The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-10-05
THE CONVENTION AND GOV. WILT
What All Parties in That Body Thought
of It's Presiding Officer.


Delegate Landry, on the part OF tho Repub-
lican majority, introduced the following reso-
| lutions, prefacipg them with remarks highly
complimentary TO the President OF the Con-
vention and to the members Of tue minority;
Eesolped. That the SINGERS thanks OF this
| fully aiyen'to Hon. Louis A. Wltz president Of
this body for the tranRcendent ehllty ind i'm
pattiality With wh'sn he has performed his du.
| Ties rs presi lug eflleer Of the Convention.
RESOLVED. That the remarkable correctness
and eommendable Rapidly OF oil his decisions
ana aysp oa e 2st IT,
deliberations Of this body. and are entitled to
the highest enuomiums.
| .kesotued, That by bis great admin istratye
ability. uniform courtesy, hlsnded with mecca
say firmneRs, our worthy President ts justly
entitled To the thanks OF the whole State
Delegate Dennis urged tho adoption OF the
resolution. He congratulated the Convention
upon the manner Ia which the work Of the
session had been performed. He had been
agreeably disappointed in the manner In
which his purity had been treated on the
floor The utmost courtesy and fairness had
been accorded to them by the majority. Not
only had this been done In the most generous
manner, but u constitution had been adopted
which contained more guarantees 10 his pe1
pie, and was juster aud fairer to them than
the constitution OF 1868. The utmost liberal.
lily had been shown by the Convention itself,
and the greatest fairness and inpartlality
had been displayed by the President Should
his party reward bis services by nominating
President Wiltz for the office OF Governor. it
would be found that the speakers people
would show their appreciation Of his eharaC-
ter and courtesy by giving him their votes.
He proposed tho following addition TO the
resolution.
Resotosa further, That copy of the foregoing,
duly angfossed by the Secretary Of The Conyen
tion. be handed to our worthy presiding officer
Delegate Pnchbaek favored the resolution
and the amendment thereto. When tho Com
vention was called he had predicted Just the
ltberallty which had characterized it's pro.
caediugs. In one respect, however, the result
had exceeded his expectations. He had
thought that q poll tax qualification would be
imposed, and Oh the ground OF propriety he
could not say that this would hive been OBJ
jectlonat,le; but when 1t was discovered that
the Republicans were opposed to such re-
striction the majority had generously .aban..
or the resi- result t the Il tie Kepubcsns ii
the State had seen the assembling OF the
Convention with dismay, fearing that 1t
would deprive them Of many Of the
privileges they now enjoy. This fear had
from the State. For much Of the good work
of the Convention the President was to be
thanked. 1t was owing to bis judgment In
forming the committees and to the fairness,
JuBUGe HHu IlupAELlhllty WILL WIllGl Ito uHI
presided over the body. But the President
was not only to be thanked. The majority OF
the Convention had acted with even more lib
erality than he had expected, and had given
to the people OF tho State u constitution
which was the fairest, most liberal and most
just to al classes Of any In the country, and
he thanked the majority for it. He thanked
all--even the bulldozeTs, II such there were
now, which he did not believe--for the liberal
and graceful ma....11et ID which they. had made
concessions to the minority aud given con-
stitution to the State which oil could support
as WISE liberal and Just instrument. There
might be different opinions In regard to the
ordinance relative to the State debt. owing to
the tenets OF the national Republican party,
but there could and would DO no objection to
the constitution itself, which all could cheer
Delegate Aiain advocated the adoption OF
the resolution. He thanked the majority for
the spirit Of ilberality which had been dis
yention had adopted the ordinance reported
81 the Committee on Elective Franchise, the
delegates could not have convinced his people
that they were their friends II they had come
to the Convention wrapped in the American
flag and with the thirteenth, fourteenth aud
fifteenth amendments pasted on their backs.
AS to the President, those who acted with him
In the State Senate had known what to expect.
The studied courtesy which he displayed to
all. and the tirmness and impartiality OF his
rulings rendered him desefvedly popular,
and IL he should ever be q candidate for Gov
ernor, he might not receive " majority OF the
votes Of his 1.-THE speaker'e) people, but he
hoped he would receive the unanimous vote
III the Democratic party.
Delegate Stamps only desired to say that
he cordially Endorsed the remarks Of Dele.
gate Pinchback, who had well expressed his
sentiments relative to the presiding officer
| and the members OF the majority. He would
not say more. as the Convention was anxious
| tn nroreed with it's business, but he could not
say less
The resolution as amended, on motion Of
Delegate Denas, was adopted by unani-
| NOUS rising vote.