The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-20

Feliciana, every Monday evening. Many
negroes attend and listen to the
sepeegheDs sfs sa
G. G. Duson, Sheriff Col. James M.
Thompson. Recorder, and r. Perrodin,
District Clerk, all of st. Landry, and, In
fine, all the present officials OF the
parish, are candidates for reelection.
A Workingmen g Democratic Club has
been organized in Shreveport with MAJ.
N. s. Allen as President, Jno. Mcclellan
as Vice President. f. M. Patterson as
Secretary, and J. Cooper as Treasurer.
It embraces q large proportion OF the
laboring men OF that city.
Mr.. Hub Ward. OF Union, comes out
as an independent candidate Tor Becor-
der Of that parish. It is supposed the
Radicals will support these indepen-
dents who have come out UT their lex-
press solicitation. Ili
The District Convention of the Tenth
Senatorial District (St. Landry, Lafay-
cite, Calcasieu and Cameron), meets at
Vermilionyile, Lafayette parish. the
first Monday in September. 1t prom
ises to be a very earnest convention {;
the candidates for the Senate are al
ready innunerable.
Tom Anderson has q new paper out,
the Opelousas Republican. 1t is prob
ably intended to assist him into his seat
in the Senate that, now that bis guber-
Material schemes are laid ut rest, he
seems to covet SO much, st. Landry
seems rather strange parish for Re-
publican paper. If, however, it tbrives
no better han the Republican party
does in that parish, there is little to fear
from II or Anderson.
The Delta Democra tic and Conserv
ative Club, Madison parish, held @
meeting, Thursday, Aug. 10, added
quite number OF new members to It's
lists, and was addressed by quite num-
ber Of speakers, among whom were
Amos Smith, Wesley Winn, the Vice
President of the club, and jim Mar
shall, oil colored men.
Mr.. Dunbar, who was nominated for
the Legislature from st. Landry by the
parish nominating convention, held u
the Varieties Hall, declined the nomi-
nation ut once. Mr.. M v. Singleton,
Sr., of 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 st. Landry jointly call
ing % new convention to nominate can
It insists that all the candi-
dates nominated by the two factions
shall then Withdraw. This is the proper
idea, and we are glad to see the Courier
taking the matter up.
The Delta sentinel shows that the re-
cent Radical Convention Of that parish
represented about $4,000 OF property in
the parish, leaving $1,97g,20o unrepre
5ented. There was q full representa-
lion, however, OF the officeholders Of
The parish. The convention included
pne Tax Collector, one parish Judge,
Two members of the School Board, one
Tax Collectors clerk, one Collector OF
Revenue, and q 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 Slatterly
,white) did duty for Bienville while four
negroes living In Shreveport "repre
,ented" five of the parishes and a negro
from New Orleans represent
,d !" Sabine. Rapides was more shah
billy treated than any OF the parishes,
Is It was represented in the person OF
George Cumpston, an ex-convict whom
Kellogg pardoned out OF the peniten-
,iary. In oil probability not single
Dne OF the six delegates had ever placed
'oot in the parishes they professed to
It is needless to say that
hey did not even have proxies.
At the grand Natchitoches mass meet !
ng and Tilden pole raising, there was,
a very heavy rain, a
arge audience Of over u thousand per-
sons present, among them many ne |
,roes. Gen. F. A. Morse presided as
President, and speeches were made by |
Judge Manning of Rapides, Hon. J. T. |
Elam Of DeSoto, Hon. Jas. Pierson Of
Red River, and Hon. W. Fl. Jack OF
Poor little Antoine somehow does not
seem popular with some classes in the
country, in fact, it looks very much as
( certain country Radicals were seeking
% cheat that every able executive
,fficer out Of even the small place OF
Governor. Such would ap-
,ear to be the case from the following
speech Of Mr.. Cruzan, leading Radi-
,al of Madison parish, who is organiz
ng that parish for Packard, but unfor- |
not for Antoine:
"CruZan said that he was here in the
interest OF Hayes and Wheeler and
Packard That Antoine was not worthy |
If the support Of the people; that he
vas an imbecile 80 far as influence and |
Intellect was considered; that he pre-
erred the Democratic nominee for |
Governor over Antoine, the
nominee. He said that he
,ould find no fault with Tilden and
for President and Vice Presi-
lent, but that he preferred Hayes and |
Wheeler; that he had read the letter'of |
and speeches Of General
and that they were all that
,ould be asked as conservative and just
and that he believed Gen.
was an honest, high-toned
and would carry out the
pledges contained therein, but that he
preferred Packard. He found fault with
,he present Radical leadership Of this
parish, and said it was In accord with the
The Democratic and Conservative party
would nominate Capt Morrison or any