Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-28
HOW THE CAT JUMPS.
THE SWAMP EAGLES SCREAM
FOR STONE.
The Great Fight for Auditor--stone
Receives the Nomination.
Special to Commercial Herald.

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Receives the Nomination.
Special to Commercial Herald.
JACKSON, Aug. 20.-After the break
ing of the deadlock in the race for
secretary Of State by the nomination
of Geo. M. Govan for that position,
and the nomination Of Hemingway
for the treasurship by an overwhelm-
ing majority, most Of the delegates re-
paired to their hotels, but few Of them
were permitted the solace of imme-
date slumber by the candidats for the
four last Offices on the roll.
Trading went on in and around the
Edwards house until the heavy eye
lids drove the besleged delegates to
their beds.
When the convention assembled at
l0a.m. to-day the hall was crowded,the
deep interest taken in the contest
for auditor drawing many to
witness it who had not hitherto been
present during the proceedings.
The battle opened with an able
and forcible speech from Mr.. E.
H. Dial, of Meridian, who named
Col. W. D. Holder, Of Lafayette, as the
choice Of Lauderdale, for auditor Of
public accounts.
In the seconding Of this nomination,
Mr.. Park Branham, of Oxford, made a
Ci5erorian effort which thrilled and
delighted the audience. The classical
purity of his language was the general
theme Of admiration. 1t was a rev.
elation, and made many of the old
hacks of the hastings open their eyes
and ears in wonderment.
When Col. w. A. Percy, the Iron
Gray Eagle Of the Mississippi, rose
in his place, a spontaneous cheer went
up from every throat and rolled out
of the door and into. the, corridor and
dome of the building. Almost every
delegate stood up, and necks were
craned-some Of them very snowy
ones-from the balconies, to get a
view Of the great swamper.
Cool, easy, self-possessed and grace
full, Percy rose to the crest OF the oc.
casion. He told of his own section Of
the State, virgin in Its fertility, timber.
ed with giant forests and pleasant
streams, just opened within a few
months by the iron horse to the peaceful
invasion Of commerce. how it had suf-
fered disaster upon disaster from
flood, and how its people had risen
from successive overhows with roof.
trees dismantled but still undismayed,
He told how that portion Of the State
was peculiar to itself, how from il
came fully one-third Of the revenue Of
the entire State, how the completely Of
its levee laws called for the most deli
cate adjustment. "There," he went
on to say, "Radicalism had built itI
greatest stronghold and perpetratet
its most glazing robberies, and from
that portion of the State in 1875 ha(
come the first news of victory won hy
a handful of determined Democrats
which swept like a tidal wave, gath
ering force as it went, from west tC
east, until our beloved Commonwealth
was ridden of the flock of political
harpies that had SO long preyed upon
her vitals. He praised his candidate,
while not disparaging any of tt Q
others. He was a practical farmer, a
square-minded legislator, an honest
man, and as brave a soldier as ever
left home to battle for its h%earthstone.
He concluded by placing the name of
Watt w. Stone, of Washington coun-
ty, before the convention for auditor
Of public accounts. The nomination
was greeted with continued cheering,
Ex.Gov. Stone nominated E. L.
Sykes, Of Monroe.
Richardson, of Winston, nominated
in a very brilliant and telling effort
Robt. G. Patty, of Noxubee.
?. M. Savory, of Prentiss, nominal
ed John M. Sloane, of Pontotoc.
The first ballot resulted as follows;
Holder, 4S1.
Stone, g..
Sykes, 81,
Patty, Az.
Sloane, %.
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