New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-06
NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY, AUGUST g. 1872

| H DLEn GLCLs
Seventh ward -four votes)-P. Swan. B
H. Lynch, j. Asher, T. Fernand.
Eighth ward two yotes}-G, DelamOre
J. Dillon.
Ninth ward -four votes)-A. B. Sloanaker
w. c. Kinsella, A. Wallace, Charles Hurz
berg.
Tenth ward three votesy-W. Redmond
L. L. Davis, I. Lilienthal.
Eleventh ward three votes)-R. N. Or
den, D. G. KessleT, c. A. Meyers
Twelfth ward three yOtes)-R. L. Pres
ton, c. j. Fox.
Thirteenth ward lone vOte)-J. A. Moran.
Fourteenth ward lone vote &C. B. Fish
Fifteenth ward right bank two Yotes)-
F. Smldtky, E. WitteEOre.
member from Jefierson-I move the
| committee place the names of Messrs. Arm
| bruster and Scheepper on the report.
The secretary said the names from Jefier-
son had been regularly placed in the report,
| and the motion was rejected by the report
IN It's entirety being confirmed.
Mr.. Lawrence, of Plaquemines-Io offer the
| following resolution:
ReS0tced, That the president appoint a
| committee on permanent organization, to
! consist of thirteen members, and tnat they
| be instructed to report as early as possible.
| Mr.. DelOney, of Carroll, moved to lay
| the resolution on the table, considering the
| convention prepared to effect a permanent
! organization forthwith. Carried.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Nominations for permanent president of
! the convention being declared in order,
| Major L. A. Burke, of the second ward, Or
leans, nominated Hon. w. w. Pugh, of AS
sumption. Judge 7. G. Manning of Ra-
pides, and General A. s, Heron, of Baton
Rouge, were also placed in nomination. but
both declined in favor of Mr.. Pugh, who
| wac elected by acclamatiOn.
Messrs. DelOney, of Carroll, Carter, of
East Feliciana, and Manning, OF Rapides,
were, appointed to escort the president to
the chair.
Mr.. W. w. Pugb, on taking the chair,
said:
Agreat revolution is athand. The scientist
who prOphesied the coming of great tidal
wave, which was to engulf us and destroy
our planet with its fair proportions, was
mistaken as to the element which was to
work such great changes among us. This
element is the revolution in the opinions and
politics of the masses of our cOuntrymen-
a tidal wave which affects the minds of
men and not the material objects of earth.
A wave which leaves no destruction in its
onward career, but Ike the electric fluid
which oft pervades the atmosphere of our
sunny cline, has served to purify and lib
eraGZe the minds of our people. This
awakening, this arOusing of the public mind
to that which is pure and noble was re-
dUCed to a tangible shape in Cincinnati, and
eliminated i'll bright and glorious reality
in Baltimore.
The grand old Democratic party, whose
foundation was based on the principles be-
queathed to us by Jefferson, one of Fir-
ginia's great statesmen, could show no
greater reverence to its antecedents, pay
DO greater compliment to its past triumphs
than by the turling of its proud banners
on such an occasion to secure the peace,
happiness and prosperity Of our common
country.
In the time to come it will be a source of |
heartfelt pride that we acted with party |
which had not only the moral courage and |
magnanimity to ignore the bitterness and |
prejudices of the past, but to extend the |
hand of good fellowship to those who had |
reViled and oppressed Us, make their cause |
our cause, and unite in a common effort to |
elect Greeley and Brown in order to arrest |
the corruption which is gradually but surely |
undermining the great and substantial fab
ric bequeathed us by our fOretathers.
The example of our friends in Baltimore
must not be ignored; it is too pregnant with |
great results at this time and for years to
come; 10 more fitting time than the present I
could present itself for the baptismal of the |
Liberal Republican party, which is des-
tined hereafter to be a power in the land,
and, if properly and tenderIy nursed to
exercise an influence for good and pure
government which is essential for the pre-
scTvatiOn of our institutions and the avoid
ance of the doctrine of Capitalization,
whose spread already begins to exercise
baneful effect.
We are happy in having 'such sponsors
for the new party as Horace Greeley and
B. Gratz Brown. With their nomination
an era of prosperity begins to dawn upon
us and the rain bow of promise makes our
hearts glad, and pushes away those dark
clouds which 50 long have hung like pail
on our beloved State. The future prosperi-
ty of Louisiana rests with us. BY the Sc
lection of honest and intelligent men as
our standard bearers in the coming canvass
we shall most assuTedly triumph, and take
a new departure toward securing that
prosperity and happiness to which our peO-
pie have been so long strangers.
Mr.. Andrew Hero, Of Orleans, was then
elected permanent secretary by. acclalha-
ton.
The following named gentlemen were
then selected as assistant secretaries: r. +.
Warren, Thomas i. BOland and Emile Hill
born.
Durant Da Pont9 was also named, but
declined.
COMMITTEE on CONFERENCE:
Mr.. SIoanaker, of Orleans, moved that
5he president appoint vice president from
each congressional district, and one from
5he State at large.
Mr.. Houston, of St. Tammany, moved to
ay on the table. Lost
Mr.. SlOanakers motion was then carried.
The chair appointed for the State at large,
A. G. Carter, of East Feiciana; for the
irst congressional district Effingham Law
'ence, Of Plaquemines; second, Louis Bush,
)f LafOurche; third, 4. BulOu, of Assump-
ion; fourth, Reuben White, of CaddO;
fifth, J. G. Eagan, of Claiborne.
Mr.. Carter subsequently declined the
lQnOr, and the chair appointed DR.. Tay lOr,
If st. Landry.
Mr. SlOanaker, of Orleans, moved that
committee Of thirteen be appointed on
platform and resolutions, and that all reso-
utiens offered in the convention, except
hose relating to conference and fusion, be
'efeTTed to the committee without debate.
After some discussion a motion was made |
% lay on the table, but not carried. 1t was
withdrawn, in order that the
convention might proceed to the attention
# other matters which claimed precedence
On motion of Hon. Thomas Green David
on, of Livingston, the rules of the House |
# Representatives we're adopted to govern |
his convention, with the prOvisO that |
all of the parishes, If called for BY one |
PARISH, shall be ordered.
MIR. Lilieuthal, tenth ward, Orleans, sub
nitted the following resolution:
ReS0tCCd, That a committee of conference, |
composed of fifteen delegates, be appointed |
or the purpose Of comforting with the State
1entral Committees of the Democratic and
Reform parties, and with the State Central |