The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-19

on the Caddo Democracy 10 organize.
Democratic reetings are held IN
Social Hall st Sc. Franeisville, West
Feliciapa. every Monday eUeDiny. Many
negroes attend and listen TO the
speeches. hif6E8 Nf III gui.
g. G. Duson, Sheriff; Col. James NJ
Thompson. Recorder, and y. PerrOdin,
District Clerk. all of 1t. Landry. and, In
fine, all the present officials Of the
parish, are candidates for reelection
A Workngmep' 8 Democratic Club has
bren organized in Shreveport with MnJ,
Ms. Allen as President. Jno. Mckellar
Secretary, aud j. Cooper rs Treasurer.
IT, embraces large proportion OF the
tutoring men Of that city.
Mr.. Hub Ward. Of Union, comes out
ns an independent candidate for Recot'
der Of that parish. II is supposed the
Radicals viii support these indepen-
dents who have como out ut their ex-
press solicitation.
The District Convention Of the Tenth
Senatorial District tSt Landry. bafay-
ette. CaIcnsieu and CameroD), meets at
Vermilionville, Lafayette parish. the
first Monday 10 september IL prom
ises ~ be II very enrncst convention !;
the cHndldates Tor the senate t.rst ssai-
Tom Andersun has d new paper out.
tho Opelousas RspubAcan. II Is prob
ably intended TO assist him iuto his seat
In the Senate that. now that his Ruber4
Material schemes are laid Mt rest. he
seems to covet so much. 1T. Landry
seems rather u strange parish for RE
publican paper. If. however. II thrives
no better han the Republican party
does IN that pariah. there IN little to fear
from II or Anderson.
Tho Delta Democratic and Conserv-
ativo Club, Madison parish, held ~
meeting. Thursday, Aug 10, added
quite number Of new members to ~
lists. and was addressed by quite mum
ber OF speakers. among whom were
Amos Smith, Wesley Winn. the Vice
President Of the club. and jim Mar
shall, all colorod men.
Mr.. Dunbar. who was nominated for
the Legislature from St Landry by tho
parish nominating convention, held In
the Varieties Hall, declined the notni-
nation Mt once. Mr.. NJ. v. Singleton.
Sr., or Bayou Chicot, has been chosen
TO fill the vacancy.
The Opelousas Courier Is In favor OF
the two Democratic parish committees
OF the parish OF ". Landry jointly call
ing new convention to nominate can
ulUlItB. " tiSlSlH bUub I'll tus tHUul-
dates nominated by tho two factions
shall then Withdraw. This Is the proper
idea, and we are glad 10 SOD the courier
patriotically taking tho matter up.
The Delta tentinci shows that tho re.
cent Radical Convention Of that parish
represented about *9o0O OF property In
the parish, leaving *l.W6. 900 unrepre
sented. There was u full representa-
tion, however, Of the oillceholders OF
the parish The convention included
one Tax Collector, ono parish Judge,
two members OF the School Board, one
Tax Collectors clerk. one Collector OF
Internal Revenue. and ~ Mr.. Crawford,
who is not known to hold any Office.
The Shreveport Times gives the fol
lowing personnel of the convention
that nominated Geo. l.. Smith for Con
gress A fellow Of the name of SIatterly
(wbitc) did duty for Bienville while four
negroes living In Shreveport repre-
sented " I've Of the parishes and d negro
preacher from New Orleans "represent-
ed Sabine. Kapides was more shah
billy treated than any Of the parishes,
~ II was represented Ia the person OF
George Cumpston, IN cx-convict whom
Kellogg pardoned out Of the peDiten-
tiary In all probability not u single
one OF the six delegates had ever placed
foot in the parishes they professed TO
represent. It IL needless to say that
they did not even have proxies.
At the grand NatchItoches mass meet
ing and Tilden pole raising, there was.
Notwithstanding u very heavy rain, a
large audience OF over n thousand per
sons present, among them many ne
groes. Gen. i. A. Morse presided M
President, and speeches were made by
Judge Manning OF Rapdcs. Hon J b
Elam Of DeSoto, Hon. jas. Pierson of
Red River, and Hon. W. II. Jack of
Natchitocbes.
Poor little Antoine somehow does not
seem popular with some classes in the
country, In fact, IL looks very much as
if certain country Radicals were seeking
To cheat that very able executive"
officer out OF even the small place OF
Lieutenant Governor. Such would ap-
pear TO be the case from tho following
speech OF Mr.. Cruzan, a leading Radi- |
cal OF Madison parish, who is organic. |
ing that parish for Packard, but unfor- |
tuuately not for Antoine:
"Cruzan said that he was here In the |
interest OF Hayes aud Wheeler aud |
Packard. That Antoine was not worthy |
of the support Of the people. that he
was an imbeciie 80 far as influence and |
intellect WAS oonsidered that he pre- |
ferred the Democratic nominee for |
Lieutenant Governor over Antoine, the |
Republican nominee. He said that he
could find no fault with Tilden and !
Hendricks for President aud Vice Presi-
dent, but that no preferred Hayes and
Wheeler; that he had read the letter Of
acceptance aud speeches OF General
Nichols. and that they were all that
could be asked as conservative and Just
sentiment, and that he believed Gen.
Nichols was an honest, high-toned
gentleman and would carry out the
pledges contained therein, but that he
preferred Packard. He found fault with
the present Radical leadership OF this
parish, and said IL was In accord with the
State organization OF the party: that IL
the Democratic and Conservative party
would nominate Capt. Morrison or any
good man for the Senate, that he would
pledge himself to give him 1000 votes In
this parish from Wheeler's support"
The following resolutions were adopt
ed by the Bayou Chicot Democratic