St. Landry democrat., 1886-08-14
To the Democrats Of So. Landry.


you at this time to warn you of an at
tempt now being made to divide and
break down the Democratic party Or
ganization of this parish. The Opelou-
sas Courier of the 9th instant contained
the following notice:
POLITICAL.
Rooms DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE Con-.
OF the Parish of St. Landry. !
A meeting Of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee for the parish of st.
Landry will be held at the law office of
Estilette Il Dnpre, at Opelousas, Oh
Thursday, the Goth August instant, for
the transaction of important business.
All the members are earnestly re-
quested to attend.
Opelousas, August 9Th, 1886.
Z. ID. ESTILETTE,
President of the Democratic Executive
Committee for the Parish of St. Landry.
In this document Mr.. Estilette as
sumes to be the chairman of your eXecu-
tive committee, aud assumes authority
to call Il meeting of the committee at
his office for the transaction as, he says,
of important business
A Convention will assemble at Baton
Rouge on the 18th September to nomi-
nate a candidate for Congress from
this District and the purpose of this
move, doubt not, is to get up some
sort of a delegation to that convention
in opposition to the regular and legal
delegation to be appointed. Should the
Estilette faction obtain recognition at
Baton Rouge, then we will have at
once an organic division in the party
in this parish, and we plunge again into
the sea Of division, strife and dissension
which for so many years made st. Lam
dry politics a bye word and reproach.
1t is my duty as the responsible head
of the party organization to expose and
denounce this attempt on the part of
Mr.. Estilette to usnrp authority which
you have conferred exclusively upon
myself, an attempt to bring on again
the old war of factions in this parish.
In order to demonstrate that Mr.. Esti-
lette has not the least shadow of right
to support him in his course, | will re-
produce here from the official rec rrd
published in the ST. Landry Democrat,
the proceedings upon which the present
organization is based.
On the 27th July 1884 meeting of
the executive committee was held, and
Il convention was regularly called to
assemble on the Sd September 1884, E. d.
Estiette being chairman of the commit
tee the call for the convention enumera-
ted 81 polls at which elections were or
dered and fixed the number of dele
gates to the convention at ia. On the
day, the convention assem-
bled at the Court House and was called
to order by Mr.. Estilette as chairman
of the executive committee. Every
poll IN tie parish Wds represented BY q
fW delegation, and | may safely say,
that such large and thoroughly repre-
convention of democrats new
er before assembled in the parish of
st. Landry; and, in order to prevent
Mr.. Estilette or any body else disputing
what say. here give the roll of the
convention, taken from the official
record as published in this paper at the
time.
COCLEE CROCHE:
J B Duplaichain P N Higginbotham
u ThibOdeau G Delahoussaye
Theo Savoy Pierre Woods
p ID Richard II Meche
Gerasan Mecbe
WASHINGTON:
L D Prescott G Baltic
A Dejean Henry Joubert
l. Dupre E D Harmon
b T Hardesty E j. Going, vote
RAYNE:
] D Bernard Joseph Guidry
w A Stakes NJ Hoffpauir
Arts Faulk Ed Faulk
F. Breaux NJ Arenas
Aladdin Leblanc w I'll Anding
VIM Sarver Ben Arceneau
T. W Roy Noise Arceneau
A Richard
LOWER BAYOU BOEUF:
&c Quirk ..s
DOSSMAN
Jos. Fort C. BOSNIAN
Jno Hamberlin
OPELOUSAS:
II L Garland Jno. Roy
DR. r HI Littell Rem Carriere
Geo Pulfurd Sr + Perrodin
Alph Levy Jno N Ogden
BIG CANE:
L Godchaux w Clopton
j NJ Lowery
NEGRO FOOT: