The Republican courier., 1900-01-20
minet, L. Coma VS. @. Shute, Jos.
Leblanc VS.. W. S. Chapman.
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Leblanc VS.. W. S. Chapman.
These were all the persons Mr..
Herwig could get together, with
any degree of decency. In order
to swell the number still larger,
it was claimed that the secretary
had in his possession large num-
Der of proxies, but they were never
read, the secretary would call out
the name of a parish and one in
the hall would cry out: "Proxy.n
In this way the secretary, after a
short consultation with Mr.. Her
wig, announced sixty-One members
present, including proxies, when it
was generally known by every one
present that there were only thir-
teen members actually in the hall,
a less number than is necessary to
constitute a quorum.
After this, G. A. Bourgeois was
elected secretary and Jos. Le-
Blanc, assistant secretary. Reso-
lutions of all sorts were introduced
and passed, except one endorsing
Demas as the Republican leader
and denOuncing the Nations Sen
ate for refusing to confirm him.
The gathering positively refused
to have anything to say in denunci-
alton Of the convention that elm
mated the Negro from politics, and
in it's eagerness to denounce the
Gins" neglected to petition Con-
gress to pass the Crumpacker bill
reducing Southern representation.
Mr.. B. O'Neal claimed that he
was in possession of letter from
Secretary Dick, explaining why the
call was sent to Mr.. Joubert, but
when it was called for, he refused
to read it, which was the best evi-
dence that it was not in keeping
with his wishes.
a thing which deeply concerns
every Republican in the State and
to which we earnestly desire to
call their attention, is the two
dates fixed by the conference COM
mittee for the conventions. The
date for the convention to nomin-
nate State ticket is fixed for the
sixth day of February. The date
to elect four delegates at large to
attend the national convention is
fixed for Monday, April 50th.
Now why are these two dates
fixed? 1t is plain, because if two
Negroes are nominated at Alexan-
dria to attend the convention at
Philadelphia, it will hurt the State
ticket; on the other hand, if they
elect four white men they will get
no Negro votes. They have deem
ed it wise, therefore, to fix the date
for the election of delegates to
Philadelphia eighteen days after
the State election, at which time
they can elect four white men with
because they no longer
need the NegrOs for four years.
This shows that there is as much
Lily White about these people as
there was before the meeting at
the ST. Charles Hotel.
Although there are six vice
presidents of the committee, not
one put in his appearance at the
meeting; three Observation-Disclosures
of them showed up. This, together
with the minutes and roll being alb
sent made all despondent for a
while, until some one suggested
the way to make up a roll without |
the members who are to legally |
the body being present. |
Taking it all in all the meeting
was a complete failure, and quite
a Dumber present did not hesitate
to say so, one OF the leaders re-
marking that things had been mis-
to him that Mr.. Her
wig had led him to believe that a
majority of the members would be
in attendance, this he said had dis
couraged and disgusted him, but
he would remain and hope for the
best Speeches were made denOunc-
ing everything and everybody but