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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-08-17
OUR CANDIDATE ROReoNGREss.
NEW ORLEANS, August 10th, 1877

NEW ORLEANS, August 10th, 1872.
AT a meeting of the Third Congressional dele
gafes, held in the gentieHfenfs parlor, st. Charles
Hotel, this day, August 10 Hon. Elbert CAN'T,
OF st. Landry, was unanimously nominated.
G, w. MUNDAY, President.
j. H. LEVY, Secretary.
The above official announcement of
the nomination of Mr., CAN'T, we take
from the New Orleans Times.
Mr.. CAN'T has been a resident of this
Parish for about thirty-fVe years, du-
ing which period he has been engaged
in planting. He has been a member of
the Police Jury since 1842 and acted as
President Of that body continuously
since 1847 up to 1870, at which time he
resigned his position. Mr.. CAN'T is
eminently a self made man. He pos
sesses great sagacity, untiring energy
and Il consummate knowledge ofhuman
nature, which in private life have en-
abled him to accumulate a handsome
fortune, and which will render him,
should he be elected, a useful and prac-
teal member of Congress.
Immediately after the war Mr.. CAN'T
accepted the issue decided by that con-
test, and identified himself with the
Republican party. His nomination for
Congress 10y the Liberal Convention is
an exemplifcation of the good faith
with which the Liberal party accept
the Cincinnati platform and its legiti-
mate consequences.
Mr.. CAN'T has many warm friends,
some bitter enemies in this parish-this
is natural enough in one who has been
so closely connected with parochial
affairs for SO many years, but it is a
source of qualification to his friends
as it must be to himself to have re-
ceiyed the unanimous endorsement of
the entire congressional delegation of
this District, none of whom had been
his political friends, and all of whom
are from the best men in the State.
We now venture this prediction
whoever beats Ebert CAN'T for Con
gress in this District will do it after
making the best fight recorded in the
the political annals of south western
Louisiana:
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Gov. WARMOTH AND THE Liberal
PARTY.-To re-elect Warmoth, Cover
MOI, is the sole object Of the Liberal
move. The pretext that it is for State
Reform, regardless Of party will not
bear criticism. # true, why did not the
Liberals go with the Reform party?
State reform was their Alpha and
Omega. It true, why did they reject
the Democratic and Reform offers of
union unless Warmoth were made Gov
ernor? Let the people not be deceived.
The sole idea of the. Liberals, with
some honorable exceptions, is Warmoth
for Governor.-[Bourbon Paper before
the Liberal Convention met.
But it is not true. Gov. Warmoth
was not even put in nomination. If
true, why did the Democrats go with
the Reform party? If true, why did
not the Democratic R Reform Last Ditch
ers go with the Liberal Party? ftrue,
why did they reject the Liberal offers
Of union unless MeEnery were made
Governor, Jonas Lieutenant Governor
and Ogden Attorney General Let
the people be not deceived. The sole
idea Of the Last Ditcllers, with some
honorable exceptions, and they are
blind, is to rule Or ruin !; and Judging
from the past, they prefer the latter.
IL true, why did not the Last itehers
adopt the same platform adopted by
the Democratic convention at Balti-
more i? IL true, why did not the Last
Ditchers await the action of the Ba1ti-
more convention, and let a ticket he
nominated that would unite all the
elements in this State favorable to the
ticket nominated at Cincinnati and
Baltimore ? # true, why did the Last
Ditchers' rump'committees violate the
ticket nominated by the Democratic
State convention, and present to the
people a bastard ticket and platform,
aud denounce all who wouldn not support
1T as !" traitors 7" Il true, why did the
Reform party want to go with tie Gus
tom-House party? lie true, why did
the Reform leaders go to Baton Rouge
to wire-pull some of their party ON the
Custom House ticket? If true, why
was the Reform candidate for Cover
nor going to stump the State for KEEL
logs, if the marriage between the De-
mocratic and Reform committees had
not prevented it. If true, that the Lib
erals are such unprineipled scoundrels
as the Last pitchers represent them
to be, why Wefp they willing to unite
with them on any terms !? One thing
is true, the Custom-House and Last,
Ditch papers abuse the Liberals and
compliment each ether-does this show
a community Of interest and that fel,
low feeling which makes one Wopdrous
kinds
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&4=HE@#5% u ~ E#g.-G| -EFFrE- s4 .5 .
ANOTHER TICKEr-phe Republican
convention representing the Turner Hall
or Pinchbaek wing of the Republican
party in this State, assembled at Me-
elanics' institution New Orleans, on the
9th inst, and failing to makea coalition
with any other party, split into two con-
ventions last Monday, in voting on q
resolution TO endorseG Greeley and Brown.
The resolution was tabled, 100 voting
against the resolution, andaors7in "a.
yor oft. WIereupon the majority, inefu-
dingGen. Campbell, the President, with
drew and organized another convention,
which was increased next day to one.
hundred and six delegates representing
tYentyreight parishesa and thirteen wards
OF the city, and endorsed the Liberal
party and the Liberal State and National
tickets, appointed an executive commit
tee, and adjourned subject to the call Of
the president Of said committee. Intlis
convention, was a considerable number
Of influential eoloped men.
The other wing Of the convention
adopted onendorsing tilePhila-
deIphia platform and Grant and Wilson,
and nominated a State, Congressional
and Eeetoraltieket. p. B. s. Pfflchback.
Of Orleans, was nominated for Governor;
a, b. Harris, of Goneordia, for Lieuten-
mt Governor; Geo. b. Loud, of Tber-
vile, fp~raecretary Of States VT. jasper
blackburn Of CIaihorne, for Auditor
a. J. Field, dc Orleans, for Attorney
General W. G. Brown, of Orleans, for
Superintendent Of Public Education !;
and II. G nibble, dc Orleans, for Con-
gresham at large. For Congress, First
District. 3. Butler, m p~laauemines
second District, y. i. Barber, of Or
leans; Third N1lisl District, Tllos. H.
Nolana, Of IberviHe Fourth District. j
Madison Wells, f Rapides; Fifth Dis
triet. David Young Of eoncordia. j
presidential electoral ticket was also
elected.
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The proposition Of the t-Ditchers
to the Liberal Convention, on the ac-
ceptance of which they would unite
with the Liberals, amounted to this
Give us the State ticket and you can
have the presidential ticket you help
us elect our State ticket and we will
let you elect your presidential Or cleo
toral ticket you put lis in WarmOth's
place that we may put Il crowd in all
the Offices, and your crowd may enjoy
the glory Of carrying the State fol
Greeley and Brown or as the white
man said to the Indian. IN take the
turkey and you take the crow !; or you
take the crow and I'll take the turkey
And the Liberals saw the proposition il
the same light that the Indian did.
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ST. LOUIS, August 10.-A cOrrespOn-
dence between j. r. DOolittle and B.
Gratz Brown, respecting denomination
Of the latter for Vice-President at the
Baltimore Convention, is published.
The letter of Brown is as follows;
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Jefferson City, August s. )
Gentlemen of the Committee:
Ihave the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication advising
me that | had been unanimously nOmi-
mated as the candidate for the Vice
Presidency of the United States, at
Baltimore. For this mark of confidence
on the part OF so large a representative
body Of my fellOw-citizens, | can nOttOO
deeply express my gratitude. This dis
measure ~undeserved, where so many
more suitable could have been found,
and vet should your action be confirmed,
I shall endeavOr to discharge the duties
of that high place with fidelity to your
trust, with devotion to the public in
terest and with an inflexible resolution
to prove not unworthy of such choice.
The fact that it reposes also upon the
declaration of principles affirmed by the
Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati and
proclaimed without amendment by the
Democratic party at Baltimore, gives
assurance that IN this comb1ned express
sion there is spughtonly the del1verance
OF the nation from a present great peril
t01ts peace II liberty TO that END all
minor considerations have been subor-
d1nated-an illustration presented to
thecountry otnnselflsh patriotism rather
than any sticking for party advantage
which should convince all OF the perfect
sincerity OF TINS movement, lt a m
VOWED no surrender on Glfher part OF
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THE LIBERAL STATE TICKET.-The
Liberal convention, which met in New
Orleans on Monday, the 5th inst, spent
the whole of that week up to Friday
evening in fruitless efforts to effect a
union of all the elements opposed to
the Custom-House ticket. They then
proceeded to nominate II ticket. Col.
d. b. Penn, Il sketch of whose history
we reproduce from the Times, was NOM
mated for Governor f.; John 5. Young,
of Claiborne, for Lieutenant Governor;
james Graham, of Orleans, for Auditor +;
F. E. Dumas, of Orleans, for Secretary
State; W. F. Herman, of East Feliciana,
for Attorney General j. ". Mcdonald,
Of Caddo, for Superintendent OF Public
Education; and Geo. Sheridan, of Or
leans, for Congressman at large.
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The National Democratic Convention
adopted the platform and candidates of
the Liberal Republicans, which practic-
ally makes Che two parties one. The
Liberal party in this State adopted the
same platform, and 10 other party in
this State has adopted that platform.
This makes the Liberal party here the
true representative of the national Gree
ley and Brown party, and it is so recog-
mized by the national Democratic and
national Liberal Republican committees.
The Democratic convention in this State
adopted no platform, but the rump State
Democratic Committee has assumed to
make a platform for the party, wherein
all who differ with them are branded as
traitors-the national Democratic plat
form is entirely ignored by this rump
committee. This rump committee has
also assumed to change the ticket NOM
mated by the convention, and to unite
with a party that the Democratic party
in regular convention refused to unite
with. The committee have thrOWn over
board the State Democratic ticket nom
mated by the convention, and put up a
thing called the "United State Ticket
and they call all, who do not support
their bantling, "traitors," as if it were
any more sacred or legitimate than the
genuine ticket nominated by the con,
vention. This committee are the trait,
ors, for they have cmasculated the ticket
which the convention did not authorize
them to do; and they have made a plat.
form, to suit their own purposes, differ.
ent from that Of the party which they
pretend to represent.
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The Editor of the N. 0. Bee classes the
Thibodaux Sentinel among the news
papers of Louisiana whichhav been, OF
exDecttobe subsidized by Warmotbt The
Bee never hal, has not now, nor ever
will have one particle Of evidence to
sustain such an %ungraciOus or uncalled
for assertion, and we are strongly of
opinion that Elit0rs, who accuse so
glibly their contemporaries. of being
bought and sold, have considerably
practical experience in the buying and
selling process themselves.
Since writing the above, i'm comment
ing upon a letter from the Editor Of the
L0uisianais, the Bee, without T~etraeting
its contemplate charge, regrets. that SO
many papers support the Liberal move
ment and hopes that they will ultimately
support the Fusion Ticket.
This is decidedly rich! Simply be
cause they have been advocating a fusion
of all opponents of Grantism the Bee
charges them with being soldi and now
hopes they will do iust what they have
been striving to accomplish for the last
four or five months, and which the Bee
has been striving TO prevent.|TlibO-
daTlx Sentinel.
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One thing is certain. only one ticket

One thing is certain, only n ticket
can be elected in this State, and that
will be either the Liberal ticket or the
Custom-House ticket. The US. Tick
ct can not be elected, even if no Libe-
raj ticket was in existence ; and II the
Liberal ticket is defeated, the Bourbon
Last pitchers can justly claim the honor
of causing its defeat. II they can
stand that honor, the Liberalscan stand
the defeat. 81
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Well, the Liberal convention has met
and nominated q State ticket, and Gov.
Warrnoth is not ON that ticket-in fact,
he did not seek to be placed ON it. Now,
what has become of the predictions of
the Courier and other sheets of that ilk?
They have been endeavoring to prove
ever since the Liberal movement was
~inaugurated, that Gov. Warmoth would
be the Liberal candidate for Governor.
They tried to prove a thing before ithap-
pened. Now they viii have to hunt an
other excuse for opposing the Liberal
ticket, and that will be, we presume, be-
cause Gov. Warmoth supports it.
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The enterprising local Of the Greenup
Ky.) Independent, comes out ON hogs Us
follows: Some time since on city dads,
by virtue of the authority in them vested,
ordered the hogs to- abstain from the Ilse
offhe streets of this Incorporated village
and such was the dread the hogs had OF
the laws stern decree, that four days
thereafter the closest observer could not
have counted ~ three hundred per
ambulating the streets at any time
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So the Convention, which the Picayune
has been telling us all the time was con-
trolled by Warmoth, and was convened
for the express purpose of renominating
him, has not nominated him, but on the
contrary, has nominated Col. Penn. We
never believed Gov. WaTmoth would
be renominated, and have 80 tntimatef
on numerous Goeasl0nsg but we were
ready to indOrse the action of the Con-
yention, no matter who was nominated.
believing it to be a genuine representa-
tive body, and that its u~tterances would
be fully authorized. Tt has now spoken,
at least as to one candidate, and one
against whom not a word OF objection
can be spoken. He is the acceptable
Liberal Republican we have demanded.
and we believe, with him at the head Of
the ticket, the Liberal movement, as to
State issues, becomes an assured success.
Gov. Warmoth being out of the way
it is now in order for Col. McEnery to
retire. He has an opportunity of show
ing whether he prefers his own selfish
aims to the harmony of our people and
the prosperity of the State. By retiring,
he win render the State a service such
as he may never again have an opportu-
nifty of doing.-N. @. Times.
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The Greeley and Brown campaign is
tn he carried on all over the South I'M
der the Democratic banner. why
should Louisiana not do the same
We find the above in the Courier OF
last Saturday. Tt should not be carried
on under that banner, because defeat
will be the result, as it was in North
Carolina, on the first inst. There they
had aregfsteredwhi majority of forty
five thousand, and a Radical Governor
was elected by about two thousand ma
iority. A union with the Liberals
would have defeated him. But Bour-
bonism there is the SAME as it is here.
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~ ToLD YoU sor-The New Or
leans Picagune, the principal organ of
the Y United State Ticket says
NH. PENIS nomination for Governor
hy the Liberal Convention proves that
there was no sincerity In the action of
that body when it appointed a COM
mfttae I'd confer with the Democrats
and KafarMers. Ii liz also manifest.
from the enthusiasm exhibited By the
Convention, that the Liberal chiefs
never intended To propose or I'd agree
to such terms of compromise as could
Ie accepted by the Democrats and Re-
formers. We hive 9la ANll1b that NJ.
pennE nomination was determined III.
before conference with Il view to fa-
sion WIS proposed with The adherents
III the united State ticket. And IT
seems now to be certain that the Gus
t0aa-HOMse ticket will he elected.
Should this be the result, the response
hility resfa with the Liberals.
NOw, before PENN was nominated the
PieaaBee and All tile other papers sup-
porting the United State Ticket, tried
10 prove ID advance, or as ~thelaWyers
would say. (transposeO tHAc pro aanc,
that Governor Warmoth had been
fixed upon By the Liberals and nominal
ted III caucus as their candidate for
Governor HIT they can predict a.
WeI after an event al before II They
remind u of the old lady who, when in
formed az any unexpected event, AZ
wars exclaimed, " told you 80 Aud
when early one morning, her old man
came ana informed her that tlle
p HID eaten up the grindstone,n she
u.aasitatingy exclaimed, " I told you
d They who asserted ID positively
Tint Gov. WarnOth would be the Lib
era1 eandiJat ne Just about al consist.
en6 Ne tIlis aid wanlan; and now when
r aon has proved III be IN
founded, nv they hare no doubt tint
ca. nns nomination was determined
oa beforehand. II was certainly a.
d Da lint ii Liberal should h<
te candidate fnr Governor
otherwise they might inst AZ well have
adopted e entire BeurFon ticket and
platform But II Tie Hahoust
Ticket Should liz elected HE Liberals
kn,w fesponsi Nin rest viii
tlls Bosirhons-Wha 90 ~ elect theii
oWn ticket and III spite endeavor 4
asYeyent tie Liberals from eleefing one
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The. Courier and the Custom House or
gan seem to agree wonderfully well to-
gether. The Courier quotes that paper
against the Journal, and that paper
quotes the Courier against the JOURNAL
and the Liberal party. The Courier, we
believe, expressed a weakness for the
Custom House party last winter, which
it has probably not recovered from yet.
While every issue of itnow is brimfull
OF denunciations against the Liberal
party, Warmoth and the JOURNAL, it
has not a word to say against the Gus
tom House party, etc. Oh, no; the bar
gain Of last winter probably still exists,
and this siIencem may be explained on that
ground.
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soLD OUT.-Mr. S. r, FairchiId has
sold ont his Hotel and Saloon to MI.
Thad. Mayo, of Opelousas. Mr.. Mayo
is having the house renovated from top
to bottom, and win in a short time haze
everything fixed up in tiD-tOp order.
Lake Charles Echo. Ang. 10th.
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PoLITICsIN WEST FELICIANA.-A cor
Respondents of the Baton Rouge Gazette
and Comet, writing from Bayou Sara,
West Feliciana parish, August Sd, says.
Great efforts have been made in this
parish, and | have no doubt but the
same has been the casein other portions
Of the State to brand as "WarmOth
men" all who have given their support
to the Liberal cause. But this, Mr..
Editor, was but n mea devise to win
supporters for the McEnery Jonasticket,
which, [ say with q degree of pride, did
not take in West Feliciana, the people
are not to be thrown Over the track and
smashed by such fulsome doctrines as
are advanced by the "last pitchers in
advocacy Of their candidates. The poll
tician's day is past and the people have
taken the matter in hand and mean to
come out of the struggle victorious,
last pitchers to the contrary notwith-
standing, The-people have risen in one
cOuntTy's good, and voc to those who
give birth to projects which might throw
impediments in their way. ..'"
Among the old friends of Col. Nc
Emery, in this parish, some are pretty
severe on him for allowing his name to
be used in opposition to the will of the
masses. They say that he is acting in
direct contradiction to the principle for
which he so CALAMITY fought during the
late civil strife. Indeed, should his name
remain before the people as a candidate
for Governor, he will be lending a help
to those who would pe%rpetuate the era
of plumber which was i~naugnrated BY
Gen. GRANTS administration. 1t strikes
me as eminently proper that all the ele-
ments which are opposed to a contin-
uance of the reign Of misrule, corrup-
ton and yenality, which at present
dominates in the Union, should at once
strike hands and join ip @ gigantic
stroke for victory.
Those whose interests are centerel in
Louisiana, should stop and ponder ere
they give their support to a ticket which
may, by the force of certain circum-
stances, bring about such results as
would cause weeping and wailine
throughout Il entire State.
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The editress Of a Western journal re-
Gently announced that the arrival of an
z extra male prevented the Dromptissle
of her paper,
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The London News. speaking of 4 poor
man who starved to death, says /: " He
did not rally again, but ait four o'clock
he passed from economy to eternity
without q struggle"
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Chicago woman has married n man
In jail. She bfags she is the only girl
in town who knows where her Teller
stays of nights
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Waste Of wealth is sometimes retrley-
ed; waste of health, seldom; but waste
Of time, never.
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A grocer being solicited to contribute
to the building of new church, prompt
~ subscribed his name to the paper i'll
the following eccentric manner: John
Jones (the only place i'm town where
you can get ii pounds good sugar for q
tiOliar1 20 cents.
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Al man weighing me hundred andtifty
pounds contains one hundred and eleven
pounds of water in his tissues.
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Gold il the only idol that is worship
ped in all lands without II temple, and
by all sects without hypocrisy.
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The result of the North Carolina cleo
ton shows that those who were in haste
to call it d great Democratic victory,
have counted without their host; for
the Radicals have elected their candi-
date for Governor by about two thous-
and majority. This seems the more
agrap e as the government of that State
was already i'm the hands Of the Demo-
Gratis, and there was a registered white
majority there of about forty-fVe thous-
and. The Bonrbons thought they had
the game all their own way, and were
determined to ego it alone.n The least
concession to the Liberals would have
elected the entire ticket. But they were
too illfheral to coneede anything-they
preferred to be defeated themselves and
have Greeley and Brown and the entire
Liberal movement defeated, than to al
low others to participate with them in
fiae victory, except as political "hewers
of waad and drawers of WATER But
here In this State the action OF the Bour-
bofss is still more strange, for the whites
are i'm the minority, and divided intotwo
or three parties on factions. On account
of this minority an effort was made il
the Democratic State convention to fuse
with the Liberal Republicans, but the
Bourbons pgeventedit and their course
has been opposed TO d fusion of all thu
elements of opposition to Grant ana
KeIlogg-so muchso, rs tomake il seen
that they are endeavoring to electthem
The leadership Of the Bourbons always
leads TO the defeat Of that class or party
they pretend to represent, and the peo'
pie who follow them are as the on led tt
4ha RIaEIghtar.