St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21
THE STATE CONVENTION.

| AosO was W Com Uiuc VIII SOulo Otuc
man, to beat Nichols. 1t seems tina
Judge Jeffries of the Rapides delega
ton was tried but he stood firm 70
Nichols. A similar attempt was mad,
with the Natchitoches delegation, t.
put forward Attorney G eneral Cunning
ham as candidate against Nichols /; bu
they answered by joining the Nichols
ranks. This reduced the nomination
of Nichols to a certainty.
Ii was agreed, by the McEnery and
Nichols delegates, that Hon. James
Jeffries, of Rapides, should be Temporal
ry president of the convention and
John w. Flynn, Of Orleans, was made
temporary Secretary, and r. 3. Mat
thews, of Orleans, and C. N. Blice of
Catalonia, assistants.
-Four sets of delegates were elected to
the convention: for Nichols, for Nc
Emery, for Moucure, and for Cunning
ham. 1t was agreed that the commit
fee on credentials should be composed
of four Nichols men, four McEnery
| men, one Moncure man, and one Cum
niDgham man, and that these ten should
select an eleventh one. W. Fl. Rogers,
of Orleans, j. II. Stone, of East Fell
ciana, E. A. O'Sullivan, Of Lafourche,
and G. Debaillon, of Lafayette, repre-
resented Nichols; j. S. Young, Of Cad
do, Robert Montgomery, Of West Fell
ciana, G. Montegut, of ,rebonne, and
II. W. Ogden, of Bossier, represented
McEnery; E. M. Graham, of Lincoln,
represented Moncu,s: D. Pierson, of
Natchitoches, represented Cunningham;
and w. A. Pondof, of Natchitoches was
selected as the eleventh man and chair
man.
The list Of uneontested parishes, re-
ported unanimou sly by the committee,
is as follows:
Acadia, Ascension, Assumption, Avoy-
Giles, West Baton Rouge, Bienville,
Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Claiborne,
Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll,
East Feliciana, Cameron, Caldwell,
franklin. Iberia, Jackson, Jefferson,
Lincoln, Lafayette, Lafourche, Madi-
son, Moiehouse, Natchitoches, Orleans,
Plaquemines,- Red River, Ricbland,
Rapldes,. st. John, st. Mar
tin, St. Mary, ST. Laodly, st. Helena,
s ss caes st B1n na sa Yerm men
Vernon, Washington, Webster, VIM.
Total, 407 delegates.
Tie committee reported unanimously
in tn blowing cases
East Baton Rouge-seat:ng the Mich
oils delegation.
Ouachita-seat;ng the McEnely dele
cation.
ST James-seating the McEnery dele
CATION.
St. TammaDy-seating the Nichols
delegation.
The convention unanimously adopted
the report.
A majority report was made in the fol-
lowing cases
Grant-seating the McEnery delega-
ton.
notwithstanding the McEnery dele
CATION.
Livingston-seating the McEneIy del
egation the minority report was to seat
McEnery and Nichols delegates on
half vote.
PoiDte Conpee-seating McEDery and
Nichols delegations on half vote.
Tangipahoa-seating Nichols delega-
tiou.
The convention by vote Of al 1-e to
1914 adopted the minority report, and
seated the Nichols delegates in the
Graut case, there being four blank votes
and contested delegates not voting
In the Iberville case, the majority re-
port to seat the McEnery delegation,
was adopted by 1851 to 1e43, six voting
blank.
In the Livingston case, the minority
report to scat both delegations on half
vote each. was adopted by vote OF
315s to 1873 1-8.
In the Point Coupee case, the minors
" report to seat the Nichols delegation
was adopted by a vote OF 27aS to l71t
In the Taugipahoa case the majority
report to seat the Nichols delegation
was iopted Uiua coco.
The convention organized permanent
" by continuing the same president,
and Meyer Gntberin, Of Orleans, was
added to the list of secretaries.
Gen. Nichols was put In nomination
and elected the nominee of the Demo
cratic party of the State, for Governor,
by $50 5-12 votes to 1e6 7-12 blank votes.
All the McEnery delegates voted blank |
except those from Acadia and st. Mar
tin, and Likewise the Moncure delegates.
except q fraction OF the Bienyille dele
cation. The following 10 the vote by |
parishes:
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ACACIA. II K. 4. - Fiji |
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Baton Rouge, East
Baton E0uge, West. =,
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