Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-10-11

AONttAs AsO9
East Feliciana casts it's nine votes
for Hon. Il. B. Lyons.
The chairman announced that Hon.
L. A. Witt having received II ma
.jority of all the votes cast, was the
nominee Of the Democratic party for
next Governor.
The announcement was received
with tremendous cheers.
Mr.. McEnery, Of Ouachita, moved
to make the nomination of Gov.
Wilt unanimous, which motion pre-
vailed.
A committee Of five consisting of
Messrs. Robertson, Levy, Catfrey,
and Collins, was appointed to wait
upon Gov. Wilt and Gen. Ogden
and invite them to take seats on the
rostrum.
The chair announced as the COM
mittee OH platform and resolutions,
Messrs. Carleton Hunt, Albert Voor-
HES, Aug. Reichard, Lazarus, Allen
Thomas, A. D. Battle, S. ID. Nc
Emery, II. p. Wells, j. =. Wells, J.
NJ. Thompson, A. d. Lafargue, II.
NJ. Favrot, l.. V. Reeves and Don
Caffrey.
The committee appointed to wait
upon Messrs. Wilt and Ogden ap-
peared with these gentlemen arm iii
arm. Their appearance together
upon the stage was the occasion for
loud and continued applause, the
delegates rising to their feet and
making the building shake with their
expressions of enthusiasm, which
were renewed again and again.
When President Poche introduced
to the Convention the next Governor
Of Louisiana, Hon. Louis A. Wilt,
and the soldier and hero, Gen. Fred
N. Ogden, Gov. Wilt addressed the
Convention as follows:
Fellow Citizens of the Democratic Par
ty.-l accept the nomination to he Gov
crnor Of Louisiana with profound &C.
acknowledgement for the manifestation of
confidence extended to me in comforting
it on me. 1t happens, for the first time
i'll the history OF the party in this State,
that its choice for the Office of Chief
Magistrate has fallen upon a citizen of
it's chief city. The consideration of this
fact enhances, if that were possible, the
sense l must entertain of the great honor
done me. 1t is not my purpose to dis
pute the right to select candidates for
the party from whatever place within
the borders ofthe State. Party strength
and harmony are to beprcferred to mere
sectional claims, and fitness for public
place and merit arc the true considera-
tions upon which all appointments to
public place ought to depend. Happy
it is for the republic that | am able to
add that the Democratic party has con-
stantly sought the best interests of the
entire people, without regard to mere
locality. In Louisiana it is a just source
Of graduation that the Democracy can
refer to members of it's organization all
over the State, in the glades of Carroll,
on the shores of the lakes of Caddo, be-
meath the groves of St. Tammany, on
the plains of the Attakapas, among the
hills Of the North, OH the wooded banks
of the Ouachita and Atchafalaya, III the
fertile valley of the Red river, on the
farms of the Southeast, on the banks OF
the Mississippi, and on tho coast Of the
restless Gulf, everywhere, are to be
found citizens Of our common pO-
litical association men of courage, char
acter, patriotism and talents worthy of
the highest dignity of the State.
Full sensible, therefore, Of the situa-
ton in which stand, it would be high
ly unbeconing in me to assume that
personal considerations only have in
duced the choice you have made Of me
as a candidate for Governor. Known
by my share in the public history of the
State and times as a friend of good gov
eminent, as the promoter of internal
improvements, an advocate for the edu-
cation of all, as a firm believer in popu-
lar rights, and the authority of the body
of the people to control the policy and
destinies of the State, having constant
ly insisted upon the duty of obedience
to civil rule, to law and to order, the
subordination of military authority
within its true bounds, and the preserva-
ton of the rights Of the States within
the limits appointed by the Constitu-
ton of the United States, l can have
little, if any, doubt that the present
choice of the Convention, coming, as it
does, with the force of so large and fiat
tering vote, and from the first repre-
sentative men of tho State, is designed
to express approval for my past adher-
ence to the principles to which l have
referred and confidence that l will per-
sist in my devotion to them i'll the flu