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Ti" TIMi·. : "i ;~(· I te whole SoutI-A- UIRICA;I " R UO n r; lx.O ., .., .· . . . ,eplm o :oom ,rutlae au , __ HE~f Str. LANrkH cLARION. ERUION Arr·rektrl1U ? I N t t 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 , , -.. ... . . .. . . . . . .. .. ... . . i.. - . .. . . m .. .. . .. .. .. ... .. . ... . .. .. ...,. ,, ,: ); 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! I;; : 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. . . + • k 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. -- · *-~~I- --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. . . . :,++ + ++ ++ -, 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 ,<I,1