The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-10-14
THE REPUBLICAN PARISH CONVEN.
TON.

The delegates rallied promptly at 10 oclocl
A. N. yesterday, and at that hour were called t.
order by President Hebert, but immediatel,
concluded to adjourn until II o'clock, mucl
to the undisguised disappointment and dis
sa tisfaction Of the crowd in the lobby, WHIT
had come for fun, and thought the delegate.
could have better employed two hours il
amusing them, than by pending their small
change, such CT them as had it, for whisky.
At II II. President Hebert again called the
body to order with stick, used in the absence
Of a mallet. The uproar and noise which has
so far characterized the proceedings Of the
| crowd, Immediately commenced.
That the Committee on Credentials had not
completed their report was well known; and
yet, some gentleman thought it absolutely ne.
cessary to send a committee of five to ascer-
tain the fact, and accordingly made a motion
| to that effect, which was carried.
The time Of absence of this committee was
enliyened by several gentlemen, who wanted
to talk, and who seized the opportunity to do
it. The members enjoyed themselves hugely,
but the fun was stopped by the arrival of the
committee, the chairman of which announced
that the Committee on Credentials asked for a
half hours time to complete their report.
A sickly looking individual who had been
making frantic efforts to get hearing during
the destinations. jumped to his feet and
moved that time be granted. The Conven-
ton, to humor the gent, good naturally in
dorsed his motion.
1t took another motion to declare recess
of halt an hour, but it was finally done, and
the delegates retired to take drink with the
candidates.
One very noticeable feature about this con-
vention is that no motion to take a recess has
failed. Talking makes the gents thirsty
at about o'clock the delegates struggled
IN, and the President appeared on the plat
form, struck his stick two or three times on
the table, and was ready for business
The hall, on motion of gent, was cleared of
all but delegates by the Sergeant-at-Arms. 1t
was done very quietly, there being but three
fights, although it must be confessed there
was some confusion when one of the Ser
geants-at-Arms, very large man, threw q
very little man over the railing into the lobby
The report Of the Committee on Credentials
was announced and there was a first-class veil
greeted it.
After preliminaries utterly crushing the as
pirations OF sundry gentlemen, on "a few re-
marks, intent as it was decided that no men,
Der should speak more than once, nor for a
longer time than tive minutes, the reports
for there were two, minority and majority
were taken under consideration.
lively time ensued. There was big
contest in the First and Second Wards, be-
tween the Custom-House, represented in the
FIRST by Herwig's brother-in-law, Langles,
and in the Second by Herwig himself and the
opposition crowds, and in addition there was
a lively fight between the Custom-House and
the opposition in the Tenth War;.
There were yells and shrieks and jeers and
motions and counter motions, some of which
were acted on. Everybody got mad with every
body else and several of the gents got to shak-
ing their fingers in the face of every inofensive
gent conveniently near and the prospects for
a general fight were lively, but the Sergeant
alarms took hand in the matter and seated
all beligerent delegates and the worst of the
storm had passed.
The result OF the blow was that the report
OF the majority was adopted and the Herwig
gang was seated.
The report Of the Committee on Permanent
Organization raised another storm because
after creating the offices of the convention it
filed them, end the delegates as freemen
could not and would not stand any nonsense
of that kind.
That part Of the report creating the offices
was adopted, while that part OF it which filled
them was laid on the table.
L. B. Stamps was then elected President.
and was authorized to appoint the Vice Presi-
dents, and he did so. He named all those APP
pointed by the Committee ON Organization,
and the freemen were satisfied.
After the election of Chas. A. Baquie and
Geo. W. Moncross as Secretaries and Anthony
Skillman as Chief Sergeant-at-Arms the
delegates, by motion, agreed to rest until II
o o'clock to day