The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-10-26
To the Voters of Vermilion Parish,

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After months of studied silence Mr.. Adrien Nun6z at last comes
out in an answer to the charges made against him in my address to
go" driea , b50b bars s y IN A the l aas' L esi s : to 'i give the en next Dt
nomination Of State Senator from this district to the Parish Of
Calcasieu.
/ submit to you that his published answer admits and confsses
substantially all that charged against him.
I quote from his own words.
while the apportionment bill was under consideration, during the
last Legislature, Mr.. Richardson. the Representative from Cal
casieu, manifested a desire to remain in the same district with St,
Landry, and was not favorable to the measure of placing in what is
now the 10th Senatorial District, and stated to me that Calcasieu
had always been ignored in the selection of district officers. In
reply remarked to him that if he womd support the measure, and in
case the bill should pass and become a law, insuring the Democratic
party two Senators from that district. that | thought the claims of
Calcasieu in this respect should be recognized, and PROMISED to use
my own influence IN that direction, for The first Senator uader the m@0
After such a frank and open confession as the above, I now ask
in all candor, with what truth and consistency can Mr.. Nunez deny
ed ?" 1t is clear that he stands convicted by his own words Of
having betrayed his own Parish in the interest of Cacasieu as re:
CARDS the nomination off State Senator.
In his address Mr.. Nunez further announces the startling facts,
chat the people Of Vermiion Parish cannot be bought and sold.
discovery late in life or else why did he attempt to bargain off the
Senatorial nomination to Calcasieu to get the vote of its Representa-
tive in the Legislature stature lor the new app0 ,ie,a oil. =, :,
Lafayette for ignoring the parish of Vermilion in the election of Dis
..tict Judges and District ATTORNEY $; and on the other hand the parish
of St. Mary for ignoring this parish in the selection Of a State sena-
tor yet when St. Mary at this election had promised and was ready
to tender the nomination to a citizen of Vermiion, Mr., Nunez turns
upon his heels, spurns the offer, and by his Influence snatches the
nomination from Vermilion and gives it to the parish of Calcasieu.
That Geo. Fl. Wells Of Calcasieu, a stranger here, should have
been declared by the socaned parish convention the choice of Yer
million for State Senator, over SO many Of our own worthy citizens
can be explained upon no other theory than that it was done to fulfill
the pledges which Nunez had made in the Legislature to the repre-
sentative from Calcaseu.
Adrien Nunez further charges falsely when he states. inferentaIy
that [ was chairman pro tenn of the parish convention which endorsed
Wells in July last. At that time everybody knows that | was alb.
sent from the State of Louisiana.
[ was chairman pro TEN Of a meeting Of the Parish Executive Com
miueo convened for the purpose of calling a convention to send dele
gates to the Baton Rouge Convention. Soon after that | LETT the
State, and during my absence, the Nunez faction, taking advantage
Of the same and of the general Indifference of the people, packed a
convention and made itself exceedingly active in carrying ont the com
pact made by Adrien Nunez and to the surprise and astonishment of
every one, except those in the secrets Of the Ring" declared Go.
Fl. Wells of Calcasieu the choice of Vernhion for State Senator.
I maintain that the voice Of the people Of Vermlion was not heard
in that socalled convention, and that the wishes of her people were
ruthlessy ignored and .trampled upon by its extraordinary action.
To further carry ont the frand and deceit. a pretended Senatorial
Convention was held at Abbevlle on a different day from that agreed
upon, and the parish of s.. Mary thereby deprived of representation
Geo. II. Wells was declared its nominee. and tis is the nomination
which they are trying to cramb down the Threats of the Democratic
party. 1t is entitled to no respect whatever, and has been formally
.repudiated by the Democracy Of st. Mary.
This lis why, fellow citizens, | am now before you as an Independent
candidate for State Senator, and appeal to you as lovers of honesty
and fairdealing to give me your support in this contest. and by so
doing thus rebuke the dirty political trckery by which Vermilion
Parish has been cheated out of the nomination OF a State Senator.
Respectfully,