The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-20

mentary law IN all the authorizes That
can be found on the subject. Now,
it seems to any fair-minded thinker
that this settles that part of the con-
troversy, and leaves the resolution, as
passed by the mass meeting, deter
mining the mode and manner of Sc
lecting Judicial and Senatorial dele
gates. After this mass meeting both
papers, Democrat and Tribune, pub
lished this resolution ordering an
election in each ward, to select dele
gates in pursuance to the resolution
of the mass meeting on the 10th of
January, and on the 18th, these dele
gates to meet in Minden, in conven-
ton, and select and nominate dele
gates to the Judicial and Senatorial
conventions, that was to meet in Min
den on the 18th day of February, 1884.
The independent candidate and his
friends, complain at this mode of Sc
Letting delegates from Webster,
claiming that they should have select
ed by wards direct, because Bossier
and Bienville selected by wards
Bienville attempted the same plan
that Webster adopted, and Bossier
attempted to select her delegates by
mass meeting, and would have done
so, but for the fact that when the peo-
pie met in Bellevue on the appointed
day, they found the meeting largely
for Drew, and the friends of Colonel
Snider came to me and begged and
entreated me to agree to throw the
election back to wards, saying: ''that
the Judicial question complicated
State Offices" aud, after consulting
my friends, they agreed that the cleo
ton or selection of Judicial and SEN
atorial delegates might be thrown
back to wards, and this was the cause
of Bossier parish selecting her dele
gates by wards. If myself and friends
had quietly sit down at home and not
attended the Bossier mass meeting,
the entire Judicial delegation of that
parish would have been selected for
Col Snider, and not by wards, but by
mass meeting. The complaint, and
one of the serious grievances in the
card of the independent candidate is,
that the election in Webster was not
like Bienville and Bossier, j. e., by
wards. He and his friends make the
broad assertion that if the election
in Webster had been by wards, he
would have carried three out of five,
and would have been the Democratic
nominee. It is a mere assertion
There are two many ''ifs and ands."
The District is composed of par
ishes, and not wards, and each parish
is sovereign and has the right to
nominate her delegates in any man.
ner she sees proper, and Webster
parish only exercised that right, and
for this she is held responsible for
the independent candidacy OF an old
time Democrat. Mr.. Ben. P. Edwards,
of Bienville parish, was also candi-
date, subject to the Democratic nom
ination. Why did he not see this
great wrong and injustice, and bolt
the nomination? Because he is a
true and time-honored Democrat, and
like the man and Democrat he is, he
saw nothing wrong, but said when he
was approached on the subject, that
''every parish had the right to select
her delegates in any manner she saw
proper" and when the convention
convened here on the 18th of Febru-
airy, he was here with his delegates,
and they went into the convention,
and after my nomination he said, in
q speech to the convention, that he
was fairly beaten and acquiesced, and
would support the ticket, and if nee
essary, stump the District for the
nominees. just as would have done
ii my opponent, now independent
candidate, had received the nomina-
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