Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-21

Observation-Disclosures clasp the suffragar
around the neck or the waist, after the
mannerof chummy schoolgirls, and tall
at his ear, at his eye and at his nose il
so close and fervent a II that de-
cent lovers would blush to acknowledge
even in the privacy of a back par
lor-and this, mind you, in the
open market-place. The whole pro-
ceeding is wound up, clinched
and sanctified by the awful promise:
" Remember, Abner, if I'm nominated
I'll give you fifteen cents.p A candidate
in moderate circumstances will thus
mortgage three-fourths of his property
in going through the same proportion of
delegates. When AbneT has submitted
for a few days to a continuous process of
hugging of this sort, he goes into the
convention bewildered, imagining the
ceremonies to be at an end-but he IS
mistaken. A desperate and determined
candidate, who has promised to pay out
all he is worth in fifteen centses to the
delegates, feels that he must have the
nomination. He jumps owe the rail-
ings in the little country courthouse that
separates the delegates from the crowd,
and goes enthusiastically through the
hugging operation once more. Another
desperate candidate not wishing to be
ciTcumvented thus, at the last moment
jumps oveF also, and he is soon followed
by the whole crowd-for they are all
candidates-and they in the midst of
confusion and excitement, hugging and
talking al noses, the chair announces
the choice of the meeting amid con
sternation and dismay. Everyone
thinks that everybody else has voted
md that he was left behind, and all
hands rush TO the successful fellow to
! claim the fifteen cents. The successful
fellow is already "near broke" for
while the confusion was at its height, he
turned his pockets inside out and di-
vided the contents between the Chair
man and Secretary of the convention,
those two honest f~unctionaTies winked
at Teach other, and the nomination as
here set forth, was accomplished. This,
1 am reliably informed, is a true picture
and history of Radical conventions in
East Tennessee.
MAYNARD's OPPONENT.
The gathering at Sparta, in White
county, last week, to select a Congress
si0nal standard bearer who shall fight
the good fight against Maynard, in the
second district, had a long and severe
struggle. 1t is evident the members of
that convention did not meet to go
through the cut and dried dumb show of
nominating a man previously deter
mined on. There were several good and
even great men mentioned in cOnnec-
ton with the nomination, among whom
We're Hon, Thomas A. r. Nelson, Col
OneI Fleming of the Press and Herald,
General Dibrel and others. 1t was said
that Judge Nelson would not
accept the nomination if ten
dered to him. Colonel Fleming, than
whom there is no stronger man in the
district, aud who could get more votes
in Knox county than any man living, is
already State Elector at large, and was
not, 1 believe, running for the position,
got a complimentary vote. After two
days labor and twenty-five ballotings,
die choice fell ON Mr.. H. Caldwell, a
worthy young lawyer of this city and
partner of George Washington, erst
of Memphis, now doing a fiOurishing, /
forensic business in the ancient John
town. Mr.. Caldwell is a
promising man of fine, though not
transcendant abilities, and spOtless Iepu-
A cordial support by the Con-
sentative of the district must result in
triumph. He was a Confederate during
the war, but since that unhappy time
has been moderate in his political views,
and gives more to the consideration of a
lucrative practice than to politics. The
district is large, extending from Sewer
to Macon diagonally across the
State, in a direct line one hundred and
thirty miles long, and comprises the
counties of Sewer, Blount, Knox, An
iersOn, Campbell, Scott, Morgan, Cum
Derland, Fentress, OvertOn, Putnam,
White, Jackson, Clay, Smith and
Macon. Iii is no easy jobtO canvass it all.
If Horace, the congressional stick, goes
.nto a vigorous stump, Mr.. Caldwell will
nave lively times between now and cleo
ion day.
Stokes was GALES. the 'Bald Eagle"
md Maynard is fifty termed the "Pelli-
of the wilderness" Horace's bead
: only an elongated ossifer neck, a sort
If caTtilligenous eXcrescence shooting
Up from the shoulders, from which a
of chronic fax sprouts down. 1t
Ooks like an ~attenuated, deciduous cy-
press or miniature weeping willow. He
5 credited with brains by the credulOus
.rOwd, but am convinced an anatomi-
al investigation would reveal them q
dIu anu u LdlA DtlON the IOpllbol pm
of said weeping willow. He must
,e furnished with a peculiar sort of in
ellectual foree-pump to enable him to
lraw his inspiration upfrom such fund
mental depth. Last week a number
,er of melancholy friends of Horace and
he administration got up what they j
bought a demonstration outin the billy 5
country, several miles from the city, I
long the line of the Knoxville and :
kentucky road. The weather was pro- I
,itiously damp and the sky SYM 5
,athetically black. A few dozen !
f people assembled on the lee
ide of a hill amid whom the weeping :
willow shook his long streamers in the
wind. 1t was about as sorrow
III an affair as it is well possible to i'm :
CINE. Judge Hank was present, but
ould not muster up cheek enough,
lough be is said to have as much of
nat as any man in the State, to look
heerful. He sat silently apart reading
'~ennyson's Mariana, emphasizing the
al am aweary, aweary
would that l were dead"
.fter several vain attempts to get up a
tile enthusiasm, the managers gave it
p as a bad job; so in order to wind up
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