New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-08

and its supporters, suppose.
| Captain Hoey-HOlt, your brother-in
law. dead silence.]
Mr.. Wiekliffe-I know the gentleman is a
friend Of mine, and does not intend to hurt
! my feelings.
! Captain YOung-The question is not
| whether we indOrse Greeley or not. We
simply ask this convention to declare what
| is their intention, OF what is the sense of
! this convention. Did you not nominate
| Governor Wells when rivers Of blood had
not yet ceased to flow? Was this the only
! act Of the Democratic party where it united
IN coalition to secure a party success2
Did you not reject Governor Allen for this
| other nominee Talk to me Of immaculate
| purity and all that sort of thing as applied
to the party. Talk of TO alliance with in
| fanny, of no connection with others. Talk
about untrammeled and straight-out action
under the circumstances. You call this a
Democratic convention. / believe it is.
You called upon your fellOw-citizens to
unite and to form upon the platform of re-
form. You said you were pOwerless, and
urged to form combinations TO be success
full You were willing to step upon a united
basis-a common action with other parties.
Now you say we can get along by Our-
selves. Shall we forever follow leaders and
destroy everything? Shall we adopt this
course! 1t is not that you support Horace
Greeley, who may have been among the
authors of all our miseries; but it is the
support of the platform upon which we
stand-a platform made by Chief Justice
Chase Judge Davis and Gratz Brown.
Besides, as Judge Ogden has said, it is
necessary to form a combination.
Judge Ogden-I only advocated union
with the RefOrmers. What / want to i'm
press upon you is that it is necessary to
form a combination somewhere and with
somebody.
The speech of Mr. Bowman, of Caddo,
was devoted to affOrding the reasons why
the delegates should not be tTammeled with
instructions, and in opposition TO en-
tangling alliances" and the delegate went
on to say:
1t is unkind to invest that word with the
meanings they have. 1t is unkind when /
say ] am Democrat to say / am desirOus
of dying in the last ditch. / know of no
other name under which the white people
muster-no other name opposed to Radical
1nisrule and oppression but Democracy,
signifying and being the symbol of the
struggle made by united people for their
rights under the constitution.
EVENING SESSION.
The convention being called to order at
halEDast seven O'Clock, Mr.. j. R. Alces Gau-
threaux offered resolution, which pro
vided--
THAT we, the members of the New Or
leans delegation, hereby pledge ourselves
to pay pro rata the expenses of the Two
conventions that met in this city"
Mr. Bryan move it be laid on the ta-
bic. am willing to pay my pro rata, and
have a certain pride about the matter for
bidding me to accept of such offers.
Voices from the cOuntry-We want no
one to pay our expenses.
1t being probable the resolution would be
laid on the table, 1t was withdrawn.
Mr. TarletOn, of st. Dandry--I have been
forty years in the Democratic party, and
during all that time have been employed
in using all my powers against Greeleyism:
and Notwithstanding the party has been
dead in that time as many years as have
been man, the party still stands erect and
defiant AbOlitionism and Greeleyism cul-
minated in the death of John Brown, and
now, in 1872, the son of Brown, we hear,
was in the Philadelphia convention, and
the proceedings closed in the song
that the soul of John Brown is marching
on. Viewing these circumstances, it is
necessary to pause awhile before we will
vote for Mr. Greeley or not. The wind has
been taken from his sails in the respect Of
amnesty. That matter about
signing the bond of JEFF Davis, according to
his own paper, was done to crush "sham
Democracy" The carrying out of his
doctrines has created storm
of Indignation at the North, and Grant re-
ceives much condemnation for carrying out |
in brief the doctrines of Mr. Greeley. His
idea OF saving the Republican rarity was to
yield to the Democratic demands in the !
Cincinnati platform, saying, Gentlemen,
put nae in the White House and III grant |
you all these concessions" say to Greeley, |
in the midst of all these temptations, get |
thee behind me, Satan. We can do with |
out Mr.. Greeley; for if the party take him |
up they must use their own strength, not |
Greeley's. Did not Seymour get 1890, 900 |
votes with Grants bayOnetsl Mississippi and |
Texas and Missouri we're all thrown out. |
This was four years ago. Now these States |
will be counted, and the straight ticket |
will win. What defeated Seymour, as you !
we'll know, was the Generalization created !
by the New York World and Grants bay |
Onets. There are none Of those causes now /
operating.
The resolution discussed by Mr.. Tarleton
was that in reference to the instruction Of |
delegates.
The report of the conference committee |
was here called for, and Mr.. E. Jones |
McCOll rendered verbal report. in which |
he said: We met them yesterday for the |
first time, but nothing was done. 1t was !
Onlv at one o'clock Yesterday we received /
your instructions authorizing a conference /
with other parties. The object of the three |
which were all united under !
he head of one chairman, Mr.. Cullom, was !
to draw US into discussion, and we found |
we could arrive at no practical result, and |
hey said the only thing they could do was |
10 hand us in a written proposition, which |
we received. You have all read it in the
papers this morning and | will not read it.
Cries of "Read it," The secretary read
,he circular published yesterday morning
Mr.. MeCOll-The reply Of the joint COM
nittees to our questions were that it was |
IN ul1matum. | need not tell you the
proposition was not accepted. Applause
rom the left. As a proposition we would
Tot have dared to ask you to accept.
More applause from the left.1 We then
determined to form our ticket with the Re-
Orm party, as it was what we were sent
or. We determined 30 take counsel of
leep, and on the next morning we we're IN.
fficially informed that they had another
proposition to make, and after some trials,
We ascertained they had no proposition
0 make, but if we would allow them the
TevernOT, the Lieutenant Governor and
of Public Education-Gov-
rnOr WarmOth as their first choice, Sher-
dan for their second, w. L. McMillen for
hird, and L. T. Delassize for Superin.
sndent. That was their answer. Therefore,
report from the committee the following
ominations, in fear and trembling and in
ope: For Governor, George Williamson, of
'addO; for Lieutenant Governor, B. +.
onas, of Orleans; for Superintendent of
ublc Education, Robert NJ. Lusher, of
orleans; for Auditor, Allan Jumel; for Sec
etary of State, 5. B. McEnery; for At
1rney General, H. N. Ogden.
Mr. w. F. Blackman asked leave to sub
lit a minority report, which RENTED the
hole matter to the convention leaying it
here it was before)
Judge Egan, on behalf of the minority,