The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-08-21

"Pineville promises to be q strong
Republican locality during the cam
pafgn," says the Rapides Gazette. III 80
poor Pineville!
The Supervisor Of Registration OF st
Landry will open his Office In the Court.
house, at Opelousas. August 28, for the
registration Of all voters OF the parish.
All the present officials OF St. Landry,
Sheriff, Recorder. District Attorney,
etc, are candidates for reelection.
The Rapides Gazette boasts Of q Radi:
cal club In that parish, "Packard
Guards, fifty-nine strong. The cry is
still they comel This is the second
Radical club we have heard OF In Rapides.
Messrs. j. A. Prudhomme, w. @. Ross,
r. +. Hammett, j. J. Raines, A. p.
Massey, and D. A. Blacksher, are the
most prominently mentioned candi-
dates for the Legislature from Natchi-
toches parish. .o, .ts s.41. 59ts1 ti
The Shreveport Times il In favor OF a
Parish Convention for Caddo; 1t thinks
q primary election cumbersome and the
nomination by . mass meeting not at
all popular.
There will be a Dem ocratic-C Conserva-
tive barbecue at Keatchi, DeSoto parish,
next. Friday. Judge Elan, the nomi-
Seay and Major Moncure, will be pres
ent and address the people.
Thomas A. Cage, Is the Radical candi-
dade for the Senate from the Eighth
Senatorial District, Assumption, Ascen-
sion, Terrebonne and Lafourche. He
has been Senator since 1879.
Mr.. M. V. Singleton. Sr., OF Bayou
Chicot, has been chosen by the Parish
Executive Committee OF st. Landry to
fill the vacancy caused by Mr.. Dunbar's
declining his nomination for the Legis
lature made by the Varieties Hall Dem
ocratic Convention OF the parish OF st.
Landry. 1r,t '.st 's5 -
The Fourth Ward OF the parish of As
cension has indorsed the nomination OF
Judge Flagg for District Judge. This Is
the largest Republican ward In the par
ish and Is carrying the war into Africa,
as Ascension is the parish from which
Marks was nominated for the District
Judgeship. seara,srsE.
A report will be made. August 10. by
the Presidents Of the various West
Feliciana clubs. OF all the persons OF the
parish acting in union with the Demo
cratic party. We will then be able to
count up our promised majority In the
parish.
A grand Tilden and Nichols macs
meeting was held at Opelous9s, August
8. The meeting was extremely large In
mum bers, and was addressed by Messrs.
Kenneth BaiIlo, +. Perrodin, Laurent
Dupre, Geo. w. Hudspeth and E. T..
Lewis. G
Major Hugh r. Lucas has been nomi-
mated by the Democrats for Senator
from the Seventeenth Senatorial Dis
trict. The Major is q planter. living in
Madison parish. He has been here
many years and owns large interests.
He has an extensive acquaintance and
Is quite popular. eeaoi y W.
DeSoto seems particularly strong In
candidates. There are five candidates
for the Legislature, DR.. w. s. Frierson,
Geo. j. Pitts. s. M. Potts, Jas. s. Means,
DR.. Robert Horn for Sheriff there are
five candidates for Parish Judge two
Clerk three, and SO on In like proper
tion.
The country papers seem still amusing
themselves oyer their advertisement OF
candidates. The rule seems to be gen.
eral that the greater the office the
higher the pay. Thus the Alexander
Democrat charges SIS for District At
torney and $50 for District Judge. Why
and wherefore, who can tell?
The Radicals of Alexandria, Rapides
parish, use the new school house just
erected by the parish as political wig
wan. Radicalism Is not exactly the
that some money will be sentthem from
New Orleans, some OF our Sc, 900 taxes
30 that they can erect q suitable wig
wan instead OF taking our school
houses.
Ouachita parish is we'll organized for
the campaign. Meetings and barbecues
are held almost every day. The Radi-
Gals seem little frightened at these
meetings and whenever q Democratic
barbecue Is held In any portion OF the
parish the Radicals always call meet
ing In the same ward to prevent the
negroes attending. They seem afraid
that Democratic speech might con-
vert them.
1t seems that the celored voter is be-
coming rapidly educated to proper
appreciation OF who are his friends. A
gentleman, connected with one OF our
staunchest dailies, just from st. James
parish, where he has taken part
in the great ratification mass meeting
held yesterday, informs us that there
was considerable number Of negroes
present. He tells us that Radical
mass meeting which had been called for
the same day at spot about three hun
dred yards distant from the Democratic
meeting, what for y had to adjourn on
account Of woeful lack Of attendance.
only about a dozen negroes having an
swered the call. This is an outrage.
Where are the troops?
~o&
We learn that Ex-Governor Warmoth
has written to a leading citizen OF
Plaquemines his declination OF the can
didature as the Radical nominee for
Congress in the First Congressional Dis
trict Of Louisiana. We have reason to |
believe that his declination has been
notified to the Central Committee of the
Radical party in this State, but from
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