The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-14
THE COUNTY CONVENTION.
1t Decides to Nominate all Candidates
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tive Committee of the county.
On motion of J. G Mageo, the Rev. f.
l.. Tarver was elected Chairman pro tenn,
and A. C. McNalr, Secretary, pro tenn
On motion, this organization was made
permanent, ]. A. Price moved that Al
committee OF five on credentials be APP
pointed by the Chair. Carried.
The Char appointed the following COM
mlttee: ]. G. Magea, }. +. Session, J. E.
Carruth. G. w. Huffman and H. Sum.
mers. This committee returned and re-
ported the following as the delegates to this
convention:
BEAT ONE.
BRooxHAvEN-J F Sessions, TT S Nc
Gra,h, NJ Nalty. J w Mcmillan and A G
McNair.
MoNrGoMERY-W A Towns and Joe.
Sessions.
.BoGuEcuIrro-Br itton Hall, J A Price
and J VI Hart.
EAT TWO
FAIR RIVER SroRE-H Summers, J w
| Maxwell, A NJ Su miners, is Burns and
J NJ Kees.
LIT LIE BAnALA-J A Graves, A A
Graves, rs Cotton, JIM Crawford and h
2 Fur.
BEAT r
TYLER's MILL-John J Martin, Jacob
Smith, G. w Huffman, 8 A Bri1ter, J ID
MAY, Amos Greer, DR.. { p Conerly J 5
Fielder, II Crisco and W Price.
BEAT FOUR
ADAMS CAMP GROUND Z Dtnman,
L Views, j + Carruth, f l. Taryer and
I w Chisho I'm.
LARD's MILL NJ Lard, Jr, l. l.
Lard, John III eagle, Jasper Evans and
James Keen.
BEAT FIVE.
CAsEyvILLE-Prentiss Buie, II T Bea-
MAoEDoNIA-JG Magee, W. Vaughn,
J J Fart, James Coen and w J Elzey.
On motion of Jno. H eagle, r II Hen
ry, editor of the BRooKuAvEN LEDGER,
was invited to a seat in the convention.
w. A. Towns moved that a vote be
taken by ballot expressive of the sense OF
this convention us to the propriety of this
convention making nominations for coun-
ty officers. Carried. The vote re
suited as follows:
For Convention .......... .,..... 2
No Convention.
No Convention, except for Represen-
alive ........ 1
G. w. Huffman moved to take the sense
of this convention az to the prOpriety of
making nominations for county offices by
primary election. Carried. The vote was
as follows:
Fol primary election %
No 81
rs, Cotton moved that the vote for
primary election be made UNANIMOUS.
Carried.
J. ". Mcmillan moved that at the
primary election all voters be allowed to
vote for the nom nee
A.C. McNair proposed to amend 30 as
to prohibited p,rties from voting, who
will not pledge themselves to support the
nominees.
J. A. Price offered the following "a a
substitute for the above:
Resolved, That q committee Of two he
elected from each beat to adopt Il plan for
conducting the PRIMARY election.
J. T. Sessions offered az a substitute for
l. li .,o.,,r ,I.o f,Ii,yipc =.
Resolved, Tlr4t a commute. be appoints
ed 10y the Chair to consist Of one member
from each voting precinct in the county,
whose duty it shall he to prepare and re-
port n pan for conducting the primary
election. Carried.
The committee appointed ia as following.
Biookhaven, r J S McGra;h; Mont
gnmery, Joe. SEES ions; Bognechiito. Brit
ton Hall; Fair River, II Summers; Little
Baha!a, T. Cotton; Tyler's Mil. Dr.. CP
Conerlv; Adams Camp Ground. j Car
ruth; Lard's Mill, John II eagle Casey-
Vile, SIP McRee; Macedonia, w 5 Vaughn.
The committee reported the following
resolutions:
Resolved, That all legal Democratic
Conservative voters of Lincoln county,
who will pledge Themselves to support the
nominees OF the Democratic>Conservative
party at the general election, Nov. 4th
1879, he allowed to vote at the primary
election.
Resolved, That all candidate voted for
will be requested to pledge themselves to
abide the decision of the primary election,
and support the ticket that may be nom
mated.
Resolved, That the candidates getting
the highest number OF votes shall be de-
clared the nominee.
Resolved, That the Democratic Conser-
vative Executive Committee appointed at
this meeting be empowered and instruct
ed to hold the primary election, by the
appointment of the necessary managers,
Clerks, ETC., requisite tor a fair expression
of the people, and announce the result,
Signed, I J S McGrath, SP Mckee, &C
PConnerly, HSummons, w S Vaughn no.
N eagle, ] E Carruth, Britton Hall, Joe.
Sessions, rs Cotton.
A McNar moved to insert the word
Const ~rvative after the word Democratic
whenever the same appears in the resolu-
ito ms. Carried.
AC McNair offered the following as q
substitute for the frat resolution presented
by the committee:
Resolved, That all voters OF Lincoln
county who will pledge themselves to sup
port the nominees of the Democratic and
Conservative party at the general election
to be held in November 1879. be accorded
the right to vote at the primary election
Tabled.
The resolutions, with the amend-
ment of''Conservative" after Democratic,
were adopted.
J. J.. Martin moved that the delegates
from each beat retire and nominate two
delegates to the Senatorial Conyention.
Carried.
The following is a list of the nominees
to the Senatorial Convention:
Beat One-J A Price and } F Sessions.
Beat Two-J w Maxwell and rs Cotton.
| Beat Three-G w Huffman and j } Mar
tin. Beai Four-John II Gayle and L w
Chisholm. Beat Fve-Prentiss Buie and
J & MIgee.
On motion, these nominees were cleo