The weekly Louisianian., 1874-08-15

upon DeTadtlmwas before thu
Convention. Several members dis,
cussed points of order. After nearl,
an hour given to these frivolous in.
tertocutory motions,
Mr.. Montaldo again urged the
adoption of substitute renewed
by himself, that the report Of the
committee be acted upon in its en-.
tirety. He would not urge the pre-.
vious question on this, but would
let the motion be debated.
Mr.. Dewes, of st. John the Ban.
fist. made a frivolous point of O, der,
which the Chair refused to enter.
tain. T"
The Chair ruled Mr.. Demas out
OF order. but he persisted in stating
his point, which, he claimed, to be
pertinent to the motion of MI. Mon
taldo, who interrupted him, begging
to correct his misstatement of his
delegacy, he being of the THIRD
Ward and not of the Fourth Ward.
MIR. Demas rejoined, "You are OF
no ward"
Senator Pinchback was accorded
the floor, on the adoption of the
motion of Mr.. Montaldo.
HIS SPEECH.
He was before the Convention not
SO much in behalf of the interests of
his own immediate constituents but
he rightly felt of the Republicans of
the entire State. The issues involved
in the attack made upon the rights of
free ballot against the citizens of the
Tenth Ward was an outrage if unre.
buked which would jeopardize untram-
meled suffrage throughout the State.
It had been charged by certain morn
ing dailies, subsidized by the men who
committed these wrongs; that the po-
sition he assumed on this subject was
fostered by the attitude in which this
report Of the Committee had placed
many Of the country contestants and
because of this he would seek the infu-
ences which this cause gave.
In order, however, to free himself
from any such allegation he proposed
to rest the merits of his case upon the
high handed conduct of official oppo-
nents in lis-the Tenth Ward-and
single handed and alone would test
truth and justice against the power
which official patronage and influence
so potently welded. loud applause.
Giving a synopsis of the difficulties
occurring in the Tenth Ward both pre-
ceding and during the day of the pri-
mary election of delegates the speaker
in strong and forcible terms character
lied these acts. Then next coming to
the action Of what he styled the Eek
ecutivo Caucus" he set forth the
schemes and behests of its leading
spirits; and producing a marked sem
sation. When he alluded to the ar
rangement wherein Lieut.. Gov. An.
tome had been solicited by the Execu-
tive and consented to accept the tenn
Craftsmanship of the body on
distinct and understood basis of
and justice; but was at the
last moment put aside by his pledged
and allowed to be ungener-
ously beaten by another gentleman
who appointed a committee on creden-
tials entirely in the interests of the Ex-
ecutive. If in view of these and SINH
[ar, direct and palpable wrongs, Which
he cited, the Convention should yet
zee proper to adopt this report. If
simple and unshorn were not
% be done he would prefer to retire
o the privacy of his home, removed
rom what all attested to be so gross
Ind fragrant q violation OF the citizens
rights, and leave them to
the burdens which their " acts
lad SO unfortunately toiled. Doing
his, MI. Packard will have fulfilled
lis pledge of driving him out of active
participation in the party-with what
ntent and at what cost, he alone will
,now-but not as he had said, into the
anks of the Democracy. For abating
lot one title of effort for Republican
he could but deplore the posi-
ion into which: the party would be
aercilessly engulfed.
[Loud and confined applause.
Mr.. Packard had hoped that the
ction in the Tenth Ward would
lot breed or ferment old sores or
difficulties. Bnt his friend MI.
'inchback had. asserted so many