New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-05-01

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ing vote In the same, and with No preten-
siOns to residence One iFate Individual
said about certain delegate:
" Cause he had his shirt washed in the
parish, don't give him right to vote"
/ A white delegate, employed in the Gus
tOmhOuse, saTd ''The niggers GOT it toe
/ Euch their own way. Every one of them's 8
/ got his speech under his ribs, and he's ready
to break out even on motion to adjourn.
I If he can't talk on anything else. he'll raise
( to point of order
| The committee having fixed 10 up, their
| own way IN the Cosmopolitan Club, the
| house began slowly to fill at the expiration
| of the recess hour, and soon considerable
| impatienee was exhibited for the. beginning
of the second act. In the prOsssnium box,
on the left, sat Messrs. Pitkin, Packard, De
| Klyne, Hahn, E. E. Norton and others of
less note in the political and financial world,
| and they were pointed out as 5he friends of
| Billings for Governors nomination.
While the audience were waiting for the
curtain to rise on the second act, Mr.. Gar
rett, one of the body IN the auditorium
moves that J. r. G. Pitkin address this au-
dienee, and the object of this motion ad-
vances to the fOOtlights and made speech.
He said Liberal RepublieanlSm was rein
| fOrcement of Democracy, and this was about
all he did say, except that Liberal Repub-
| lican was ''yOur enemy and mine," and
should be met as we would meet the De-
mOcracy.
Loud cries for various of the favorites
began to rise from all parts of the house, in
| the midst of which the chairman took the
| stage and the secretary took the table and
reading a document it was resolved that
| DR.. WOrrall address the meeting.
This bland and smiling politician had no
sooner got on the stage than fearful row
| began, as follows:
J. G. Miller rose and denounced DR..
| WOrrall as a traitor to louisiana and in
sisted upon it in a vehement manner that
| Dr. Worral should not be permitted to
| speak.
Cries of "put him Out7
| Miller, shaking his fist, "YOu may put
me out, but can't make me take my seat
| A crowd of serg9nts-at-arms advance to
| the excited and gesticulating speaker.
Gentlemen of the convention" the presi-
| dent called out. No effect.
Il move the sergeants-at-arms seat the
| gentleman
Several of the sergeants-atarm at
go ahead, you're a thief" The excited
/ Miller broke out.
| At this point a regular row broke out
/ around the seat of Miller. Between those
! who wanted to put him out and those who
/ didn't, fisticuff and knOck-dOwn argument
| took place Chairs were taken up and used
| on heads right and left, and in various direc
| tiOns, in the mid II which Mr.. Miller we. I
/ out, followed ny about thirty or forty OF
| the delegates divided as to sides whether he
| should 90 out or stay in.
At this point the music begins, but fails to
| lull the storm. Loud murmurs break out
| in maledictiOns, argument and exacerba-
! ton.
Mr.. Joseph H. Wilson rises from the
| neighborhoOd Of Miller, who has just gone
| out, and moves to rescind the resolution
| calling on DR.. WOrrall to speak, and then
| calls upon Colonel George w. Carter who,
after some hesitation. while every mans
nerves are drawn tense with the exciting
| affair Just witnessed advanced to the stage,
| and made a quiet speech, cOngratulating
the assembly ION the interest they had Just
| shown in the vitality Of the party saying
| that there was something worse than per
sOnal pickering and quaTrels, and that was
| apathy and the indifference of death, and
! though the convention had begun badly he
| had no doubt 1t would end haTmOntOusly.
During all this time DR.. WOrrall kept his
| scat at the side of the stage, apparently un-
moved.
DR.. Cramer now rises, and makes a Grant
| speech, while the house gradually SINNERS
down.
Wickham, the brother-inlaw of the expel-
/ led Miller, now rises, and made a speech.
saying he was going to vote for Grant, and
had been a slave before he was free. Touch
ing the point of DR.. WOrralrs speech, he
| said, if the Republican party had not brains
enough within the lines, without calling on
an outsider to speak for it, the convention
had better adjourn, and let the people elect
a new one.
J. e. Miller having shown himself again.
his presence was accompanied by loud and
angry murmurs. In the speech he made
after the confusion and points of order had
subsidized he put himself in line with the
convention, and said he was ready to take
his seat or have a fight, he didn't care
which"
j. a. Burcb, chairman of the committee
on credentials, being announced, the follow
ing list of delegates and alternates was read
out. The committee went On the principle
of admitting both cOntesting delegations,
and dividing the vote. For instance, in
case Of eight delegates representing parish
of four votes, each one was entitled to half
vote:
AscensiOn-G. II. Hill, Aaron Hill, Charles
V. Lewis, William Burley. Alternates-
Peter Jones, Mellin Morris, Randall Cole,
L. G. Bentley.
Assumption-BaziI Grave. Thomas Di-
vine, Isaac Sawyer, Jonas Hughes, w G.
Crane, Z. G. PintadO, LandOlph PendletOn
-one-half vote each.
Avoyelles-Joseph Laurent, Jr., Manuel
johnson, F. G. Antoine, c. H. Ross.
East Baton Rouge. Henri Burch, Sam
uel G.. p. Wilson, John H. Thompson, Leon
Caste, Joshua P. Wilson. Alternates-
Henry Shorter, j. H. Williams.
West Baton Rouge-T.aT. Allan.
Benville-Thomas S. Johnson.
BOssier-Percy Baker.
Caddo-C. c. Antoine, c. W. Keeting,
John Boyd.
Caldwell-A. w. Faulkner.
Cameron-J. NJ. Lacey.
CarrOll-P. Jones Yorke, Cain Sartain, A.
G. Ruth.
CatahOula-S Marvin, F. A. RentOn.
ClaibOrne-WilliamR Roy, r. 7. Varna.
COncOrdia-L. Prague, f. Long, b. +.
Clemens, S. Cripp, Jack Howard, Andrew
TOlliver.
De Soto-W. j. Abbott J. Fl. McVean.
East Feliciana John Gair, Lewis
George Henry Smith, Paul Venia, j. IL.
Jones. James Laws.
West Feliciana-E. L. Weber, J. w.
Armistead, G. Washington.
Franklin-Philip Robinson.
Grant-Sam E. Cuny, H. K. KearsOn.
Iberia-Sam Wakefield.
Iberville-C. Z. Merrill, James Preston,
w. w. Wharton, James Tate, A. Coleman,
A. J. st. Dizier, William Page, G. H. Gordon.
Jachson-JOhn Ray, Allen Green.
JeffersOn-T B. Stamps, Paul A. Osborne,
A. K. johnson, William Ellis.
Lafayette-A. T. Riard.
Lafourche-Edward Long, Wilson Taylor,
A. G. Brooks.
Livingston-James Bailey.
Madison-Curtis Pollard, Washington
Howard, Luke Madison.
Morehouse--J. J. Schardt, c. 7. Sunk,
half vote each.
atchitOches-Samuel Parsons, Y. A.
Barra, King Kinkleberry, r. S. Faulkner,
IA NO I'd Ezarnaek- Iarrv A Hall.