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ABSORBED THE ST. LANDRY MMONER ON JULY 2, 1912.
"Here Shall The Press The People's Rights Maintfl , Unawed by Influence and Unbrbed by Cain."
VOL. XXiI-'-NO. 47. OPELOUSAS, LA., SAS:TRDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1912.1 ER YE
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LIATOR LAZARO LEADS
FIRST PRIMARY BY 551
ssurances of Support from Parishes Make His Elec=
tion Practically Certain.
'HAPPIUS, ELIMINATED FROM SECOND RACE,
DECLARES FOR THE ST. LANDRY SENATOR.
Dispatches from Crowley and Lake Charles Demo=
crats Announce. Adherance to
Cause of Lazaro.
CHAPPUIS FOR LAZAR~O.
SCrowley, Sept. 26.--lon. P. J. Chappuis, can
didate for Congressman, who was eliminated'
from the second primary by a small vote, will
; this evening write a letter to Dr. L. Lazaro, the
leader in the first race, declaring his allegiance'
, to him.
It is no secret here that Clerk of Court Ous.
Fontenot, and. Sheriff Louis' Fontenot, have,
aligned themselves with Dr. Lazaro. T h e y
supported Mr. Chappuls in the first primary.
The Chappuls voters in the Estherwood ward -
met last night, and determined to support. Dr,
Lazaro.
The general impression is that Acadia parish
will give the Doctor a substantial majority.
With a lead of five hundred and
fty-one votes, Dr. L. Lazaro goes into
he second primary for the Democratic
[nomination for the office of Congress
an from this, the Sevent Congres
Mr. P. J. Chappuis, of Acadia, was
ihtly eliminated in the first primary
r. Lewis leading him by one hundred
ad nine votes.
Dr. Lazaro's big lead practically in
res his election, it is confidently 'be
eved, in the final race between him
rd Mr. Lewis.
Not only i this lead potential in. in
icatingthe flal result, but news from
lcasieu, Acadia and Cameron, since
he first primary, points to. the Chap
uis vote tilting the scale for the Dloc
r to a real stupendous majority in
e second.
, Prominent Chappuis leaders in Cal.
ieu and Acadia have, by `wire and
hone, declared themselves for Dr.
aro in the second, and many of the
tends of Mr. Lewis are pondering
ver the question: "Why did he not
bmit to the, virtually, expressed will
of the people, in their choice of Dr.
aro, and gracefully sBmit?"'
Another question, which is being
ked by the bulk of the voters, is
"Why should Mr. Lewis enter a second
rimary, in.the almost futile hope of
methinog happening,' and by this
cision of himself and friends to hold
t for 'Something may happen,' put
to the necessity of coming out a
ond time to vote, sacrificing urgent
ork on our farms?"
¶But Mr. Lewis is ambitious, and he
gone in the faice of almost certain
feat just because of this ambition.
Caesar was warned of the Ides of
ch by a witch.
He disregarded them, and was slain.
Mr. Lewis was warned by ti people
that he was not wanted by :them
Iwarned by the people of the Ides of
October.
He has disregarded them.
He will not be slain like .aesar
stabbed by his friends.
The sovereign people, in the °might
of Vote, will rebuke his pre;mption
in setting aside their warningm
It Was A Surprise.
The vote of Dr. Lazaro in the
Seventh Congressional District,
was a thunderbolt to 1 his oppo
nents.
Many of the opposition orators
with absolute and criminal dis-,
preaching from the hustings that
Dr. Lazaro was incompetent; had
never introduced a bill in the
Senate, of which he is at present
a member, had only voted and
never raised his voice in debate.
They had, without truth, even
in the feinest sense, painted Dr.
Lazaro as, to use a street gamin's
expression, "A lump on a log."
The people however, who had
followed the Senator's course in
the Senate-the people who had
read the newspapers, and kept
up with FACTS--knew that these
Lewis orators were slandering
the very able Senator from St.
Landry; that they had brushed
aside FACTS for the benefit of
Mr. Le '-and THE PEOPLE
VOTE'EN THEIR MIGHT IN
PROTEST AGAINST A CAM
PAIGN OF MISREPRESENTA
TION, AND IN 'MANY I N
STANCES, VILLIFICATION.
People Rebuke VYillifieation.
There was a day when the
political demagogue could get on
a rostrum, exhort vehemently,
and inflame his hearers with en
thusiasm.
That was considered good poli
tice-winning politics.
But the American people are
more sane now.
Bewareto him whom they catch
in a misrepresentation.
These American people believe
iir FAIR PLAY- they insist on
FAIR PLAY.
An example is the staggering
rebuke just administered by
the people of New Orleans to
Don Caffery, in his race for Dis
trict Attorney. Mr. Caffery'i
ability is unquestioned.
But he has a woful disregrad
for truth, in dealing with politi
cal opponents, and with things
in polities generally.
He has been a candidatefor of
office varions times, and has pur
sued the same plane of campaign;
and each succeeding time-as
many times as he has offered
himself, the people have admin
istered to him a stinging defeat.
The political harangue does not
go any more in American politics.
Welcome the day!
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VOTE OF THI S
TRICT .!' ARISHES
ACADIA 1 340 633
CALCASIEU 1 1427 923
CAMERON 140 147
EVANGELINE 34 719 253
ST. LANDRY 1 790 909
TOTAL 260I 3416 2865
Lazaro pluralityover Lewis
551.
Lewis pluralit 'over Chap
Pius 196.
THE VOTE 9E IEU.
.Calcasieu pa r.ia ished a
surprise to ther ds of Mr.
Lewis. Early.." y it was
openly claimed `~f streets of
Opelousas that lewis would
carry; ev r in theparish
Jennings. Instead, 'Dr. Lazaro
carried a large majority of the
precincts, receiving 1427 votes in
the parish, against 1008 for
Chappuis and 903 for Lewis.
Lake Charles gave the doctora
majority over both of his oppo
nents, he receiving 444 votes,
against 224 for Mr. Chappuis and
171 for Mr. Lewis. The vote
there was small, but it is said
that it will be larger in the second
primary.
The next largest poll, Jennings,
also went for Dr. Lazaro, he
carrying it by s vote of 184,
against Chappuis 115 and Lewis
18.
DR. LAZARO'S NEllill
BORSSTUST BY HIm
LIKF A STONE
WALL.
An analysis of -Tuesday's vote
evidences the love and esteem
Dr. Lazaro's neighbors and
friends cherish for him., At
Ville Platte he received 214 votes,
Mr. Lewis 18, Mr. Chappuis 5.
At Brignac (which is the
Grand Prairie section of Evange
line) he received 67 votes, Mr.
Lewis 4, Mr. Chappuis 0. At
Grand Prairie, in this parish, his
;home, he received 143 votes,
Lewis 7, Chappuis 4.
Surely one who lives in the
hearts of his people to this ex
tent, must be possessed of great
qualities of the head and heart.
No one secures the love and es
teem of his- friends and neigh
bors without deserving these.
The vote above set out indicates
that Dr, Lazaro is endowed with
the capacity, not only to make
friends, but to hold them. It
was a great tribute to the per
sonality of the candidate, which
up to the present bnoment, has
escaped observation.
Now that be is in the limelight,
it is made to appear wilh the
glare of the mid-dlay sun.
V(YOER.
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NUTHINiI SUCCEEDS
LIKE SUCCESS
On Wednesday afternoon it
was definitely ascertained that
Dr. Lazaro was four hundred
votes ahead of Mr. Lewis and
that this latter was leading Mr.
Chappuis by sixty votes, tele
grams and telephones messages
began to pour in upon his cam
paign manager, tendering the"
services of the senders
in the event of a second contest
between Dr. Lazaro and Mr.
Lewis. Mr. L. H. Moss was one
of the first to assure Dr. Lazaro
that the Chappuis voters in Cal
casieu stood ready to support
Lazaro in the event of a run over
with Mr. Lewis.
'Twas ever thus. Men shut
their door against a setting sun.
OBSERVER.
Dale For The Second Primary,
The Congressional Democratic
Executive Committee, which will,
meet to-morrow, will, determine
the date for the second primary.
RESULT IN RACE FOR
SCHOIL BOARD IN
FIRST WARD
Perkins Leads Ticket, With
Daly, Larcade and Andre
pout Next.
The fight for members of the
School Board from the .First
Ward of St. Landry parish re
sulted in the election of J. Aus
tin Perkins, Henry L. Larcade,
Jr., Dr. O. P. Daly and J. Ed
gar Andrepont.
Four were to be elected, six
ran. Messrs. J. M. Sanders and
J. F. Vidrine failed of election.
The official vote follows:
J A. Perkins..... ........... 308
H. D. Larcade, Jr...... 289
Dr. O. P., Daly........ 260
J. M . Sanders .......:..................215
Edgar Andrepont ...................208
J. F. Vidrine ............ ...182
Plaisance Precinct.
Edgar Andrepont._ ................ 72
J. F. Vidrine........ ..... 62
Dr. O. P. Daly .............. . 28
J. M. Sanders .......... 10
J. A. Perkin . ...................... .. 8
H. D. Larcade, Jr ................... 4
Bellevue Precinct.
Dr. O. P. Daly.....: . 3... 35
J. A. Perkins ..... ..... 34
Edgar Andrepont. ..:. 30
J. F. Vidrine .......................... 27
H. D. Larcade, Jr. 20
J. M. Sanders ................ ........ 15
Total in Ward:
J. A. Perkins ...... ..:.........340
Dr. 0. P. Daly . ... 318
H. D. Larcade, Jr. 313
Edgar Andrepont ....................280
J. F. Vidrine .......... .... .......... 271
J. M. Sanders ............. .......240
The three first-named elected.
Mistaken Indenity.
One way to save Mrs. Woodrow
Wildon from embarrassment of
being mistaken for Mrs. Wilson
Woodrow, whose views, as ex
pressed in an interview, are likely
to be at variance with those of
the wife of the Denpcratic can
didate for President is to inform
te .ple generally who Mrs.
WQ~isUb~~odrow is.
S W..as born Nancy Mann
Waddel in Ohio.
,,Married James Wilson Wood
bw, cousin of Woodrow Wilson.
Assisted in editing the Chillicothe
Daily News.
Removed to New York,in 1900,
Now contributes humor, short
stories and verse to magazines
and is the author of several
novels. . i
"When I write,"she once told aI
reporter, ":I write in colors. I
get excited. I want to bite some
thing-something hard. One day
I was working with a glass pen
holder and the first thing I knew
I had bitten in clear in two."
Mrs.Woodrow Wilson is also an
author, but :the produc.s of her
pen are coolernot dashed with.
pink nor splashed with sctarlet.
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--Miss Rowena Delahoussaye,
of Lafayette, after speneing a
while in. town yisiting: relatives
left Tuesday for her home.
VOTE OF PARISH FOR CONGRESS
PRECINCTS: CHAPPIUS LAZARO LEWI1
Opelousas ............................. 4 142 295
Plaisance .............................. 14 50 18
Bellevue ...... ........................ 2 17 2
Grand Coteau ......... ......... 3 79 43
Coulee Croche .......................... 9 28
Leonville ............................. 5 46 36
Notleyville .................. 1 00 10
Arnaudville ............................. 47 17 17
Bayou Current ........................................ 0 7 8
Melville ............. ............ ...... . .... 0 28 19,
Waxia 0 4 14
W axia : ................ ................................... ... .. 0 -
Palmetto 1 1 18
Big Cane ......................... - .... .. 0 1 24
Morrow ........ ........................... 0 3 12
Port Barre ................ . 1 14 19
W ashington ........ .......... ........ .... 2 82 51
Garland ................. ... 0 4 19
Barbreck ....... ........................................ 0 0 9
Grand Prairie ................................_.... 4 "143 7
Whiteville ........ ....... .... 0 14 6
Faquetaique ........ .................. 0 5
M allet . ....... ...... ............_ 8 33 3,
Plaquemine Point ........................... 2 5 8
Eunice ..... . . . 5 67 1560 .
TOTAL ............... ... . 103 r 790 9
NO TRACE OF LOST
LITTLE BOB DUNBAR.
Fater is Now Inclined to the Theory That
Four-Year.Old Child Has Been Kidnapped.
STRANGE INCIDENT AT KAIN.
Italian Woman Disembarks from Frisee Train
With Child Not Of Her Race- - -They
Have Disappeared.
'It is now believed by many,
among the number the father of
the lost child, that little Robert
Dunbar, who disappeared so°
mysteriously from the fishing
camp at Swayze Lake, where his
parents and a party of friends
and relatives were, has bee) kid
napped.
The drowning theory has beep
practically discarded, lil
that he wandered in, the w
and perished..
Repeated andpeisistents."ea
of both- the lake and the wd
have failed to produce any tirac
of him: and it is now. believed
that the child went along ithe
railroad and was picked, up y
someone.
What was thought to have been
a clue to his wt sa de
veloped last Sa y,~- when .btit
was reported that a- swathy wo
man, evidently a Dago, had
gotten off of the train at' Kahi
station, between Opelousas and
Baton Rouge, on the Frisco, with
a child answering the descriptioa
of the Dunbar child. Sheriff
Swords and Percy Dunbar, the:
father, at once went to Kahn,
but could find no trace.of the
woman or child.
The fact that the father has
offered a reward of $1,000 for the
recovery of the boy is evidenee
that he has hope that he is still
alive.
The poster, containing the
announcement or the reward,
says that no questions will
asked of the party returning4timn;
heeting of B. .I Lee .tiamp.
On account of important bas
iness, a meeting of R. F. `ee
Camp No. 14, U. C. V., of Ope
lousas, La., is hereby called to
assemble on Friday, the 13th day
of September, kA. D. 1912, at 10
o'clock a. m,, at the oflee of
Judge Arthur Simon, in thecity
of Opelousas. All members of
said camp are urgently to be
prsen ARHUR SIMON,
- t Adjutant.
--Miss , Pearl Williams, .,of
Baker, and 1iss GertrudeGrifith
of this place, left here Saturday
for Garland, where they .will
open school.
--Miss Vera Jones, of New .Or
leans, who has been visiting Miss
Esther Simpson, left Friday for
her home.
-Miss "Nina" Titard re~turn
ed this week from an ex:tended
j trip t.o Te:s and Mexi .
GARLAND DUPE WINSE
FOR CONGRESS I.
ion. H. Garland Dupre iv
ed in Opelousas Friday morni~ng
victorious from hi3 battle for
Congressman from ,he Seond4
District, comprisinga part of the
city of New Orleans, and several
of the adjoining parishes.
Mr. Dupre will serve his thir
teri~, each time ,being? lte4 y
iagood majority.}
This time he defeated exLer:
ift Le Bourgeois, one of th
prominent men of that 4
by 3200 votes.
Mr. Dupres hereto visit Ni
TIHE "0INt liE T
.dlhe Reso.lor De..4s
aitipal offer u. .
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dates f
Government teage
Donelson Caery, the i
the Goo-Goos sinceex
boss Paker has oined
blican partythat is,_e
his' affiliation with tat
was df eated by R
Demoracn's c n ate s l a
,oity of so"m thouiad vte
Every caididae of the
racy won by a large majo rty.
LAVYEIS ONPRI?
Politias R tnderU0 d the Bato w
Unable nto A~ti nd to atyi
he heated po'itial ea
tpdered the lawyers t h8
Opelousas bar unable to prepare
their cases for theregular session.
of the Ciuit Court, .which met
here Wen. esday, and the gJuoes 4
had to adjourn until next Am'
ing 'day, next January.
There were fourteen cases o. .
appeal, but not a lawyer had a ..
brief ready, or-his case prepa re
to go to -trial,
"I want it understood that
Circuit Judges were here,"'
Judge Mouton, "and that
fault Wrthepostponementof
t e rm is dus ...tirelyto the bar of
OpelouSas. The: lawyers were
unanimons in asking theoact tcFart
pestpone the termt"
- Misses Bessie Duri and J.
Breaux left Saturday for Eunicee
Ville Platte aed'ther points.
-Mr.H. HI. Spillyards. of*
Alexandria ,,a a visitor her4s
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