Year: 1874

TENNESSEE.
Important elections will take place thi
] year, which involve the vital interests of tn,
| county and State and IL is deemed advisabl,
Tor the Conservative and Democratic citizens
/ OF Shelby county TO meet and consider tn,
local and general issues Of the approachinl
! ganizatiOn as will secure harmony and tht
success of liberal, progressive policy. Tht
undersigned citizens tEerefore unite in thi
call for mass-meeting, 10 be held at Bartlett
| on Saturday, the fourteenth day of FEBRUARY
| instant, 10 take such action as may be deemeC
| wise and expedient to protect end promote
! the public welfare. All citizens who faVol
the objects indicated in this call are cordially


invited TO be present, and cooperate in the


meeting


General Forrest said that he was still OF
the opinion, after hearing the call read foI
the meeting of the convention, that the com.
mittee should be raised from the civil dis
tricts Of the county and the wards Of the city


Colonel A. ]. Kellar said he did not believe
IL would be practicable TO do so, unless all the
wards and districts were represented in the
convention.


The president said that that was really the
motion of General Forrest.


Colonel Kellar-Then will move 10 amend
by making the committee four from the city
and three from the country.


General Forrest said that he moved that the
committeeshould be composed of one from
each civil district CT the coun-
try, and one from each ward OF
the city on the ground, and for the purpose
that no one could say that the resolutions
were got up by any clique or party, and had
been brought, cut and dried, TO the meeting.
It might be that some gentleman had reSolu-
tions already prepared and, therefore, he
moved the resolution in the shane he had
done in order that the Republicans could not
say that the resolutions had been cut and
dried, and the platform constructed in Mem
phie.


modify his amendment SO as to make 1t read
five from the country, and four from the city
OF Memphis.


General Forrest said he still would hold to
his original motion.


Colonel Kellar did not think that commit
tee of twenty-eight could work as well as a
committee of nine on resolutions. so far as
anything had been cut and dried, there had
been nothing of the sort. He wanted il also
70 be distinctly understood that all were to be
free TO express their opinions on any resOlu-
tiOns that might be offered. There was to be
no ssRag law and if there was not TO be free
and fair expression of opinion on any resolu-
tions that might be offered, then he did not
want TO have anything TO do with the meet
ing. TApplause.l He had moved to amend
General Forests resolution by making the
committee consist of three from the country
and four from the city, but now he was will
ing TO make it fve from The country and
four from the city.


General FOrrest-I Will accept the amend


Colonel Robertson Topp-I will second the
original motion of General Forrest.


The President-It has been withdrawn.
General Forrest has accepted Colonel Kellar's
amendment.


Colonel Topp-Then, L will renew it. This
meeting has been called by the substantial
men of the county to deliberate on what is
best to be done in regard to the party. He
was there because the meeting had been
called by the substantial men of the county.
He knew what town meetings were gen.
orally composed of, aud he knew also
that they were controlled by the losters
at the street-corners, who called their resolves
the voice Of the people. He therefore wanted
the committee to be composed of one delega ate
from each civil district OF the country and
a q aoKfn q r11nfa n
Ihey would thus get the substantial men Of
The country on the committee, and who could
agree upon series OF resolutions. and in
these resolutions they would have tie voice
OF the people.


Attorney-Genera Wright said the question
was very simple one. It was simply whether
they should appoint committee of twenty
eight OF thirty citizens TO draft series OF res
oluUons, or whether they should adopt the
amendment OF Colonel Kellar, which pro-
vlded for committee OF nine 70 be appoint
60. which OF these would be the best to adopt
wa the question. II they appointed a com
lnlttee OF thirty, they might as well resolve
themselves into committee Of the whole al
once, and IL was simply a question VJhether
they should take up tive hours in doing what
they certainty could do better in twenty
minutes.


Mr.. B. C. Brearton did not consider that
time had anything to do with the matter


Squire K. B. Miller seconded the paotion for
the purpose OF making platform out OF
chaos, and making an organization which
mad never been organized, and which in a.
had been organized, il had been disorgani zed
He was in favor of the committee befag com
posed OF one member from each civil district
and each ward of the city, as in the multitude
az council there would be wisdom. He did
not think a committee of nine would fully
represent sll the Interests OF the county.


Squire CALDWELL insist that the motion
be put without further debate.


MI sam Jones-I move the previous ques-
ton. -.
tee OF niue win perfectly suit the county
people and therefore withdraw the motion.


The President-The vote VIII now De on the
previous question. Shall the main question
now be put2


The motion was carried, and Colonel kel-
lars motion for committee Of nine, nVe