The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-05-16

stoned speech, protesting against the
| presence of negroes in the convention,
the selection of negro delegate and
alternate to Chicago from the first
congressional district, and the pro.
posed selection of such a delegate and
| alternate from the state at large. He
recalled the pledges he had made to
! the people of the state during his re-
cent canvass for governor that no me-
groes should be sent to the national
convention by the party he repre-
sented, and bitterly criticized what he
/ characterized as a Reputation of these
, pledges and a qualification on the part
! of the leaders of the organization. Mr..
Pharr was answered by FL. C. War
moth in an eloquent and earnest speech
, that manifestly represented the SEN
| timents of very large majority of
the delegates. Gov. Warmoth de-.
clared that Mr.. Pharr had made a
grievous political mistake; that he had
no right or authority to commit the
organization to line of policy that
was Numerically opposed to the fun
damental and lifelong principles of
the Republican party of the nation,
and that the convention could not con-
sent to place the Republicans OF Lou
isiana in such an homogeneous and
indefensible position as would result
from an acceptance and Endorsement
of Mr.. Pharr's politically heretical
doctrine that the constitution and laws
OF the nation and state should be ig-
nored and violated and color made
the sole test of a citizens right to
participate in public affairs and the
councils of the Republican party.
Mr.. Dreyius spoke in defense of Mr..
Pharr's attitude and claimed that the
building up of state party was more
important than recognition by the ma
tional convention, and that no pro-
gress could be made in this direction
unless the negro was excluded. At the
conclusion of the debate a roll call
was demanded on q motion to table
the report of the nomination com
mittee, and this was defeated by the
decisive vote of 40 yeas to 1852 nays.
Messrs. Pharr and Dreyfus then left
the hall, accompanied by about thirty
of their friends, mostly from the par
ishes of Assumption, Lafourche, Ter
rebonne, ST. NJ ary, Iberia and st. Mar
tin and couple of the wards of Or
leans.
After the departure of this con-
tingent, the convention proceeded to
the prompt transaction of it's re-
mainding business. The report of
the nomination committee was unan-
approved: the course of |
Pearl Wight as Republican national |
for Louisiana was
warmly Endorsed and he was declared |
the choice of the convention for re. |
election TO that position; provision |
was made for the filling of any va
aancy on the electoral ticket that might |
occur; the selection of Harry Mahoney |
as member of the state committee from
parish to succeed the
ate J. W. Booth was ratified, and the
adjourned.
Notwithstanding the exciting charac-
,er of theissue raised by Mr.. Pharr and
lis supporters in the movement to ex-
voters from the convention
Ind the delegation to Chicago, the state
maintained a commend
able degree of dignity and decorum,
Ind beyond the unseemly EXPLANATIONS
If a very few of the boilers and an
attempt On the part of Cohenite en-
ssary TO interrupt Gov. Warmoth
which was quickly resented and sup
PRESSED, the proceedings throughout
we're entirely deeorous and orderly.