The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-07-31
Mass Meeting OE'1iae Democratic
Parity OF the Parrish of
ST, EERs-tEn.

! j He Illtbtlll1s IuihuUilll@ Vi 'N'2 "a
, five hundred persons, was called to or
der by DIR. ii. p. Guilbeau, chairman
of the parish executive committee.
4 On motion, Dr. Ii. i. Ctuilbeau was
elected by reclamation president, and
A. ". Fournet secretary.
Tire following resolution was ther
offered by j. A. DomingeauX and
adopted;
II Resolved, That the resolutions o.
the parish executive committee Of July
10th, be referred 10 a select connnittet
of seven, to be appointed by the presi-
dent of this meeting, with instructions
to examine into all the facts therein
referred to; and report what action this
meeting should take thereon.
i THE president appointed J. a. DO
mingeaux, A. ". Fouriiet, z. Amy,
EOmer Martin, Armand Dnguy; J. =.
Mendoza, Menelas Bergeron.
The COMMITTEE. after some time.
Through .dheir chairman, made the fol-
lowing report, which was unanimously
adopted;
| Your committee, to whom were re-
fcrrcd the resolutions of the parish ex.
ecutive committee, unanimously make
the following report:
On the resolution relative to the IN
authorized use by Mr.. j. S. Billiu of
the names of certain citizens of this
kparish, your committee, in eonsidera-
ton of a question of such gravity and
importance, have demanded, on every
point, the most complete and absolute
proof, and, on such alone, submit the
following as the facts:
That in the parish of st. Martin
there was no convention of the people
held or meeting of the parish executive
committee to elect or appoint delegates
to either the State or congressional
conventions in New Orleans, of April
10 aud Is, respectively.
That Mr.. J. s. Billiu was informed
of such fact on April 18th, That after
he had been so informed, he did, in the
presence of, two gentlemen of this par
ish, write out three proxies pnrporting
to be from T. Amy, ]. A. Domingeapx
and A, v. Fournet, representing said
parties as delegates from st. Martin 4
and that'he did, without authority,
either verbal, written orr otherwise,
from the above three persons, sign their
names to said proxies.
That said names appear in therepoYt
of the committee on credentials of the
State convention, and were voted in
both that and the congressional con
vention.
On the resolution relative to the ir
of the nomination of Mr.. y.
s. Billiu, your committee report that
after an exhaustive examination of the
original proceedings in the different
PARISHES, as printed in the official par
ish papers, your committee find that in
Ascension there were no properly au-
thorl2ed delegates to q congressional
the resolution under which
the parish committee assumed to act,
said committee to appointing
delegates to the State convention ''for
the purpose Of sending delegatesto the
next presidential convention" L
Assulnption-The were no prop
nrly authorized delegates to q congress
sional convention. The parish com
n'ittee held no power to appoint dele
gates. -
alcaseu--The delegates from this
parish were duly authorized TO act.
,Cameron-There were no delegates.
lberyille-I'he delegates from this
parish were duly authorized to act,
1heria-There were no properly au- |
,horizcd delegates to a congressional
II
Lafayette--There were no property Il
tdelegatcsto congressional
/;
Lafourche-The parish committed,
net on September A, 1879, and passed
lie following: /,
''Resolved, That primary election,
o select candidates for the various par-j
sh and district officers, be held in the.
Parish Of Lafourche on Saturday, the ;
Both day of September, 1879, from 8
!. IN. until 5P. n.;that each ward shall 4
veteto selectit own ward
and to select two delegates
rom each ward to constitute the new /,
parish executive committee, which said /;
delegates shall cast the vote of the par
sh in any and all conventions, whether
state, congressional or district
On October 5, 1879, the twenty gem
lemen elected met, organized, and !
'assed the following resolution; II
''Resolved, .Thatno proxybe allowed, 7,
Except it be given to one Of the dele Y
5ates elected at the primary election i
leld IN the parish on the g7th of Sep :
ember, 1899 =
Resolved finally, That the delegates Z
resent Or represented by proxy at the. II
tate convention shall cast the vote or !
otes of tho delegates absent or not :
epresented by proxy, in accordance \