The Donaldsonville chief., 1874-11-07
THE ASCENSION ELECTION.
A Pair and Peaoeable Contest The Reg
ular Republican Parish Ticket Elected
--Dubuclet's Majority 1901.

ular Republican Parish Ticket Elected
---Dubuclet's Majority 1901.
Election day in Ascension was one
Of nnbroken peace. There was no
quafreling, no fighting, no bluster on
the part Of competing candidates or
their friends, ITO undue interference
with voters, and every man was left
free to exercise the privilege Of cast
ing o ballot in accordance with the
dictates of his own conscience. All
classes seemed to comprehend the i'm
portance Of avoiding any breach Of
the peace, and even if INSCRIPTIONS
men had possessed the hardihool to
foment a disturbance, they would
have found themselves opposed by The
masses Of both parties and would
have been effectually extinguished in
the twinkling Of an eye. We have
heard of one solitary instance where
a planter threatened the discharge of
some of his laborers for voting the
Republican ticket, but there is moth
ing save rumor to substantiate the
incident and no importance seems to
have been attached to it by any one,
hence We are prone to believe the
threat was made, if at all, as a scare
crow, calculated to frighten if possible
but not to harm. The voters were
promptly at the various polls on the
morning of election day, and nearly
all had cast their ballots before noon.
We publish below complete state
ment of the vote Of the parish in de-
tail. It will be observed that the
regular Republican ticket swept all
the wards, save the seventh and
eighth, which are Democratic, and
although the Conservatives and Dunn
Republicans united in support Of the
candidates of the latter party for SEN
ator, Parish Judge, Sheriff, Coroner
and two Police Jurors, and of the for.
mer for one Of the Representatives
and three Jurors, that the regular
Republican nominees were elected by
handsome maorities. We anticipated
a victory for our ticket, but the result
has exceeded our most sanguine ex-
pectations and astonished us nearly
rs much as it has the boilers. In the
fifth and sixth wards, which were
claimed as strongholds by the Dunn
ties, the united strength of the oppO-
tion proved insignificant and our
ticket had what would be termed in
sporting parlance "a walk over"
The first ward was also cIaimed By |
the Dunnites ard though it was not |
conceded to them, yet . closer vote
was expected than the count demon
strated. The second was known to |
have no opposition strength Of any
consequence outside the Conservative
element, and the third was considered
safe for fair majority for the regular
ticket. The gallant fourth ward
rolled up fully as large vote for the
regular nominees as was Anticipated
by those persons and their friends.
and none but the Dunnites themselves
were surprised at their weakness
here. Taking the vote for Messrs.
Paul Landry, Augustin Julien and p.
A. Rodrigue, as a criterion-they y
being Dunn Republican candidates
for Police Jurors, not supported by
the Conservatives the total strength
Of the boilers in the parish is shown
to have been about 155 voters. And
this was the overwhelming ma
jority' with which their sanguine
leaders were going to march to the
polls and achieve signal triumph
But we are not disposed to taunt those
leluded individuals. As conqucrors /,
We can easily afford to be magnani-
nous, and now that the battle is over.
We trust any harsh feelings engen-
Tered by the contest may be forgot
;en, The lesson of defeat will not be-
ost upon the men who considered
heir personal advancement of greater
moment than the success Of their
'arty, and we only hope its effects
will be sufficiently marked to deter
hem from u similar misstep in the
uture.
Auditor Clinton's majority in this
parish ilt 1872, in Il total vote Of 25O3,