Year: 1872

lie same INSANE pOllcy, Lne same
stubborn arrogance, the same intOler-
ant exclusiveness, the same outrage
Gus and shameless usurpation of pop
ular rights which characterized the
conduct of Boss Packard and his wor-
thy coadjutors last August, and which
drove off the vast majority of the Re-
publican party from all association
with them; this same execrable course
was pursued in their Baton Rouge
Convention. With q Predetermined
resolution, if not acting under instruc-
tions to have nominated certain set
of candidates, the "boss and his aids
resorted to all conceivable, and some
inconceivable methods to accomplish
this design. They completely tyran-
nized over the people.


The exclusion of the public from
the lObbies, the admission of delegates
and the press by soup tickets" (as
we heard the cards deridingly named)
to the floor of the Convention, the I'M
ceremoniOus dropping of names of
regularly elected but Objectionable
delegates, the barefaced substitution
of names of Custom House employees
who never did reside in the parishes
Boss Packard dictated they should
represent; the outrageous violations
of all parliamentary usage in the rul-
ings of the presiding officers, the gag
ging OF free utterance, the tampering
with the roll after it had been finally
acted upon by the Convention, the in
sulting and forcible expulsion of cleo
ted delegates who attempted to be
heard, the consequent choking off of
the defence of their claims to seats,
the cruel espionage over delegates
who were Custom House employees,
the threats of dismissal if they dared
to be independent and vote as they
preferred, the impudent assumption of
all authority by a ring, the deception
of aud their treachery to their most
faithful supporters, the fragrant, and
continual, and complete absorption of
all popular representation and indi-
viduality of the delegates; these and
thousand other things have utterly
disgusted the truest, the most intelli-
gent and the scrupulOus few that
crowd could ever boast of, and the
day is not far distant when such con-
duct will receive its legitimate reward
in the most open, undisguised and in
eX0rlble Reputation from the hands
of an outraged people.


They have succeeded in making
their nominations, and we lament the
presence of one or two names there of
persons whom we know neither need
ed nor desired the resort to such vii
lainpus methods; but there is not the
mtlEt remote probability that any
ticket so nominated, so imperiously
sought to be thrust down the thrOats
of the people can be elected in this or
any other State.


We were present and witnessed the
manipulation of the Convention, there
fore know whereof we affirm, and we
have no hesitation in expressing our
sincere conviction that had Mr.. Pack
ard and his crowd been employed to
disrupt the Radical Republican party
in Louisiana they could not have more
thoroughly succeeded than they have
done; and we hazard this prediction,
that if they can by their accustomed
ways keep together ii decent follow
ing till November they and their en-
tire ticket will meet with the over
whelming defeat they deserve, and
the Radical Republican party at the
same time be a thing of the past.


With this latter result full in view
we shall henceforward keep before the
minds of the people who will suffer
most from this disaster the men upon
whose shoulders rests the responsible
ity of whatever we shall suffer in No
vember.-N. o. LOuisianian.