New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-30
MR.. L. A. WILTZ
was next introduced, and said:

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Iappear before you this evening, not for
the purpose Of making speech, for you are
well aware that the struggle l have gone
through within the past few days must
nave exhausted me somewhat. / am happy
to state to you. gentlemen Of the conven-
tlon, that met foe worthy of my steel.
did nv utmost after my friends of the
city OF New Orleans and CT the country
parishes brought out my name in cOnnec-
tion with this position, to return to the
people of my native city with the Office
they thought me worthy of receiving.
thank you for Tightening the burden, which
l know 80 we'll would have rested on my
shoulders. feel now l will have nothing
to do but to follow the lead of that gallant
solder, General Nichols. (Applause.]
thank you, gentlemen, from the bottom of
my heart, for placing at the head of the
ticket q gentleman l know / can follow
blindiolded. [Applause.] He has led you be-
fore and you have never found cause to re-
gret his leadership, and feel sure in this
canvass he will lead ycu to victory. /
promise you. fellow citlzens, that l will
leave no stone unturned to make this cam
paign successful. When you have sue
ceeded, and have no doubt of success. l
Will relax no effort in assisting your noble
standard bearer in taking possession Of his
Office fapplause. |; and if we are euccessful
in gaining possession of the offices which
know the majority of the people Of Louisi-
ana will give us, it will be my constant aim
and erdeavor to see to it, that you secure
paign, gentlemen, after having occupied
more than one Office. Although q man yet
young in age, i can meet white and black,
Democrat and Republican, can face the
whole community of this State, and chal-
lenge any man to say that have ever done
a single solitary identical dishonest act.
tCheerel. can say the same of General
Nichols. / feel, fellow citizens, with such
a standard bearer as you have placed at
reputation is as good as that Of any man
within the hearing of nv voice-he and l
can meet our political opponents and
charge corruption upon them without fear
or reprOach.
Abiding to his relations with the coiored
people, Mr.. Wilt said:
So far as my record is concerned upon
that question, gentlemen, l can promise
you a large number of colored votes. AS
an officer Of the city of New Orleans, as
memoer of your Legislature upon two
occasions, l can state before my God that
never did single solitary act that knew
was prejudicial to the interest of that class.
/ did all that laid in my power to bring
them back to you, for with you they will be
happy. l know they suffered as much as
you did: therefore, | consider it is my duty
when in office to treat those people kindly,
as they deserve, and see to it that they get
their rights.
Promising the earnest cooperation of his
friends in the city, Mr.. Wiltz concluded
amidst applause.
N'FNERY'S AGGRESSIVE ADVICE
Mr.. McEnery, who was next called for
ward, said:
Gentlemen of this convention, certainly
and sincerely do congratulate you and ths
Democracy of L0uislana-that tonight you
have given US a standard bearer, q man
without fear and without reproach. Ap-
plause. That you have unfurled the ban
ner of the Democracy and placed it in the
height where the low battlements of Radi.
calism may be found, and where the con-
test is fastest and thickest, there that BAN
ner will be proudly borne alOfL by our gal
liant leader. and like Henry of Navarro
with his plume waving high in the breeze,
we know that we have only to follow that
plume to victory. You have given us q
gentleman for the sacred place on the
ticket, who is known to every man, woman
and child in the State of Louisiana. You
have given us man who on the memOra-
BILE fifth of January stood boldly and
grandly forward to vindicate the right of
self government in this State. [Cheers.
With such noble standard bearers on the
platform as you have given US we are bound
to succeed, and radicaliem in Louisiana
will be buried out of sight forever. [Ap-
plause.] Ipredict tonight that under the
of General Frank Nichols
We will have genuine, substantial reform
in the State of Louisiana. 1 predict that
under his administratiOn-tOr he is bound
to be elected, that fact was settled the mo-
ment the fat went forth from this conven
ton that he was to be the standard bearer
Of the Democracy-I say that under his ad-
we will have reform, and SUBJ
stantial reform, and we will extirpate all the |
results of radicalism in the State
ot Louisiana. Loud applause Gentlemen,
was a candidate before you, to place NE |
where you have placed this gifted and !
noble son of our State. He conquered. AS |
was so eloquently expressed by your candi- |
late for Lieutenant Governor, l met can
1idate worthy of my steel; and on his brow |
'hall be placed, on the ides of November |
lext, the crown of victory. General Nichols
las said something to you in regard to the |
manner IN which this campaign should be !
conducted. He has expressed my senti- |
nents. / know every section of this State, |
md know that these are the sentiments of |
,very portion Of Louisiana. We must have |
free, a fair and peaceable election. But, |
when l say that l do not |
mean to say We shall not have an aggres- |
i've election. We have got the Radical |
,arty on the defensive, and my doctrine is |
clement beyond the confines of Louisiana. |
Cheers. The war we have to make, gen. |
lemsn, is not upon the colOred element, |
,ut on the carpet-bagger and the scalawag. |
Renewed applause]. Undeceive these col |
red people, who have been so long de- |
,eived, and they will be your friends. With |
he support We shall certainly get from
hat population, together with the solid
7ote of the white people, Louisiana will
tand out for Tilden and Hendricks and
Nichols and Wiltz in November next by
more than twenty thousand majority. Zap
,lause.
Mr.. A. S. Heron was next introduced. In |
he course of his remarks he said:
As one of those whom your gallant |
tandard- bearer has triumphed over to-day,
come forward and yield my frank ap-
,roval of your choice, for among all the
lames from which you chose your candi- |
lates none can say he stands his superior
a any given respect. Wise, thoughtful and
we have even assurance that
he powers Of mind he will bring to bear
,pon his administration will restore to this
people the prosperity of which
hey have been deprived by the ,,srrpation
,ayoneted upon them. We lxnow. as he
old you himself, that he. will inspire
confidence among the c,olored people of
he State and make chem expect equal
ustice at his honds. Cool-headed
md brave as mrst needs be the man who
EFT his leg at Winchester and his arm at
fighting for the cause he
and his people deemed righteous. we know
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