Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-29
ELECTION RETURNS.
No Farther News from the Country.
eAdidates on the Anxious Seat -
Coming to the MOurner's Bench"
Heavy Charges Made Against the Regis
trar---" Something Rotten in
Denmark"

We were IN hopes yesterday to De adj
to present our readers this morning VIII
the full returns of the election, not onil
in the CITY, but also from the variou
county precincts and the adjoining coun
ties. With the utmost diligence, now
ever. we have only been able to add th'
| returns of one single District-the Ihlra-
to those already published by US. ~
were at the Registrars office 1--WE separate
times Yesterday. one time remaining al
bonr or more-and we could neither hno
him nor learn where he was. his clerks
were also not to be found, and there was
no one of the whole registration bureau
ON duty. If The returns came IN, they
were either conveyed to some secrel
| Mace. or they were not received at all.
We found while waiting to see Mr.. Wal
| iams that we were not the only one thai
was anxious to catch a glimpse OF him
The numerous friends Of the various can
didates, and the candidates themselves
were exceedingly DESTROYS of a word witt
him, and not finding him, gathered IN eN-
cited knots around the county Cour'
Room and in the halls of the building
discussing his conduct in the freest man
ner, charging him with
FRAUD
of the erossest and most ~unblushing
character. Members of both parties
Democratic and Observation-Disclosures or
one common ground of denunciation, ano
if one-tenth part of the charges openly
and boldly brought against Williams arr
true he ought to be sent to the penitenti'
ary for life. The following are a few o.
these charges:
LIST. 1t is alleged that he caused TO be
publishd appointments to register at Ger
tain county precincts and then failed tc
meet the appointments-thereby prevent
ing many who relied on these promises
from registering.
ID. Ii is alleged hat the negroes of these
county precincts were secretly Uniformed
ofthis intended failure on his part to keeI
his monuments, and that they were
brought into the city and registered.
Sd. tits further charged that he failed to
appoint Judges or places of voting in the
county precincts until so near the time
for holding the election that the parties
thus named, in many instances, had uo
knowledge or warning, whatever OF haV-
ing been thus appointed.
4th. 1t is charged that he issued certltl-
Gates in blank by the hundred, and which
were put in the hands of tools Of the
Smith party and scattered broadcast
among the negroes of Arkansas and North
Mississippi, many of them being gwen
five and six; that he and his clerks ana
Others, on the day of the election, rode
from poll to poll withc ertiticatesin blank,
distributing them to negroes and others,
who would vote in a stipulated manner
9Th. 1t is further charged that he had
already manipulated, and was at tia UeTy
time engaged in manipulating the returns
9th. 1t is further charged thai he, by
prevarication, misrepresentation and 9TH
er means, kept certificates from white
men who were justly entitled to them,
and that large numbers were thus prohlp-
tied from voting. .
These are a few of the accusations and
ayerments made, as we stated, openly,
loudly and frequently, on the streets, in
the halls, and, in fact, all over the city
YESTERDAY. How true they are, we will
not attempt to say vet; but they must be
sifted thoroughly. There should be no
delay in the investigation, and if he Is
guilty of all or even one of them, we re-
peat it, he should spendth balance OF his
days in the pe%nitentiary. ,
We understandable Hunter commenced
Yesterday, taking evidence to prove spme
of the charges, and a similar course viii
be adopted by the Democratic candidates.
Meanwhile, We can only wait and see.'
THE RETURNS.
We have prepared a synopsis of the re-
turns 50 far as reported. They embrace
the entire CITY, and the third, sixth,
seventh and thirteenth civil districts. In
order to show the proportion of the col
ored vote cast for Democratic nominees
we have prepared the following table Of
the vote for
n-nrr,s or ruF PRE Court