Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-10
MISSISSIPPI.
Progress Of the Congressional Contest
in DeSOtO COunty-Result Of the
County and District Con-
.yentiOHs.
A Hot Contest Between the Friends Of
Colonel Manning and Captain
TayI0r-A Half.and.Half
Compromise.
pEsoro CouNrY, MSS, June,.

DESoTo COUNTY, MISS, June.
EDITORS APPEAL-Your columns are
read by US of Mississippi perhaps with
as much zest as by any Of your own
State. In fact, you have always battsed
so manfulIy for our rights that we have
come to regard you as our paper--in q
word, our cavalier, the defender OF our
faith. Consequently we always make
bold to go to you with the affairs OF our
State, district, and even county pol1tics,
because, as said above, We regard yen
as ole Of uH; and further, because IN
North Mississippi there is no paper. SO
generally reau as the APPEAL. We
have been having rather warm time
politically Ia this, the second district,
for the last month. Especially is this
true of this county. The opposing as
pirants for congress, Colonel Manning
and Captain Taylor, aad their friends,
have seemed to consider DeSoto as the
key to the whole position, and conse-
quently they have put forth rather IN.
usual efforts to carry the primary or
beat meetings. These were held last
Saturday, the third instant, and result
ed in giving to Colonel Manning
thirty out OF the fifty
two delegates composing the
county convention, said convention to
have the sending (electing) Of the six
delegates to the district meeting Ito be
held at Oxford, so thought) for nominal
ing the candidate for congressional hon.
ors. When the said county convention
assembled in fernando on Monday, the
fifth instant, the chairman of the cOun-
ty executive committee-5y what au.
thority, or according to what parlia-
mentary law, no one assumed to
preside over the convention, and before
there was q temporary organization
ruled out the delegates from two pre-
cincts, which had elected and sent
up men to vote for Colonel Manning,
and then ordered the balance to organ
ize. OF course such en- arbitrary, tyran-
nical, unheard of course produced great
confusion, and the friends of Colonel
Manning expOstuiated and demonstrated
with great earnestness and righteous in
dignalion against such conduct on the
part of the chairman, who was rank
Taylor man, but all in vain; finslly, to
prevent a rupture, the Manning dele
gates consented to a compromise, half
and half. This, then, settles the status
of this county. Now for the others COM
posing the district. Tipp ah's delegates are
Instructed for Manning; likewise those OF
Marshall, Union and Lafayette. II is
granted that Bsnton goes for Wright,
vino is but lately out, and who is not re.
cognizsd in the contest, at least 1t will
go for Wright until he Is dropped, then
for Manning. This will give Colonel
Manning five and half counties almost
at the start. He is quite strong ia Yal-
obusha, for your telegram in Sundays
issue, stating that this (YaloEusha)
county had gone overwhelmingly for
Taylor was q regular 'grape vine." The
tue state of the case il that Fitzgerald
is the most prominent man in Talla.
hatchie and YalObusha; and In tie lat
ter the delegates are not instructed. TAy-
lcr carried his county, Pamela, and the
this, DeSoto. So the footing is: Man.
ming now has four and halt counties,
including the large county of Msrshall,
ssa-lolA Felia ebouf cre.6ffn nf fs4z--soses
east in the congressional convention;
Taylor, two and a half; Wright, one;
and Fitzgerald probably two, with Man
ming strong in one of them, and perhaps
In both. Ihis reveals popular major
ity In the entire district large for Col
onel Manning. In the county of De-
Soto, which is the home of his
boyhood, his hold on the affsc-
tions of the people Is strong. In truth,
in the late canvass the Issue was be-
tween Manning and some four or five
friends OF Taylor, the latter hardly be.
ing known, Comparatively, in the race.
These friends of his were very intimstes
ly associated with him in jackson dur
ing the sitting of the legislature, were
largely indebted to him for favors, and
they threw themselves in the breach
and plead earnestly with the people Of
the county for their support OF Taylor.
representing that they would be morti-
fed (humiliated, was their favOrite tune)
| il Taylor did not win; hence many who
| saw and were fairly convinced that
Manning was far superior to Tag lor were
content to abandon him and go for Tay-
| lor's friends, not him, satisfying them
| selves that if Taylor was nominated he
would 90; at any rate he could "sit
| there" SIS hut few were needed to talk.
Perhaps II the voters Of DeSoto were
called upon to-day to choose between
| Manning and Taylor for congress, sole
| Iy with reference to their capacity,
three.fourths would at once say for
| Manning-yes, nine tenths. The same
| might be assured of other counties.
There is nothing said, or intended to be
said, derogatory to Colonel Taylor. He
is said to be a good farmer,
he is known as a medium
lawyer, and generally considered to bs
rather above mediocriCy as State lsgis'
lator, 1. e. where people know him at all
Of Manning noting need be said. He
was as brilliant and prominent at twen'
ty years of age as most men are at forty
He stands to-day, in this State, as to lie
gal attainments or 6elLes letters, second
to but few, If any, certainly second tC
none in the district, save perhaps La
mar. He is then the man to ill La
mars place. No Few man in congres:
would make q more profound impres
son. Some one who reads this maj
probably ask, why it is written? ca
bona? Simply to show, or call attention
to the fact, that of all men in the dis
trict, Manning, viewing the matter ii
eUery light, is The man for congress
while as between him and thCsa men,
toned in this connection, whose aspira
tions, and those Of their friends who havt
been reaching for Washington City
there is no sort of comparison. He is th'
man. Of all others calculated to refiec
honor upon his district and State, anC
do the most good for the nation, and il
the next place, because the large major