THE REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION OF 1869 Although it was not charged nor even intimated that my acceptance of the office of Justice of the Peace was the result of bad faith on my part, still the appointment resulted in the creation for the time being of two factions in the Republican party in the county.

One was known as the Lynch faction, the other as the Jacobs faction.
When the Constitution was submitted to a popular vote in November, 1869, it was provided that officers should be elected at the same time to all offices created by the Constitution and that they, including members of the Legislature, were to be chosen by popular vote.

The county of Adams (Natchez) was entitled to one member of the State Senate and three members of the House of Representatives.

Jacobs was a candidate for the Republican nomination for State Senator.

The Lynch faction, however, refused to support him for that position although it had no objection to his nomination for member of the House.