The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1880-09-18
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ination was legal and right,
made by delegates fully autho'
| rized to do so.
This nomination was satisfac'
tory to every Democratic voter
in this Third Congressional Dis.
trict except to Mr.. Acklen, who
so wofully misrepresents it iii
Congress at the present time
Had it not been for him, there
never wonld have been any 0ppo
sitiOn to Mr.. Biliiu. AckIen came
home and commenced his disor
ganising processes by proclaim
ing that the delegates who nomi
mated Blllin had no authority t.
make a nomination, entirely ig
noring the fact that he had him.
self, gone to- Baton Rouge at the
Democratic Convention which
nominsted the Wiltz ticket tue
year previous.and done his ut.
most to have himself nominated
by these same delegates.
In st. Martin he assembled a
few individuals who passed. reso-
lutions denying the authority of
the delegates, who had nominated
Billiu, to make a nomination,
said resolutions being unidentified
ly dictated by AckIen himself.
Then finding that he was repu-
dating IL set Of delegates before
whom he had gone, in 1879, to
beg a nomination for himself, he
changed his tactics and moved
off to Calcasieu where he had
passed resolutions den0unclng
the authority and legality of the
District Convention, Of which r.
N. Sims is chairman, again igno.
ring the fact that the same dele
gates whom he had importuned
to nominate himself for Congress,
had created the Congress com
mittee of which Mr.. Sims is chair
man. Again, in Vermillionville
where a mass meeting was legally
called, finding himself being repu
dated, Acklen created a .distur
bance SO that the mass meeting
Onrned sine. die. Then Ack
called together a few claquers
and passed some resolutions en-
dorsing his piety and virtue, and
sent them to the n. o. Times for
publication as the proceedings OF
4 MASS MEETING in Lafayette
Parish.
Again, !he called, as q pretend
I'd chairman Of a pretended De-
Central Committee of
st. Mary Parish, a mass meeting
n franklin at which. finding him
self in a large minority, he tried
o adjourn the meeting in the in
crest of what he facetiously call
ID Harmony" bnt the mass
Meeting would not adjourn at his
but organised and de.
bounced him by an almost unaui
nous vote.
Again, under similar pretenses
re called a mass meeting at Nor.
.an City to meet on a certain
lay at 3 o'clock P. NJ, when, see
ng that his half dozen adherents
would be in a woful minority. he
undertook to hold the netting
It IL o'clock II.
Then he sends dispatches to
city papers that st. Mary
have a double delegation
rom every ward in the Parish,
Was ever such chicanery and
practised by a politi.
ian heretofore deception and
Misrepresentation are the ONLY
Weapons that this man pretends
o use.
Such acts do not even rise to
he level of political trickery. In
New Orleans, some. time since
he said, aud printed in New Or
cans that if Billiu was nomina. +
ed by the Convention at Morgan
lily, he. would cheerfully abide
" the decision of the convention
'uppert Billia aud donate one
thousand dollars as a campaign
und.
The Convention met at Morgan
lily. Acklen had travelled and
every ward in this Con-.
District.
He worked by day and rested
lot at night. Yet when the
trength of forces was taken at
lorgan City the vote was AGA
gainst him and 10 for him. Ever
the contested votes which he
from Lafayette had been 4.
lowed it would. have been a !
ote of 4333 to %. !
Did he acvuiesce in the deci. ,
on of the convention as he so ;
o~astfally said he wouldi ,
Oh no, under the lead of one
his Lafayette followers he with
rev with a few delegates, and
u 1icnotoh that H. n