American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-08-09
THAT CONTENTION.

| genluS thas body failed to appre
ciate, have been industIiously Ell
deavormg to work up a counter
movement-to bring together al
assembly that would condemn thu
Demecsatic party's action and nom
Innate themselves or their pet friends
for office.
Some Of these men felt personally
Eaggrieved at not having the nomi'
nation for State Senator thrust upol
them.
Others were sure that unless thel
were brought from their wonted oh
security and made Representatives
our laws wouId all be wrong. and
things in general would go awry.
And there were yet others-say
two or three-each Of whom felt, in
his true inwardness, that uniess Il,
were permitted to dictate the party
policy and select the nominees, the
country was going, down>grade, to
the demnition vows!
So they went to work, and circu-
lated documents, and issued a call
for a grand rally of the Sovereign
People, the Free and Untrammcled
Suffragans of the county, to meet
them in a glorious mass convention,
on Monday last.
Great were their expectations ;
load were their boastings; ominous
their head-shaking; direful their
threats Of sitting down on and
everlastingly equelching the Demo
cratic ticket!
Well, the day big with fate came.
The sun rose in the east, as usual.
The world kept on its diurnal revo
luton. All was serene-and hot.
Noon came, and with il came the
gathering Of themasses
A chairman and a secretary were
chosen, and then the ball opened.
Two distinguished members of the
Canton bar, who have been troubled
for some time with the cast wind in
their stomachs, proceeded to get rid
of it. They advised unity, harmo-
ny, and so forth, boxed all points
of the political compass. sugar
coated the niger, and sat down.
A large number of Democrats
were present, but on being told
they were not wanted to participate
in the performance, they either left
the house or separated from the
actors in the farce and remained as
spectators. Then the strength of
the Soreheads, the Boilers, the In
and the Negrophilists.
all combined, stood revealed. THIS
was their mass cOnvention--this
was the spontaneous uprising of
'sthc people," They were there in
all their strength and all their num-
bers. A count showed that there
were present % white men and SO
other men, of whom
"Somc were black, and some were
blacker,
And some were the color of brown to-
bacco."
ia, all told, in this glorious move.
ment of the mighty masses!
The What-is-it! then proceeded to
make nominations. The name of
Mr.. T. T. Singleton was offered for
State Senator, whereupon that gen.
tleman. who was lOOker-on, arose
and said that the honor of the DEM
ocratic nomination was sufficient for
him, and requested that this meet
ing would please omit his name
from its proceedings. Gen. S. A.
D. Greaves was nominated for SEN
ator, by reclamation. We are not
nfor med whether Gen Greaves has
this nomination. If he
has, his Democratic friends can but
alright son of the morning, how art
thou fallen. !"
Balloting then commenced for
.hree Representatives, resulting:
Downs, IL; Stebbins, %; Levy,
negro, Al o. L. Garrett, negro, 30;
Phil Sanders, negro, 10; Ben Gar
EFT, negro, 81; Henry, negro, 10;
Kearney, 13; Simpson. 1.
Judge Downs. Mat Levy and Ben
Jarrett were declared the nomi-
lees.
After appointing an executive
the meeting adjourned,
eaving its ticket bob tailed. This |
vas wise in the manIpulatois, as the
Iarkeys evidently would have
cooped in the other nomina>
tail would have swala
owed the head, SO to speak-and
his was not " hat the prime movers
ranted. In fact. the leaders found
hey had too much niger on hand.
The weather was
var m, the convention was odorous,
he slate was brokel-and it only
emsined to go home and be asham
d of the failure they had made.