The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-23
PRIMARIES ORDERED.

PRIMARIES ORDERED.
The Democratic Executive Conn
nliteee Meet-Four Menu
bers Bolt.
THURSDAY, Nov. az, 1895.
Pursuant to call the Democratic
! Parish Executive Committee met at
! the court house at Lafayette this
date. Mr.. J. o. Broussard. as tenn
porary chairman, called the COM
mittee to order and stated that the
| committee should proceed to or
ganize permanently respectively.
On motion of DR.. Nj. l.. Lyons,
duly seconded, J. o. Broussard and
d. A. Cochrane were made perma-
nent chairman and secretary.
The rollwas then called. Present:
J. O.. Broussard, D. A. Cochrane,
H. Theall, A. Liable, DR.. M. l..
Lyons, Homer Durio, A. c. Gull
beau, d. A. Cochrane, w. B. To-
rian by proxy for Numa Martin,
and F. Vincent by proxy for ID. A.
Cochrane.
A. c. Guilbeau then offered set
of resolutions, to which D. A.
Cochrane offered another set as
substitute; upon which a discussion
arose in which Messrs. ID. A. Coch-
rane, w. B. Torian, DR.. M. L.
Lyons and A. C.. Gu,lbeau partici-
pated. After the reading of doc
ument by Mr.. w. B. Torian, where
in he urged why the substitute intro
duced by Mr.. d. A. Cochrane
should prevail, which substitute he
anticipated would be offered, the
discussion ceased
1t was then moved by Mr.. Har-
rison Theall that a vote be taken on
the substitute, whereupon Mr.. ID. A.
Cochrane asked for a recess, which
was taken. After a few minutes of
recess the committee came to order,
whereupon Mr.. d. A. Cochrane
asked to withdraw the substitute
offered by him and bolted the com
mittee, followed by Mr.. w. B. To-
rian and Mr.. A. Liable. MIR. A.
G.. Guilbeau was then elected secre-
tary of the committee instead of
Mr.. d. A. Cochrane, boiling secre-
tary;
adoption of the original set of reso-
lutions introduced by Mr.. A. c.
Guilbeau, which being duly Sec
onded, the roll was called and the
vote stood as follows: Homer Durio,
yea; Harrison Theall, yea; DR.. M.
L. Lyons, yea; A. c. Guilbeau, yea;
J. o. Broussard, yea; Martin Beg
neaud by proxy to Harrison Theall,
yea. Total, yeas s; noes, none. A
majority of the committee having
voted for the resolutions they were
declared carried.
On motion of DR.. M. L. Lyons
four lines of Sec. were stricken
out, and as amended the resolutions
were adopted. The resolutions
offerrd by Mr.. Guilbeau are as fol-
lows:
Be it R<solv<d by the Democratic
Exeezftye Committee Of the Parish 81
Lafayette: That white Democratic
primary be held on the 14th day of
December, 1895, for the selection,
first, of eight delegates at large in
said parish to represent this parish
in the Democratic State Convention,
to be held at Shreveport on the 18th
day of December, 1895, said dele
cation to vote as a unit, and the
delegates present to cast the vote of
the parish.
z. That at said primary the can
didates for Judge of this district and
District Attorney be voted for di-
rectly, the candidates receiving the
highest number of votes cast, to
have the right of selecting eight
delegates to represent this parish in
the Judicial Convention to be held
at the court house in this town on
Saturday, the 21st day of Deem
Der, 1895, and the delegates present
to cast the vote of the parish. Up
on the designation of the said dele
gates by the candidates receiving
the highest number of votes cast, it
shall be the duty Of the chairman of
this committee with the other men,
bers of the canvassing com mittee
hereinafter to be named, or a ma
jority of them, to approve the same
Immediately, which shall be the ere
dentials of said delegates. Should
the said chairman and the members
of said canvassing committee, or
majority of them, refuse, fail or neg
lect to give this approval, the result
of the primary as declared by the
canvassing committee, or a majority
of them, shall be the credentials of
said delegates.
;. That at said primary, candi-
dates for the House of Representa-
tives, Sheriff, Clerk of the District
Court, Coroner, Police Jurors, JUS