The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-08-22
os-R CAMPAIGN.


member OF the State Central Commit
tee for the parish OF Iberia.
The Ricbland parish will hold its
Democratic Convention Saturday, sep
TENDER 8, at Kayville.
General r. T. Nichols was announced
to speak at Billor's store, parish OF
st. James. August a.
81. John the Baptist had its conyen-
ton, Democratic Conservative, Monday,
August az.
The Workingmen' Club meeting I'D
Shreveport last week was the largest
,,oiiticai gathering in Caddo since the
election OF 1874.
"The Republican wilfully lies. Leon.
ard. Brown. Honore etdiare dirty dogs,
is Blackburn Rad. summing up oil the
Radical party In this State.
Morgan City formerly Brashear),
parish of st. Mary, has organized
large club. with Charles Peterson as
President and the campaign Is begun ~
earnest.
How is this? The Convention for the
Senatorial District met al
Monroe. Ouachita parish, which IS MOI
in the district The district includes
Madison, Morehouse, Ricblahd ana
Carroll
The Democrats Of the Third Ward OF
81. Charles held u meeting Saturday
night. August 10, at which Hon. r.. john
Ellis made d most eloquent speech.
The Campaign was opened In Frank
lin parish by grand meeting OF the
Hurricane Democratic Club, August ID.
Capt. H. p. Wells and others spoke.
The Ascension Radicals repudiated
T. - Ind. I'm. For. Ia
trict Judge in advance and before even
the st. James Convention had met to
nominate him. This IL about the Re
publican style-a little too previous.
Saturday, Aug. II, four nominating
conventions were held in Monroe, Qua
chita parish Congressional, Fifth Dis
trjct. Judicial, Fourteenth District
Seventeenth aud Eighteenth
District.
The st. James Conventinp, which no
minated Flagg for District Judge. failed
to nominate District Attorney, and
leads one into the belief that 1t halfway
recognizes the legality of the Donald
sonvflle affair = which nominated for
both offices.
The Nachitocbes Republican says that
the Radicals of that parish are organic
ing for the campaign, but fails to give
particulars. The Vindicdtor, on the
other hand, cites "a Democratic clubs
already organized.
What between white Radicals, black
Radicals aud the Democracy. the ne
groes Of Madison parish are SO con
fused, that IL Is impossible to say which
side they will ultimately join in the
coming campaign.
Judge w. J. @. Baker, of Ouachita, o
leading and Influential Republican OF
North Louisiana, Is out In letter on
the political situation. In which. while
indorsing Hayes and Wheeler, de-
nounces our State ticket as indicating
"the continuance Of that same rule
which has existed here since the war +"
"Without a change in the State ticket. I"
he prophecies. Louisiana will be lost
to the Radical party"
Judge Elan, the candidate for Con
gress In the Fifth District, Is in Shreve-
port. He has, says the Shreveport
Times, made a most favorable impress
sion on the Caddo Democracy who were
at Arst rather opposed to him, and has
satisfied them that he has not nor will
he do anything in the Pacific Railroad
matter to injure the town OF Shreveport.
In the Democratic Conservative Nom
mating Convention for the Eleventh
Senatorial and - Judicial District,
Messrs. Hardy Richardson and A. A.
Singleton were the candidates for the
!. M. Thompson, John Wadsworth and
n. M. Carter for District Judge, and
James M. Wright the sole nominee for
District Attorney. Messrs. Richardson,
Duncan and Wright were the nominees
of the convention.
Mr.. +. l.. Winder. of Lafourche, lately
nominated by the District Convention
held at Thibodaux for District AttOr
ney, declines the nomination, on account
of press of private business. His letter
declining was sent at once to the con-
vention, under the hope that It would
reach that body before 1t had adjourned !;
but it came too late. Mr.. Winder Is at
present District Attorney.
Large meetings, principally OF colored
men, are reported In the Twelfth Ward
Of Baton Rouge, and Tenth and First
Wards of Feliciana. Col. Il. w. Robert
son and Hon. =. J. Powell were the chief
speakers. The campaign is already
begun in this part OF the State. and
meetings are too numerous for us to do
more than mention them.
Lafayette candidates District Judge.
Sixteenth Judicial District, Lafayette,
Vermilion and Cameron, NJ. u. Girard,
Eraste Mouton District Attorney, Jos.
A. Chargois, Robert =. O'Bryan. +. r.
King; Representative, M. L. Martin,
CORNER Representative J Clerk Of Court,
VIM. Campbell, Auguste Mopnier, Vic
tor Martin, Alexander Guidry, L. p
Parent; Sheriff, G. 7. Patin, H, Eastin !;
Recorder, William Brandt, Adolpbe l..
Guilbeau; Police Jury, Joseph Bou-
dreaux. Aurelien Bromeau.
Bolivar Edwards, OF Tangipahoa, an
nounces himself rs an independent
candidate for the Office of District Judge
OF the Sixth Judicial District, st. Tam
many. Tangipahoa, Washington, Liv-
ingston and st. Helena. He supports
the st. Louis, Baton Rouge and District
nominations. all, except that of Dis
trict Judge, for which Office Mr.. Duncan
was nominated.
In the Nineteenth Senatorial District
Convention heldat Vienna, Lincoln par
ish, the two-thirds rule was adopted, a
two-thirds vote being necessary to nomi-
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