The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1896-02-01
The Democracy il Line of Battle

The State Ceut,aI Committee met in
New Orleans last Monday aud organ
lied by electEg E. Is. ksuttschnitt
chairman and Robt. S.rLandry secre-
tary. Measures we've take.a to lnausu-
rat" a vigorous canspaign,1 Il aud an eX-
ecutive committee of tl5rty-five was
appointed and given pienaTy powers,
not alone as far as the campaign was
concered, bnt on all mattfrs which
might come before it, especially with
reference to settling aIlefafferepces j~
the party. The resolution creating tits
committee reads as follows: /
Resolved, That all the powers of tlfis
committee be and they are hereby vested
in and delegated to the executive COM
mittee; that said executive committee
shall have power to fix the number of
its members necessary to constitute a
quorum, make rules and regulations for
its government, appoint subcommittee
and transact all business pertaining to
the state central committee during the
present state campaign; provided, that
at any time on the request of twenty
members of the state central committee
the full committee shall be convened by
the chairman"
Thos. Ii. Lewis, Esq, of st. Landry,
member at large OF the State Central
Committee, was appointed as one Of the
members OF this executive committee
OF thirty five.
The executive committee promptly
met and provided for the appointment
of a subcommittee of three to proceed to
the parishes of st. Landry and Acadia
to endeavor to harmonize the party dis
sensions in those parishes and in the
Twelfth senatorial and Eleventh judi
cial districts, composed of these two
parishes, with authority, in case of me-
cessity, to order white Democratic pri-
maries in said parishes and districts.
It is understood that Col. Parker,
the chairman, has appointed this sub
committee, and that it will arrive
here very shortly after our Parish
Committee holds its meeting for
arranging the preliminaries for the
Parish Convention which it called
two months ago. 1t will he-re-
membered that March Sd was fixed as
the date for holding primaries for dele
gates to said convention, and that the
Parish Committee announced at the
days previous to that date to select the
polling places, appoint commissioners
OF election, etc, and to fix the date
of the convention. IBas,nuch as Feb
ruary has only go days, it will be neces-
sary for the committee to hold another
Sunday session (to-morrow, Feb. 2d)
unless it meets to-day. Nobody, how
ever, seems TO know what it will do
next.
Since the above was written, we have
learned that let ter received here an
nounces that the subcommittee will ar
rive to- day. That subcommittee. it is
rum0red, consists of Messrs. E. B.
Kruttschnitt. John Fitzpatrick and j.
M. Foster, the two former of New Or
leans, the latter Of Shreveport.
The following is the letter above re-
ferfed to:
NEW ORLEANS, January 29tli, 1886.
J. j. BARRY. ESQ, OpeioHsas La.
Dear Sir-I am Instructed by the Executive
Committee of the Democratic State Central
Committee to invite you to meet a subcommit
tee of the Executive Committee on Saturday,
February lst, at II o'clock NJ, at the Court
House in OpelOusas, and to request that you
bring before said subcommittee the persons
and papers necessary to impart to the commit
tee all the information necessary in reference
to the differences existing in the party in the
parishes of st. Landry and Acadia. Please do
not fail to comply with this request
Very respectfully yours,
III. b. McMURRAY,
Sec Dem. State Executive Committee.