Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-23

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he wants the city limits extended for
like Smith, he doesn't care 10 trust IA
the vote in the present corporation
The Doctor desires as much water.works
sewerage, pavements, etc, as can be
constructed without crippling the
finances" The latter clause was evi.
IDENTIFY intended as a fine touch of irony
at the expense of the city, which is
generally understood to have no finances
susceptible to the Gripping" process.
The latest Richmond in the field is
Col w. H. Fitch, Jr., who claims to be
Abolitioner than anybody else, To flank
Shaw, il is understood his friends claim
for him the credit of having originally
suggested to Ham the propriety Of being
Niger This is a squelcher, and in
addition, some one during the war rather
forcibly elevated an unhealthy specimen
Of hen fruit to juxtaposition with that
portion of raiment which conceals his
spinal column. AS on that occasion he
was returning from mission of African
enlightenment in the suburbs, here is
another strong argument in his favor.
He enters the field in compliance with
the request Of friends candidates
generally do-and announces undying
opposition to all "cliques and factions, ="
excepting cliques and faction" willing
to 90 for Fitch. According to his under
standing, Shaw is a cliquist, Beaumont
is cliquist, Smith is a cliquist, and
worst of all, Blowis is a cliquist. Against
any ana all these high toned individuals
he declares war. He has stripped for
the fray, and is an xious to wade in oceans
of gore, even the crimson gore of Blews
Our " WHAT'S 1t contemporary on Sec
ond street goes down at single fash of
his knightly clay and Blewis and
Smith wither before the cruel irony that
they were soldiers in the late war
for liberty" Beaumont.Tomeny's head
is sliced off by back.handed slash be-
low the belt, at antecedents. Beaumont
Tomeny.Shaw is denounced as bent on
absorbing local Offices and public
money" What monstrous digestive or.
gans this terrible fellow must have
Think of a nav cspacious enough to
contain several tons of scrip, forty wagon
loads of unpaid bonds, half a dozen
steam fire engines, and few miles of
Nicolson pavement To prevent this
wholesale swallowing, Col. f. is candi-
date; and he agrees, if elected, to swal-
low them all himself, or spontaneously
combuscate in the attempt Col. Fitch
is not politician, and has heretofore
persistently refused much better Offices
than Mayor He possesses undoubted
capacity, and stands well in the COM
munity as man of integrity. His
abominable politics is the only blot on
his character.
THE KILKENNY CAT FIGHT.
Smith claims the Mayoralty as reward
for devotion to the niger; little Beecher
claims it as a reward for devotion to the
African Fitch claims it as a reward for
devotion to the "colored man." and
Shaw claims it as a reward for devotion
to the descendants of Ham. Smith
principal wet nurse is Blewis, the chief
blowist and high-cockalorum Of the
County Court. Grandmother Hunter
conducts the Beecher wet.nursery. tits
said this remarkable female is becoming
disguised with the mental progress of her
infant, who may yet be abandoned to the
tender mercies ofthe Freedmen's Bureau;
but she still paregorics him as usual.
According to Fitch, Beaumont-Tomeny
is Shaw's wet.Durse, the chief diet being
cique.faction soup, a lG Cuffee. Smiths
chances, which we're good few weeks
ago, are now sufficiently doubtful to bring
him home to look into the matter. Blewis
is absorbed in preparing official state
ments of county finances as substitutes
for the puzzles in the Eastern weeklies,
and the tactical fount has gone dry.
Faithless Blews Little Beecher retains
considerable strength, notwithstanding
his boot licking, and at the present turn
is Shaw's most formidable competitor.
Fitchs entree has excited no little feeling
among the Shawites. It was understood
that he would not be candidate, and is
asserted that Beaumont-Tomeny vainly
tried, before declaring for Shaw, to bring
him into the field. His denunciation of
Beaumont-Tomeny mournfully recalls
the story of Saturn and his children and
Just here we draw a spotless cambria
across our weeping eyes. Some of the
anti. Fitchites suggest that the latter's
election would be hailed as triumph of
the principal proprietor of the old
gas company, who is not exactly
a sar.Dean, whereby to more firmly
and forever fssten that corporation
on the city; or, rather, annex the
municipal to the gas corporation, and,
at the same time, smother the Donovan
concern. There may be something in
this, and it may be conjecture; but it
finds vent at the street corners. Thus
do not brethren dwell together in unity.
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