The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-09-04

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to increase them whenever neoess,fy, III
order t., meet Us far as practicable, the
convenience Df all Of sai.l voters Ut the
Democratic purity of oRr parish.
A. Be it,csolred, That this convention
elect six delegates to the Third Con-
gressional District convention and that
the election for delegates to the Con-
gressiolai convention to be held at Nor
gan City on the 18th inst, be held by
ballot and that plurality of the votes
be required to elect.
S. Be 1t further fesoluea, That the dele
gates elected by this convention 20 the
Congressional convention to be held at
Morgan City on the 18th inst, be and re-
main uninstrncted, that they be author
lied to give their proxies, but only to a
co-delegate, and should any of said
delegates fail to give their proxies
or to attend said convention, then and in
that contingency, the chairman of said
delegates to be appointed by them, will
be authorized to vote and act for said
absent delegate or delegates.
6. Be It further resolved, That the chair
man of this convention appoint new
Democratic-C Conservative parish execu-
from each ward and five from the parish
ut large; said committee to be appointed
at the earliest convenience of the chair
man. Respectfully,
I'D. MINOR, Chairman.
It was moved and seconded that the
said report be adopted, whereupon DR..
A. C. Love of the fifth ward opposed and
objected to the adoption of said resolu-
ton upon the ground that this conven-
ton could not now authorize the ap-
pointnlent of new executive committee
for the reason that the call for this con-
vention was for the purpose of electing
delegates to the Third Congressional con-
vention and that the call for said con-
vention did not mention any thing about
u change of the executive committee.
The question having been thoroughly
argued by Messrs. A. G. Love, D. Smith
and H. D. Minor, pro and con: was sub
mitted to the ruling of the chair. The
chair ruled as follows: The delegates
elected to this convention represent the
Democratic party of the parish of Assem-
sion that this being a Democratic par
ish convention, fully represented by del
egates from every ward in the parish,
the members thereof are the better judges
from instructions received, or from their
knowledge Of the wishes of their constit-
uents, whether or not the executive com
mittee should be changed. That the
present executive committee were APP
pointed by q convention upon call of
the secretary of the executive committee
of this parish, that in said call the DEM
Ocratic voters were not notified that
there would be a reorganization of tho
been customary in this parish since the
war to notify the Democratic voters in
any of tho calls for convention that at
said convention an executive committee
would be appointed, aud that inasmuch
as the precedent is we'll established,
there is no reason why this convention
should not be governed by the same rule.
The chair considers that the members
of the convention are the best judges as
to what is necessary for the interest of
the Democratic party of this parish he
overrules the objection to. the adoption
of the resolution, and submits the motion
for adoption to the convention.
DIR. A. C. Love being dissatisfied with
such ruling, gave information that he
would withdraw from the convention,
which he did, accompanied by Messrs.
Ben. Gibson, Stark Davis, j. C. Green
and d. Smith. After the withdrawal Of
these gentlemen, on motion of DR.. Hud-
gems, duly seconded, the roll was again
called and the following members an
swered to their names and were present:
. John II. Ilsley, Robt. Coquille, III. 7.
Richard, Jos. Richard, Sebastian Gomez,
R. j. Duke, by proxy to Victor Maurin;
Victor Maurin, c. Kline, j. Solozano, Ed.
Gaudin, Ernest Pedesclaux, A. NJ. Cue
dry, A. D. Hudgens, G.. D. Blouin, V. T.
Landry, H. D. Minor, J. S. Parent, p. f.
Brand, by proxy to H. d. Minor; Y. Bon
icard, by proxy to H. D. Minor; H. Ian
dry, by proxy to H. d. Minor-2O.
Absent-D. Smith, NJ. Rodriguez, by
proxy to d. Smith; Felix Braud, DIR. A.
c. Love, l.. A. Bringier, by proxy to DR..
Love; H. Braud, by proxy to DIR. Love;
Ben. Gibson, Stark Davis, J. C. Green-9.
There being a full quorum present, Dir.
Robt. Coquille renewed the motion to
adopt the report of the committee on
resolutions.
The motion being submitted, it was
unanimously resolved that the report be
adopted, and it was SO ordered.
On motion of Victor Maurin, the con-
vention proceeded by ballot for the cleo
ton of delegates to the Third Congress
sional convention to be held at Morgan
City on the 18th inst.
On motion, duly seconded, the chair
appointed Messrs. Robt. Coquille and H.
D. Minor to receive and count the votes.
The secretary then proceeded to call the
names Of the voters by wards, and those
present voted.
Upon the counting of the votes it ap
peared that H. D. Minor received twenty
votes; A. d. Hudgens, 20; A. NJ. Gnedry,
ID; John Fl. Ilsley, 10; Victor Maurin,
80; Ed. Gaudin, 20; Gen. A. Thomas, l.
The result being made known to the
chairman of the convention, he declared
the following named gentlemen duly
elected as delegates to the Third Con-
gressional District convention to be held
at Morgan City, on the 18th of Septem-
Der, 1880, to-wit: