New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-21
NGRAHAM ELECTED PRESIDENT
Especial to the New Orlesain. Ropnblicau.I
Baton ROUGE. June %. 1s72

BATON ROUGE, June 20, 1872.
On the morning of the second days con-
vention it was stated that an attempt
would be made to heal the breach of the
party, and that proposition would come
from the Pinchback convention, saying that
there was no chance for such movement
to be commenced, for, on the call to order,
with Mr.. Antoine in the chair, the tempo
rary chairman took the floor, and offered a
resolution, which raised babel of tongues
and cries. 1t discharged the committee on
credentials from the further consideration
of the report, and adopted the roll as fixed
up by the Packard office, admitting con-
testants to One-half vote each Fl III.
Furious cries greeted the reading of the
resolution, showing a strong negative infu-
ence. 1t must be known that the Mary
men, who had eighty-fve votes, consolida
ted their forces with the Kellogg delegation
to elect Chairman Allan, on condition that
in case they assented to elect the tempo
rary chairman they should have three
members of seven on the committee on
credentials.
The committee deliberated for ten hours
without coming to any conclusion, and de-
layed the nomination Of Kellogg, simply
because they cOuldanot get hold of their
delegates. The delay changed things, and
to the astonishment of everybody the reso-
lution, which would simply place the
Packard roll as the convention, was laid on
the table almost unanimo usly.
Mr.. Leonard, of Carroll, said he was
elected at an open mass meeting, and above
board. He found, to his surprise, that con-
testants were admitted, and if the meeting
had been held, it must have been done in
secret. eve had been told" said he, "that
unless we voted for a particular candidate
we would not be allowed to have seats in
the convention. Yet we did not be-
Iieve it." Furious cries of "Name
himP sprung from all. While he was
speaking, a disposition arose among the
Kellogg men not to let him go on. He
asked the poor privilege of speaking, as he
was about to retire from the convention.
"The man who we we're told we must vote
for was Mr.. Kellogg"
Ingraham rose to begin the point of order
ing business, and, as usual with the eonven-
ton, it broke out all over the body, and
finally extinguished the Outspoken member
from Carroll. The convention was turned
into mob at this time, and johnson, chair
man of the committee, having said that ow-
ing to the peculiar character of the contest
ants they were not able to agree, still there
was no order. 1t was chaos. Rodriguez,
who is the embodied Mary movement, and
who is the we'll known fugleman Of this or
der of delegates, rose, and said that he, be-
ing or the credentials committee, would sit
for three weeks unless he was satisfied of
the justice of the applications for seats.
The convention adjourned for three hours
to allow the conclusion of the report The
hitch in the committee then appeared to be
owing to the efforts of the Kellogg men to
bring on an alliance and force the with
drawal of Mary; but the latter gentleman
is stubborn, and refuses to withdraw unless
his body of voters from Orleans so request
him. The candidates are pretty equally di.
vided, and whichever way Mary falls the
day goes.
KellOggs chances do not look so prosper
Gus as on the night before, and during the
progress of the committees deliberations
efforts were made to diminish KellOgg's
forces, with some effect.
The third ward delegates, whom it was
attempted to move, are all for Billings, and
Mary as the second choice, and for har-
mony or compromise platform with Pinch
back, and they have been retained. Ladd,
the chairman, the young man DeKlyne,
who is the amanuensis of the Packard CON-
binatiOn, together with Packard, looked
bewildered, seeing, as at the National Thea
tire convention, the control of the body
slipping between their fingers and threat
ening to escape them entirely.
There is not the slightest doubt that a
majority OF the delegates were elected with
the understanding that they were to vote
for Kellogg. They hang too well together
to permit of any other suppOsition. The re-
naming candidates wander about the
streets in an atmosphere of non-cOmmittal-
ism, and agreeing with everybody who ap-
proach them. Ascertaining the equal divi-
sion of the gubernatorial candidates, they
are the prey Of perplexities and anxieties,
and, of course, are not committed to either
one unless he is the owner ad interim. The
combinations began to show, and it was
conceded that Kellogg was beaten man.
The committee on credentials had dealt
the fatal blow, Packards strenuous efforts
to remove Ladd creating a firm purpose to
retain the delegation of which he is the
spirit Packard having the control of the
convention at the start. and his own candi.
date being nominated, on paper, had let the
influence slip through his fingers.
On the one hand it was said the Mary
delegates who stood firm would vote for
Billings after the first ballot, and would !
elect their candidate on the other: that they |
would return to their old love, B. f. Flan- |
ders, and nominate him. while a stray re-
port advanced the doctrine that Belden |
would receive the Mary vote. Thus it was |
more than ever true that whichever way |