The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-04-05

The ConaIe. of .he Two wings

Warner. as chairman OF the Radical Exec
utiye Committee, called the bOy~ to order.
The same persons were in attendance that
have been here at all of their conventions,
except there was a noticeable absence OF
Negroes The prominent members We're I
Griffia of Adams, Barrett OF Amite. Bnch-
anan OF Benton; Harrison. Tunica ard I
Marshall James Mckee of Carroll, Marion 4
Campbell of Coahoma, HI. G. Carter of Issa-
ouena, Simon Jones of Jones. Jasper and |
smith, r. c. Kerr of Simpson, 1. n. Os-
born Of Jackson, F. II. Little Of
Prentiss. John B. Raymond OF Sunhower,
j. l.. Lake, of Warren; Geo. c. Mckee of
Wilkinson. and III. II. Pease, OF 1ailobusha
Warner in a brief speech told them what
he knew about conducting a caucus as
chairman of the committee, and said he 40
longer desired the place. He said there
had been caucus, aud that he was rrques-
ted to nominate the persOn selected by 1t
for temporary chairmaI. and that he had
protest signed by others against it. All
over the house.. Read the protest."
"Readl" "Read!" Small yellow fellow
Read the names out, too - Eggleston
didn't want il read. Hill didn't want 1t
read. Gray wanted it read. Hodges called
a point OF order that it could not be read.
The point was sustained. When Warner had
completed his remarks, Time" was called
for the race for temporary chairman. Gibbs
of Wilkinson, quickly trotted out the roane
horse J. L. MoRPHIs--his colors were Bris-
tow; his banner. the Times; his hackers
were pr incipally the scallawag faction, aud
those who were known as the ''outs" during
the late administration.
Sullivan, of Bolivar, was also ready and
entered the yellow colt, James Hill--he
carried ihOrtOn colors, and his banner was
the Pilot; his hackers were the carpet-bag
gers generally, but especially those recent
ly known as the Gins
Gray, of Washington, entered the d
stager f. STAFFORD, but il was SO evident
that he had been grass-fed and couldn't run
that he got no hackers, and was ruled out.
Then
THE JOCKEYING
Powers wanted ballot; Jacobs took
scattering whack; Mason wanted 10 60
home; Hill. of Warren, wanted 1t utud vrce
Pease ratified in while; Powers accepted
Hhfs idea. EverybO wanted the floor
Avery moved that the contested dele cation
divide their v"t.A. Eggleston wanted the
pickering to stop. No Michael moved to lay
something on the table. Then to: about
ten minutes nothing was done except calls
for the vote and .'Mr. Chairman ~ "Mr.
Chairman. Parker wanted the present or.
ganization, but McMichacl could not see it,
and moved to table. Gibb,, finding that
his horse was getting very FESTIVE and i'm
patient called the previous question: but
Sullivan saw that the colt wasn't ready,
and'sO he and Gibbs and Handsome Mac.
had a small round OF words, and Parker's
motion went 20 the table. Sullivan and
Pease had a round, and Modest Mus made
point of order.
Chair: g Point not well taken"
Mus: Wait, sir, until [ state it,"
The Chair waited, and then ruled it out. |
Avery got up his motion about contested
delegations, and it was decided that nei-
ther should vote. The boys by this time
(havihg now been working for about an |
hour and hal.) got impatient, and began
to call Justify, question question! guess
tionP The Chair evidently very reluct- |
antly, gave the word
The roam got the start by whole county,
getting six votes from Adams and then
three from Alcorn. 1t was now seen that
the yellow colt was beate.l at the Jump: he
m ade several false starts but finally got
down to his work by three votes from
Amite. They ratified along very lively un-
til through the counties and had struck Co.
ahoma; then there was dead halt
Campbell and Monroe claiming the
vote. dispatch from one of the
Alcorn family was read saying he
Campbell to cast .his vote, and
wanted JAMES L. sent as delegate to Gin
which settled it, and they were off
again.
THE HURDLES.
Choctaw was the first hurdle (being no
representatives,. 1t was cleared by both
handsomely, and away they went until
Franklin and Greene-the second and third
hurdles-were reached; with whoop from
the boys they were cleared by both, about
neck and neck. On through the couii-
ties they went-the race was getting
exciting. ItaWamRa, the fourth hurdle,
was reached, and as they had just
passed Kinds and Issaquena, the yellow
colt cleared the hurdle first. They had now
reached the eastern counties, aud immedl-
ateiy the roam passed the colt at two or
three bounds, and passed over the sixth
(MarioL) cas- ily-ahead by several lengths.
At Newton, the seventh, the colt had gained
"A little; his friends gave him cheer, and
he skipped it beautifully; at Pamela the
colt got six hearty cheers jvotes,. They
cleared Perry, the eighth hurdle again meek
and neck, put before they reached Pearl,
the ninth, the roan's hackers had been
him, and he went over away
ahead.
THE NEW HORSE.
just at this point phe iIankiH boys got huff
fy with the race as il was going, and enter-
ed another horse, old BEN. NAPERs; but he
lew the tFack Immediately. with only four
votes. aud didn't Interfere with the main
race. 1t was very evident that
THE JIG
was up, but at Washington and Warren the :
colts friends cheered him lively. It didn't
10 any good, for the roam cleared Wayne, :
he tenth and last hurdle AVA, a head. aud
rom there to Yazoo it was easy going, and =:
he came "pt e@siiy ahead.
TIME.
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The Morton hackers were so badly worst '
d that they made no effort for the Secreta- I
yship, other than few spats between them I
nd the Rristowites, of which the follow a
ng is specimen: 9
Garland, of Pike: The gentleman from v
bolivar is not a citizen" a
Sullivan, of Bolivar: g am a damned t
ght better citizen than you are!'' T.