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

Would not go before the convention.
But mark you, not word in print
came from him upon the subject; he
quietly waited until after the conven-
ton, then he rushes into print with
his many grievances. There is a rea-
son for all this, and am informed by
reliable Bienville man, that one of
the Snider delegates, and the leader
and manager of his case, approached
one or more of the Bienville dele
gates, and made the proposition while
the convention was in session, or Just
before the organization, if Bienville
would support Snider for Judge, they
would support Capt. Brice for Sena-
tor, or words to that effect; showing
plainly that if they could have nomi-
mated Snider by this 'sbogus conven-
tion," as they are pleased to call it,
he and his delegates would have ac-
cepted it.
The pretext for the Independent
candidacy of Col. Snider, is Aimsy
one, and to my mind q mere subter-
fuge, and one that no true Democrat,
after he has considered the question,
will bear him out in.
All defeated candidates, when they
are beaten by their party and run
outside of it, have some excuse and
some imaginary wrong to fall back
on, but he just magnanimously throws
himself upon the people to right his
wrongs. Such, to my mind, is the
Coloners case; and in his card he
gives an additional reason for his In
dependent candadicy, and that is,
there can be no harm done, as there
is no Republican in the District eli
gible to the position of District
Judge. Does thatjustify man to dis
regard Democratic nominations and
break down the barrier of Democratic
principles and the party2 1t seems
to me that this reason rather begs
the question. Early in the campaign,
in Bellevue, Colonel Snider, Ben. P.
Edwards and myself, in conversation
iu regard to the Judgeship, I suggest
ed the idea, and rather advocated a
hurdle race. Col. Snider spoke up
and said no, he favored nominations;
that it was the usage of the party and
the best way, whether there was
Republican in the District eligible or
not. That did not then seem to have
any weight with him, but now he
gives that as one of his reasons for
his Independent candidacy.
I dare say that If the convention
that met here on the 18th had nomi-
mated Col. Snider, you would not have
heard nor seen anything of the I'M
fairness of the Webster election.
In the convention that met in Min
den on the 18th of February, was
nominated by acelimation, receiving
three and two-thirds votes from Bos-
sier, six votes from Bienville, and the
entire vote from Webster, count it
six or four, making O clear majority
of all the votes of the three parishes,
and still it is said that there was no
legal nomination.
It is claimed that the mass meeting
that passed the original resolution,
fixing the manner of selecting the
delegates from Webster, was held at
4 o'clock, and was not fair express
sion of the people. Such is base
and ungrateful misrepresentation of
the facts; the mass meeting was as
large one as is usual in this parish,
and representative one in every
sense of the word.
The Tribune boosted that the mass
meeting called on the 10Th would
undo and do away with the action of
the mass meeting Of the Sth, and
they used all the means in their DOW
er, had their men or man out riding
for two or three days, to get their
friends here. That mass meeting did