The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1898-01-07

ColumbIa.-lSpccIaLj- Messrs. Tur
ley aud Carmack having denied tine
statements made Saturday IN regard
Go lhr action of members Of the Maury
County Executive Committee Indoors.
ing Hon. Benton McMlHn for the SEN
ate your correspondent enclosos
true copy OF the ooHgIual petition
signed hy Them
The original petition reads as FOL
lows.
knowing the fitness of Hon Benton
McMnlin for the high position Of
United States Senator, we. the under
signed voters of Maury County, do
most respectfully request our members
OF the General Assembly Of the State
OF Tennessee 10 vote for. aud use all
fair means for his election 10 the posi-
ton. Dec. 81, 1897 Respectfully, ex-
Representative Il. NJ. Ricketts,, j. r.:
Jesse Tomlnson, cx-Super.nteudeut of
Public Instruction.; ex-senator John A.
Grove, IT, w. Floyd, T. $. Dooey, r..
j. Derrybcry, w A. Lindsey, J. p;
G.. n. Pickard b. W. Harris. J. NJ.
Goodhar j. z. Caperton, J. NJ. Snow,
r. IL. Peyton, L. Yoest, W. T. Worlcy.
c. A. Harden, Chas. Y. Hull l. b..
LIpscomb, G. II. Grimes. b. Z. Hay
wood, w. X. Stephens, J. J. Parrish,
r. G. Mullens, n. e. Due, r. S. Nc
Knight, j. Il. Williamson, r. II.
Guest"
All the foregoing twenty-nine men
are members of the committee except
eX-Reprcsentatiye T. NJ. ricketts,, ex-
Senator John NJ. Grove, and ex-Suppr-
intendent Of Public instruction Jesse
Tomlihson.
There are twenty-five civil districts
in Maury County. The Democratic
Executive Committee met rr.uay. Dec.
81. and Immediately upon the passage
Of a resolution declining to order a
primary for county elections, a friend
Of Senator Turkeys moved an adjourn.
ment. Prior and subsequent to the
meeting committeeman from the fol-
lowing districts, the First, Second
Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, Tenth
Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fiji
teenth Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Nine
teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-frst, Twen
ty-second Twenty-third, Twenty.
fourth and Twenty-ffth, and half OF
the committeeman from the Sixth and
Ninth, including the Chairman, signed
the petition requesting our legislator,
to vote for McNIillin, while half of the
Sixth and Ninth, and the committee
men from the Seventh and Fourteenth
declined doing so, being for Turley
The Seventeenth District had no com
mitteemen present, and the Third ant
Nineteenth (McMillim, and the Four
teenth (Turley), were represented by
proxy and their signatures and actor
taken as committeeman.
1t will therefore be seen that out
of twenty-five districts one is unrepre
scented and that all the committeemeI
from twenty districts and half Of
those from two others are for. McMil
lin. and two districts and a half ant
/ two others are for Turley.
The statement that committeeman
from twenty-three out of twenty-five
districts in the county signed a peti
ton requesting the Senator and Rep
resentatives from this county to vot'
for Hon. Benton McMillin for Unite
States Senator" while not exactly cor
rect, hardly deserves to be denied il
toto" or claimed to be eminently sat
isfactory to the cause of Mr.. Turley
1t is due Hon. e. w. Carmack to sa,
that he is entitled to the credit o
whatever strength and support Sena
tor Turley has in Maury County. Nc
Millin would have mad the unanimou
support Of this county had it not beel
for the efforts of Mr.. Carmack, who /
exceedingly loved and admired in oil
Maury.