The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-08-20
From the N. o. Bulletins.
GOV. WARMOTH ON THE
RAMPAGE.
HE ATTENDS A WARD MEETING AND
CREATES A DISTURBANCE.
COMMITS AN ASSAULT UPON A COL
ORED MAN AND RESISTS ARREST.

ORED MAN AND RESISTS ARREST.
COMMENTS OF THE NEW ORLEANS
TRIBUNE ON HIS CONDUCT.
| RESOLUTIONS OF THE CLUB DE-
| NOUNCING HIM.
HE CONSENTS TO APPEAR BEFORE
| THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT.
During the past week the com
munity has been considerably dis
turbed by the remarkable conduct
of his Accidency, III. O. Warmoth.
the sO-called Governor and Chief
Executive Officer of the State
His presence at a ward meeting to
nominate delegates to the State
Convention, as disgusting as it
was undignified, was not at all
surprising, as it wasin entire keep
ing with his groveling instinct
and peculiar ideas of decency and
prOpriety. But the subsequent
/ conduct Of the Governor in refus-
ing to submit 'tto the indignity of
an arrest has produced good
deal of excitement. The conduct
of the Justice Of the Peace and
the District Attorney are severely
condemned, and their failure to
execute the law, at all hazards,
has considerably shaken the conf
dence of the community in the
efficiency of these officers.
The New Orleans Tribune, the
organ Of the colored people, gives
the following full account Of this
affair, which will be found on pc
rusal, to be both interesting and
amusing:
cit has often been said that
there is a heroism, which, though
quiet, is no less sterling than that
so often displayed upon the field
of battle.
The Tenth Ward Club has Just
furnished us with a Hector and
Achilles who met in combat, as
desperate as ever signalled the
old Trojan plain-perhaps more
so, inasmuch as the Trojan row is
about ten-tentbs myth. Our To-
cal Had is substantially this: The
Tenth Ward Club has been a
staunch and numerous organi-
zation of earnest Republicans,
against which the Governor long
directed his batteries without sue
cess. At last so Obtrusive did he
become that to avoid the. charge
of being too proscriptive. aud at
the same time to encourage the
Governor to improve his political
1e> al,
recognition of his capacity, unan-
imously elected him its Assistant
Sergeant-at-Arms. This tribute
to his worth and the advantage
of being permitted to affiliate in an
official capacity with exemplary Re-
publicans was, it was reasonably
thought, quite enough to sayisfy
him-but it has proven otherwise.
Grateful neither for his assign
ment to the second mace, nor for
the wonderful faith of the club
that so abOminable an executive
might by severe attention to his
assistant, and eventually perhaps,
being in the line of promotion, a
full sergeant-at-arms, what does
he do? A resident himself of tho
ward in question, he precipitates
a herd of MS minions upon a meet
ing of the club at time when
many of it's members were absent,
no special business awaiting de-
liberation. BY q series Of sham
resolutions he proclaims the regu-
lar club recusants assumes control
Of the organization, and instructs
his instruments to refuse the votes
Of the original members Of the
club upon the delegates to the
State Convention. This was done
and the Governor woke up the
next morning to discover to his
bashful surprise that he had him
self been elected a delegate with
the most beautifully submissive
unanimity on the part of "the
loyal citizens of the Tenth Ward"
Nor was his glee thereat impaired
as much as were his pretensions
to Republican principle, by the
knowledge that in refusing the