The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-09-24
THE ANNA CONVENTION.

THE ANNA CONVENTION.
The proceedings ofthe Prohibition (O con.
veniion of the fifty.6rst senatorial district,
held at Anna on the 26th instant were, ac-
cording to the statement of one of the
Cairo delegates, in substance, as follows;
The convention met in opera hall, about
:. o'clock in the afternoon. There
were about sixty delegates and it
was very sober, intelligent looking
body Of men. There were eighteen dele
gates from Jackson county, six from Alex
ander and about twenty from Union, be-
sides good sized audience, some of whom
also took active part in the proceedings.
DR.. Hale, of Anna, was elected chairman
and Mr. NJ. G. White, of Jackson, was
elected secretary.
A committee OF three, one delegate from
each county alexander county being re-
presented by DR.. Petrie) was appointed to
examine the credentials of the delegates
preselt.
Another committee of three was ap.
pointed, upon motion of DR.. Petrie, to
select candidates for the nomination. And
still another on resolutions.
After due deiberation the committee on
credential reported that each county in the
district should be entitled to an equal
number of delegates to the number of
eighteen, and that the credentials of those
claiming to be delegates were all right.
The committee on candidates presented
the names Of four gentlemen DR.. Sanders,
of Jonesboro; George Gordon, of Jackson
county; T, NJ. Logan, Of Murphysboro, and
James Hunsacker, OF Union county.
No speeches were made for either Of the
candidates, but vote was Immediately
taken, which resulted as follows
Logan, 81; Hunsacker, 81; Gordon, o.
, Sanders, 3.
1t appears from the first ballot that
there were sixty delegates in the convention,
which made thirty-one necessary to a
choice The seconl ballot resulted in the
nomination Of Mr.. Logan, as follows:
Jackson county, q for Logan Alexan-
der county, 0 for Logan, 3 for Sanders and
8 for IIundracker; Union couuty's chairman,
seeing that Mr.. Logan had already naer-
ly the number necessary to nominate,
without casting the vote of his delegation,
moved that Mr. Logan's nomination be
made unanimous, which was carried with
out disseating voice.
The committee on resolutions offered
several "whereases' and resolves" but the
emily important one was that asking Mr.,
Louis Hammock, member of the State Pro-
hibiton Central committee from this con.
gressonal district, to withdraw the cali for
congressional convention at Carbonate
on the eth inst.
A Senatorial District Central committee
was elected, comprising one member from
each county, Alexander county is repre-
sented by Mr.. NJ. yesterday.
The convention was through with its
, work in a few hours, perfect harmony pre-.
valing throughout and then adjourned.
At night mass meeting was held at the
hall, at which the action Of the convention
was enthusiastically ratified, and at which
speeches were made by Mr.. Jackson, of
Carbondale; DR.. Petrie and Rev. Bowles, of
! this county, and others.
Those who are infatuated with the Pro-
hibition movement here will, Of course,
fail to see anything in these proceedings
|, but Prohibition, pure and unadulterated,
nauguratcd and engineered only by Pro-
, hibitiouists, for prohibtionists, independent
{ Of, and in opposition to all other political
, organizations that are not in sympathy with
il. But even casual observer, who IS not
, charmed to total blindness cannot fail to see
( in this convention as in the mass convention
in this city, the unmistakable signs Of Re-
publcanism can not fail to see further and
, conclusive proof Of the correctness of The
BULLETINS assertion that thoughtless young
Mademoiselle Prohibition, of this senatorial
district, is helpcssly in the tolls of that
toothless, corrupt old bag Machine Repub.