Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-08
KENTUCKY.
Third District Congressional Com
VentiOn - Gen. Joseph III. Lewis
Nnminnfpd.

Third District Congressional Con-
VentiOn - Gen. Joseph HI. Lewis
Nominated.
Correspondence Of the Louisville Courisr-Journal
RUssELEvILLE, KY, April 6.-NothiDg
of political nature ever excited the feel
ings of the people in this section as did
the Congressional Convention held here
to-day.
The basis of representation was de-
clared to be the Democratic vote cast for
]. w. Tate in 1869, giving one vote for
every one hundred votes and fraction
over fifty, which made an aggregate of
III votes-59 votes being necessary for
election, and thehindmost man to be
dropped after the seventh ballot.
Gen. Joseph II. Lewis, of Barren,
John E. Halsell, of Warren, and ]. S.
Golladay, of Logan, having been put in
nomination, the first ballot was; Allen,
for Halsell, Z; Barren, for Lewis, 16;
Clinton, for Lewis, 8; Cumberland, for
Halsell, 6; Hart, for Lewis, Is; Logan,
for Golladay, 10; Metcalf, for Lewis, 6;
Monroe, for Lewis, 4; Russell, for Lewis,
5; Simpson, for Lewis, 4; for Halsel, 4;
for Golladay, 8; Todd, for Golladay, 10;
Warren, for Halsell, 10; Total-Lewis,
40; Halsell, So; Golladay, 80. Flfty-nine
necessary to an election.
At the close of the third ballot Col. r.
S. Bevier, of Logan, made an eloquent
appeal to the Convention in behalf of Col
laday, defending his position before the
Convention. The vote was unchanged
until the fourth ballot, when w. L. Du-
laney withdrew the name of Mr.. Halsell,
and J. F. South, of Warren, was then put
in nomination, but only received the vote
of Warren.
At the fifth ballot the vote of Logan
was given to Lewis, and four votes of
Simpson, giving Y votes, and he was
then declared elected by unanimous vote
to be the nominee of the Convention.
On being loudly called upon, he re-
sponded in the most appropriate terms.
He took it for granted that Congress, hav-
ing relieved his disabilities, would allow
| him to to take his seat and advised the
Democratic party at the coming election
not to seek to prevent the negroes voting,
but allow all who were so inclined to do
SO freely. He is standard-bearer that
will poll the largest Democratic vote ever
polled in this district.
TALENT is serious, grave, sober and re-
spectacle. Tact is all that, and more too.
1t is not distinctly a sixth sense, but the
life of all five. 1t is the open eye, the
quick ear, the judging taste, the keen
smell, the lively touch. 1t is the interpre-
ter of all riddles, and the remover of every
obstacle, and shows man his way in the
world Talent is power; tact is skill
Talent is weight; tact is momentum. Ia
lent is wealth, while tact is ready money.
For alhpractical purposes, tact carries it
against talent, ten to one. Take them to
the theatre, one will produce play that will
fall dead upon its first representation, the
other will keep the house full every night.
One makes the world wonder that it moves
no faster, the other excites establishment
that it moves SO fast. Take them into the
church-talent convinces, tact converts.
Take them to court-talent feels its way,
tact finds its way. Talents command
tact is obeyed Talent has the ears of the
house-tact Twins it hearts and votes.
Talent is fine thing to talk about, but tact
Is the talent of talents, the eye of discrimi-
nation, the right hand of intellect.