Louisiana Governor Speaks at Farmerville Railroad Celebration - October 1904, Union Parish Louisiana

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Louisiana Governor Speaks at Farmerville Railroad Celebration
      from the Farmerville "Gazette" issue of 2 November 1904
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                              The Governor in Farmerville.

     At the Grand barbecue last Thursday the people were honored by the presence of 
Gov. N. C. Blanchard, attended by Mr. Carson of the Picayune and Mr. Newton of The 
Shreveport Times who were present, not only to report Gov. Blanchard's speech but 
to take note of the efforts put forth by the people tending toward enterprise. 

     Gov. Blanchard spoke Thursday night and Friday morning, being introduced by 
Chairman, W. D. Munholland. 

     The Governor, in his usual graceful and felicitus [sic] style of true oratory, 
embodying profound logic spoke to the issue of numerous amendments to be voted on 
by the Louisiana citizenship on the 8th day of November. The amendment in which 
Governor Blanchard is chiefly interested is the million dollar school bond issue, 
though he declared in his address that he favored all the amendments. 

     On the school bond issue Gov. Blanchard declared that we could build eleven 
hundred new, comodious [sic] and comfortable school houses in Louisiana without the 
increase of one single mill of additional taxation.

     He also pointed out the fact that our state stood lowest in the scale of 
literacy of any state in the Union on account of our large negro population and 
uneducated foreigners, and that since Louisiana had advertised to the North, East, 
and West, and also to Europe that it stood for an educated civilization, we would 
be doing ourselves an injustice to vote against the bond issue for schools, as it 
would appear to the world, that we were without pride or at least careless, as to 
our literacy. On Thursday night the Governor had a large, intelligent and 
appreciative audiance [sic], and no doubt made many friends by his polished address.

     After Governor Blanchard's address at the Court House Mrs. Alice Honeycutt 
Wilson, of Fort Worth, Tex., read a beautiful paper entitled "Progress" which was 
highly received.

     The paper read by Mrs. Wilson and Governor Blanchard's speech were highly 
complimentary to Farmerville and the compliment is deserved as every citizen is 
filled with new life, new enterprise and new hopes for the future of Greater 
Farmerville.


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     The people of Farmerville and Union Parish desire to express through the 
Gazette their appreciation of the efforts of those who sided in making the barbecue 
and the opening of "Greater Farmerville," a success.

     All praise to loyal, patriotic home-loving, enterprising citizens Union has 
the finest citizenship in Louisiana.



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