The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-08-10
Judge Manning's Speech Mt Alexandria.

Grant-Warnoth sheet, published at
Alexandria, and owned by Senator
Kelso, the following description of the
speeches made by Judge T. G. Manning
| and others, before the recent Liberal
meeting at that place, over which j. dgc
Manning presided
GA large portion of Judge Manning's
! address was Of course devoted to ma
tional politics, subject, as before re-
marked, tabood to us at present but
State affairs were by no means ignored,
but on the contrary subjected to an
elaborate discussion and mastery CO.
pose, demonstrating undeniably the
several propositions taken, that the
ted had been virtually abandoned and
nultificd by the preposterous and arro-
CANT action of political wire pullers of
both the Democratic and so-called Re-
form parties, that the success of the
mixed and mongreI ticket put forth by
them was perfectly hopeless, as was
also that of the kellogg or Customhouse
party, and that the only hope of genu-
inc reform and redemption from a null
titude of grievances was in the success
of a State ticket to be nominated by the
Liberal Reform party, on the 9TH OF
August discriminating by inference,
if not by words, that the present Exec
utive was, everything considered, the
most suitable man to head that ticket,
and that he (the speaker) desired that
he might do so.
awe have greatly exceeded our in
tended limits, and must hasten to
| conclusion by briefly stating that
| Mcssrs. Seay, Bowman, White and
| Ryan We're all successfully, called up
on, and responded in their usual telling
| styles, all agreeing with the first speak
er, that War,noth must be, not the
coming, or going, but the staying man.
"Judge Ryan particularly made, in
that connection, several of his happiest
hits, and repeatedly brought down the
house in rounds Of applause
If Judge Manning chooses to sup
port for Governor the individual whom
in the April Convention he stigmatized
as ttbat arch scoundrel,' it is ques-
ton of taste and proprietX for himself
to decide, and with which I have no
concern. In regard, however, to the
charges made by him as to the forma-
ton of the present ticket and against
the Democratic and Reform commit
tees (whom he designates with so much
taste as wire pullers), 1 wish to submit
the following facts:
Two or three days after the adjourn
| ment of the two June Conventions,
Judge Manning addressed n note to
Col. McEnery, requesting him to meet
Judge w. B. Egan, Henry y. Ogden,
and himself, with an equal representa-
| ton from the Reform party, at the st.
| Louis Hotel, for the purpose of adjust
ing, if possible, the unfortunate misun-
Outstanding which had arisen between
! the two conventions in their last hours.
That interview was held, the Reform
party being represented by Col. George
Williamson, w. NJ. Randolph, J. d.
Hill, and Charles f. Fenner.
After explanations, which were mutu-
ally satisfactory, Col, McEnery was
! asked what he was willing to do to-
| wards bringing about harmony between
the two parties.
| He responded that tho Convention of
his party had adjourned, that its power
and authority was now lodged in the
State Central Committee created by it,
and that he was willing, in order to
bring about harmony and joint action
between the two parties, to put himself
entirely in the hands of that commit
tee and submit himself to whatever &C.
ton they should think best.
Judge Manning warmly approved of
this declaration of Col. McFnery, and
| ASloSSlSN uAlIl ~ put IL III NllSAIlS, tti-
dressed to Mr.. Lascre, which he did,
when the meeting adjourned, and
Judge Manning himself delivered the
letter to Mr.. LaSere.
Every candidate on the ticket fol-
lowed the example of Col. McEnery,
and after some days unavoidable delay
the present ticket was presented, with
buttwo changes, made to promote har-
mOny with the Reform party.
l, therefore, charge Judge Manning
with having been the author aud orig
inator Of the present United State tick
ct; with having been the first to ini-
tiatc negotiations for union between
the two parties; and with having been
tic first to suggest to our candidates to
place their names in the hands of the
Central Committee for purposes of con-
citation. How strange and unnatural
that now he should repudiate and split
upon his own offspring.
Judge Manning will hardly deny
the truth of the above statement, but
should it need confirmation l refer to
Judges Egan and Ogden, Coils. McEn-
cry and IT'LL.
Judge Manuiug is reported to have
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