The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-04-29
Town Politics.

AA0o0 AsAOGhAS ~ GsAG IOUEG@11OuS0 ana
Nomination Of . Peoples Ticket-A
Wilkinson Ticket also in the Field.
In accordance with previous notice a
meeting of citizens of DoIaldsonyille
was held at the Court House last Monday
evening, the attendance being estimated
ct about 200. The meeting was called
to order by Mr.. L. L. Bentley and the
following officers unanimously elected :,
President--P,erre Landry.
Vice Presldent-J. j. Sullivan,
Secretary-DennisG g. Batter.
Sergeantrat- Arms-Chas Shallowhorne.
The President stated the object of tie
meeting to be to take into consideration
matters connected with tie approuchiug
town election and to nominate ticket.
On motion Of Mr.. Sullivan the chair APP
pointed a committee Of FIVE on resoln.ions
as follows: J. J. Sullivan, W. G. Wilkin-
son, L. E. Bentley, Win. Laney and John
Ashby. It was then moved and carried
that q comlnitte Of nine on nominations
be appointed. BY az understanding
among the three candidates for Mayor,
| Messrs. David Israel, J. J. Sullivan and
| W. G. Wilkinson, each candidate fur
nished the names of three friends to the
chairman and these were appointed to
constitute the committee OIL nominations,
as follows: L. E. Bentley, David Ross
and Jos. A. Duffel, representing Mr.. Is
rael; Louis Lefort, James McCray and
Aaron Pierre, representing Mr.. Sullivan;
John Petteway, Jerry Ayers and Noah
Merritt, representing Mr.. Wilkinson.
The committee retired to select q ticket
aud during its absence the audience was
entertained by remarks from Messrs.
John Ashby, Robert Noel and others.
In half al hour the committee returned
and presented their report which was to
this effect: Before making any nomina-
ton the three candidates for Mayor were
called into the committee room and
asked If they proposed to abide by the
committees action. Messrs. Sullivan,
Israel and Wilkinson, in the order named,
responded that their respective friends
on the committee were vested with full
power in the premises and that tie action
Of the committee would be accepted and
supported. The committee then adopted
this resolution unanimously and pro-
ceeded to the choice of candidates:
Resulted, That the members of this COM
mittee pledge themselves to abide by the
ticket to be selected by it and to advocate
its Endorsement by the present mass meetiua
and its election on the 9th of May.
The ticket is as follows:
For Mayor-David Israel,
Sccretary-J. j. Sullivan,
Coliector-E. A. Ramirez,
Victor Maurin,
AssessOr-Felix LOudOn,
Constabe-William Beckett.
The committee recommended that meet
ings be held in the several wards Wednes-
day evening for the recommendation of
candidates for Aldermen that the names
be handed i'll to the chairman of the COM
mittee before the following Saturday
evening, when another session would be
held to choose the nominees for Alder
men and to report them to All adjourned |
mass meeting to be then held at the |
The motion to adopt the |
committees report and indorse the ticket
selected was put to the meeting and car
ried, with only one vote i'll the negative.
Messrs. Israel, Sullivan, Maurin and
Ramirez were successfully called forward
and thanked the meeting for their nom
nations, promising if elected to perform
their duties to the best Of their abilities.
The commit on reso1ntio was granted
until Saturday evening to submit it's re-
port and the meeting adjourned until
that time. The St. Joseph Brass Band
was in attendance and enlivened the oc
casion with spirited music.
Notwithstanding their pledge to sup
port the action Of the meeting Of Monday
night, Mr.. Wilkinson and his friends
have formed another ticket, composed
as follows:
Fer Mayor-W. G. Wilkinson,
Secretary-J. A. Landry,
Collector-Jno. 2. Harp,
Treasurer. s. Leblanc,
Assessor-Charles Lacroix,
COnstabIc-JOhn Ramirez
ALDERMEN
First Wurd-D. Variant. Oscar Messme.
Second Ward-Jno. P. Forc,a, Anderson
Ross.
Third Ward-F. Vicknair, Noah Merritt,
Mr.. Jules Gondran was rendered the
nomination for Treasurer, bpt declined.
We had hoped the agreement made
by the candidates for Mayor on Monday
would have been carried out in good
faith, and that we would have been
spared the infection of a red-hot town
campaign, with its consequent features
of turbulence, excitement and the crea-
ton Of bad blood and personal enmities;
but since the ambition to hold office has
proved superior to all other considera-
tions, it only remains for the good people
of Donaldsonville to go to the polls next
Saturday and cast their ballots for the