1895 Union Parish Louisiana Populist Parish Convention

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 11/2006



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1895 Union Parish Louisiana Populist Parish Convention

From the Farmerville "Gazette"; issue of Wednesday, 25 December 1895, page 3, column 2
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  The Populist parish convention was in session here Saturday presided over by Mr. 
J. E. Furgerson, of Shiloh, and its proceedings were written by Mr. C. L. Gunby, 
secretary. Delegates were elected to the state convention, to the senatorial 
convention and a member of the Populist state central committee was selected. A long 
set of resolutions, one of which contained a declaration for the free and unlimited 
coinage of silver at the ration of 16 to 1, and another denouncing the proposed suffrage 
amendment to the constitution were adopted without a dissenting voice.
  A full ticket for all parish officers was nominated, and the following gentlemen 
compose that ticket:

J. M. Dawkins, clerk;
John S. Cobb, sheriff;
C. L. Gunby, representative;
A. C. Harper, assessor;
Dr. A. R. Tarkington, coroner;
S. L. Holmes, surveyor.

J. C. Rockett was endorsed for state senator and C. B. Roberts for district attorney.



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