The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1879-09-20
Mass Meeting!

Last Saturday was gala day for
the Democracy of Grant parish. 1t
being the day appointed for a mass
meeting of the cohorts of Democra-
cy, and this parish being considered
as holding the balance Of power in
the district convshsions, all combined
to render the occasion one of great
interest to the various aspirants for
Office. With the lockers on was Mr..
Jones, correspondent of the New Or
leans Democrat, who took occasion 10
note events for his paper. We found
him pleasant and affable, as becomes
"our species" The candidates with
us on that day were Hon. Will. A
Strong and Capt. ]. G. P. Hooe, for
Secretary of State. Judges A. Barbin,
of Avoyelles, w. F. Blackman, R. j.
Bowman and H. l.. Daigre, all of
Rapides, competing candidates for
Judge of the Twelfth Judicial Dis
trict. Beside these we're several. as
yet. embryo candidates, who seem to
think the best way to get into Office
is to slip in without letting the peo-
pie know it. This mistaken idea is
ruinous policy. and these astute
gentlemen will find in the end that
the men who come out early and Sc
cure the services Of their friends and
the printers ink will ontstrip them
in the race for Office.
About noon the clouds, which had
looked threatning all the morning,
and for an hour or two showered q
misty driving spray, rolled together
in the west and the sun came out in
smiles and threw cheerfulness over
the assemblage. which. notwithstand-
ing the unfavorable morning, num-
bered about two hundred persons at
that hour. Below we give the OFF,
cial proceedings of the meeting;
CoLFAx, La. Sept. Is. 1879.
The mass meeting was called to
order by Judge w. L. Richardson,
Chairman OF Democratic Executive
Committee. who stated the object of
the meeting to be for the puI pose of
reorganizing the Democratic party
for the present campaign, and also
to appoint delegates to the State, Ju-
dicial and Senatorial conventions.
Upon the meeting being declared
open and ready for organization, MIR.
j. O. Grayson was placed in nomi-
nation and unanimously elected as
Eohuirman. On motion H. Ct. Good
wyn was elected secretary.
On motion the election of dele
gates to the State convention was
gone into and Messrs. A. @. Lewis,
T. X. Smith and DR.. A. b. Conley
were declared to be the unanimous
choice of the people to represent the
parish of Grant in the convention to
meet in Baton Rouge October 9th.
Mr.. A. Il. Grow moved that the
election Of delegates to the Judicial
convention be determined by ballot,
and upon being put to q vote the
proposition was defeated.
After some discussion DR.. W. g.
Deal moved to reconsider the vote
last taken. and that the chair appoint
three tallymen to receive and count
the votes on the question as to the
preferences Of those present in hav-
ing the chairman appoint the dele
gates to the Judicial convention, or
to elect them by ballot.
DR.. Deal, Judge Richardson and
Mr.. Randolph were appointed tellers.
A count of the votes decided they
should be elected by ballot.
Messrs. Hickman. Ragan, Nugent,
Teal. Irwin. Grayson, Daniels and
Dunn were put in nomination. 1t
was decided that all three delegates
should be balloted for at once, three
names to be written on each ti.ket, a
majority Of all the votes cast to
elect. The following resulted:
Hickman. 81 Raglan -. IS Irwin 5. 81
Nugent Ia Teal ....ll Grayson.
Daniels lib Dunn IL Scattering 3
Messrs. Thos. Hickman. A. v. Ra-
gan and VIM. Irwin, having received
. majority of all the votes. were de-
clared the unanimous choice Of the
mass meeting for delegates to the
Judicial convention to meet in Alex
andria Tuesday, October 81, 1879.