Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-12-05
THE CITY.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL eONVEN-
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Convention to Nominate delegates

Convention To Nominate Delegates
NeiIi 8. Brown and John C. ThOmp
SON Elected on the Third Ballot
The County Convention. composed c
delegates from each ward in the city an
district IN the county, assembled at tn
Courthouse yesterday morning at II o'clock
]. N. Hinton, Esq, moved that L. F
Beech be called to the chair, and Orvill
Ewing nominated DR.. @. K. Winston a
presiding officer, and upon vote being
taken, DIR. Winston was the choice of the
Convention, and took his seat as chairman
In a few remarks, he explained the objec
Of the meeting, and announced that the
Convention was ready for business.
/ The reporters of the city press were ther
upon motion, appointed secretaries.
j. NJ. Hinton moved that committee o.
five be appointed on credentials; amended
SO to make the committee consist of nine.
The chair announced the following gentle
men as said committee, to wit: j. M.
Hinton, A F. Goff, OrviIle Ewing, Hiram
Vaughn, @. W. Nance, S. w. Childress, L.
f. Beech, N. F. Dortch and A. Milan.
Ga motion, the roll of delegates was
called as follows:
First Ward-J. A. Steele, Rush Vanleer.
Charles Slick, George F. Akers, T. H
McRoberts.
Second Ward-Mark Young. d. @. Kin
ney, Frank Seltz, John H Smith, Geo. S.
Kinney
Third Ward-Player Martin, L. F. Beech.
Il: E. Jones, j. Wade, Frank D. Moore.
Fourth Ward-R S. Patterson, James
NJ. Hinton, J. o. Nilsson, Pat. Walsh and
]. NJ. Brantley.
Fifth Ward-J. o. Griffith. E. b
Mechanism, r. B. Cheatham, Thomas S.
Hays, Thomas D. Craighead.
sixth Ward-James NJ Spurloek, DR.. G.
A NJ Pulliam, A. d. Cabler, DIR. J.B.
Mcconnell, S. NJ. Harrison.
Seventh Ward-A. H. Hurley, Isaac
Paul, James Gennett, Philip Lindsey, T.
W. Haley.
Eighth Ward-Dr. G. K. Winston, M. C.
Cotton, OrviIle Ewing, W. H. Wilkinson,
jr., DR.. W. H. Harris.
Ninth Ward-Dr. B. F. Manlove, Eli
Woods, j. H. Buddeke, Fred. Klooz, Fred.
Laltenberger.
Tenth Ward-R. H. McEwen, W. L.
Foster, w. H. billiard, John Holloran, J.
Z. Robertson.
Second District-Jere Bowen, A. G.
Merritt.
Third District-M L Couch, H. S. Cot
ton.
Fourth District Timothy Dodson, W.
W. Shute.
Fifth District-A. F. Goff, ]. NJ. Murren.
Sixth District-B. Gray, w. G. Moore.
Seventh District-A. ]. Baker, DR.. P.
Davis.
Eighth District-T B. Rains, James S.
Williams.
Ninth District-N. F. Dortch, j. C. Fer
ris.
Tenth District-John D. Dolin, S. W.
Childress.
Eleventh District W. G. Harding, John
Murray.
Twelfth District-Jesse Jordan, Alex
Mcqueen.
Thirteenth District ]. Taylor, Barney
Hines.
Fourteenth District-E. D. Hicks, J. NJ.
Joslin.
Fifteenth District-B. n. Dodd, ]. W.
Bush.
Sixteenth District-John Hurt, William
Chandler
Seventeenth District-A. J. Caldwell, T.
@. Crunk, G. j. Stubblefeld, w. II. Nor
row, Harvey Campbell, G. W. Crouch, S.
NJ. Jamisou.
Eighteenth District-Hiram Vaughn,
E H. Childress.
Nineteenth District-P. Fl. Mitchell, S.
S. Hall.
Twentieth District-A. Milan, VIM.
Connell
Twenty-frst District-Wm. B. Ewing,
Thos. T. Saunders.
Twenty-second District-John Webb,
Gilbert Marshall.
Twenty-third-C W. Nance, W. D.
Simkins.
Twenty-fourth-F. G. Earthmau, W. A
Knight.
Twenty tfth-H L. Alternately, J. W.
Howington.
The Committee on Credentials, who re-
tired Immediately after calling the roll, re-
turned and reported as follows;
'We, the committee appointed to report
upon credentials, would respectfully report
that, as there are no contestants for seats in
this convention, all the delegates, as
they come from the different wards and
we recommend that Timothy Dodson and
VIM. W. Shute be appointed by the chair
man Of this convention to represent the
fourth civil district, said district having
failed to send delegates.
"We further would respectfully report
that we acquiesce in the representation Of
five delegates from the different wards, and
seven from Edgefeld, for the sake of har-
mony, in view of the momentous subject
of interest in this convention; but we do
this, at the same time, protesting against
it as precedent for the future.
81. NJ. HINTON, Chairman.
After some little discussion, the report of
the committee was adopted
The following resolution, offered
by r. B. Cheatham was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That John +. House of Mont
gomery, is the choice of this Convention,
as a candidate for delegate to the State
Constitutional Convention, for the Floate-
rial district, composed of the counties of
Davidson, Robertson, Montgomery and
Cheatham and that we recommend him
to the other counties in the district as such.
NJ G. Cotton moved that the Convention
proceed to elect candidates by ballot, which
motion prevailed.
The Chairman then appointed NJ. G. Cot
ton, James A. Steele, c.. W. Nance and S.
w. Childress as tellers
1t was announced that the delegates
would be privileged to vote for two candi-
dates
w. J. Taylor moved that on and after the
9th ballot, the hindmost candidate shall be
dropped, which motion was carried.
L. f. Beech moved that all nominations
be closed after the first ballot.
J. o. Griffith moved to lay the motion
on the table, which prevailed.
N. F. Dortch moved that all candidates
placed in nomination be required to abide
the decision of the Convention. Carried
]. NJ. Hinton moved that the members
of the convention pledge themselves to
stand by the nominees. Carried
The chair announced that nominations
were in order.
E. B. McClanahan nominated John G..
Thompson.
A. F. Golf nominated Neill S. Brown.
]. C. Ferris nominated r. c. Foster, 4th.
G. W. Nance nominated A. L. Demoss.
II. E. Jones nominated w. F. Cooper.
L. w. Haley nominated E. II. East and
W. G. Brien.
NJ. G. Cotton nominated 10. C. Guild.
W. J. Taylor nominated EnOch Gun
bingham.
A. H. Hurley nominated A. +. Goff.
W. J. Taylor nominated G.. G. Torbett.
Isaac Paul nominated s. p Ament.
n F. Dortch nominated Thomas Clai-
borne.
G. J. Stubblefield nominated John G.
Gaut
T. C. Crlnk nominated w. B. Bate.
]. M. Hinton nominated Nathaniel Bax-
ter
NJ. G. Cotton stated that he understood
that Judge Guild was not willing to submit
to the decision of the Convention, and he
| desired to withdraw his name.
While the ballot was being taken, Z. b.
| McClanahan arose and withdrew the name
of Gen. VIM. B. Bate, stating that under
no consideration would the gentleman al
| L., 10 he r1cad