The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-11-13
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
Will be Held at Baton Rouge on
Thursday, December o.

| VIII be Held at Baton Rouge ON
Thursday, December ..
| The State Democratic Committee
met at Alexandria last-Tuesday and
adopted the following resolutions:
! e'Resolved. That a convention of
the Democratic party of the State
of Louisiana be and the same is
hereby called to meet in the city Of
Baton Rouge on Thursday, the 9th
day of December, 1897, at II
O'Clock, for the purpose of nonai-
mating thirty-six candidates to be
voted for by the State at large as
delegates to the Constitutional Con-
vention, to be held in accordance
with Act No. So of the acts of the
Legislature of the State Of Louisiana,
for the year 1896.
tsResolved, That said convention
shall consist of 44S delegates, to be
apportioned among the difeyent
parishes and among the wards Of
the parish of Orleans, in proportion
10 the total population of each par
ish, according to the census Of
1890, each parish and each ward Of
the city of New Orleans to be
entitled to one delegate in the con-
vention for each 25oo of population,
and to one. additional delegate for
any unrepresented fraction of $500
equaling or exceeding 1850.
'sResolved, That the method Of
selecting delegates to the State
convention be left to the local
Democratic committee of each
parish.
.<Resolved, That the number of
delegates to which each parish is
entitled under the apportionment
aforesaid be and the same is hereby
declared to be the same as the
number to which it was entitled in
the convention held in the city Of
Baton Rouge on Monday, June IS,
1896, for the purpose of nominating
delegates to the National Dem
ocratic Convention and presidential
electors, the said members for each
parish and each ward of the parish
of Orleans being as follows to-wit:
Acadia S, Ascension 8, Assumption
8, Avoyelles 10, Bienville 6, Bossier
8, Caddo IL, Calcasieu 8, Caldwell
2, Cameron I, Catahoula S, Clai-
borne 9, Concordia 6, De Soto 8,
East Baton Rouge 10, East Carroll
S, East Feliciana 7, Franklin 8,
Grant 8, Iberia 9, Jackson 3. Jefer-
son S, Lafourche 9, Lafayette s,
Livingston 2, Lincoln 6, Madison
6, Molehouse 7, Natchitoches 2,
Orleans-First ward 4, second ward
7, third ward 1r, fourth ward S, fifth
ward 9, sixth ward 6, seventh ward.
9, eighth ward 4, ninth ward r.
tenth ward 9, eleventh ward s,
twelfth ward S, thirteenth ward g.
fourteenth ward 2, fifteenth ward 4,
sixteenth ward I, seventeenth ward
I; Ouachita y Plaquenine S,
Pointe Coupee 8, Rapides zx, Red
River S, Richland 4, Sabine 4, St.
Bernard 2, St. Charles 3, ST. Helena
8, st. James 6, St. John 6, St.
Landry IS, St. Martin 6, St. Mary
9, st. Tammany 4, Tangipahoa s,
Tensas 2, Terrebonne 8, Union ?,
6, Vernon 2, Washington
8, Webster S, West Batoa Rouge 3,
West Carroll, 2, West Feiciana 6,
Winn 8. Total 448.
"Resolved, That If it yfould be-
to hold the conven-
ton at Baton Rouge on the date
fixed, that E. Kruttschnitt, chair
rnan of this committee, be aud he is
hereby authorized and instructed to
change the place Of meeting of said
from Baton Rouge to
Shreveport"
Resolved, That the attention of
the Democratic PARISH committees