The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1888-06-02
OUR POLICE JURORS.
Shall. They be Appointed on Recom-
mendation ofthc People or at
the DictatiOn of the Ring
Executive Com
mittce?
Editor Ouuchitu TELEGRAPH:


recent meeting in keeping with its
usual policy of boss;sm and usurpatiop,
having arrogated 10 itself the authority
to select for the different wards of the
parish the individuals whom Gov.
Nichols shall appoint as Police Jurors,
permit me through the columns OF the
TELEGRAPH to call the attention of
the citizens who may be interested to
the fact, and TO ask if they claim any
rights in the premises, and if so,
whether or not they propose to exer-
else them. Gov. Nichols from the
stump has announced that he will
make these appointments on the rec
communication of the citizsns of the
different wards.
Do the citizens of the wards propose
to act, or to stand idly by and let this
Ring Committee forge another link in
the chain of their political bondage?
1 have nothing to say of the character
or qualifications of the different indi-
viduaIs who have been selected, -(and
in every ward l am told the people
have had their representative on the
police jury selected for them,) but
simply ask, whether or not the indi-
viduals who have been selectsE Fare
persons who could have receiy$Jn an
endorsement of majority ~ their
fellow citizens
II am not misiniormed as 10 the
personel of these selections, every one
of them are ring men. Does the poll
tical history of the methods and the
policy Of the Ouachita Ring warrant
the conclusion that the interest OF the
whole people will be best served with
the police jury the creatures of this
ring?
That the charge of usurpation and
bossism which have herein applied
to this committee is true Is shown in
the attitude which the committee has
assumed towards the citizens of the
Fifth ward. This leads TO the discus
sion Of a matter largely personal to
myself, and but for the fact that l feel
that the public are also Interested l
would not here allude to it.
The member of the Executive Com
mittee from the Fifth ward having
been advised by his constituents that
my appointment on the police jury
from that ward would meet their APP
prevail, perhaps not rejecting that his
committee was not the authority to
pass on the matter, without my knowl-
edge of his intentions, presented my
name to the committee. 1t is need
less 10 say that it was instantly reject
ed. Subsequently, the citizens OF the
Fifth ward, having properly ignored
this action of the Executive Committee
and having almost unanimously signo
Ell petition recommending my ap-
pointment, F.P. Stubs, the chairman
of the committee, in opposing their
action urged against my being appoint
ed that I had in 1878 sold cut the
clerks office.
During the last campaign Il charge
of this character appeared in the West
Monroe Union, which on account of
the source from which it emanated, l
permitted to go unchallenged. The
charge again being made and from a
source calculated to do the an injury
and great injustice, l addressed to its
author note of which the following is
a copy:
MONROE, La, May IS, 1SSS.
f. u. ,Stu6bS, Esq,
Sir-In opposing the efforts which
citizens of the 9th Ward have made to
have me appointed member of the
police jury of Ouachita parish, ! have
been informed that you have stated
that l sold out the office of clerk of the
Fifth District Court. l demand to
know of you if you thereby intended to
charge or in any manner 10 insinuatc
that in my conduct of that Office there
was anything dishonorable or dishon-
est, or that in resigning therefron l
sought to promote my interest at the
sacrifice of the public service.
Respectfully, ID. NJ. SHoLAHs.
And to which I received the following
reply:
MONROE, La, May IS, 1883.
ID. NJ. .Molars, Present
Your formal demand of me is at
hand. l recognize no ones right to
demand anything of me at the same
time feel that ought to do no one an
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