The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-09-27
MIR. CADE NOMINATED.
The Convention at Baton
Rouge Selects a Candi-
date for Railroad
Commissioner.

Hclu ueSudy gu I'duOl INouSS
Mr. OvertOn Cade of Lafayette
was nominated for railroad com
missioner on the tifty-third bal
lot. Mr.. j. Y. Sanders of ST.
Mary was chairman of the con
ventiOn. The following account
of the nomination was taken
from the Times-Democrat:
w. H. Latham of ST. Mary,
seconded by l.. d. Beale of Baton
Rouge, placed in nomination
Joseph A. LOret of ST. Mary.
John G.. Tulley of POinte COu-
pee, seconded by r. G.. Wickliffe
of West Feliciana, nominated
Judge w. G.. Perrault OF ST.
Landry.
r. n. Sims Of Ascension, sec
onded by John Marks of As
sumption and Representative r.
p. Leblanc of Vermilion, placed
in nomination OvertOn Cade of
Lafayette.
Robert r. Reid of TangipahOa,
seconded by Judge Thompson of
ST. Tammany, placed in nomina-
ton George H. Cause of St
l. q Ill LItlHy
There being PIC votes in the
sary for a choice.
The first ballot resulted as fol
lows: Cade 81, Perrault II 12,
LOret 80 1-2, Cause, "a.
On the first ballot the parishes
voted as follows:
For Cade-Acadia, Assump-
ton, Ascension, Calcasieu, he
ria, Lafayette, Lafourche, ST.
Martin, Terrebonne, 3 votes:
Vermilion, West Baton Rouge.
For Perrault-AvOyelles, s
votes: East Feliciana. POinte
Coupee, ST. Landry, Terrebonne,
6 ID votes: West Feliciana.
For Loret-Avoyelles, East
Baton Rouge, Iberville, ST.
Mary, TerrebOnne, 1-2 vote.
For Gause-Avoyelles, , votes;
Livingston, ST. Helena, ST. Tam
many, Tangipahoa, Washington.
The parishes of AvOyelles and
Terrebonne were the only par
ishes which divided their votes.
On the second ballot LOret and
Cause lost two votes each, which
Perrault gained. The vote was
then proceeded with up to the
sixteenth ballot without change,
when, at Z O'Clock, the convention
took a recess for one hour.
On the thirteenth ballot Tangi-
pahoa gave it's seven votes to
Cade, which created consider
able uneasinesS in the Perrault
ranks, but the next ballot allayed
this uneasiness by Tangipahoa
returning to Cause.
On the thirty seventh ballot
Cade received 81, Perrault 50 ID,
Loret 81 ID, and Cause -.
On the forty-sixth ballot Loret
doomed up with 50 ID, which he
acquired from the Perrault and
Cause ranks. Cade maintained
his original strength, never fall
ing below 81.
After the announcement OF the
fifty second ballot, Judge Reid,
in behalf of George H. Cause.
withdrew that gentleman $ name,
and in the next ballot OvertOn
Cade was nominated by a vote of
11S ID
When it was manifested that
Judge Perrault could not secure
the votes necessary for a choice,
his friends threw their support
to Loret, with the hope of de-
feating Cade. For several min
utes great confusion prevailed,
as the rapid shifting of votes
from one candidate to the other
made it impossible for even a
mathematical prodigy to keep up
with the totals. Finally Chair
man Sanders secured the atten-
ton of the convention, and prom
Used every man who desired it a
hearing and a fair deal.
Upon the announcement OF the
result, Judge Perrault, in an elO-
quent address, moved to make
the nomination of Mr.. Cade unan-
imous. This was done and the
nominee was escorted to the
platform, where he thanked the
convention in Il brief address.
DOmengeauN-i urance.
Have you read The VirginianS,
by Owen WiSter: Castle Craney
crow, by G.. B. McCutcheon: