Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-28
cUTRER OF coAHoMA.
His Speech Nominating Miller Q
Warren for Attorney-General.

his SpSeCn nominating MllI6F Ol
Warren for Attorney General.
When, on Thursday evening last,
the chairman of the State Democratic
convention announced that nomina-
tions for the Office of attorney-general
were in order, Hon. John W. Cutrer,
of Coahoma, rose in his place and said: +:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN: Next to the gov
ernorship, in my mind, the attorney
generalship is the highest post Of honor
and personal responsibility on the
state ticket. The man whom we shall
call to serve US in that capacity must
be one with no tincture of reproach
upon his integrity. He must be full
OF the Learning of the law; must have
acquired vast fund of experience in
its active practice and administration,
upon which he can draw as occasion
may require who finds honor only in
doing with ready hand, and brave
heart what duty may dictate; and above
all,unconscious purity Of soul without
effort, will withstand those insinuating
seductions to all that are the fate Of
place, and the rough brake that virtue
must 60 through. The soil Of Clai-
borne, by the banks Of the restless Mis-
sissippi, from its formation, generous
in its contributions to the greatness Of
the State, time ago gave birth to him
whose past life fills brimming to the
rim this measure Of the man who
should be our chief law officer. AS
that officer, pre- eminently prepared for
al the requirements of the place, /
should name--I would nominate th-
Hon. T. Marshall Miller, Of Warren.
His merits cannot be set to words, and
told to the hearer, an elocutionist
would repeat poem-varied are his
attainments and mixed in him
are the elements of greatness and that
God-given universal charity that lets
not the left hand know what the
right hand doeth.
In the duties of citizenship, his i'm
pulses are ever patriotic-high strung
and to the discharge Of those duties
he has ever gone forward without fal
tering, with impetuosity and reckless
of personal cost or sacrifice.
AS STRIPPING, or boy scarce weaned
from the family hearthstone, he heard
the bugle call when the war cloud
lowered, and knew no post of pleasure
but in the brunt Of battle; and 1 say
this, Mr.. Chairman, not because con-
slider feat of arms or gage of battle the
standard of excellence by which to de-
termine a contest like this, but that it
may serve as an index to the chivalric
soul and indomitable spirit of the
man whom support.
AS a lawyer. his analytical grasp OF
a proposition is so comprehensive and
clear that his lucid statement of the
facts bears in its force the law that
must determine its decision-ap peculiar.
ity said to be possessed by all great law
yers, and which those who have heard
Mr.. Miller pronounce to be the secret
of his wonderful success at the bar.
He stands before you, a law
yer of whom it can be
said that while losing few cases he
never yet has lost client, that indis
pensible accessory to the making Of
every great lawyer. 1t was my good
fortune to serve in this hall with
Mr.. Miller, as a member of the last
house of representatives. He entered
that body comparatively unknown tC
the majority of its members, but be-
fore the session closed the clear bright
ness of his mind secured to him the
leadership.
AS member of its judiciary com
mittee, and a chairman of the com.
mittee on corporations he made nearer
than any other individual the stamp
Of his intellect impose itself upon the
legislature of the session of 1884.
followed him, we all followed him,
there and proved safe in his leadership
and we follow him now with an abid'
ing faith in the necessity, the certainty
of his nomination. 81
His county, Warren, pleads for
her son, every man there is Marshall
| Miller's brother, and that good fellow
ship and love for him know not the
narrow confines Of county boundary
line. The Mississippi river where he
bathed in boyhood is borderad along
its course form. Lincoln county to the
north including good Coahoma where
1 hail from to Wilkinson county on
the south, with a host of faithful
friends who echo and re-echo
Warren county for lhis nomination
And, knowing no factions, no sections
and no local differences nor distinc.
tions in his candidacy, the State at
large, north, south, east and west will
aid and rejoice in his success. Warren
county herself may ask much from the
party, and no matter what she may re,
ceive great will be her deserts. There
it was, when darkness was upon the
face Of the earth, that a new creation
was begun. The people Of Warren
were first to rekindle tht
matchless fires of liberty anG
feed into being that flame
that purified the political atmosphere
Of Mississippi. Constantinople is sale
to have stood upon her mighty hills tC
keep guard and watch over the cru
sades in their noble warfare for tht