Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-19
Eyohh Ballot.
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Samuel A. Taylor and z. A. Anderson
| were nominated, and considerable confu-
sion occurred before a ballot could be Sc
/ cured. It resulted as the others, and the
contest again narrowed down to Durff
and Brown. The excitement was intense,
even members of the Radical party and
its leaders became active participants,
| operating upon the machinery de-
signed 20 control the result. At
least two prominent Radical par
Elephants and n moneyed Office
of their favorites as the staunchest
Democrats. The candidates themselves
were fearfuIly excited, and often within
| the railing, though one at least was inform
| ed by the Chairman of the improperly OF
such intrusion. With h~uctuating for
tunes the, ballotings were continued with
| undated ardor and earnestness. The
President of the meeting, Mr.. Haynes,
| discharged his official duties, under many
trying difficulties, with extraordinary pa
thence and success. When the fortunes
of the candidates were h~uctuating
through some thirty bsllotings, and all
sorts of propositions, sensible andsabsurd,
| were constantly made, Mr.. Haynes hardly
lost patience, and never his presence of
mind, and thorough comprehension
of the situation. His Secretaries were
| equally fortunate and deserving of conn
mendation, and it was only the excitsble
| voters who grew noisy and e-xtrsvagantly
demonstrative. MIR. Durf's adherents are
of the eity, while those Of Mr.. Brown are
representatives of country districts. with
here and there a stsuneh adherent from
the city. Through tWenty-seven or eight
ballotings Brown was ahead from four to
ten votes. Finally, on the twenty-eighth
ballot, there was a tie vote. Some Of the
country members had gone to their wives
perhaps. 1t was growing late, the
room was crowded TO suhocation,
the heat intense, the floor oiled
with perspiration that flowed from excl
sd Democracy. Then the strength of Mr..
Brown was giving way. A staunch
friend of Brown, who never betrays a
friend, Just at this j~uncture-wheR Durff
stock was rapidly rising, and Durff and
Brown were ''tied," and then on the next
ballot Durffs shot ahead-iust then a friend
of Brown, who dispenses IuXeries from
an elegant family grocery, notified the
county delegates that he would supply all
their wants for the evening, that edibles
and something wherewith to allay thirst
would be provided for each adhe-
rose again, as the thermometer had been
doing through all the hot, sultry alter
noon. But sweltering, parchedh humanity
could endure no more. FOrty-odd ball
lettings and kno results on such a day, in
such a room, badly ventilated and
packed full of yelling men, were as
much as human endurance could
undergo, and the meeting at six
O'Clock adjourned till eight. While the
excitement and heat were greatest, divers
propositions were made that eontem-
plated a solution of all troubles. Browns
friends insisted that at a former Demo-
cratic Convention he had Withdrawn his
name when his competitor had most
votes. Mr.. Durff's friends agreed to
withdraw him if Browns name were re-
moved from the list of candidates, when
an election seemed impossible and the
result seemed to depend simoly npon the
endurance of the friends of the rival can
didates. Some sane man moved that the
Convention adjourn.
The Convention, noisy and turbulent
enough, weary and without any advan-
tage resulting from the temporary adj
journment, came together at 8 O'Clock,
and recommended the endless task OF
voting. The strength of the two con-
testants was unchanged, the same
wards and delegates still adhering to the
two candidates, Judge Carmack, an
outsider, by unanimous consent, was per-
mitted to address the convention. He
said that harmony must be secured, and
hat Frank Register should be nominated.
There was 10 response from either the
Durf or Brown side of the house, and the
sweItering crowd proceeded to vote.
Thus they continued till after ten O'Clock,
and, finally exhausted, they agreed to
submit the whole matter to a committee
of ten; five selected by Durff and five by
Brown. The ten were shut up in q hot
room and stewed for an hou or more, but
nothing came of it. Monies pGTtRrIeRt ct
n~dsereHter. Brown and Dgrtf and Durf
and Brown came back into the convention
and the convention did the most sensible
act of its stormy existence. It adjourned.