Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-21
JOYFUL DEMOCRATS.
They Meet at the Court House
and Elect Delegates.
A Rafting Good Delegation Chosen to
Go to Nashville May 26-No
Instructions.

The unterrified Democracy O
Montgomery county met at tn,
courthouse this morning to selec
delegates to the State convention
which meets in Nashville May 26, t.
select delegates to the National con
vention.
The attendance was very large and
everybody seemed in good humor
Chairman Burney, of the execu'
tive committee, called the conven.
ton to order and briefly stated the
object Of the meeting. He then ap'
pointed the following committee on
basis of representation: @. III. Bal.
ley, Finis Faust, w. X. Muir, Finis
Ewing and j. O. Langford.
This committee reported the basis
Of representation, aud took the
Cleveland vote.of 1883, allowing one
vote for every fifty and one for every
fractional vote that exceeded twenty.
FIVE. This put the vote in the va
rious districts as follows:
First district 8, second 2, third 2,
fourth g, fifth 8, sixth 2, seventh 2,
eighth 1, ninth 2. tenth 2, eleventh
2, twelfth IA, thirteenth /, fourteenth
2, fifteenth 2, sixteenth 8, seven
teenth 8, eighteenth 1, nineteenth 2,
twentieth 2, twenty-first I--total So.
This report was unanimously adop-
ted.
DIR. Northington was nominated
and unanimously elected chairman of
the convention. On taking the chair
he madea rattling good speech, advis-
ing Democrats to hang together and
present solid front to the enemy
the Republican party. AT the close Of
the speech DIR. Northington was
loudly applauded.
On motionj Of Jno. B. Ferguson
Jno. A. Holmes, of the Progress
Democrat, and Jas. G. Rice, OF the
LEAF-OHRONICLE, were elected per-
manent secretaries, and the conven-
tion was declared ready for business.
On motion OF r. III. Burney 1t was
agreed for the chair to appoint a
committee of seven on delegation
and that the chairman OF the various
district delegations nominate dele
gates from their respective delega-
tions, from which the committee
would select the delegation to Nash
vile. The chair appointed the fol-
lowing committee:
r. FL. Burney, Finis Ewing, r. ii.
McFall, J. Fl. Achey, Thos. Walthal,
Ed. G.. Dunlavy and J. A. Rollow.
This committee. retired aud report
ed the following delegation;
First district--R. Y. Johnson, J.
M. Cotter, Finis! Ewing.
Second district--John B. Ferguson,
J. X. Muir.
Third. ..district-A. McDaniel,s X.
B. Davie.
Fourth. district. T. Marable, w.
]. Powers, j. w. Clardy.
Fifth district. A. !. .Langford, l..
@. Atkins, j. G. Nichols.
Sixth district-T. w. Walthal, DIR.
L. L. Warfeld.
Seventh district-W. F. Buckner,
w. III. Burgess.
Eighth district--,A. J. higgins.
Ninth district-T. M. Reynolds, J.
FL. Back.
Tenth district-Geo. HI. Pickering,
DIR. John Williams.
Eleventh district-John Dickson,
r. F. Frey.
Twelfth district--Jno. F. House,
w. A. Quarles, w. M. Daniel, w. B.
Anderson, w. B. Kincannon, DR.. N.
L. Carney, Thos. Jackson, III. N.
Leech, @. H. Bailey, M. Savage, F.
s. Beaumont, G. w. Tyler, DR.. N.
L. Northington, r. H. Bnrney.
Thirteenth district--Geo. Arm
strong.
Fourteenth district-W. s. Trainer,
Henry Burton.
Fifteenth Districts. E. Wilson,
r. B. Baggett.
Sixteenth district-Wm. Harvey,
8. @. Batson, J. r. Felts.
Seventeenth district--Dr. B. w.
Ussery, Paul j. Wyatt, e. g. Dun
lavy.
Eighteenth district-Angelo Lo-
gan.
Nineteenth district-B. ]. Corban,
Robt. Swift.
Twentieth district-W. B. Dunbar,
Jack Chambers.
Twenty-first district. U. Tyler.
The committee also recommended
that no proxies be allowed. The re-
port was adopted, and on motion the
names OF the secretaries and MEM
bers of the committee on delegation,
not included in the above list, were
added.
The convention then adjourned.
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Bucklen's Arnica salve.