New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-31
NOMINATIONS.


published on the z9tD instant, just sixteen
days after the nomination of the Hon. Ii.
C. Warmoth fer Governor. by the State
Nominating Contention of the Republican
party of Louisiana, says; "If the honor
Of nomination to the position you indi
cate Chat of governOrJ be rendered to me,
1 should not be at liberty to decline it,"
The letter of Judge Taliaferro is in
answer to one of the same date which was
extensively circulated among the members
Of the Constitutional Convention, and re-
ceived the signatures of only five members
Of that body. An earnest desire TO i'm
mortalize these gentlemen induces us to
state that they are W. &. Crane, james
Mushaway, L. S. Rodriguez, and Charles
Smith, and justice to them requires us to
add that we are informed that each is
"proHiSed" a "place on the Tribune
ticket.n The name of Mr.. Paul A.. Basili-
que was also appended, but last night, in
the Central Executive Committee, he
publicly repudiated the letter on the
BIOuuu tndb WHICH, NC SiBuOu IL
he did not understand its contents
The names of nine private citizens
are also appended to the letter, making
fourteen in all, just five more than we sup
posed could be found who would be guilty
Of such folly.
Last evening we saw another document
which was being circulated in the Conven-
ton, and which reads as follows: sThe under.
signed members of the Constitutional Con
ventisn, apprehensiVe that the New Orleans
Tribune may be regarded as representing
us in its opposition to the regularly nOmi-
mated ticket for State officers, take this
methSd of protesting against its course,
and pledge ourselves to heartily support
with our votes and influence the nominees
of the Convention made on the 18th and
l4th sfJanuary, 1865" and when we saw this
document" it was signed by tifty-three
members Of the Convention, and it will be
signed by nearly all, less the four dis
tinguished persons whose names we have
immortalized.
nomination." says Judge Taliaferro.
Such nomination, if made at all, can only
be made in some back corner, and by these
fourteen persons; for no public Republican
meeting can be assembled in Lou
isiana, which will not at once repu-
date this whole concern. In the State
Nominating Convention Judge TaliaferrO
received three vstes for governor, and the
connection with that convention of the
Iriblme's candidate for Acknowledgements
IL tso notorious to need comment. We
can hagdly realize that these gentlemen are
serious, and can not better express our
sentiments than by. quoting from an adj
nirable letter, Published few days since
from TIE Hon. W. Jasper Blackburn, which
says: II claim to be Republican in the
truest sense of the term, and shall of
course support the state ticket nominated
by the late convention of that party. do
not see how any honorable man could re-
fuse or fail to support the nominees Of a
convention in which he took part, and
before which his own name was used.r
Nevertheless this factious although
trivial opposition is resulting in great good
by consolidating and uniting the party all
ever the state.
Last night the estate Central Executive
Committee of the Republican party.Of LOui
siana," he only organization representing or
claiming to represent the Republicans Of the
lShols state, passed the following resolution !;
RESOLVED, That all members of this State
Central Executive Committee who oppose
the nominees of the State Nominating Con-
vention of our party shall be regarded as
disorganizers, and their seats shall be de-
ciared vacant. Adopted yeas 28, nays l.
1t also passed, almost unanimously, the
following preamble and resolution:
WHEREAS, The New Orleans Tribune has
ceased to represent the principles ana
policy Of the Republican party Of Louis
lana, therefore
ResoIUed, That we hereby repudiate II as
the ergan Of our party and Of this commit
tee, and appoint the New Orleans REPUB-
LOAN as the organ of our party and Of this
committee.
The st. Landry Progress, the Homer
Had, the Ibsrvllle Pioneer, tho Monroe
InielIigmcsr, the New Orleans AdUocats. and
the New Orleans REruBIIcAN, an the Repub
IicaR papers in the state, with the excep-
ton Of the TFibims, have hoisted the state
ticket and began the campaign.
So.the good work goes bravely on, and
the friends Of reconstruction are forming in
solid phalanx for the battle and the victory.