The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-03-17
APp0RTI0NsIENT OF DELEGATES
TO THE STATE con-
VENTI0Y.

Our State Central Executive Com
mittee met in New Orleans, and Sc.
Iected April 10Th as the day, nd thai
City as The place for holding the
State Convention to appoint. Dele
gates to the National Convention to
he held in Cincinnati in june. THAI
is very well, but when they adopted
a new rule regulating the basis Of
representation, they violated thu
usage Of the Party, and have laid
themselves oper to the suspicion o.
MOVIES other than those which
should have animated them. A res
olution was offered that the basis oil
representation should be one Dele
gate for every 200 votes cast for Gov
ernor Willz. That Yas in accord
ance with past usage, but IL was de-
feated because it would have dimin
ished the representation Of New o.
leans, inasmuch as her Democratic
voters chose to stay away from the
polls at the last election. Why
should not the City lose representa-
ton in State Conventions when sue
does not poll her votep The coun-
try loses, and has lost representation
heretofore for the same reason, and
justly. Why should not the City
suffer like diminu.ion when she Of
fers occasion for it9
II the managers Of the City pri
maries and Ward meetings will per
sist in nominating local City ticket
that so disgnsts the bulk of the vo
ters that over twenty Thousand OF
them will not 60 the polls, the re
presentation Of the City in the State
Convention ought to he diminished.
The country people were told by the
City press that New Otleans WAS
stirred by enthusiasm at the las,
election, and the result showed tina,
more than half OF the voters Of the
Party would not stir ont OF their
tracks TO take the trouble to vote.
1t is mere balderdash to tell us
that the Democrats Of the City chad
been divided by the action of the
Constitutional Convention" THAT is
the reason our namesake Of New Or.
leans gives for the apathy. The
Democrats Of the country we're not
united on the questions raised by the
action of that Convention, but they !
lid not stay away from the polls, and
f they had, they would unceremoni-
'usly have been reduced in repre-
'entation. 1t is said that the we'll
established rule will not be violated
gain. What nee,l was there for vi
'laling it now?
No one cares whether the City re-
is large or small, but
very Democrat ought to care fur the
ofrules and usages .ha,
ave the, sanction of time, and OF
eneral acquiescence. The rule is
ct aside now for no good reason, tt
nd when interested parties want to
ct 1T aside again, they will End a pre-
edent ready male for their purpose.
The New Orleans States said few
'eeks ago that the last election in
ne City was a farce, and so IL was,
md II has produced what would be
arclcal results, if such things were
OF too serious for merrimeat. The
nbiic is not blind, neither is the
Democratic Party, and 1t does not ,
equlre much strength of vision to
lscover what element predomina,es
J The present legislative representa-.
on of the City. The late papers
I've detailed accounts of one Held.
investigation for an alleged i
Animation to one of the City fathers
lat new charter might be bought.
eldenheim is Radical, and a dirty !,
&c no doubt, aud it is much to be y
'ped that corruption is 80 distaste-
Il to the Legislature that they re- .
snt Of any act of theirs from which
might be inferrell that tl,av h y