The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-13
LAKE OHARIasI July 10, 1876.
MIR. EDITOR

ocratie Executive committee OF the
,,orisb Of st. Landry because I do not
think tEat you would, Willingly, throw
5isofisfacti d and discOrd into our
,onks. under the guise of advocating
baTmonE; concord and sconcsTt of as-
zion. now, as you say yourself. so emf
nanflV essential to the success -Sf BUR.
Marty, and welfare of our country,
VET it is evident to me that your
editorial must have. that tendency,
whether or not intended. Foryou well
knew that the great majority of the
Democratic Committee ofrour parish,
within our reach for consultation, on
sucb a short notice, declined to act,
for the present tsleast!
You are q member of our Democratic
Executive Committee. You were pres
emit at all it's meetings. You were pres
ent at our Parish Convention on the
17th ult., mot the 10th, as you have it).
. I was not, and learned fully of its pro
ceedings on my return from Opelousas,
through the columns Of your paper.
On the Sd inst. Won called on me,
showing mo the proceedings of the COM
mittee Of the parish of ST. Landry as
published III the Opelousas Courier,
and urging me, as chairman of the
committee of this parish, to call Par.
ish Convention. 1 told You / had not
received any official information from
the committee of st. Landry nor even
. COPY of the Conrier. But that, even
if had, I would still decline to call q
convention, for reasons which then
stated to you, and which I wish again
to state, in Justice to myself, as chair
man of the committee, and. to other
members of the committee who con-
cured in my. views.
would, however, first premise by
saying that distinctly told you, when
you called on me, that, although my
self opposed to the calling of a Parish
Convention by, our. committee. for the
purpose suggested by the committee of
st. Landry, still 1 would assemble the
committee, if requested so to do. by al
sufficient number of the members of
our committee. You are the only mem.
her who ever made the request or adj
v0cated it, Being aware of these facts
YOU still say in your editorial that sour
Democratic Executive Committee can
not consistently hesitate amoment to
call n Parish Convention to eleUt dele
gates to a District Convention to be
held at Vermilionville on the I'd inst"
l made it point, after seeing you,
to see all the other members of the
committeawithin my reach aud consult
with them They all, except yourself,
cancTTed entirely with me that it
would be improper for. Our committee
t0 Gull Parish Contention, on the
simple suggestion. of the Executive
Committee of the parish of st. Landry,
under actual circumstances.
All the members of the committee.
Yourself alone excepted, whom | have
seen, not only hesittasd, but they de-
ctaed to cali convention for reasons
which were discussed aud canVassed
with them as we'll as with you.
4 will try and state them as briefly as
possible so as not to encroach too much |
on your valuable time, nor draw too
largely for space in the columns of your
courteous paper
In the first, pace, We deny the right
of the Parish DehIOu&atie Executive
Committee of St. Landry to prescribe,
on even to say, that tIfefegshaH otlshall
not be q Distliet Convention, still less
to appoint che day for said convention,
especially ON such a short notice that
it is evident that the other parishes of
the District, can not. have sufficient time |
to inform their people, and take their
will on the question, glhe most that |
the committee could have done was to
have suggested the necessity to its !
parish convention about to meet on the |
10th, whose province it is to make this |
request Of the other parishes and give |
sufficient time for those parishes to an
swer the invitation.
In the second place, You well know, |
and it is notorious throughout thesDis- |
trict, that a Parish Convention of our |
parish, composed of our most inhuen- |
tla and respectable citizens, was held |
on the 18th of last month. That the |
convention deemed it UNJUST, unwise |
and inexpedient" to make any nom
nation for Parochial and Judicial Dis
trict officers. That after mature refec-
ton and with. due consideration the |
convention simply endorsed TIE candi-
dacy Of our fellow-citizen, DIR, VIM FL. |
klrkman Ihinking that, 10 Justice, |
Calcasieu was entitled 70 d Senator, the |
convention made helS choice. with |
what grace, then, could our Demo
cratic Executive Committee. call an
other convention without being thereto |
requested by the conventions of the
other parishes The Executive Com |
mittees of the different parishes are the
creatures of the conventions, not their
masters,
liz them Aha eonor,ittaa If oIIY 1,arish /