You can have these three great chips for $130 delivered -- great looking crest and seal chips, very old, great condition, great political history in Louisiana.
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As the sample-order-shipping card of the manufacturer (U. S. Playing Card Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio) shows, the chips were ordered by F. F. Hansell and Brothers of Louisiana in 1931. That was a very prestigious New Orleans publisher of law books and other works. The firm went back as far as the 19th century. They were just the type of elite people who made up the Choctaw Club of New Orleans.

At that time many political clubs were named after Indian tribes. In Chicago, for example, gentlemen prominent in the Democratic Party comprised the Iroquois Club. In New Orleans, the Choctaw Club (named after that tribe of Indians) membership was synonymous with the leaders of the dominant Democratic Party organization (named the Regular Democrats [later the Old Regulars] or the Choctaw Democrats), which in the late 19th and early 20th century was at odds with the more reform-minded Citizens' League of New Orleans (the New Orleans Reformers). Think of the prominent politicians who could have handled these chips! Return privileges.

The Choctaw Club for many years was the headquarters and driving force behind the conservative faction (called the Regular Democratic Organization [RDO]) of the Louisiana Democratic party, which controlled New Orleans politics from 1877 until 1934, a period where every mayor of New Orleans (except one) was endorsed and supported by the RDO (who were also known as Old Regulars, Choctaw Club, the Machine, the Ring and New Orleans Ring). As one writer says, "The Choctaw Club was a social club in New Orleans synonymous with the Old Regulars."

"The institution of the Choctaw Club was decided upon in March of 1897 by Regular Democrats of New Orleans trying to resurrect themselves after defeats in the polls at the end of the 19th century. Taking example of such clubs as the Tammany and Iroquois Clubs, the men organized at the Crescent Democratic Club on December 29, 1896 to vote on a Native American name for the club, eventually choosing the Choctaw name. Its formal opening was on May 1, 1897."

"Having elite powerhouses behind it ... including captains of industry, judges, Senators, ex-governors, lieutenant governors, and even mayors, this social club had a hand in the political goings, happenings, and actions of New Orleans." "Along with political influence, the Choctaw Club also created many city jobs. By their influence, they created jobs such as: makework tasks, sidewalk inspectors, and city contracts. In the 10th and 11th wards of New Orleans, they created 2,200 jobs in the Department of Public Works. With the organization, they believed that if they were kept in power, they would continue to help the people of New Orleans. As Martin Behrman said, 'You take care of me and I'll take care of you.'"

In the 19th century the RDO fought --by any means including fraud, corruption, patronage and violence-- Republican resurgence, populist Democrats and black voters. They rewrote the Louisiana constitution to decimate black and poor white voting through such measures as poll taxes, a property requirement and literacy tests for voting eligibility. The election of Reform Democrat De Lesseps Story Morrison to Mayor in 1946 marked the end of RDO hegemony in New Orleans. The Democratic Party's switch to progressive principles in the late 1960s eroded the conservative RDO's residual influence in government, with the victory of integrationist Democrat Moon Landrieu for mayor in 1970 reflecting the liberal ascendancy. Today the RDO tactically endorses candidates irrespective of partisan affiliation.

Robert