The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-29
PARISH MEETINGS.
ELECTION or DEI EGATEs TO THE
STATE CONVENTION TO MEET AT
BATON ROUGE AUGUST :.
EsspssiRr.
BEILIVnE. LulN "a. 1R78.

BELLEVUE, July 20, 1873.
| A mass meeting Of the DemOCratiC-Con
| servative party OF the parish of BOssier was
| held at Bellevue, on Saturday, July 20. III
| W. Ogden, chairman of the executive com,
mittee called the meeting to order, and briefly
| explained the object of the meeting to be the
election OF delegates to the Baton Rouge con
| ventiOn, to decide how and when delegates tC
| the senatorial convention shall be elected, etc
| Col. W. G. Burt was elected chairman.
On motion. II. w. Ogden and W. Benton
Boggs were elected secretaries
The committee on resolutions retired, and
afterward reported as follows:
| We, your committee, recommend the adDp-
tion Of the following resolutions:
l. We hereby, reaifirm the principles laid
| down in the platform Of the Baton Rouge
convention Of 1876, and declare war on Rad
| tcaIism in whatever form or shape it may pre-
sent itself.
Q. We cordially indorse the administration
of Gov. T. [. Nichols as eminently firm wise
and patriotic-"with justice to all and malice
to none"
8. We believe q constitutional convention
should be called by the next Legislature, and
we hereby Instruct our delegates to the Baton
Rouge convention to favor, us O party meas
ure, tho calling Of such convention, and we
hereby pledge ourselves to abide the decision
of said convention when fairly expressed At
the same time we invoke a spirit of harmony
within the party and deprecate any division.
A. Possessing the full confidence Of the peO-
pie, we desire to see the present State admin
istrati0n fill the full term for which it was
elected.
5. We hereby instruct our delegates to the
Baton Rouge convention to cast their votes
respectively for Major John G. MonCure, of
CaddO. for State Treasurer, andIHOn. j. p.
Elan, of DeSOtO, for Representative from the
Fourth Congressional District in Congress,
and we hereby attest our appreciation of their
past devoted services to the people of this
State and district.
6. We recommend that the following dele
gates be elected to the Baton Rouge COnven-
tiOn, and that the number present be author
lied to cast the vote Of the parish, to wit: H.
W. Ogden, r. FL. Curry, T. NJ. Hanks, J. A.
Snder. Alternates- &. MCDade. w. H.
Hodges, W. M. Abney, Il. G. Cummings
7. We cordially invite the COlored people of
the parish to vote with us for our candidates.
at the approaching general election. AS a
motive for them to do SO, we refer with pleas
tre to the Democratic administration of Gov
Nichols, under which we have had peace,
faithful and just execution of the laws. afford
ing protection to the rights of all, and redress
of the wrongs of all. We respectfully refer
with pride to the free schools, which have
been taught more months In the year, and by
far better qualified teachers than heretofore
The resolutions were taken I'D separately
read and adopted.
On motion, Thos. N. Braden was unanim-
0usly nominated as the Democratic candidate
for parish judge.
The meeting then adjourned sine die.
W. G. BURT, Chairman.
Fl. W. OGDEN and W. BENTON BoGGs,
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