The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-06-07
THE REPUBLICAN, TICKET AND
TT0RM.

one of the most enthusiastic bodies OF 1t
kind TINT has ever assembled in this coun
| try. The national committee recommends
| ex-senator Powell Clayton Of Arkansas TO
| temporary chairman, but for the first TIM
| in the party's history the convention Sc
aside the committea's action and electes
Hon. John Z. Lynch, the colored exon
gresham from Mississippi. Elk Senate
John B. Henderson of Missouri was mad
permanent chairman. The committae OF
credentials readily disposed Of the few con
tested cases and made unanimous rsport
which was adopted without opposition. Th,
Virginia contest was decided in favor o
the Malone delegation,
THE PLATFORM,
reported by committee OF WHICH. Hon
VIM. Mckinley of Ohio was chairman, ant
unanimously approved by the convention
renews the allegiance Of the Republican
party to the principles upon which it ha.
achieved sir successive national triumphs
laments tho death OF President Garfield
Endorses the Arthur ADMINISTRATION; assails
the doctrine OF tariff for revenue only ;
and advocates the principle of protection
to domestic industries; favors such read
justment Of Che duty on foreign wool al
will lend adequate encouragement to ou1
sheep husbandry; recon- mends Oh inter.
national union for establishing perma.
nently the relative value of gold and silver
coinage; advocates the regulation by Con
gress of our foreign and Interstate com
1nerce and railroads, the establishment OF
national Bureau Of Labor and enactment
of a general eigllt-hour law; declares fol-
the protection of American citizens abroad
and the adjustment OF international differ
ences by arbitration; denounces the impor-
tation of contract labor; indorses the civil
service reform SO auspiciously begun under
Republican administration; opposes the
granting Of large tracts Of public lands to
individuals or corporations and demands
of Congress The forfeiture of all grants
that have lapsed; pledges the party to q
continuance of the policy of pensioning the
disabled soldiers and sailors of the late war
and widows and orphans Of those who died in
service; indorses the Monroe doctrine; de-
mands restoration of the navy and the
removal of burdens under which American
shipping has been depressed; declares that
Territorial officers should be selected from
among the bona tfde residents and citizens
of the Terri tories, and that laws for the sup
preston Of polygamy should be provided
and enforced; asserts the supremacy of the
National Government, the vital necessity
of free ballot, an honest count and fair
return in elections, and arraigns the DEM
ocratic party for the preparation of gross
frauds and violence. The platform closes
with this paragraph:
We extend to the Republicans Of the South,
regardless of their former party affiliations,
our cordial sympathy. aud pledge to them our
such legislation us will secure to every citizen,
OF whatever race and color, the full and CON-
plete recognition. possession and exercise of
all civil and political rights
THE TICKET. "-
Thursday night the names of Senator
Blaine, President Arthur, Senator Logan,
Senator Edmunds, Senator Sherman and
Senator Hawley were placed in nomination
as candidates for the presidential nomina-
ticn, but. balloting was not begun until
yesterday. -Four ballots were taken and on
the last Senator James Gillespie Blaine Of
Maine was declared tile nominee, the vote
thus: Blaine, 544; Arthur, 2O7; Ed
munds, Al: Hawley, Is; Logan. Z; Lincoln,
2. The nomination was made unanimous
amid scene of excitement and enthusiasm
that beggars description. At yesterday,
evenings session the convention concluded
its work by unanimously nominating Gen.
John Alexander Logan Of Illinois for Vice
President, and completing the formation
Of the national committee.
The platform is sound and the ticket
strong. We believe that the people will ap-
prove them at the polls in November, and
that with vigorous canvass, a free cleo
lion and Il fair count the electoral vote Of
Louisiana can be-as il assnredly ought to
to the victorious Blaine and
Logan column.
A PnoTasT.---A special dispatch from b.
toa Rouge to the New Orleans Duily Stats,
3ated June g. says:
The people of Ascension parish are exercised
oyer tho appointments made by the GDEGs1lur
II Police Jurors. Ihe peopIesclaitl that the
wore not RepDmpended by Them
and that they We're nude against their will
oy clique, prominent citizen is here
from Ascension to look into the matter.
While there is abundant evidence to sus-
tain the presumption that the Governors
are by no means satisfactory
to large proportion of the people of the
parish, and were, for all the public knows
to the contrary, secured at the instance of
I very small coterie of observation-disclosures
oers OF the Democratic parish committee
'ven being denied the privilege of partici~
oating in ths reeommendations-ws do not
see how the matter is to be rectifeu at this
lme, unless members of The new body re-
ign and the Governor can be induced to
commission representatives of the disatis-
lad elements to fill tho VACANCIES. The ap-
having been confirmed by the
senate can not be revoked except for legal
'ause, and in our opinion the people who
lislika the composition of the new Jgry
viii have to grin and bear ii,
To the Ladies.
All ladies interested in the Worlds Centennial
Exposition to be held lat New Orleans, are
invited to aid in the following work, approved
y the Director General. A silk quilt has
een designed representing map of Louisi-
ma, to be twelve feet square when completed
Zach parish to be q different color. geograph-
rally outlined, the name and some appropriate
ecoration to LIZ e.lhroi.lered or painted !