St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-03-19
THE AGREEMENT.

Resolved, That, in order to heal all exist
/ ing differences in the Democratic party,
the following agreement is hereby adopt
ed. viz 5 5# tsa
l. The tickets nominated by the conyen-
tons which met in the city of Baton Rouge
on the 18th day of December, 1891, one in
Pixies Hall and the other in the Statehouse,
| one headed by the Hon. Samuel ID. McEn-
cry as governor and the other by the Hon.
Murphy ]. Foster as governor, be placed
before the white Democratic voters of the
State at a primary election, to be held prior
| to the general election in April next. The
persons thereon receiving the highest nurn-
Der of votes for their respective Offices shall
be the nominees of the Democratic party
OF Louisiana and shall receive its united
vote
2. The basis of representation in all dis
trlcts, congressional and State nominating
conventions, up to and including the next
state nominating convention, shall be the
total vote cast for the heads of the two
tickets at said primary election, and all
ballots cast at said primary election shall,
IN addition to the names of the candidates
voted for, contain the words afor or against
the basis OF representation suggested by
the State central committees of the Demo-
cratic partyn
8. All ballots shall be printed on white
paper OF uniform size and texture without
device; the election to be held on the same
day throughout the State
4. Said election shall be held on the 22d
day of March, 1892, and the conduct of the
same, the ascertainment and PRONUNCIATION
OF the result thereof and all details neces-.
sary to carry the above plan into execu-
ton, shall be formulated by committee
to be composed as follows: Three mem
bers to be chosen by the committee of
which the Hon. leon JastremslSi is chair
man, three by the committee of which the
Hon. Theo. S. Wilkinson is chairman, and
the Hon. John S. Young is hereby designa-
ted as the seventh member and chairman
of said committee.
1t is hereby made the duty of said com
mittee to accord each side equal represen-
tatlon in the commissioners of election at
each polling place throughout the State,
and an odd man to be selected alternately
by each faction under such rules as may
be established by said committee of seven,
and said committee of seven shall give at
least fifteen days notice of said election by
publication.
5. All white Democratic voters shall have
a right to vote at said election provided
that said voters in the parish of Orleans
shall have been registered at least fifteen
daysrprior to said election.
6. There shall be as many polling places
at said election throughout the State as at
a general election, the location of said pol
ling places to be fixed by said committee
of seven.
!. Z. The State central committee shall be
reorganized after said election as follows,
viz: By the election of one member from
each parish throughout the State and one
from each ward in the parish of Orleans,
to be voted for at the same time and upon
the same ticket as the State ticket. In adj
dition to said members so elected, in the
event that the Hon. Samuel d. McEnery
be elected, the Hon. Leon Jastremski shall
be ex-officio member of said State CEN
trai committee and shall appoint twenty
four other persons to be members at large.
In the event that the Hon. Murphy J. Eos
ter be elected the Hon. Theodore S. Will
kinson shall be ex-officio member of said
State central committee, and shall appoint
twenty-four other persons to be members
at large; and the Hon. Leon Jastremski, if
the McEnery ticket be elected, is hereby
further empowered to convene said State
central committee, and the Hon. Theodore.
s. Wilkinson, if the Foster ticket be elect
ed, is in the same manner empowered to
convene SAID State central committee. The
said State central committee, when organ
lied as above, shall adopt such rules as
may seem to them most expedient to har
monize party differences existing in the
various parishes where dual parish COM
mittees and dual parish tickets may have
been nominated. A. w. CRANDALL,
Chairman Conference Committee.
Don CAFFERY,
Chairman Conference Committee.
The committee of seven is composed of
J. S. Young, chairman; E. Howard Mecca
leb, +. c. Zacharie and j. G. Noise for the
Foster ticket; John Fitzpatrick, G. A. But
Ter and A. w. Crandall for the McEnery
ticket sffs