New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-27

| <1utOtttC We TepIUuuCeI Tue SublOlQeO report:
: According to previous notice. the citizens
of Claiborne parish assembled at the court
house in Homer, on Saturday, July 90, 1872,
in mass.
D. B. Hayes, Esq, called the meeting to
order by nominating I. D. McadOrs, ESQ
chairman. Unanimously adopted. By mo-
tion of Hon. j. c. Egan, W. A. Maxey and
j. NJ. Scaife be appointed secretaIies-
adopted. d. B. Hayes, Esq, by motion,
requested the chair to appoint six vice
| presidents. The motion being adopted, the
chair appointed R. E. Thompson, j. H.
! Jordan, j. H. Simmons, 7. Bridgman, H .
Montgomery AMI j. j. Duke, Esq, vice
preside :.
After the organization of the meeting, D.
B. Hayes, Esq, explained the object Of the
| meeting in few brief and very apprOpri-
ate remarks, by offering the following reso-
| lutiOns:
That we unanimously adopt as our stand
| ard bearers in the approaching presidential
| contest. Horace Greeley, OF New York, for
! President and B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri,
| for Vice President, which motion was ca
RED by acclamation without dissenting
voice.
A motion was then made and adopted
| that the chair appoint four delegates to the
| Liberal convention to assemble in New Or
| leans August 9, 1872. A motion was then
made and adopted that the chair in his
selection of said delegates to the Liberal
| convention shall select such only as are in
favor of the Liberal movement, unani-
mOusly adopted; whereupOn the chair ap-
pointed the following delegates: Hon. j.
Z. Egan, j. II. Jordan, j. w. Todd and J.
II. Simmons; alternates K. E. Thompson,
T. Price j. J. Duke, N. Bartlett, j. NJ
Scaife, and Judge j. S. Young. Hon. j. c.
Egan addressed the meeting in his usual
plain Style showing the duty of the South
TU Tlui in a
was made and adopted that in the event Of
only one Of the delegates or alternates be-
ing at the convention on the ninth of Aug
ust in New Orleans that he be authorized TO
cast the vote of the parish of Claiborne.
On motion the meeting adjourned sine die
Messrs. Napier Bartlett, John S. Young |
and Drayton b. Hayes, the committee on
resolutions, reported the following, which !
were unanimously adopted:
The parish of Claiborne believes that the !
object of uniting in parties is to supply |
needs of the people so united, and not to |
useessly perpetuate past prejudice, disap- |
pOintment and passion. Parties who have |
no aims or purposes of ameliOration-or in !
other words, who have no hopes OF bring |
majority of votes to their suppOrt-dO not |
merit a consideration or hearing at the |
polls
J. Claiborne supports without reservation |
the Cincinnati-B Baltimore ticket. All roads |
that lead to Greeley, lead to reformation of |
the government.
? AS there is no more need for Idle sen
timenU in State efforts to secure reform
than there is in national, the dictates of |
sound common sense and plain, daylight |
reasoning should be consulted N uniting |
all parties. Political organizations are de-
signed to serve the people, and not the
people the party, and tried by this standard
the members of the recent New Orleans |
convention committed a grave error in their
premature nominations.
3. That the convention trittered away its
time, and lost sight of the interests of the |
State III their insane hatred of the present
executive, and in refusing cooperate with
the Liberia party because he was a member
OF it. That the convention was run in the
interest Of city ward politicians, ignorant
or purposely blind to the wishes Of the
country; and that the executive committee,
instead OF calling new convention. have
shown, in making their own nominations,
disposition to prevent the people from ex-
pressing their will, which carries its own
moral.
4. That we view the placing Of names by
the committee in the field as a usurpatiOn
and violation OF all party usage, more
as the committee represented
scarcely more than one parish in the State
}. That we respect the gentlemen whose
names have been injudiciOusIy placed be-
patriotic sons to promptly withdraw them:
that we see no other method of eXtricating
ourselves from our present difficulties than
by reference of the whole subject TO a
fresh convention from the people.
MIR. D. B. Hayes spoke as follows on the
subject Of delegates to the Liberal State
The August convention, for which we to-
III, = l., |
necessary by the failure Of the Democratic
in June to meet the wants of
the people. That was a failure their de-
liberations were more like the angry
and silly debates of school
without IA master than like the grave delib-
eTatiOns of an assembly to whom were en-
trusted matters involving the rights and
liberties of a great people. They first put
into the field a ticket which satisfies nobody
but the minority of a minority; then they
add insult to injury by changing the ticket
already nominated, by sandwchiug in the
names Of few RetOrmtTs and leaving out
regular nominees. This, too, IS done by
the central committee, without the aid of
a convention, and contrary to all party
usage and the wishes of the people. The
first ticket viii not do. 1t IA a corpse Of
fered to the people; much less will the gal
vanized edition of the same, the sO-called
united State ticket, meet our wants. That
was run e0tlfclV IN Jl6 inter- |
est of the city Of New Orleans. Certain
politicians down there are content if they
can secure the control of the city govern
ment They believe that they could do
this by means of the ticket they have Sc
Iected, and they are willing to let the cOun-
try parishes fall into the hands of any
party.
The late Democratic convention seems to
have been controlled by such men as these;
such old hacks and fossils as Cotton, the
Hunt family, Wickliffe, Hyams and whole
school of pestiferOus little asses who Occu-
pied the time of the convention to the ex-
clusiOn of vital interests of the State. If |
the Democratic party is to be controlled by
these men, /, for one, want none of the
Democratic party. If the city of New Or
leans, as represented by these men, is to
rule the State and to dictate to the whole
/ propose to leave the party
they are in and seek another, and if in that
Jne they find safe lOdgment, ] propose CON
,inuing to seek until l have found a party
and men of unselfish patriotism.
The people, for State purposes, want a
lniOn with the Liberal party, and that
InlOn we will have. 1t is only by such
lniOn that We can be successful; it is to
jhOw your desire for such a coalition that
ron are here to-day in the largest mass
meeting that has assembled within these !
walls for years.
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