not contined to them (the Hugue nots). Many who had erudges t" avenge, or s'meth 'u to gain by tht death of others, took occasion t< gratify their malice or cupidity." We have shown in our prior, com munication that the church is not re sponsible for this massacre, and w refer to it now merely to show how re liable Mr. Arceneaux is, as a his torian. - The gentleman very kindly refers us to Fox's "History of Martyrdom" for proofs of papal persecutions. Mr. Ar ceneaux perhaps refers, witbout siem ingly knowing its true name, to John Fox's "Actaet MonumentaEtelesiae," commonly known, among Protestants, as "Fox's Book of Martyrs." If so, this illustrates the character of the sources from which our would-be mentor derives historical info, mation. So palpable are the falsities of the work just named that even the thor oughly Anglican and persistently anti Catholic Eccyclopedia Brittanica has to ackuowledge its shortcomings, and to claim acquittal for the writer only against "the imputation of wilful falsehood." 'For generations," says the ency clopedia just named, Vo. John Fox, "the popular cinteption of popery has been derived from its melancholy and bitter pages. It was vigorously a racked by Catholic writers, and its accuracy in details successfully chal lenged, even such blunders as indicat. gross over-credulity having been ex nose-r; but tbh honorable lives of Fox and his assistants place the wort above the charge of wilful falsehood." Mr. Arceneaux fli's to the rescue of the Albigenses, who were in his esti mation a blameless people, persecuted solely for religion's sake. We cite against his opinion that of Nugent Robinson, History of the World, vol. I, p. 302: "In 1200, the Albigenses came into history. They'were a set of fanatics, who seem to have held tery wild and mischievous doctrines. Theit 'perfect ones' tortured their bodies like Hindu fakirs, but tihe general mass of the people were utterly liceu rinHR.. We could cite other author;ties t the same effect, did space permit, or were the suhj-ct important enlugh to demand it. the history of the church extends over going on two thousand }ears. She is entitled to be jurgee principally by the g« neral outcome, and not by particular incidents, con corning which there are radical difler ences of opinion. Of all the continents, Europe only, which was and is Chris tian, has risen from barbarism; Asia, Africa, and also America, le ore C lumbus, have remained savage, or a best semi-barbarous. Mr. Arceneaux gives us the following hit of hisýorical information: "In Ire land, during the reign of Edward III., hundreds of Loilar us, followers of Lit celebrated reformer, John de Wyck life, were burned at the stake." If Mr. Aiceneaux will now examine into this matter, he will fiud that the Lollards, followers of Wyckliffe, were in Eng and, not Irelanc; that Edward 111. used in 1377, leaving Wyckiifie ti, survice him by several y ears, ant. that he never bothered hirseif in any way about Leilardy. And where de Ce y our crre pondent iund authority ou.t amide of John Fix tfr the -tatemeui that "hundrecs of Lollarus * * * * acre burtLei at the stake." Belerricg to Ft auce, tir. Arceneaux gays that the Catholic church in that country taxed the French ptasantý b10,01)0,O) per year. This is not a currect statement. The church receivtd not a cent from the French goverc went which was not its due as jusrit as intere-t is due to the hoicurs < F rtiatian consuls, or ucon Cuied Statra bonds. Mr. Arceueaux, if he knows any thing at all of French ais rv, is aware of the fact that the n1eaaie recýipts of the church from the Freuch treasury were s cured to it by a soien u conttnouat or treaty; and amunrted to a very small i teiet !jon thl ¾-d of church property c ii ed "' French na'ion aid appxi'd to d ti w: uses. Does Mr. Arceneaux stand gen erally for repudiation? it is not true th.tt Catholic schools auawng te Indians are drawing money from the uitional treasury. Mr. Ar ceneaux cannot prove this assertion. It is true that Catholics, at their own cost, have erected at West Point a small church for the convenience of Catholic professors and cadets. Does Mr. Aiceneaux object to this? We do not bel eve that the West Point au-, thorities have discriminated in favor of Catholiasm and against Protestant ism in this affair, or in any other. Finally Mwr. Arceneauxcarefully ab stains, in his second communication, rom referring in any way to tae most] objectionable paragraph contained in his first, the one regarding the Chris tian clergy: "The shepherds have, allowed the raging beast to greed to take possession of their better selves. And upon the flock, God's poor people, the shepherds satisfy their lust." Really, one who can bring himself to write thus concerning the entire Christian ministry is scarcely in a) mental condition to arrive at just con clusions upon any suhj ct that eon cerns religion. SOCIETY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. The Street Fair. Donalcdsonville. La., Nov. 13, 1908. ELITOR CHIEF: it -eems that the irrepressible street fair is to invade this city. once more uotwithstanding its undesirable char acteristics. It is inconceivable that our local administration should per tntt tth-se shous to operate here when the ma jority of our people are op posed of them. They certainly do not hentlit. the town, bud our people are fleeced in numerous ways by their al luring games and exhibitions. The rtfiL- of lake canariss, the Jap anese games of chance, the wheel of jortune and many more deceptive gambling devices, such as predomina ted the last street fair, should never be tuleratea again in this city, and onr people are earnestly protesting against it. . There are legitimate places of amusement here, and one can manage to dispose of surplus cash without being victimized by the street fair and its un fair attractions. PRO BONO. B. fluhler and J. S. Harvey have -ecured the lease of the Phoenix and on Saturday of last week opened the ramous old playhouse with a high class moving picture and vaudeville show. During the week just passed tlhe vaudeville features comprised Jim mie Cooper, a clever black-face come diau, in monologues and buck and wing dancing, and the two Barnel's, Eiwin and Lorita, who appeared to advantage as eccentric jugglers and e:1uilihrists. For next week, com mencing tomorrow night, the p1hincipal vaudeville offering will be "Baby \iaxino," the noted infant prodigy, aho is said to be a most remarkable singer and toe dancer for one of such tender years and who will, no doubt, emptivate her audience and make good with a rush. Miss Mary. Flandry, a young lady of much talent, has been secured as pianist, while the solos are rendered in a most pleasing manner by Miss Julia Feerier. The show as a whole is a cleau, high class form of entertainment, the opera house is well heated and comfortable, and the man averment is most courteous and so icitous recarding the comfort and cornveuience of its patrons. Perform atces ate given daily from 6 to 9:30 o. m , with a change of programme and a new illustrated song at each aerformance. Admission, children 5 cents; adults, 10 (eats. Mrs. John F. Park, one of the oldest and most highly resietted residents of this community was, on Friday last, the unfortunate victim of a severe -troke of paralysis which affected the entire left side and rendered her al t cether hopeless. Her condition was pronoun ed to he serious and her son, Rev. Father E 'ward NI. Park, presi dent of Holy Trinity College at Dallas, Texas, was immi-diately summoned and arrived during the week. Her two other sons, Hon. W. D. Park, cashier of the Bank of Donaidsoiville, and Joseph Paik, engineer at McCall Bros., were also in attendance at her bedsiee Late r0ports as to Mrs. Park's conition are to the effect that she is resting as well as can be ex pected under the circumstances but that her condition remains unchanged and is extremely critical. E'sewhere in today's Chief will bt 0iund the official proceedings of the regular November meeting of the po ice jury, which was held at the court hou:e at noon Wec'nesday. THE SLEEPING SICKNESS WHICH MEANS DEATH How many readers have heard of this terrible disease? It prevails in that far-away count -Africa--especially the Congo district. It is caused by the bite of the tsetse fly. When it bites a person, the sleeping symptoms begin and finally the sufferer sleeps until death occurs. Contrast this with the peaceful, balmy sleep of health. Is there any thing more wearing than to lie awake at night, tossing about, nervous, with cold feet, hot head and mercy knows what else? Short of letting the tsetse ly bite us we would do almost any thing for relief. How can we pre vent it? Mr. George Hayes, of Union City, Pa., writes: "I bad lost my appetite, was all run-down, could not sleep nights. I had tried every thing without relief. Vinol was rec ommended, and to my surprise, it helped me at once; gave me a splendid appetite, and now I sleep soundly." What Vinol did for Mr. Hayes, it will do for every run-down, nervous and overworked person who cannot sleep. X-RAY PHARMACY Donaldsonville, La. Winter clothing Icleas...I Every Man, Woman and Child Has an idea of the sort or winter clothing they want, kind everybody wants. We have studied the clothing problem from a practical standpoint, and by a close oservation have acqjuiredl the art of showing just the riht things at just the right time. .". Our stock is complete andl varied, our designs taste ful, and our fabrics modish and exclusive. I Netter &Company Donaldsonville, La. S I As a matter of course with the advent of Fall we are showing our usual line of Oil9 Wood and Coal h eaters, Stove Pipes Elbows, etc. Also a full line of FURNITURE and COOK STOVES, with prices even lower than they were last season. If interested, a trip our way will pay you. R. Henderson & Bro. Racket Store We have the goods Ask any of the most fastidious families of Donaldsonville and vicinity where they buy their groceries, wines and ta ble delicacies and they wi I tell you ... UChas. Maurin's Famous Blue Store Mississippi Street, Donaldsonville BANK OF DONALDSONVILLE DONALDSONVILLE, LA. 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