New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-06-25
VOLUME VINO. 66.

speech. He shakes a warning finger at the
lett, or Billings side of the house, and says:
"Its my belief that there are some candi-
dates here who are holding with the hare
and running with the hounds, and their tails
too long and it should be cut Off" he also
urged: Its nv belief Mars Paek-hard has
as much right to use his political influence
as anybody else"
A voice-"O, tell us alb lut Kellogg"
Mr. Kellogg replied the speaker, "has
as much right to use his name as any other
! man. He retired.
Harry Lott nominate Mr.. E. C. Bill
lings, Of Orleans. When times were dark
last winter, and WarmOth's forty eight men
| turned out ffty-One members of the Legis-
lature, who came to our aid but Mr.. E. c..
| Billings! Therefore / nominate him and
! urge his election"
A white-coated black man in the rear, by
| the name of Williams, rose and nominated
"a man who was the first who had the
| manhood and bravery to allow his name
| to be used on Radical ticket and that
man is Benjamin f. Flanders" The faint
| est kind of a murmur arose when his name
was announced, showing his chances to be
thin.
In this style all the nominations were
made, two tellers appointed and the ball
rolled. The house falls to presenting an
| appearance similar to the rabble on Race
1
tickets are distributed, and the rascality
and the buying and selling commence in
| dead earnest. The tellers crowd about the
chairman's table, where the votes are put
into hat; they look with all the gravity of
bystanders at dog fight or rat killing.
Watch the dandies among them like Evans
cross their hands behind their backs,
and pull their killing whiskers, while
Burch, who is general supervisor of all
business, no matter what, stands by, con-
templativelv biting fan. One can hear
no more from the confusion and hubbub
prevailing than if he were on deck at sea in
gale Of wind. Ingraham, with his singu-
larly empty voice, hallOes out now and
then the name of a parish or vote while
it is all going on, and struts about on the
stage with somewhat the expression OF
turkey Geek, barring his face, which has
the African tan instead of the carnation
red. Packard walks about in front with
cigar, Stimulating the heavy look of his mas
ter, General Grant; his hands are crossed
behind him, as if everything depended
on it.
In the midst of the voting Flanders, re-
sembling the portraits one sees of Washing
ton, and wearing a look which seems to
say, / am the only honest and patriotic
man in the country; / am in the hands of
my friends, enters the hall magniloquently.
A delegate, trained to what he is about TO
do, shrieks out:
Three cheers for Ben Flanders !"
Not single response follows, no band
strikes up Hail to the Chief" nobody pays
the slightest attention to the hero; low
down dog of a newspaper man would at
tract more attentiOn-and he, vainly trying
to hide his discontinue, walks through the
passage and stops at the reporters table
1.-THE general refuge for all dead beats who
may happen to be in the halll and takes a
seat next to the industrious WOrrall, with
whom he opens conversation, nodding his
head like a mandarin.
He also goes round and opens conversation
with Mr. Times, and after that drops out of
view. 1t needs no ghost to come from the
grave telling us Flanders is dead as Gov
ernor. Out in the dark and narrow path of
independent candidate he may step, but
the nominee of party for that office he
will never be.
The number Of tellers whom it was cut
and dried should attend the receiving of
the votes stand ''irm as stone wall'
around the hat, into which, as the weak
kneed secretary calls the names, each man
steps up and casts his ballot.
A meerschaum pipe, to which julius En-
nemOser is attached, uneasily looks to the
rear, and shifts from right to left, rises up
and down, like the attitude of general
looking for reinforcements
Jerry Hall (Billings) lays down the law
to his forces, evidently scattered.
DR.. Creamer, candidate for Secretary Of
State, amuses himself by electiOneering.
The uneasy aud mercurial Merrill, the
quicksilver of the convention, who, to save
his life, can't sit still more than a minute
and whose dreams by night and waking
thoughts by day are visited with but one
idea-W WarmOth-keep in motion
Rodriguez, also of the quicksilver per-
suasion, stands cool enough now, watching
his men Mary to see they don't go back.
The pOint-OfOFder men are concerned
and quiet.
One of the sergeants-atarms, whose bust
ness as previously announced by your
correspondent, was electi0neering said,
when the roll reached TangipahOa:
By -, Billings hasn't chance in that |
there hat"
"WhO has J"
Kellogg, two to one. Unless the parish |
of Orleans bring him up, Billings is dead.' |
The crowd in the lobby is dense. None |
can get out or in. Packard has won, evil |
IDENTIFY. He looks to much satisfied for any |
other result, but he is watchful now as a /
cat, scanning every voter as if he could tell /
a Kellogg man by the cut of his face.
The Billings men are getting mad, and |
are crying out "shenanagan This is /
proof that they are beaten on the ballot.
Mahan, who is a Mary man, wears his hat |
mOOdily. His chances for Auditor are slim. |
He rises or falls with Mary.
Wharton, Customhouse employe, re-
splendent in blue cravat, and whose pro-
cliyities are speechifJing on doubtful cases,
looks confident.
Ladd is gloomy and dismayed.
The Billings men who moved on the roll
had come TO the conclusion to let the roll
go this elected Kellogg, or at least such
was the general impression. Two of the |
Billings men had been appointed on the
committee: hence they could do nothing
else on their favorable report but I" let it
co.
Politicians can learn a lesson from this Of
easy discipline.
The Billings men are uneasy; the kellogg
men on the right are in their places, ard as
the roll ends, the votes all deposited, some
body ,cries out from the body: 90, we've |
got it." and the house, while the votes are
called out by Lott, is silent as the grave.
Even the lobby is quiet-a strange thing
for such lobby. TallY-keepers appear,
and with book and pencil follow the count.
Candidates swarm on the platform, the
most cOnvenint place. The first call of
ninety names shows Mary ahead, but it is
the vote of Orleans that is on top, and
hence the result may vary as the call goes
on. The count shows even between the
three first candidates, then Kellogg shoots
ahead, Billings comes up, and the house is
SO deathly silent that a cough sounds like
a thunder clap. Kellogg fOrges ahead, gets
in advance several lengths, is approached
by Billings and Mary, the
former being ahead Of the latter. Kellogg
loses nothing; goes ahead steadily. Every
man holds his breath The fourteen votes
that Kellogg is said to have gained of late
have undoubtedly won him the nomination,
thus making his majority.