The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-11
DUB CHOICE FOR CONGRESSMAN.


AS the time for the Republicans of
the Third District to nominate their
candidate for next Congressman is
near at hand, and the CHIEF having a
decided preference to express in rela-
ton to the matter, we have placed at
our masthead, metaphorically speak
ing, the name ofz Hon. G. B. Darrall,
the present incumbent, as our first
choice for the position, feeling assured
that our action will meet with hearty
favor at the hands of the Republican
and people of the entire
district.
DIr. DarraH is now serving his third
term in Congress, having been first
elected in 1868, to succeed the Hon.
Michel Vidal of St. Landry, an accom-
plished Frenchman, who was subse-
quently appointed United States Con-
sui to T'ripoli, Africa, which position
he still retains. The name of Mr..
Darrall was first publicly mentioned
in connection with the Congressional
in communication which
in the st. Landry Progress
and was written by the editor of the
CHIEF, then foreman of the Progress
office. In 1870 Mr.. Darrall again Sc
cured the nomination of his party,
despite the strenuous efforts of the
Collector of Internal Revenue of the
district, assisted by the Assessor, to
grasp that honor for himself, and in
1872 was renominated by acclama-
ton, if we remember Alright, and
received a decided majority over the
combined vote of his Liberal and In
Democratic opponents.
Though making no great flourish of
trumpets, Mr.. Darrall has done yee-
man service in Congress in behalf of
The people of this State. Having by
his long service in the House of Rep
acquired familiarity with
the most effective modes of securing
the passage of bills, and possessing
the esteem and confidence of the lead
ing and influential members, he has
been eminently successful in his eff
forts to procure the enactment of
measures calculated to benefit his
He was an earnest ad-
yocate of the Fort St. Philip canal
bill, which would have redeemed the
of New Orleans, and but
for the untiinely detection of Senator
West, he and his colleagues from this
State would have secured the same
victory for the measure in the Senate
that they accomplished in the House.
Mr.. Darrall also gave his hearty CO.
operation to the bills appropriating
money for the relief of sufferers by
he recent overflow, and to various
'ther measures looking to the i'm
of navigation in Louisiana
'ivers and bayous; completion of the
New Orleans Custom House, resump-
# the coinage of specie at the Mint,
,te., etc.
The people of the Third District
will find it greatly to their advantage
o re-eleet Mr.. Darrall, not only be-
;ause he has proved faithful in the
,ast, but for the reason that his ex-
,erience will make him far more SER
'iceable to the advancement of their
Welfare than any new man could
possibly be, no matter how great his
merit or ability. During the next two
cars measures of great Importance
o the commercial and agricultural
of Louisiana will come be-
ore Congress, prominent among them
he Fort st. Philip canal bill and the
reject for securing national aid in
he building of the leyees, and it is
ssereal to their success that our
congressional delegation should be
1en of influence at the National Cam |
5al hence do we say that, all other |
hings being even, the people can not |
o better than re-elect their present |
representatives.
We do not doubt that Mr.. Darrall |
the most popular Republican in his
istrict, and we predict his renomina-
on by an almost, if not quite, unan-
nous vote of the district convention.