The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1902-09-13
nleetlng of the Democratic Executive
Committee.
FRANKLIN, La, Sept. 18th, 1870:

FRANKLIN, La, Sept. 18th, 1902.
Pursuant to call from Chairman A.
C. Allen. meeting Of the Democratic
Executive Committee of the Parish OF
ST. Mary was held at the court house on
Friday, Sept. 10th.
The Committee was called to order by
Chairman A. C. Allen.
The Secretary being absent on motion
Mr.. w. H. Latham was unanimously
elected secretary protein.
The roll was called which showed all
the members of the committee present
except Jos. A. Loret, b. F. Holleman and
J. C. Murphy.
The chair stated the object Of the
meeting was to provide for the election
of delegates to the Congressional Nomin-
ating Convention to be held at NapoleOn~
Vile, on Sept. 22nd and the Railroad
Commission Convention to be held at
Baton Rouge on Sept. 23rd. The Chair
man also stated that under the call made
by the Congressional Committee it would
be impossible to hold a primary for the
election of delegates; the Congressional
Convention met on the 10th and called
the convention for the 22nd; the primary
election law requires publication of at
least two weeks before the call for
primary election. The action therefore
Of the Congressional Committee makes
it impossible for US to hold a primary
election.
On motion of Mr.. J. Y. Sanders, duly
seconded and carried. that this Commit
tee resolve itself into mass meeting and
elect set of delegates who will attend
both conventions.
On motion duly seconded and carried
Mr.. Henry Kappel was elected chairman
of this mass meeting, and DR.. I. F.
Frere as Secretary.
On motion duly seconded and carried
the chair was authorized to appoint a
committee of one member from each
ward to select delegates and report to
the committee.
The Committee made the following
report, which on motion duly seconded
and carried was adopted and the dele
gates selected was unanimously elected:
Paul Pecot, Louis Grevenberg, I. 3.
Sims, B. F. Hollelnan, E. ID. Boass0, E.
Perret, Casper Ceiling.
Helaire Lancon, Bernard Levy, T. F,
Broussard,. J. A. Chauvin. Kobt E Ice.
A. e. Allen, w. H. Latham, Henry
Kappel. L. s. Bigler, j A. Potter.
man, w. T. Jones. J. b. Roberts. W. r.
Gates, j. Y. Sanders. w. K. Wilson, P.
P. Sigur. C. F. Borah. K. X. Cooke, Il.
F.. Milling. Dudley Berwick. Melville
Wilcox. Jacob Anderson, John Clausen.
N Alleman, John X Todd, o ID Berwick,
Chas Henagriff,J H Walker,L 8 Alleman.
E Aucoin. NJ G Fernandez. N J Wooster.
Henry Hausmann, Wilbur H Kramer,
DA Sanders, Numa Falterman, DR. t
W Tarleton, w H Vetier, N B Trellue, c
e Gillis, } A Loret, julius Lund, Lee
Riggs, Ion ROchel. Gus Drews. Mayer
Lehman,J B Sanders. A A Ozenne, Edgar
Bass, John Shinn, John Arentz, Jim Fur.
long. Thos Shannon, Jr. Brou O'Brien,
Merville Gauthreaux, 7 Aucoin. John
Drackett. j c Telotte, Dan Lynch, John
Dalton. j NJ Guidry. AFortier,J e Muir
ply, A E Calm, d Legnon, Fernand Du
mesnil, Alexander Dumesnil.
Henry Jacobs, Simon Leopold. T A
Therguson. Justus Hanson, b w Scott.
Walter Gilmore.
On motion duly seconded and carried
that the delegates vote as unit and
III pHUAlCo UC dIiOWcU duU tu8U tuObc
present cast the vote of st. Mary.
On motion duly seconded and carried
that when the delegates meet at Napo>
leonvi'le that they elect chairman who
will serve tor both conventions.
On motion duly seconded and carried
that it is the sense of this meeting that
the delegates vote for Hon. Jos. A. Loret
as long as his name is before the Rail.
road Commission Convention.
On motion duly seconded and carried
that the credentials of these delegates
be signed by the chairman and secretary
Of this mass meeting and countersigned
by the chairman and secretary pro tenn
of the Democratic Executive Committee
of the Parish of st. Mary,
On motion the committee adjourned
subject to call from the Chairman.
A. G. ALLEN, Chairman.
w. 81, LATHAM, Secretary Pro tenn.