New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-13
THE PEOPLES COLUMN.

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Pitkin and the Tenth Ward Club.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN:
have been presented to day with an OBJ
scene sheet, called the Citizens Guard, pur.
porting to be published in New Orleans,
and dated Sunday, the third instant, in
which find letter, signed by one j. K. G..
Pitkin. As the letter is addressed to his
excellency the Governor of the State. who
is abundantly able to answer in his own
good time, shall only refer to its misstate-
ments and falsehoods as they apply to the
Tenth Ward, as president of the mother
club of that ward. Mr.. Pitkin says that he
Governor Warmoth) in the month of May
last deputized forty of his Metropolitan Po-
lice to exclude Republican residents therein
from their own club, etc. Allow me to cor
rect the gentleman's history. On the ff-
tenth day of May last an election for Off
GERS for the Tenth Ward Club was adver-
tised in the official journal.
The ticket for that election, as prepared
by the CustOmhOuse officials, was headed
by this same j. r. G. Pitkin for president,
a man totally unknown to the members of
the Tenth Ward Cuba person who had
never crossed its threshold. Fearing the
impossibility Of electing this stranger, the
Customhouse authorities made ample prep
srations to have all the Customhouse en-
ployes mot actually on duty from every
ward in the city to be present, for the pur-
pose of interfering with the business and
breaking up the meeting. These men were
led BY Marshal Packard Of the Fifteenth
Ward, Randolph at the head of a crowd
from the Second Ward, Solomon Moses
with large force from the Third Ward,
Irwin from the lower wards of the city,
with clubs, commenced the confusion, as
they were ordered to do. 80 preventing the
preservation Of order that the clnb was
compelled to adjourn until the following
Monday.
The following Monday the adjourned
meeting was held, with perfectly quiet
election for offices. True, there was
small body Of policemen for the preserva-
ton Of order, and to prevent the admission
Of thugs from other wards of the city, but
it is not true that any Republican resident
of the Tenth Ward was refused admittance.
Again, the gentleman says that 1.-THE Gov
ernor has been repudiated, even BY his own
ward" For refutation of that falsehOod
I call upon Marshal S. 3. Packard to pre-
sent copy of the credentials of Governor
H. c. WarmOth and E. P. Ducloslang, fur
nished him on the morning of August 9,
1871, by the chairman of the commissioners
of election. the secretary of the Tenth Ward
Mother Club and myself, as the president.
The only legal election held that day was
at the corner of Josephine and Fulton
streets; 1908 votes were polled, giving the
Governor and Z. p. DuclOslang a majority
of 1907 votes.
The question of mother clubs in the
parish of Orleans can not be settled by the
ipse DIRT of the chairman Of the late State
Central Committee. Another power. the
Parish Executive Committee, decides upon
the legality OF mother clubs, and the dele
gates of the Tenth Ward Mother Club, over
which preside, are now members of the
parish committee, and one of them its sere-
tary. JOHN II. BOWEN,
President Tenth Ward Mother Club.