The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-04-14
OUR DIFFERENCES.

OUR DIFFERENCES. il
he Subcommittee Makes Report of
its Investigations.
70 Col. A. W. Crandell, Chairman of
the State Executive Committee:
S1R-The subcommittee appointed
70 visit the parish of Ouachits to sliay
and adjust the differences existing be-
tween the factions la that parish beg
leave to report:
1. That the contentious between the
two factions do not endanger the State
ticket, both factions assuring the CON-
mittee that the State ticket would be
by them, and no alliance,
direct OF Indirect, with the Republt-
caus would be made.
2. That your committee discovered
that what Is kno wn as the Stubbs fac
ton had been regularly recognized by
the Democratic convention which
nominated Governor Nichols, 80 far
as to admit the delegation from the
parish of Ouachita to said convention,
elected under the auspices Of said COM
mittee. This being 80, your commits
tee declined to reopen the questIon OF
the regularity and legality of the
Stubs committee. finding that Its
political status had been established
by an authority which your committee
had no right 70 question.
3. That the negroes in the parish of
Ouachita had, for the last seven or
eight years, been allowed to parttci-
pate In mass meetings 40 Democrats,
and had voted as such that the ques-
ton of allowing negroes to vote as
Democrats In mass meetings or pri-
mary elections, is one that the Demo-
cratic party of Louisiana has left to be
settled by the locality to be effected by
such voting; that the parish of Qua
chita had elected to permit negroes to
participate as Democrats In the mass
meetings In said parish, and your COM
mittee deemed itself without author
ity to question the action OF thu De-
mocratic party In the parleh of Qua.
chita In. this respect.
4. That your committee found that
the parish of Ouachita is divided by
the Ouachita river, and is composed
Of nine wards, four Of which lie on the
east and Eve on the west eide of the
Ouachita river; that the five wards
lying on the west side of said river are
Inhabited by q majority of whites,
with minority OF negroes, and that
the four wards on the east side of the
river contain a large. majority of
negroes.
They found that the whites on the
west side of the river generally support
what is known as the antt.rfng faction
headed by Uriah Millsaps, and that the
negroes on the east side generally sup
port what is known as the ring faction,
headed by Frank p. Stubbs. They
found that the whites on the west side
of the river controlled the negroes In
their wards, and In one ward on the east
side Fourth ward), that the whites on
the east side were divided between the
two factions, each side carrying Its pro-
portion of negro voters, and that the
rtng faction carried only two wards on
the east side of the river, containing
the greatest number of negroes so3idly
for their side, They fonnd that 1t was
difficult to say whether the whites
suppoted the anti-ring faction to the
extent Of large majority.
Your committee, therefore, cannot
say that a handful OF white men, con-
trolling and voting large mass of ne
groes, are debating the politics of the
parish OF Ouachita. They will 60 to
the extent of saying, that minority
of whites, by controlling the majority
OF the negro votes, which ell the whites
attempt to control, and do control TO
some extent, are ruling the parish po-
ltticaiiy.
Your committee offered its offices TO
harmoniZe the factions and succeeding
In assuaging the bitterness evoked by
the existence Of the factions and their
struggles Tor ascendency. The factions
even sattempted to fuse the hostile
tickets into one, on which both had
representatives, and your committee
INDUCES the hope that with nodera-
ton and forbearence which they urged
both sides to adopt and practice, an
amicable adjustment will be reached be.
fore the election.
ID. CAFFREY, Chairman.
NEW ORLEANS, April 8, 1883.
REPORT OF THE ANTI.RING CONFER
ENCE COMMITTEE.
Tho n,p,ocratic Evocu4;yo Con