The Caucasian. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1874-1875, 1874-09-05
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were it not for the fact that desire
some definite information upon u
question Of serious Importance to
the voters Of the State, in connec-
tiM, with the proceedings Of the
Baton Rouge convention.
| l had judged that tn. question of
party :'an,., which was within the
special province Of that convention
to determine. and which was truly
the only business of Importance
they could I've called upon to per
form, hat, been definitely aud dis
tinctly settled hy the adoption Of
the following preamble, to wit:
awe The white people Of Lonisia-
ma, embracing tho Democratic par
~. the Conservative party, the
White Mars Party, the Liberal
party, the Reform party and all
others opposed to tho Kellogg usur-
patti IN, do solemuly resolve aud de-
clare
1st. That the government now
existing in Louisiana" ETC., etc.
have seen u manuscript copy Of
the above preamble together with
the resolutions passed by the con
ventiOn, taken from the original
handed in by the committee Of
Twenty. one, and also the published
proceedings as contained in the Ba-
ton Rouge Advocate, issued on the
evening Of the adjournment of the
Con vpntion. the Editor Of which
paper was one of the delegates to
the convention, and l find the
above language contained, word for
word, in the preamble az reported
by them. The daily Advocate was
issued on Tuesday evening before.
the convention adjourned but after
the preamble and resolutions had
been reported by the committee
of Twenty one, and adopted by the
convention. and l cannot see how
the Editor OF that piper, who Ger
tainly got his copy from the Com
mittee of Twenty one, could have
committed an error in publishing
the proceedings of the convention.
had expected to find in the last
issue of the Louisiana Democrat,
the proceedings published in full
since all the press throughout the
State, friendly to the purposes and
aims Of the late convention have
given the proceedings to their read
crs as matter Of the highest interest.
In the Democrat, however, find
the resolutions of the convention
published, together With what pun
ports to he preamble, in which it
il distinctly declared that 1--WE the
white people Of Louisiana, embrac
ing" etc, etc, do solemnly rcs"lv.
and declare zee name 1t the Peoples
party. This seems to he one OF the
versions Of the preamble. Where
did the Democrat get its report +!
tbs the only newspaper have seen
since the adjournment Of the cen
vention, that states the above to b.
the preamble Of tine resolutioriN
adopted by the Convention. Anar-
ticle il the same issue Of the Louis
lana Democrat, taken from the n.
q. Pn:ayune, contains 4 correction
10y that paper Of it's published pro
crc.lings of the convention in 4
former issue, wherein it was stated
that the convention did adopt the
name "Prol'le's Party" in the pre-
amble. The Picayumc says it erred
in making that statement. That 1t
was led into the error by reason Of
the latrneSs ut the hour of rcceiv-
ing its Baton Rouge dispatches,
their crude punctuation etc, and
the consequent hurry in copying
them for the compos,tor. The Pic
ayune now publishes THE preamble
as stated in all the other papers
have seen except the Democrat. l
cannot conceive any reason for
the Democrat announcing the pre-
amble contained in its last issue,
AS the one adopted by the conv'n
tionsat Baton Rouge, unless it is
that the editor Of :tat paper has
been lnisled in some way. He
should, by this time. be fully aware
OF the doings Of the convention.-
At all events, I cannot attribute to
the Democrat any intention or de-
sire to confuse the minds of it's
readers on the subject OF the party
name or to mislead the uniformed
in reference to so important a ques,
ton. The convention did not say
in their preamble We, ETC., ETC.. ''sol-
emily resolve and declare, zoe name
1t the Peoples Party" However the
Louisiana Democrat, as a simple
newspaper, is private property and
the proprietor has the right to pub