The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-28
Miscellaneous.

The final grand Republican mass
meeting of the campaign, which will
take place at the Market House, DON
aldsonville, on Sunday after next,
the 5th of November. promises to be
the largest ever held in Ascension,
if the weather proves favorable. Peo-
| pie will flock here from all parts of
the parish, eager to see and hear our
| candidate for G0voinor and the dis
tingnished orators who accompany
him. We are glad to say that Gov
ernor kellogg has also promised to
attend and speak, and we are hope
full of securing the presence of ex-
Gov. Warmoth as well. Mr.. Packard
and party will arrive from above on
their campaign steamboat, while
Gov. Kellogg and those who may
come with him from the city, will
travel by rail, arriving here Sunday
noon. AS we stated last week the
| use Of the steamboat upon which Mr..
Packard and his friends are travelling
will be secured for crossing people
form the opposite side of the river, aud
of the bayou as well, and if time per-
mits trip may be made some dis
lance above and below town for the
convenience of those who have no
means of reaching the place of meet
ing except by walking. We feel as
sured that our leaders in the present
canvass will be more than satisfied
with the reception which will be
given them by the Republicans Of
Ascension.
1t should not be forgotten that the
meeting will conclude with a grand
torchliglft parade at night. This
closing pageant will undoubtedly
eclipse any thing of the sort that has
transpired in Donaldsonville.
The Republicans of the upper end
of Assumption parish are to have "a
mass-meeting on Sunday, November
lat Rev. 0sborne's Church, left bank
of the bayou, which will be addressed
by prominent speakers from New Or
leans. They, also, will close with a
torchlight parade, and a number of
the mounted. torch bearers will prob
ably ride up TO Donaidsonviile to join
the pageant here.
Now that the cloak has fallen the
so called Independent scheme, and it
has developed, as we predicted it
would, into "a Democratic plan of
assault upon the Republican works."
those Republicans who were allied
with the movement under an erron-
eous conception of its animus and
character, are disavowing any further
connection with it and declaring their
adhesion to the Republican party and
the regular ticket. A straight Demo-
cratic ticket having been nominated
in opposition to straight Republican
ticket-the one being openly and
ayowedly in the interest of Tilden
and Hendricks, Nichols and Wilt
the other in the interest of Hayes and
Wheeler, Packard and Antoine, there
is no middle ground for Republicans
or Democrats to stand upon between
them, excepting as to personal pref
erences for individual candidates.
No Republicans who desires the success
of the national and State tickets of
his party can consistently advocate
the Democratic parish ticket, any
more than Il Democrat who is favor
able to the national and State candi
dates of his party can support the
election of the Republican parochial
ticket as an entirety. Unity upon
local candidates and local issues is
to secure the united party
in favor of State and national
issues and candidates. True Repub-
licans will readily recognize this in
controyertible fact, and all such viii
lay aside whatever Of personal sore
ness or dissatisfaction they may feel
and put their shoulders to the wheel
of the great Republican car that is
moving on TO the goal of victory. IL