The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-07-18
The County Convention,

P"'y vi biHColH COuHly; uelegdte
convention of the party was this day
held at the Court House in the city of
Brookhaven.
The convention being called to or
der by the Hon. II. r. Applewhite,
Chairman of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee, and the objects of
the convention being stated, tenn
pOrary organization was effected by
the election of l.. e. Maxwell as tenn
porary chairman, and Obed Rollins as
temporary secretary.
Upon motion, committee of five,
consisting of one from each super
visors district i'll the county, was APP
pointed on credentials and the com
mittee having retired, presently
through their chairman, reported the
following persons, as duly accredited
delegates aud entitled to seats in the
convention, to-wit:
From BroOkhaven-JOhn w Martin,
jr., l. G Maxwell, II Cassidy, j A
Ramsey, r S Cotton.
From Bogue Chitto-J Il Albritton,
w Hart, w w Hall.
From MOntgomery-Is Smith, S
Beesley,
From Fair River-James Burns, ii
Summers, W II Bailey, ID W Chand-
Ter, w b Brewer.
From Good Water-A S Fur, Il c
Crawford, } S Cocker, w c FUR, w
p Smith.
From McClendOn's-J NJ Brister, W
j Williams, A NJ Summers, Frank
Greer, II + Williams, Dan Hall, W
Lee, b + Beason, Obed Rollins, p T
Byrne.
From Lard's Mill c Harden, l.
S Redd, Joseph Sasser, w l. Smith, S
III Pepper.
Adams-T w Chisholm, w a
Hodges, j A Terrell, f Moak, } f
Denman.
From Caseyville-W j McRee, w A
Decell, j w Magee, II T Beacham.
From Vaughn's-A ii Smith, T J
Smith, j n Lotion.
From East's Mill n Ellzcy, T w
East, \ c Arlington.
Said committee further reported
that two of the delegates did not APP
pear in person but had appointed
proxies to act in their place, and as to
the propriety of admitting proxies the
committee referred the matter to the
convention. Whereupon it was NOV
ed that no proXiesbe admitted to seats
in the convention, but that the dele
gates present from the voting pre-
cincts of the absent members be
authorized to cast the full vote of
such precinct in the convention. And
such motion being adopted, the re-
port of the committee was received
and approved and the the temporary
organization was then made perma-
nent.
The following resolutions was then
adopted by the convention, to-wit:
Resolred, That the following named
persons he and they are hereby APP
pointed delegates to the State Demo
cratic Convention to assemble at
jackson on Tuesday, July the 10th,
1889, tow Ii Cassidy, r w McNair,
l. G. Maxwell, j w Martin, .jr., j NJ
Nav, Charles Chrisman, II ii ThOmp-
son, A c McNair, } w Magce and Il Il
Applewhite; and they are hereby in
structed to cast the vote of Lincoln
county for the Hon. j. NJ. Stone for
Governor, and this vote shall be cast
for him so long as he remainsa candl-
date before the convention; and the
delegates are further instructed to
cast the vote of this county in said
convention for the Hon. George Nj.
Govan for Secretary of State, &C.
rard Brandon for State Superintend-
ant of Education, and r. Il. Love for
State Treasurer; and as a second
choice for State Treasurer the dele
gates were instructed to cast the vote
of the county for A. Q. May.
End. ReSOlred, That the following
named persons be and they are hereby
appointed delegates to the Floatorial
Convention to nominate candidate
for Representative for the tloatOrial
district composed of this county and
jefferson, to-wit: II Cassidy, L 5
Cotton, j A Ramsey, L c Maxwell, I
c Crawford, w p Smith, p Il Byrne,
H Pepper, L Smith, Allen Smith,
Esq, and NJ May; and that they be
and are hereby instructed to cast the
vote of this county, first, last and all
the time for John w. Boone.
3. Resolved, That in as much as the
Floatorial Convention has never been
held in the county of Lincoln, having
always heretofore sit in the county of
Jefferson, this convention deems it
but lust and fair that it be held in
Lincoln county,. and in the city of
Brookhaven, and to this end the
Floatorial Executive Committee is
hereby earnestly requested to fix the
place for holding the convention as
above indicated, and that the secre-
tarv of this convention rs hereby di-
rected to furnish each member of said
executive committee a copy of this
resolution.
The convention selected the follow
ing persons to constitute the Demo