The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-08-22
Proceedings of tiae Democratic.
Conservative Convention
i'm the 10th Senatorial
District.

The conference.-the conven-
ton for the 10th senatorial district met,
as originally suggested. at Abbevilie,
L,al., Thursday. August 10Th, 1878, at
10 A. NJ, at the Court House. FL II.
Burtels. of Wurmilion. was appointed
Temporary chairman. and FL. @. Gill of
Calcasieu, temporary secretary. The
delegates from st. Mary being absent,
on motion the temporary chairman was
requested to inform them. by1telegraph
to franklin, that the convention would
adjourn until the next day, August 16,
1873, to await their arrival, or that OF
their proxy by telegraph If they did moi
attend in person; and also to inform
them That the convention unanimously
requested st. Mary to be represented
therein. The convention was then adj
journea until the next day, August 49,
1873 AT 40 A. NJ.
The next day. Friday. August 16,
1878, at 10 "A. NJ, the convention met,
pursuant tn adjournment. The min
ntes of the day before were read and
adopted. On motion the temporary
chairman appointed M @ Bronssard, OF
Vermilion, James p Geary. of Calcis-
sieu, and JOHN M Mccall. of Cameron,
4. committee on credentials aud Iperma-
nent organization, and the convention
took "a recess of twenty minutes to ena-
bile said committee to report. On the
convention being called to order, the
committee reported the following dele
gates entitled to seatsin the conventions:
From Vermilion-M G Broussard, j
T Broussard, III III Bartels, Hon A M
nez, by proxy to III II Bartels, Hon w
Kibbe, deceased.
From Cameron John M Mccall.
From observation-disclosures III Wells,
James p Geary, III C Gill-!Hon ID j
Reid, DIR j G Munday, ] b Kirkman
and j G Lebleu, by proxy to James 7
Geary.
St. Mary delegates absent and not
represented.
The committee recommended ii ii
Bartels, of Vermilion, for permanent
chairman, and j z Geary, of Calcasieu,
for permanent secretary, of the conven-
ton. On motion the reportof the COM
mittee WIS adopted.
The chairman presented telegram
from the secretary of the st. Mary en-
,ecntive committee, stating, IN reply TO
the chairman's dispatch of the day pre-
vions, ihat it WAS impossible to commu-
nicate with the st. Mary delegates III
time fortthe convention.
John M Mccall, of Cameron. pre-
scented the following resolution, which
on motion was adopted:
Resolved, That while this convention
sincerely regrets the absence of the st
Mary delegation, it is expedient and
important to perform now the duty for
which it has assembled, instead ofJpost-
poning the discharge of that tinty to
another day, for the following reasons,
viz:
Because the democratic executive
committee of oCalcasien parish, being
the first in the district to suggesta time
and place for holding this convention,
at least q month ago addressed ,commu-
nications to the executive committees
of all the other parishes of the district.
recommending Abbeville and August
10Th as a suitable time and place for
holding this convention and requesting
replies to those communications.
Because on the morning Of July 18th
the executive committee of Calcasieu
parish received a reply to that ,commn-
nication from the chairman of the st.
Mary executive committee, stating that
the latter committee would meet OH the
following Saturday to act IN the prem
Uses, and that he presumed it wouldnot
object to said recommendation of the
(Calcasieu committee,
Because the same day, duly .25th)
and presenting from said letter from
the st. Mary committee, and from the
silence oftthe Nermilion and Cameron
committees, that there would he an
unanimous acgniescence in its action,
the Cacasieu parish democratic con
vention adopted a formal resolution,
recommending, as originally suggested
by the Calcasien committee, Abbeville
AZ the place, and selecting Thursday.
August 10th as the time, for holding
this conventions; which resolution was
published the following week in the
Lake Charles Echo.
Because the action of said parish con-
,yention, adopting said resolution, was
photographed to the chairman of the st.
Mary committee in advance of said pro
posed meeting of thelatter committee,
and immediately communicated, ibyIlet-
ter, to the Nermilion and Cameron com
rmittees, with IL request that the latter
committees would advertise notice of
the holding of this convention at said
time and place.
Because at the State Convention at
Baton Ronge, ene of the Galcasieu dele
gates itogtliis convention met some OF
the ST. Mary delegates TO this econyen-
tion md tfl1ara mol. a1 ono nf Gail "a