Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-08-22
ONLY ONE CONVENTION.
What the Lawyers Say About 1t.

What the Lawyers Say About 1t.
The editor of the CHRONICLE wrote
to prominent lawyer in West Ten
nessee asking his views on the pro-
posed joint convention to nominate
candidates for the Supreme Judges
and Governor. He is man who voted
for Bate in 1882, stood out for the ma
jority report on the tariff resolution
in the last State convention and has
always acted with the party He wrote
as follows:
Yours reached me few days since,
and have delayed answering in order
that might feel the beat of the pulse
of the bar in regard to your inquiries.
As to joint convention to nominate
Judges for the Supreme Bench, and a
Governor, those that express any pref
erence, prefer seperate conventions
As for myself, l think it decidedly
preferable; in fact, I don't think the
other ought to be tolerated at all. The
Judges are elected in the August cleo
ton, while the Governor is elected in
November, the great difference in
time is, think, a sufficient reason, to
sly nothing of the political aspect of
tie case and a thousand and one rea-
sons, useless to mention.
As to the railroad lawyer question,
/ am of the opinion that the public
and the press generally need give
themselves no trouble or uneasiness
on that point. The advocate who has
been so fortunate as to obtsun a place
OF so great price, is not going to be
fool enough to swap it for place
which in this degenerate time, is no
super amount OF honor and less pay.
OF course refer to attorneys who are
the general advocates for the lines of
road, such as Fentress, of Bolivar, Bax-
ter and Holmes Cummins. Local at
torneys are not included III this class,
besides, to exclude these would, as a
general thing, exclude the best talent
in the land from contesting for the
nomination. There ia long time
between now and the election, and
unless the political cauldron boils too
hot, many of the fanatical ideas adj
vanced by the press = such as the
American-will not be heard of, by
next year. The nomination of Su-
preme Judges is something the bar Of
the State (as they shouldD are going to
control, and in doing so, they are go
ing to lay aside petty political issues
and party dissentions and nominate
men best suited fer the place.
FROM EAST TENNESSEE.
We find the following in the pro-
ceedings of Democratic convention
which was called to fill vacancy in
local position in Hamblen county. 1t
is taken from the Morristown Gazette
"The following preamble and resolu-
tions were prepared for the adoption
or rejection of the meeting by w. S.
Dickson, Esq, but owing to the sudden
and rather hasty adjournment, caused
by the stormy appearance of the heav-
ems, they were not presented. We
copy them here as a reflex, we believe,
of the sense of the bar of Hamblen
county on the question of how the
candidates for Supreme Court should
be chosen. In the nomination OF a iu-
dicial ticket the bar OF the State will
be, and should be, largely relied upon
for the selection of its abIest and pur-
est representative men. This, we be-
lieve, can be best and most satisfacto-
rily done by convention called for
that object alone. From personal in
terviews we have had, we believe the
resolution referred to represents the
judgment of a large majority of the
bar and the people of upper East Ten
nessee:
Whereas, we deem it unwise, mex
pedient and improper that the candi-
dates for Supreme Judge and the
Democratic candidate for Governor
should be nominated at the Same time
and place and by the same convention;
therefore
Resolved, That the Democracy of
Hamblen county in convention assem-
bled, hereby respectfully recommend
to the State Executive Committee the
calling of two conventions to meet at
different times, one for the purpose of |
candidates for Supreme
Judge, the other to nominate candi-
date for Governor