Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-06

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ORDERS sOE1'
The following is the result of the
| SECOND BALLOT:
Hamblen billiard. .........31
Demoss. .......4 Campbell 1920
| Weaver ....12 Cotton. ...23
| Wands. .....s.... 2 Morris. $50. ....23
CockrilI. -. 10 Buchanan. IA
Wade Burns. ..........
Phillips. ........ 1 Thompson. 1
| Gennett. ........
]. Hamblen having received a major
ity (3S) of the votes cast (65), he was de-
clared elected.
On motion, the hindmost candidates
were then dropped. Before proceeding
with the third ballot, r. B. Cheatham said:
put the name Of X. j. Morris before
this Convention, and pledge you that he
will serve in case he is nominated. Every
citizen of Nashville should feel proud ofhim
for he has done more for us than any other
one man. When the city had just extri-
Gated herself from Radical rule he came to
YOUR rescue, and not only gave his time to
it but his money and within the last three
wears he has reduced our debt 81 500, 900.
If you viii nominate him it will have a
great effect not only here but all over the
coun.ry, and help to dispel the clouds that
have been hanging over our glorious party
in this State since the recent municipal
ele0tion in this city. Gentlemen, L APP
peal to you to nominate him. We have al
ready given you three men from the coun-
try as candidates, without murmur, and
| think it is due Nashville and the COM
mercial men here that we should at least
be allowed to put one man from this city
in nomination. Applause.
The ballOting was then begun for the
third time and resulted as follows:
THIRD BALLOT.
billiard 80 Morris. 49,. ....34
Campb5ll ........l2 Weaver.
Cotton. .....,....26 Wands..........
Cockrill. ....... Demoss :. ..... l
As the result of this ballot Morris and
billiard were declared nominated, which
making the full complement the balloting
was suspended, and loud calls made for
Morris, who came forward and spoke as
| follows
Gentlemen Of the convention: This is
a very unexpected, and might say unde-
served compliment. l had always supposed
| that the people did not wish to put up
candidate who has once been defeated, and
more especially one, who, in running for
| Office, made such brilliant fail
ure as / did few days ago,
when l ran for Mayor Of this city. / ran
| the race and was defeated by Mr.. Kerche-
val, and 1 will say right here that / believe
| there is not another man in this city but
| could have beaten him. l did not predict
this defeat, but shall not lay it to my
friend the fault was wholly mine. Twas
| only lightning to beat the colored vote, and
when was doing so, was assured that Mr..
Wilkinson bad this vote at his back. But
it was only blind. With such an oppo-
| nent as Mr.. Wilkinson, the victory would
have been easy, and my friends looked at it
| in that light. But instead Of being for Will
kinson, the colored men were all for ker-
| cheval, and the result was his election.
| Yes, the cOlored men cried out the night
before election, ave are all for Wilkinson"
and the next day they were all voting for
Kercheval as one man.
| Iwould have willingly sacrificed my bust
ness, much as it needed my attention, for
the purpose of carrying out the financial
policy which have so successfully carried
out for the last three years, thereby reduc-
ing the city dept 81. 100000 twas for the
sake of the financial policy that | wished
to be elected for another year, at the end
of which time l believe that L could have
got the CITY in such a condition that it
| could cash every note that was held against
| it. And now it behoOVes US to keep on
struggling. for We must not give up to Rad
| zeal rule, or our city will be 10 as bad a
condition as it was before l came into Of
fee.
l. say, gentlemen, this is compliment
which 1 did not expect, one think do not
deserve. l am thankful TO you for the
| nomination. Were l to be elected | should
do all possibly could to promote your in
terests. am sure that there are other
men here that would have done better By
you than can.
There are in this city certainly not more
than 1900 Radical votes out of the 5000,
which leaves large Democratic majority,
and regret that my friends did not come
out and vote on election day, as there
are many vital interests connected with the
future Of this city. 1t has been said that il
l had been nominated by convention
that | would not have been defeated. If
this is so, am sorry that | was not. But
if there should have been a convention l
think that some other representative Dem
ocrat might have been found who could do
more Justice to the Office than l, and II
such had been the case have willingly
abided by its decision.
By this nomination l should suppose
that my friends were very ssnguine OF my
success as a candidate, but beg them to
bear in mind that have been beaten once,
and a race horss that has been beaten once
is not, as a general thing, relied upon TO
win again.
For three long years | have been in pub
lie life,attending to the business of this city
to the great detriment of my own business,
and although l should be pleased to accept
this nomination at your hands, my business
positively demands that l should not; and,
therefore, withdraw my name, which DO
| with reluctance.
Loud cries were made against accepting
| Mr.. Norris withdrawal, but it was finally
| decided that it was best TO nominate anoth-
er man,as he peremptorily declared that he
could not serve.
AsM. C. Cotton, had the next largest
number of votes on the last ballot be was
nominated by unanimous reclamation.
| Speeches being still in order j. w. Bigley
was called upon and responded as follows:
Gentlemen: thank you for this mark OF
honor conferred upon me by the conven-
| ton. / cannot but say that feel pleased
| TO be an agent in part, in the management
of the affairs of this county. And should L
be successful in getting into office by your
votes, l pledge you that | shall ever show
fidelity to the principles advocated by the
| GREAT majority of the people of this county.
| Gentlemen of the convention, assure
you that fell proud of this honor, and
again tender you my thanks. Applause.
In answer to the demand of his friends NJ.
! C. Cotton came forward and spoke sub
stantially as follows:
| Gentlemen of the Conventional appear
before you to-day, not to'make any speech,
for am nothing more than working
man, and you all know that workingmen
are not in-the habit of making long wlndeo
speeches. l have worked my way up step
by step, and for the last three years | have
| been member of your City Council, over