Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-02-27
Basis of Settlement.

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Following is the basis of settle
ment AS reached by the conference
committees and subsequently adj
opted by the rival McEncry and
Foster State Committees, and un-
der which the primary election on
the 22l Of March is to be con-
ductcd:
Resolved. That in order to heal all
existing differences in the Democrat
10 party the following atsreesAssat il
leteLy adopted, Wig:
l. Tie tickets nominated by the
convei. tiouS which met in the City u
VI Baton Rouge Oh The 18th " Dec,
1891. one il Pixies Hall, aud tie 9TH
VI liz the Stake House, oue Aee.l...l 10y
error. and tho other by the Hen. Mur-
L.,tcre the " bite Dcsuot ratio voters Of
the State vt = primary election " us
held prior to tie general election il
ceivinx the highest number If yutes
nominees Of the Democratic party o
Louisiana, aud shall receive its united
vote.
z. The basis Of representation in al
district, congressional and state no,n-
mating conventions shall be tl:e total
| vote cast for the heads OF the two
tickets at the said primary election,
and al bR!lo,s cast at said primary
election shall, in addition to the nam
~ Ut the candidates voted for, contain
the words for Or against the basis Of
representation suggested by the st ate
Central Committees Ofthe Democrat
ic parry
3. All ballotssfshall be printed on
white paper OF uniform size and tex
ture, without device; the election to
be held on the sane day thr, ushuut
State; said election to b, held on the
22nd day Of March 1892, and tho con-
duct OF the same be Hscertatncd, aud
promuigstion Of the result thereof;
and all details necessary to carry the
ubo1 9 plans in execution shall be f~r-
INFLATED by committee to be
composed rs follows: Three
members to be chosen by the
committee OF which the Hon Leon
Jastremski is chairman uree by the
! committee of which the Hon. Tkeo-
dore s. Wilkinson is chairman and
the Hon. John S. Young is hereby
designated rs the seventh membur
and chairman oi said committee.
4. It is hereby made the duty Of said
committee to accord each side equal
representation in the commissioners
Of election at each polling place
throughout the State and IN odd man
70 be selected alternately by each fac
| ton, under such rules as may estaE-
lished by said committee Of seven,
aud said committee Of seven
shall give ut least fifteen days notice
OF said election by publication.
! s All white democratic voters
shall have right to vote at said cleo
ton, provided that said voters in the
parish OF Orleans shall have been
registered Mt least ten days prior to
said election.
6. There shall be a. Iuany polling
places at said election throughout the
State Us at a general election, the To-
cation Of said polling places to be fix
ed by said committee OF seven.
Tue State Central Committee shall
DO rcorganized after said election, ae
follows, viz The election of on (
member from each parish thrLughous
TIE 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 add
ton to said members SO elected in the
event that the Hon. Samuel D. Mo
Emery be elected, the Hon. Leon Jas
tremski shall 10 ex -officio q member
Of said State Central COMMITTEES, aud
shall appoint twenty-fuur other por-
Sons to be members at large.
| In the event that the Hon. Murphy
j. Foster be elected, the Hon. Theo.
s. Wilkinson shall be ex-officio q
member of said Central Committee,
and shall appoint twenty-four other
persons to be members at large; and
the Hon. Leon Jastremski, If the Nc
Emery ticket be elected, is hereby
further empowered to convene said
State Central Committee; and the
Hon. Theo 8. Wilkinson. il the Fos-
ter ticket DO elected, is in the same
manner empowered to convene said
State Central Committee. The said
State Central Committee, when or
ganized rs above, shall adopt such
rules as may seem to them best
to harmonize party differences exist
ing in the various parishes, where du-
al parish committees and dual tickets
may have been nominated.
Col. Sam Lambert, the genial
and popular insurance agent Of
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