Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-08
THE JUDICIAL CONVEN-
Es.rs TION.
Greene County.

A convention OF Conservatives OF
Greene county was held at Greeneville on
the 9TH inst, at which the following dele
gates were appointed to the State Judicial
Convention: -
E G Reeves, Esq, D G Dukes, ESQ, and
Hons L F Self, VIM s McGaughey and
Geo Kinney. The proxies chosen to cast
the vote of the county, in case of the alb
sence of the delegates, were Maj John A
Mckinney, of Hawkins, and Col Jas r
Cooke. of Knox. The delegates were
unanimously instructed to vote for Hons
Thos A r Nelson and James W Deader-
lex, as candidates for the Eastern Di-
vision.
Lincoln County.
At a public meeting held at Fayette-
vile on the 4th inst, a preference was
expressed for Col p Turney, for Supreme
Judge, and the following delegates sp-
pointed to the State Judicial Convention
John T Motlow, ] L Bryant, W r Wag-
goner, Nath Boone, w w James, J G
Crabtree, w II Mclaughlin, Lewis Pit
coch, Smith L Walker, W E Carter, Need
ham Koonce, A Childress, W B Robin
son, l. L Cole, John Rawls, + l. Ezell, ]
T Wilson, John T Cathey, w c Sugg,
John Clarke, John Hopper, c G McKin-
ney, T H Bledsoe, Joel NJ Harris, D W
Holman, E L Allen, w Newman, Felix
Buchanan, Z N Bobo, s Alexander.
Warren County.
A meeting of citizens of Warren coun-
ty was held at McMinnville on the 4th
inst, at which the following delegates to
the State Judicial Convention were ap-
pointed: Furm Morford, II J Card:
well, T R Gribble, w P Goodbar, Thos.
s Myers, ii L w Hill, Jas w Hill, B G
Thomas, A r Hammer, Robert B Biles,
Col. Ed Wood, Nathan Newly, ST.;
John Burks, Absalom Clark and Isaac
Grizzle. The attorneys of the McMinn-
vile bar were added to the list of dele
gates, and the following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting deem 1t
imprudent to instruct their delegates, but
will express their unanimous preference
for Col. Peter Turney as one of the Su-
preme Judges from the Middle Division
of this State.
Williamson County.
A meeting of the bar of Franklin was
held on the 4th inst, at which the follow
ing resolution was adopted:
Be it resolved, That a delegation of
FIVE members of the Bar of Franklin, be
appointed delegates to attend the Judicial
Convention, to be held at Nashville, on
the 11th day of July, 1870, with the fol-
lowing instructions. That if said conven-
ton promises, in their opinion, to be a
fair, full and just expression of the senti-
ments of the respective Bars of the State,
then and in that event said delegates are
authorized to enter and participate in the
action of said convention, and in the event
they do participate they are instructed to
cast their votes for A. o. p. Nicholson,
of Maury, and E. Fl. Ewing, of Ruther-
ford. But in the event, said convention
does not bid fair to be full and lust ex-
preston of the free choice of the bars of
the respective counties in the State, then
said delegates are directed not to partici-
pate in the action of said convention, but
to withdraw therefrom.
Messrs. Thomas, Wallace, Cox, Ewing
and Hicks were appointed delegates.
Lawrence County.
AT bar meeting at Lawrenceburg,
July 5, 1870, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we fully concur in the
propriety of holding a convention at
Nashville, on the 18th inst, to select
suitable men for the Supreme Judiciary
of the State.
Resolved, That we have the utmost
confidence in the extensive legal learning
and integrity of the Hon A o p Nlchol-
son and J j Turner, and that these men
are the choice of the people of this county
for Supreme Judges of the Middle Di-
vision of the State.
Resolved, That the following delegates
be appointed to attend the convention,
any one or more of whom may cast the
vote of this county, to-wit:
Thomas d Davenport, CB Davis, S A
Carroll, Joseph M Lowell, r L Nc Laren,
G T Hughs, w T Nixon and 7 II Payne.
Montgomery County.
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On Saturday, July 2, the citizens met at
the courthouse to appoint delegates to at
tend State convention to meet at Nash