The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1879-10-04
Assumption Politics.
of q Republican Ticket-Can-
9iidates for District Judge and Cor
oner acknowledgements

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The Republicans of the neighboring
parish Of Assumption held their paro-
chial nominating convention on Tues
day last, the 3Oth Of September, at the
town Of Napoleonville, and nominated
the following ticket:
| For entatives-Augnst BuloW
and Bivian Gardner.
For Clerk Of Conrt-George Washing
ton.
For Sheriff-Arthur J. Echeverria.
Resolutions endorsing DR.. J. L.. Ma
terre for Coroner, Hon. Hiram H. Carver
for District Judge and Judge Taylor
Beattie for Governor were adopted.
The vote on the nomination Of Repre-
sentatives was as follows;
Aug. Bulow,-.. ID Jean Larr6, -----.3
Bivian Gardner, -12 Buchanan Ewell, :;
| Moses r. Hite,
Messrs. Bulow and Gardner, the former a
white man and the latter colorcd, were
members of the Constitutional Conven-
ton, in which capacity they gave gener-
Bulow is a Prussian by birth, having
been an officer in the army of his native
country, and is very popular among all
classes of people in his adopted home.
His capacity, honesty and fitness for the
position to which he asplres are general
1y recognized, and his election is colisiG-
cred certain. Mr.. Bivian Gardner is a
good representative of his race and has
maintained a reputation for probity and
good intentions that secures him the re-
spect OF even his political opponents.
Hon. George Washington, the nominee
for Clerk of Court, is perhaps the most
competent colored man in the parish.
He has served in several positions of
public trust-notably us Representative
| and Parish Recorder--and has discharged
his duties with uniform ability and in
tegrity. He occupies about the same
relative position in Assumption that
Sheriff P. A. Jones does in this parish,
being looked upon and respected as
man of ability, liberality and probity,
and withal possessed of that admirable
trait Of modesty which always accompa-
MES true merit.
Mr.. A. j. Echeverria, as had been an
ticipated, had no opposition for renomi-
nation as Sheriff, fact which attests
his well known popularity and the high
ly satisfactory manner in which he has
performed the functions of his office dur
ing the two terms of his occupation
thereof. 1t is the general impression that
whoever the candidate opposing Mr..
Echeverria may be, he will waste his en-
ergies III q frllitless contest.
DR.. Materre is one of the best known
physicians in Assumption, and Judge
Hiram Carver needs no introduction to
any of our readers. The endorsement Of
Judge Beattie- was regarded as matter
of course, as the Republicans of the en-
tire Lafourclle region are earnestly
favorable to his nomination as the party
The Democratic Conservative party of
Assumption will nominate its candidates
for Clerk Of Court, Sheriff, Coroner and
ward officers at a primary election to
take place to-day, the 4tll Of October.
Candidates for Representatives will be
named at mass-meeting to be held in
Napolconville OIL Tuesday next, the 18th
inst.
At the primary election to-day, candi-
dates for District Judge and District At
torney will be voted for, and the persons
receiving the highest vote in the district
-Lafourche and Assumption parishes
will be declared the nominees. This
plan was adopted as a compromise to
avoid dissension, Lafourche having laid
claim to larger representation in a dis
trict nominating conven ton than she
was willing to accord to Assumption.
The latter parish strenuously objected
to such an arrangement, hence the ex-
pedient Of a primary election to avoid
rupture. In asserting to the compromise
for the purposes of the present emer-
gency the Democratic Central Executive
Committee of Assumption adopted res
olution protesting against it as a depar-
ture from established usage, not to be
regarded as precedent for the future.
The following candidates who will
submit their claims to the primary cleo
ton are announced through the columns
OF the Assumption Pioneer: For District |
Judge, Arthur Knobloch of Lafourche !;
for District Attorney, WIN. E. Howell of |
Assumption; for Clerk of Court, Ro-
dolphe H. Webster and Joseph f. Le-
Blanc; for Sheriff, Simon Truxillo; for |
Coroner, DR.. Thos 3. Pugh.
Delegates to the State convention of |
Monday next have been chosen, but we
have not seen any list Of their names in
print. When first selected they were
believed to be unanimously favorable to
the nomination of Mr.. Wilt for Gov
ernor, but the candidacy of Gen. Ogden
and strong local influence exerted in his
behalf has divided the delegation and a
majority of the seven votes to which the
parish is entitled is now claimed for the
14th of September candidate. Some of
the delegates, however, are pledged to
Witt, and it may be that the Ogden
claim to majority is not well founded.
1t is currently rumored here that the
change of front from Witt to Ogden in
Ascension, Assumption and Lafourche,