Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1900-07-19
REPUBLICANS MEET.
And Make Nominations for 4th
District.

VICTORIA, July 17.-This place
Saturday was the scene of more
political talk and scheming than it
has seen for some time. A call
was issued to hold a meeting at
night by the chairman of the exe-
Cutive committee for the. purpose
Of nominating candidates for JUS
tice Of the Peace, Tax Assessor aud
Constable.
Notice, however was claimed bY
j. w. Morrison and others to have
been sent that the nominations
would be made in the morning by
counting the cauvassed ballot, and
Consequently Mtssrs. Morrison,
Henson and a few Others met at
the school house at 10 .: m., and
after much discussion by them and
few opposed to their plan, the
measure was carried and nomina
tions made as follows: for justices,
+, NJ. Eakin, Sam Patton, g. w.
Brewer for constable, A, L Rank
in: for tax assessor, A. J. Martin
The meeting then adjourned,
At s y. III, there was another
gathering of the clans and large
and orderly crowd filed the school
house. E. e Bull called the meet
ing to order and J. Il. Raulston was
elected temporary chairman, A. j.
Martin being also nominated, and
H. E Tate, temporary secretary.
The secretary read the call for the
meeting, after which the chair was
authorized to appoint committee
on resolutions which he did as fol~
lows; E. &c. Bull, j. c. Gross, and
J. G. Kelly.
Motion was made and carried
after considerable discussion that
the chair appoint committees of
three from the 10Th, 4th and 5th,
and 7th districts to select candi-
date for justice Of peace, which he
did as follows:
Fifteenth district. H Harris,
Doc Curtis and Yank Hamilton.
Seventh district-John Lewis, J.
c. Kelley and J w. Brown,
Fourth and fifth dIslricrs-w.
A. Turner, Mark Brown and Sam
McCurry.
Some one played joke on the
chairman by offering John Beach
as a member of the committee from
from the 4th district and as he
was accepted another yelled out
John Beach is the worst democrat
in the county, which caused much
hilarity.
Resolutions were then reported
by the committee as follows:
'"We, the republicans of the 4th
civil district of Marion County, in
convention assembled, do rea firm
our allegiance to the republican
party, and heartiIly endorse the
administration of President Mc~
KimIey aud pledge our support to
Mckinley and Roosevelt recen tIy
nominated for President and Vice
President at Philadelphia. We al
20 pledge our hearty support TO our
county ticket, MIR. +. NJ. McCul-
Tough FOR Sheriff, and Mr. W, II.
Hale. for trustee, We condemn
the action of the so called conven-
ton held at this place on this day
at 10 o'clock a. III. as uurepubllcan
and not worthy of the notice Of
loyal republicans. We endorse
and pr lmise hearty and loyal sup
port to the candidates named 10y
this con YentiUn tO~night.
E. E. BULL,
J. e. KELLY,
J. &. GROSS
The committee from the 7th dis,
trict then reported in favor of q
W Walsh as candidate for Jus
tice, and the committees from tn,
4lh-5th and Is h districts in favol
of b. Long aud Doc Cowan respect,
lively, Each conven tons candi
, date was then laid before the con-
4, ventiOu aud voted upon separately
and with no opposition was mad
unanimous,
T. r. Harris, NJ. H. Merritt anC
A. J. Martin were then placed il
: nomination Tor tax assessor. Tn
: name of A. J. Martin caused al oh
; lection as be was a candidate fO
!. the other faction and he WAS aske
2 to explain. Not appearing, J. 4
3 HAMS and Do Coppinger were al