The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-03-24

present at the voting place shall ap
ooint them; the COMMISSIONERS Oh
election shall send the returns OF toe
election by registered letter TO ''e
chairman Of this committee at Match
itoches, La, and u duplicate Of same !
to each member Of their respective
parishes.
Third-This committee shall meet
at Shreveport, La, on April II, l0't'
and compile the vote and promul8ato
the result,
Fourth That there be printed on
the back Of each ticket the words;
For or against income tax
For or against tariff for revenue
only,
For or agaiugt the repeal of The III
per cent tax on State banks.
For or against the ant'-opt'on h'''.
For or against FREQ coinage OF S'I-
Yer.
For or against nominations by PR
mary elections.
Fifth That the Democratic news
papers of the district are requested
to publish these resolutions from now
until the primary election.
I'VE refer our readers to political
trick displayed in the It'll clause of
the 4th section; Every Democrat
fayors primary tlon-by parishes
to convention, and this little at
tempt to have it's actions indorsed by
an unwilling act Of tho people is dem
ogogaery in the extremely
Mr.. Dean was still unwilling to
give up the ship, and proposed this
as a substitute:
Be it resolved, that Democratic
convention be and is hereby ordered
| to convene at Shreveport, La, on
| April II, 1874, to nominate q Demo
cratic candidate for Congress.
Re il resolved, that the delegates
for said convention shall be chosen
in the various parishes according to
the method determined by the re
spective parish committees.
This substitute in our opinion
would have been Endorsed by three
fourlhs' If not more, OF the Demo
Gratis of the district, but the people
as usual were not in it, and it was
lost by the following vote:
Yeas-Lowry, of Bossier; Dean, o.
Grant; White, Of Rapides; Chrlch
. ton, of Webster-4,
Nayes-Hewitt, of DeSoto; LITTLE
proxy form Vernon; Franklin, o
Sabine; Mccain, Of Wlnn-4.
There being u tie, the chairman
: Mr.. Scarborough voted against tn
substitute and the un-Democrati
method prevailed.
This action Of Mr.. Scarborough
was both surprise and dlsappolnt
, ment to many friends and admlrer
, who had expected better of hin
Mr.. d. G. Scarborough has all alonI
been regarded as a man above pa
ticipating in the trickery of politics
and hence when be lent his aid t
the questionable method of selectln
Democratic candidates, they wei
considerably set back, confused an
confounded.
Well the machine has been worke
one more time, against the peopl
for a certain few or perhaps one MAJ
, A hurdle race is the result Of MOI
days meeting of the executive con
y n1ttee, and little do those who a
= cDmplisbed it wreck, whether tt
:, Democratic party Is disrupted or no
= For years this has been the situatio
. h few conducting politics ia the il
sprest of some of their elect, cariI
.u, a Whit what becama Of the part
unless these elect were the chose
vessels and beneGciares thereof.
- The party of the Nation has go1
-, to flinders anyway, and we suppose
" makes little difference if the organ
cation 10 the State does likewise.
{, 1t is time for manliness to ssse
itself and throw off the yoke Of SCI
dom which few trusted demogogu
have manufactured and placed
their necks. The people should Il
hesitate to condemn this nn-Dem
cratic procedure, and should tire