But since we had sixty votes,--two more than were necessary to elect our candidate,--we believed that the organization would be easily perfected the next day, regardless of the action of the members from Carroll County.
In this, however, we were sadly disappointed.

The result of the first vote for Speaker of the House was as follows: Lynch, Republican caucus nominee 55 Streeter, Democratic nominee 47 Chandler, Independent Republican 7 Armstead, Independent Republican 1 Howe, Regular Republican 1 Necessary to elect 56 Judge Chandler of Noxubee, who had been elected as a regular Republican with four other white Republicans,--all of whom attended and took part in the caucus the night before,--refused to vote for the nominee of the caucus for Speaker but voted instead for Chandler.

It will be seen that the vote for Streeter, the Democratic caucus nominee, was two less than that party's strength; thus showing that two Democrats must have also voted for Chandler.

It will also be seen that if every vote that was not received by Lynch had been given to Chandler or to any other man, that man would have received the required number of votes and would have been elected.

The Democrats stood ready to give their solid vote to any one of the Independents whenever it could be shown that their votes would result in an election.