The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1880-10-30
Our Congressional Candidate


The Tuesday Mass Meeting Success.
Hon. N. g. Blanchard, the Demo
cratic nominee for Congress from the
4th district, in company with Mr. R.
G. Grain, arrived in Colfax about 10
o'clock Tuesday morning. At sharp
noon they were waited upon BY the
committee appointed by the chair
man of the parish executive commit
tee to receive them, and conducted
to the court house. Upon the meet
ing being called to order on motion
of Judge A. Cazabat DR.. w. g. Deal
was elected president by reclamation
H. G. Goodwin was then chosen for
secretary. after which the following |
vice presidents we're elected: First
ward, A. L. Grow; second ward, JAS.
A. Daniels; third ward. David Col
Inns; fourth ward, Martin johnson;
fifth ward, C. R. Nugent; sixth ward,
T. o. Haddox; seventh ward, j. O.
Grayson.
The president then addressed the
meeting in his We known ready and
dextrous manner, abiding to the
repute of the gallant soldier states
man who heads the Democratic ticket
for President. predicting the union,
peace and prosperity that win follow
his inauguration, and closing by in
PRODUCING to the audience Hon. N. G.
Blanchard the acknowledged cham
pion of young Democracy in the 4th
Congressional district.
i Mr.. Blanchard, in an easy, quiet
|, and graceful style, complimented the
chairman for his felicitous remarks
and proceeded at once upon the dis
cussion of the questions at issue. be-
} ginning by a plain and succinct state
: ment of the science Of government
{ az laid down in the constitution O
the United States. q close adhesion
to which had produced the most be
Q neficent results. while every depart
r ure had been attended by disaster
: and confusion. He showed how tn
e existence of parties are necessar..
9 for the preservation of the hbertie
II of the people under such q govern
: ment, and claimed for the Democrat
p ic party that it was the party who
b endorses and strives for the mainte
J. nance of the constitution, while tn
70 Republican party sought to abridg
p the peoples rights by q strong an
'e centralized form Of government whic
K was forever intermeddling with II
,e rights of States and communities b
in intruding bayonets to overturn an
thwart the expressed will OF the PEI
:. pie whenever it opposed their schen
=. Of Capitalization. Throughout b
entire speech, which was about
hour long. Mr.. Blanchard preserv'
]. an earnest and argumentstive sty
- that carried conviction to the bear
:, Of his listeners. while his easy &c
h. Of language and the elegant finish
!; his sentences pleased and enchant
: the audience, and to the end be be
!; them in wrapt attention.
"a At the close of his speech thu
- rousing cheers were rendered to y
Blanchard, and the president co
- plimented him for the eloquence a
quiet dignity with which he had q
~. cussed grave political issues ]
49,. next speaker. Mr.. R. c. Grain. '
-. then introduced. He begged the
.. diligence of the assembly for not
-. ing in condition to do them just
: after the able address to which q
had Just listened, and after relat
4. two or three anecdotes and caua
= much merriment, explained how
had fallen into the hands Of the T