New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-02
Meeting of the Bar.


Supreme Courtroom.
The meeting was called to order by D. c.
Labatt, Esq, upon whose nomination NJ
NJ. Cohen, Esq, was called to the chair
Mr.. Liyaudais was chosen secretary.
J. H. Kennard, Esq, submitted the fol
lowing resolutions for the consideration of
the meeting:
ResoIUed, That the meeting of the bar of
New Orleans is convened for the sole pUr-
pose of aiding the people in the selection of
proper candidates for the judicial Offices of
the parish; that the call was made in obedi
ence to what the bar understood to be the
wish of the people, and with no wish to
abridge their rights.
2. That the following plan be adopted for
the purpose of making such selections, ire
spective of party, to be recommended to the
voters of New Orleans for election, to wit:
First-A separate list, in writing, shall be
prepared for each court, upon which shall
be placed without formal viva v0ce nomina-
tion the name of each party who presents
himself or is presented as q candidate. Sec
Ond-That the vote shall be by ballot, and
each voter shall make his selection from the
list presented, and shall indicate his choice
only by ballot. Tbird-That the nomina-
ton and election of candidates for the sew
eral courts shall be made. separately, com
mencing with the First District Court and
proceeding in regular order to the Eighth.
g. That in case of failure to elect on
the first or second ballot, all candidates
shall be dropped on the third ballot except
those three who have received the highest
number of votes on the first ballot, and in
case there is no election on the third ballot,
the candidates receiving the fewest votes
on sid third ballot shall be dropped, and
only two candidates shall stand for the
fourth ballot.
4: That the candidates thus nominated
shall be and are recommended by the bar
OF New Orleans to all parties in the field
for ratification.
5. That no member of the bar taking
part in this meeting, either as a voter or
candidate, shall offer himself, or allow him
self to be offered, before the people as
candidate in opposition to the candidates
recommended by the bar at this meeting.
Mr.. E. d. White moved, Eefore actingsOn
these resolutions, that all members of the
bar present proposing to take part in the
proceedings should come and register them
selves.
After some discussion, finally ruled ir-
relevant by the chair, the motion was car
ried.
The signing of the roll resulted in the
registration of l64 names.
Then ensued prolonged discussion upon
what method this meeting should adopt to
carry out its objects, which was participated
in by Mr.. d. c. Labatt, ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor II. j. Hyams, Hon. Miles Taylor, Mr..
d. r. Whitaker and others; when the first
resolution offered by Mr.. Kennard was
taken up and adopted.
Opinions were expressed upon the second
resolution by Messrs. Walter II. Rogers, B.
F. Jonas, William c. Murphy, c. B. Single
ton, E. d. White, James Lingan and others,
and several amendments and substitutes
were offered, which were segerally laid
upon the table.
The idea that seemed to actuate the ma
,jority of the opponents to Mr.. hennard's
resolution was that it would be improper
for this meeting to designate only one can
didate for each nomination.
This idea was combatttd by MIR. Kennard,
who held that if this meeting submitted four
names for each 5judgeship, to the nominal
ing convention, as has been suggested, it
would be found that all four might not be
equally acceptab BILE: that the weakest OF the
number as lawyer, might prove the
strongest in the ward club. Thus the OBJ
ject OF this movement would be defeated
Frank G. Zacharie, Esq, stated that he
could not lend his support to ticket got up
in this way; it was an unwarranted as
sumption of authority on the part OF this
body, and he should therefore withdraw
from deliberations
Mr.. Kennard's next resolution was then
taken up and adopted.
Here followed further running debate,
which was, however, brought to a close by
the adoption the remainder OF the series
of resolutions OF Mr.. kennard, except the
last, against which SO much bitter oppOsi-
ton was manifested that that gentleman
felt constrained to withdraw it.
Mr.. SimOns, however, renewed the mo-
ton to adopt the resolution; but on motion
of Lieutenant Governor VOORHEES,, it was
promptly laid on the table by an over
whelmiug majority.
Nominations were then declared in order
for the iudgeship of the First District
Court The following candidates were an
Colonel 7. G. Hunt, NJ. a. Dooley,
Judge T. Wharton COllens, Judge T. B.
Robertson, and Judge Edmund Abeli, the
present incumbent. Judge Collens' name
was withdrawn, The ballot resulted as
follows:
Whole number of votes cast. .47
Necessary for choice "a
). B. RObertsOn"......,..
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~ ~ u .IiI ge
Z, Abel 40
And the latter named candidate was de-
clared to be elected as the choice of the
New Orleans bar for the First District
iudgeship, and on motion of w. r. Whita
Ezer, ESQ, the choice was made unanimous.
For Ethe Second District judgeship the
candidates were announced: A
j. Villere, Louis Duvigneaud, present in
cumbent: A. L. Tissot. j. NJ. Dirrhammer.
Thomas H. Kennedy. F. Michinard and
Maurice Grivot. It. was stated that Judge
TEornaJr rToe NOT q candidate and his naIna
was withdrawn:
Whole number of votes cast .,,. I39
Necessary for a choice.......o.. .o..o.o...... 70
Blank
+. Michlnard. .
NJ. ~
A D. 1issot. ~
L. DuTigleaua' 20
!. n y Hiiepa VITenammer So