The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-05
TEE InpICIAL CONVENTION.

TsR JUDICIAL CONVENTION.
On Wednesday next the Democratic
Convention called to nominate five
candidates for Justices Of the Supreme
Court will meet in the capitol at
Nashville. Judging by the Isis OF
delegates reported iom the several
counties, it will be one Of the most
thoroughly representative bodies for
its purposes ever assembled In the
State. A grsa. many lawyers, some OF
the ablest that We have, will be found
among the delegates ambitious for
thsir friends among the candidates,
but especially ambitious that the tick
ct shall in the special as well as gen
eIal sense be snch as will ehsl'
lenge the approval OF the people.
In this, the western end OF the State,
we have four candidates to present.
Folkes, Lea, Caldwell and Freeman.
OF these Shelby County is pledged to
Folkes and its delegates are instructed
to vote for him as a unit. As to the
others, it is difficult to say how
the delegates stand. Lea, who will
doubtless be Endorsed by Haywood,
is a strong man, and has q great meny
friends here, friends who would like
TO see him elevated to a bench for
which he has made much preparation,
and has given proof Of the possec3ioA
of abilities for it.. But Freeman, too,
has friends, and 80 has Cald-
well, who is highly esteemed
by the Bar. But no matter
what may be the individual friend
ships OF the delegates, the purpose
they have specially in view, Of stand
ing solid for Folkes, will not permit
them to fritter away their strength
upon any one or neutralize its power
in the convention by divisions.
Folkes must be kept steadily
in view as paramount to all
other considerations. In Middle
Tennessee Lurton has a long lead, but
the ~whisperings of interested politi'
clans who are crying railroad" where
no railroad appears, and are rey,ving
the terrors Of the "sky blue" division,
may have something to do in weaken
ing him as well as some other can
didates in all three of the die
visions Of the State. The friends Of
Turney and Cooper are working very
hard, and it Is rumored they intend to
pool their issues and, facing a common
danger, make a common fight. Tur-
ney's popularity and Cooper's
great ability are levers, it is
held, that cannot be resisted.
In and about Nashville they
are regarded as irresistible and Lurton
is the only man they fear as in any
sense a competitor. In East Tennessee,
where they claim the right to put two
men in nomination, Ingersoll and
Snodgrass are said to be the winning
men, with Washburn and Cook good
seconds. Besides these there are many
other candidates, but they are the
most prominent, and 1t il
from their number a selec'
ton or selections will most likely be
made. To iorestal the judgment Of
the convention, it has been proposed
the Chattanooga Times says, "by one
or two candidates for the Supreme
Court in upper East Tennessee, whC
have bat small following outside o
their immediate sections, to hold
general conference OF the friends o
the various candidates in their divi
sion oithe State, for the purpose o
selecting two names to be presenteI
the Nashville Convention. "Fhisschem
should be killed in its incipiency. t
permit IL would be to make a precG
dent fatal to tine peace and welfare q
the party in the future, and IL woul
also be to admit Of a wheel within
wheel and the n%eutraliziug {
the purpose and duty Of Stat
conventions by grand division cal
CUES. The selection of candidate
is the duty OF the State Convention
and to it it may safely be intrusteC
The whole body OF the Democrat
party have the right through the
representatives in convention to sele
candidates, and they alone, and the
want neither instruction or suggestiC
from East, Middle OF West Tennesse