Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-16
THE CONVENTION.

ElHlAOFm In EANoE Oh very Low
Taxes-The COupOn.Ciippers ana
BOndholders Sent 30 n Rear by
the People.
At the Democratic County Legislative
Convention held on yesterday the follow.
ing platform was adopted unanimously
Preamble-There is wisdom in the
State platform which names a sun be-
yond which taxation for the present is
not to 60, and in failing to name any
point below which it may not go. The
lowest point is just such a tax as will pay
the expenses of the State government
economically administered. The coun-
ties Of the State are differently situated
some have had floods, short crops,
epidemics, and such unwise local gov
eminent as to load them with a distress
ing burden Of debt; others have compar-
atively only light burdens. In the former
class is Shelby county, and especially
that portion within the city limits. These
conditions, and not an unwillingness TO
pay any just obligations when able, con-
strain the Democracy Of Shelby county
to favor, for the present, only such al
amount of taxes as will meet the current
expenses of the State government, ad
ministered on the most economical basis;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senators and Rep.
resentatives nominated by this c%onven-
ton on behalf of our people, are earn
estly requested to sustain in the mex
Legislature no measures for taxation
which shall have for its Object the levy
ing Of taxes more than sufficient to meet
the actual expenses Of carrying on the
State government and the eleemosynary
and charitable institutions Of the State
The Senators we're selected without
much trouble, end are as follows:
, Senator's. j. Dubose and S. S.
Maddox.
The candidates put 10 nomination for
county Representatives we're as follows:
DR.. S. P. Clark nominated Mr.. David
: P. Hadden.
= George Williams nominated NJ D. L.
o Stewart.
M. B. Trezevant nominated George Z.
= Peters.
Charles A. ~Lefingwell nominated Jno.
I. Moss.
n W. ]. Chase nominated Enoch Ensley
DR.. j. Il. Nuttall nominated ]. NJ
Pettigrew.
Dabney Scales nominated j. Harvey
M4thes.
Judge T. W. Brown nomina ted Judge
n Archibald Wright.
il Jacob Steinkuhl nominated c. A
!. Braun.
Charles A, Beebn nominated j. T..
Blaize.
Mr.. Stroll nominated Hen. John A
ROush.
John B, Galloway nominated Ben
Eiseman.
a G. G. Dent nominated W. ". Cole
/" man.
n j.. NJ. Cannon nominated Hugh B.
= Martin.
Judge Brown withdrew Judge Wright
= name.
> Captain J., Harvey Msthes appeared
on the stand and withdrew from the race.
as The balIoting was then called for, and
o. it resulted in selecting the following
8 nominees, the other candidates having
IN been retired during the balloting:
IS Representatives-M. D. L Stewart,
George B Peters, David P. MADDEN, Ber
no Eiseman, Henry L. Douglass and W. Il
" Nelson.
ne The county secured ole Senator, S S
IL Maddox, and two Representatives
Us Messrs. Douglass and Nelson.
The Senatorship of the Twenty-fourtl
district was unanimously offered by tn
" convention to the chairman, Judge d. 7
Elicit, and that gentleman found grear
difficulty in escaping from having tn,
IS honor fastened upon him without hi
c%onsenr. He paremptorily declined au,
es- compelled the convention to let hin
up alone; the office could not seek him wit
II success, and he refused to seek it. |
ma was a strange anomaly in convention
politics to see a citizen refuse a Ssna
torial nomination when there were S
r., many other citizens seeking and works.
to secure the honor. IS
"s A few b~ond.holding high tax men wer
circulating around in the convention al
tempting to get candidates to pledg
~ themselves to the policy Of paying COT
pons and levying high taxes, and threat
Of opposition and defeat were mad
when the candidates refused to make an
~ such q pledge. II is asserted upon au
thoTity that Captain Edgington was d.
feated because he refused to pleiq
himself to advocate in the Senate th
adjustment of the Board Of Police an
Fire Commissioners which is sought t
be effected by aspiring and tricky polit
clans.
The ticket is now composed OF tb
above named nominees, with the I'll,
om terial Senator for Shelby, Fayette an
nd Upton, W. A. Milliken, of Fayett
nd county, and the Pictorial Representativ
&C.. for Shelby and Fayette, W. A, Collie
ing Of Shelby.
At a late hour last night the CONVEX
ton adjourned sine die in good hume
and feeling, satisfied with the result Of il
ors labors.