The weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1872-1882, 1872-08-03

delegates, they filed tie building
with special deputy. United States
marshals armed for. the occasion.
To complete these earaordinar.
preparations for a political conven-
ton and to emphasize Che inaugu-
ration Of this new style of Coz,
su!ting the wishes Of The peop,,
they obtained the necessary orde,
from the military authorities und
fortified the closed Customhouse
with Gatlin guns and garrisoned ii
with United States soldiers under
arms. One hundred and ten dele
gates to the convention, being q
majority, disgusted and indignant
at these tyran1,ical: proceedings,
turned away from tl.es Custo1nhouse
and assembled in Turner Hall. The
State Central Committee appointed
by that convention has by, its au-
tlority convoked the present one.
On the nineteenth Of June Mr..
Packard aud his l)artisans called L
convention at Baton Rouge to nom
mate. candidates for the State Off
ces. The Customhouse cabal could
not keep good isaith even with thei'
own confederntes.7 In order to Sc
cure the nomination of the favorite*
Of their own ring, and obey instruc-
tions from a "higher: authority
they expelled from their convention
all representative and Independents
men, and seated strangers, intru-
7ers, carpet-bagsers and proxies OF
their own creation, until their con-
vent;on consisted of Custom ~odss
officials, internal revenue tax collec-
tors antl postm.sters.
Custonhouso employees, who wery
elected as Delegates to the I3stol
Rouge convention we're cpc,,l,
threatened with dismissal from Off
| co by United States Marshal Pack
ard Il they fuiled to vote as. he die
sated. The lists Of delegates e,ectcf
lis furnished to tho State Central
Committee by the parish and ward
clubs We're suppressed by Mr:
Packard for four weeks previous to
the meeting Of the contention. aud
| the names of delegates were not
allowed to be made known to
members of the committee. Lists
Of delegates ~pledgeds: to the ring
candidates weEe manufactured in
the United States paarsh2!s :oficc
and foisted upon fhe convention
as the regularly elected delegates.
Lobby7tickets were issued, so that
all access even to the lobby was
denied to any but tie partisnns OF
Mr.. Packard. Mr.. Casey refused,
in tie presence of several well
known gentlemen, to assure his
Customhouse employees that their
places should notbe imperiled if they
| voted independently Of A1r. Pack
ards dictation. Mr. Packard ano
his instruments, when they dis
covered that a majority of the
convention favored union with the
regular Republicans, substituted a
| fraudulent resolutions in place Of
the one really offered, by which such
insulting conditions were imposed
that union was made impossible.
They refused all honorable offers O,
| union with the regular Republic
for the sole reason that such CON-
promise would intefere with the
Customhouse state for nominations
The President and secretary of the
convention were convicted in open
session Of fraudulently altering
their own rolls. Credentials were
withheld from legally elected dele
gates unless they would pledge
themselves to vote as MIR. Packard
ordered them. Finally, by = series
Of fraudulent, corrupt and tyranni-
cal measures, they rammed the
choice of q small Customhouse ring
down the throats OF the convention
in the place of able ane wellknown
Republicans, who were really their
choice, drove away over one-haH OF
their own members, and cut them
selves off from the whole body OF
regular Republicans; SO that success
ander their lead, and with their:
ticket, is impossible.
This convention. SO constituted.