New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-04
WHOLE NUMBER 1880.

| to be The same party cheered for Grant and
Wilson
The sounds Of brass band, tho glare of
torches aud red light, which caused the
brick and mortar in the vicinity of the st.
Charles to redden in its rays, proclaimed
the approach OF the procession about ten
o'clock, and the column swept by the
portico waited in the cheers of the null
titude which filed the streets, and an
swered by the pleudits of those
who had gathered in the shadow
of the columns. The clamor of bands, the
roll and resonant beat of drums, the wild
| cheers of the column and Of the crowd, the
glare Of tOrchHghts cleaning through
smoke and flames, the shoot of rockets, and
the welcome of the vast thrOng, which rose
in cadence like the voice of an angry sea-
| all together formed a picture which in sight
| and sound has seldom had a parallel in this
city, and which revived the "reminiscences
of enthusiasm of the old days, when we were
one people, one country, under one flag.
While portion of the procession rallied
around the White Hat Club which had
formed in front, Judge Beattie, of La
fourche, took the stand and began a speech,
but owing to the disgraoeful Interruptions
OF crowd OF Last Ditchers who had
gathered in for the express purpose of
breaking up the meeting, as well as the
music and roll Of drums of constantly ar
irving clubs, but little could be heard. 1t
now became apparent, on the lapse of half
an hour, that the design of breaking up
the meeting was a concerted plan on the
part Of those Democrats who represented
the lower district, out of revenge for tie
trouble at ward meeting on Thursday
night where the Liberals captured it. Close
packed on the sidewalk opposite were
several hundred of the Ditchers, who kept
up continued hooting and bowling, dis
concerning those who attempted to speak,
and throwing everything into confusion
AS club after club arrived, they ranged
themselves in open order in the street.
Street cars arrived, divided the columns,
and this added to the confusion. The boot
ing and jeering still kept up, and the voice
| of Mr.. Taylor Beattie was utterly browne d d.
| He intended to define the objects of the
| Liberal party and the motives which had
brought the convention together When he
! had finished and no longer appeared
on the stand, the delegates to the
Liberal convention loudly protested
| against any such proceeding. The Ian
! guage of Mr.. SambOla, who came from
the street il front was to the effect that
the breaking up Of the Eighth Ward Demo
cratic hub was at the instigation of Michael
Carroll, one of the marshals of the process
sion, ard that this disturbance was in re-
turn f,r that Angry groups divided them
selves cut il the rotGlda, the lights were
put out, one uy one the clubs moved Off. all
| torchhghts we've soon swept from the street,
| and in a very short time there was dark
ness and silence around the building.
One hour and half was thus frittered
away, and at alfpast eleven o'clock a
crowd found tl,-mselves within the rotun
da, and loud calls being made for "Sheri-
dan, Sheridan, hat gentleman made his
appearance, moul ed the heater in the cen
! tire Of the rOtunda and made one of his
| characteristic and popular speeches.
bespoke of the plan of the Ditchers to
! break up the meeting, conveying his cen
sure in good-humoscd way, which was
quite taking with the accidental throng
Speaking also of the Liberal candidates,
and making comparison between the
white plume of Navarro and the white hat
of Horace Greeley, the latter symbolical of
returning good-felloWship and unity. Had
| IL l. -, bo
people stay where they were-in the last
ditch; had he his way no would bury them
there and fill it up with their bodies (polti
caliy speaking), that the Liberals might
make bridge of them. He would have the
ticket hung up where it was, as a sort Of
tombstone to tell who was buried beneath
it. In a further allusion to the attempt
made by the Last Ditchers to break up the
meeting he said it showed the Liberal peO-
pie of Louisiana who had come here to at
tend a convention, that their rights were
put in just such jeopardy as the carpet
baggers' were.
Mr., Alexander Boarman, of Caddo,
next took the stand, and spoke in equally
strong language of the Ditchers' attempt,
as the. voice of native LOuisianian wRs
not permitted to be heard by the voices of
those who sought to drown it out. The
forthcoming convention was one of the
people, who intended to put the State c1,
rapport with the great national movement
of Liberalism, and was not a convention Of
Warmoth men. Whoever was nominated
would be elected by the people.
Mr.. W f. Blackman, who was loudly
called up, covered the same ground as his
predecessors, saying that the demonstra.
ton tonight showed it was time for Lib
eral party to organize and unite all the ele.
ments of strength against Grantism.
Mpssrs. w. L. Jewell Liberal Democrat)
and Wynne Rogers Niberall next claimed
the attention OF the crowd, and the i'm
promptu meeting came to an end.
Glowing for the Settlement"
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