The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-05-08
Unsnimous Vote for Mayor, Secretary,
Assessor and Four Aldermen--Au but
Two Of the Candidates On the PEOPLES
Ticket Elected.

! CONSERVATIVE 1lckeG. 1ne HIST mcn-
toned, which'vas placed in uomina-
ton on Tuesday of last week, was as
follows:
| For MayOr-OCTAVE TERRIO.
| g Secretary-DAVID ISRAEL.
Treasurer--C. KLINE
Collcctor-FRED. FOBB.
| q AssessOr-GUSTAVE DUGAS.
6 Constable-JERRYS SULLIVAN r.
! For Aldermen-First Ward:
JOHN MARTINEZ, L. E.. BENTLEY,
For Aldermen-Second Ward:
JOSEPH FERRIER, ANDERSON ROSS,
For Aldermen-Third Ward:
ROBERT j. DUKE, JOS. ARNAUD, ST.
The candidates on the Peoples Re-
form Ticket were the same as the
above, with these exceptions:
For Treasurer-F. vICKNAIR,
Constable-ROBERT NOEL.
For Aldermen-First Ward:
LAURENCE CARRIER, L. r. BENTLEY,
For Aldermen-second Ward:
w. G. WILKINSON, NATHAN HAYS.
This ticket was formed in a Pc
culiar manner. AS We stated in last
weeks CHIEF, a meeting was called
at the Nazarene Church, Thursday
night, by parties who were not favor
able to certain candidates on the Peo-
pies Ti:ket, but with the exception
Of substituting Vicknair for Kline and
Noel foe Sullivan, this assemblage in
dorsed all the nominees of that ticket.
When the morning Of election day ar
lived, however, the tickets appeared
with the names Of Carrier, Wilkinson
and Hays printed thereupou as cam
didates for Aldermen from the first
aud secon,l wards, and bore the title of
Conservative Ticket instead Of Peo-
ple's Reform Ticket, which latter was
the one adopted by the mass meeting.
The third, or Conservative Ticket
proper, was nominated Friday night,
at the Court House, by small as
semblage Of Conservative and Demo-
cratic voters from the various wards.
Messrs. Terrio, Israel, Dugas, Wick.
nair, Martinez, Terrier, Duke aud.
Arnaud were indorsed for the posi-
tons to which they had been already
nominated, and the following new
names presented: 49,
For Collector-FELIX LEBLANC,
Constable-H. G. CRUDE.
Alderman, First Ward, in opposition
to Bentley. Is. RODRIGUEZ.
For Alderman, Second Ward, in opposi-
ton to Ross-SEVERIN REGARD.
With such number of candidates
and the absence of any we'll defined
political issue, it is not strange that
II "mixed ticket" has been elected.
A large number Of voters were guild
ed by personal preferences alone in
casting their ballots, and there was
abundance Of +" scratching" on all
kinds of tickets.
As only two of the nominees on the
Peoples Ticket were defeated, we
think the parties who were instru-
mental in placing it in the field are
justified in growing little longer aud
little louder than any body else.
It speaks well for these parties that
nearly all their selections were in-
dorsed by Republican and Conserva-
tive meetings, and subsequently by
the voters at the polls. They need
no further defense or vindication than
these facts afford. Theirs was, pre-
eminently, " the peoples ticket"
When, in addition to his nomination
by the Nazarene meeting, Mr.. Vick-
nair received the Endorsement of the
Conservative Court House assembly,
a close contest for the position of
Treasurer was looked for, and many
of Mr.. Kline's most earnest supporters
predicted his defeat. In the third
ward, several influential men Of both
political parties worked with great
energy the whole day to secure votes
for Vicknair, and the result was such
a decided plurality for that candidate,
that the majorities which Kline polled
in the frst and second wards were
not sufficient to overcome his oppo-
nent's vote in the third. The defeat
of the editor of the CHIEF in the
first ward was more of surprise
to others than to himself. Mr. :,