New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-08-06
orr,c,Al JOURNAL or The stats Or LOUISIANA.
ORLEANS SUNDAY AUGUST
tive committee Of the Refubllcan party. at wash.

tive Committee of the Republican party, at Wash
/. The resolution calling convention, and in
which the place Of meeting was pnrp0sely omitted.
Q. The resolution of August g. 1871, creating S. B.
Packard committee on credentials. with power to
decide who are the bona fde delegates, and who
fore meeting of the convention-which is to be a
private affair. as tickets of adnittance are re-
quired.
J.D. O'Connell presented the following
resolutions, which Mr. William II. Green
moved to table.
The motion to table being lost, the ques-
tion required upon the adoption of the reso-
lutions, and was carried.
WHEREAS, The State Central Executive Commit
tee of the Republican party Of the State of Lousi-
ana, contrary to the rules governing and preroga-
tives vested in all conventions and deliberative
assemblies, pretend 10 the unwarrantable and IN.
precedenteG assumption of receiving the creden-
fials, and thereby constituting themselves Judges
of the election returns and qualifications of the
delegates to the convention; and
Whereas, The said committee, in order the more
easily to control and manipulate the convention,
and thereby perpetuate their own power which
power has been grossly abused by said committee,
and more especially by the president and CORE
spending secretary of said committee s. B, Pack
ard and p F. Herwig, in garbling the resolution of
the committee oallinga State Convention, by omit
ting ia the publication of the resolution the par
ticular time and place of meeting; and
Whereas, The said COMMITTEES has encroached
upon the rights and privileges of the people of the
mating a day for the election of delegates to the
State Convention, and thereby and otherwise at
tempting to suppress the right Of the people to
Whereas, The duty of designating day for the
election, being a strictly local matter, belongs
solely and exclusively to the parish committee
therefore, be it
Resolved That the commissioners of election in
each of the wards Of the city OF New Orleans shall
make duplicate certificates OF election for the can
didates receiving the highest numbeI of votes said
certificates to be marked original and "dupli-
cate" countersigned and atrested by the presi-
dents and secretaries of the mother ward clubs the
duplicates" to be delivered by the commissioners
of election, in the presence of the presidents and
secretaries of the mother clubs to the president of
the State Central Executive Committee.
Resolved, That the 'originap be delivered to the
delegates elect, to be by them presented to the
convention as the credentials proper.
Resolved, That the delivery of the duplicates"
to the President of the State Committee be consid-
cred of no further or greater validity than for it's
information of the choice of delegatesby the peo-
pie, and in no manner to be construed as conceding
to the said State Committee the right to deter.
mine or in any manner decide who are the duly
elected delegates, that being sovereign right ex.
clusively reserved by the people, and to be deter
mined by them through the convention
Resolved, That view the attempts of the
State Central Committee TO constitute itself iudge
of the elections returns and qualifications Of the
delegates to the convention as gross attempt to
usurp the rights and privileges of the convention
to enable them to reject the chosen representatives
of the people, and foist into the convention those
with whom they hope to be able to barter for a
perpetuation of power.
Resolved That the said committee by its at
tempt to suppress the peoples rights the parish
committee, is no longer entitled to, and has ut
terly forfeited the confidence of the Republicans
of this parish, and Of this committee.
Resolved, That as the direct and immediate rep
resentatiyes of over twenty-five thousand Repub-
lican veter5 in the parish of Orleans we denounce
and condemn, as an unpardonable breach of trust
and unmitigated treachery TO the Republican
party, the garbing and spoiati3n OF the first para
graph of the resolution OF the State Committee,
calling for aconvention, and that the president
and corresponding secretary OF said committee are
especially unworthy of any future positions of
trust confidence in the Republican party, mas
much they being the custodans of the records of
the committee can alone be held responsible for
this breach of faith.
Resolved That recognizing the State Central
Executive Committee the legitimate supreme
head of the party in the State we desire that it
shall be composed of men Of unGoubted integrity,
and division in ranks, and to this end we appeal
to our own constituents, and TO the Republicans
throughout the State, TO instruct their delegates
to the convention to root out, if not all at least
those of the present State Committee, as have be-
trayed the trust reposed in them BY the people, and
have taken advantage of their positions to turn dis
organizers in ranks to enhance their private
personal ambition, and we further ask the people
to instruct their delegates TO present their creden
to receive and pass upon them, and to deliver au-
thentic copies of the to the President of the
State Central Executive Committee, as record of
information for said committee.
The following resolution by Hon. 2. b. S.
Pinchback, was adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t has been publicly stated that the
Republican party IN this State has been divided,
and that they are about to hold more than one
convention
Resolved, That we, the Parish Committee of Or
leans, deny these assertions and charge the dele
gates who are to be chosen on Monday next to at
tend at such place as may be designated by the
State Committee for the meeting of the convention,
there to remain as representatives of our party.
The following resolution. by Mr.. Fred
erick A. johnson, was adopted:
Resolved, That 40 election for officers Of clubs,
delegates to the Parish Executive Committee, the
State Central Executive Committee, or the dele
gates to the nominating convention, will be ac-
knowledg ged unless regularly elected at the speei
fled mother ward club building or hall of their re-
spective wards
1t was ordered that the proceedings of
this meeting be published in the New Or
leans REPUBLICANS; after which the commit
tee adjourned, to meet Tuesday, August 8,
at twelve o'clock NJ, in the hall of the
House of Representatives.
A true copy from the minutes:
j. d. O'CONNELL,
Recording Secretary.
JOSEPH P. MURPHY,
Corresponding Secretary.