The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-08-31
A!LIVELY MEETING.

/ AILIVRLT MEETING.
Nchinatid IN of Justices of the Peace 70
the Fourth Ward by the Supporters o
Grant and Wilson--The Friends of
Defeated Aspirant Endeavor to Breal
Up the Meeting In Row-The Gandi
date fof District Attorney Makes &
Home Run"
In accordance with previous notice
about a hundred Of the citizens of the
fourth ward, supporters of Grant and
Wilson, assembled at the NJ. E. Church
In this town, last Saturday evening,
FOR the purpose OF selecting two can
dldates fog Justices of the Peace and
two for C9nstables of said ward.
There were quite a number of as
pirants present, especially for the po-
sitions of Constables, each with a
crowd OF tlis friends, and the election
eering and distribution of tickets be-
gan some time before the meeting was
called to order, and continued almost
without cessation until the asSemblaCe
adjourned, creating such din that it
was difficalt to keep track of the pro-
ceedings 4 md impossible at times to
near the voices of the speakers. Mr..
Pierre Lahdry, president of the fourth
ward mother club, called the meeting
to order, and addressed the audience
at some length, setting forth the OBJ
Ject OF thej gathering and plainly init
mating his choice for Justices of the
Peace to !be Messrs. +. Vicknair and
j. {. Matlieu, whom he eulogized in
a very complimentary manner.
Nathan Hayes and would-be but
won't be District Attorney Morris
Marks claimed the floor after the pre-
sldent had concluded, and when it was
accorded to the latter Nathan was dis
posed to dispute the decision of the
chair and have his say any how, but |
ne was finally induced to subside.
Morris Marks advanced to the front
II the audience, pregnant with gas"
md entered upon one of those high
Town, unnaeaning explosions of I" chin
music for which he enjoys q little
heap notdriety in. this neighborhood.
lie spoke bf the glorious Republican
'arty that,was marching on to victory,
it with a ive-oak tree,
hat would flourish with renewed Wig
II after the Liberal storm had swept
trough it and blown off such rotten
ranches as Grant#and such decayed
wigs and suckers as himself He at
empted td relate d funny anecdote,
ut some dver-appreciative individu-
set up b horse. laugh before the
point W as reached, and the inter-
upton so discounted the speaker
nat he Made a buhgle of the conclu- /
on OF his story, and it didn't even ]
Use fullfgrown smoker among the
ldience when it was finished. Find {
e that the crowdwas becoming inn s
atient, the speaker came down to the l
oiect of the meeting, criticizing the t
,tion of tie president in debating |
the people what candidates they /
lould select" and winding up by c
rvent appeal to his hearers, by all e
e love they bore their country and S
cir ftmilie les, by all their hopes of t
Ippiness lereafter, etc, etc., to NOM v
ate Henry o. Maher for Justice of 1
e Peace. v
Pierre Landry called vice-president a
,bert Noel to the chair and took the o
or, and proceeded to score Marks s.
, taking him to task for expressing f;
,hoice of candidates and yet himself fl
ing the same thing. Landry said, g
do not assume. TO be &ctator; 81
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