Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-13
A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT.
Astounding Exposure Of Cor
ruptiOn ana Fraud.
The Leaders Of the Republican
Party Charged with Bribery.
How The Radical Machine Is Run
From the Memphis sun. An,;, II.

that has been issued in this city, in
many a day, is an expose of corruption
and fraud of the former leaders of the
Republican party" being an " Address o.
the Republican Central Committee Of
Shelby county, to the Republican voters, D
which was freely circulated at Repub-
lican meeting at Whites Station yester>
day. 1t exposes, in the shape of affida>
Wits which are regularly sworn to, in
every case, the way IN which Offices OF
honor and trust are bestowed in this
city and county. In order that the
numerous readers of the San
may be fully posted, We make a
few extracts from this extraordinary
documents. rn
The committee, in explanation of
their affidayits, make. these distinct alle-
cations
We charge that Edward Shaw, VIM.
7. Kennedy and Fl. C. Carter have been
for years obtaining from weak and dis
honest men of the party large sums of
money AS brides, to manage and control
you in their support for public office;
that these men have devoted themselves
to this as a business, neglecting and re-
fuSing all other employment and honest
labor for their support; that while you
were laboring for yourselves and your
families, they were busy plotting
schemes by which to bring your support
to the corrupt men who employed them,
pouring int0 your ears laudations of their
INSCRIPTIONS employers, and at the same
time stabbing with falsehoods the men
whose honest ability and courage had
deseryedly won your confidence and es-
TEEN.
We charge, further, that Barbour
Lewis has been and is engaged with
these men in perpetuating their power
and influence for mischief, knowing and
sustaining them in their corruptness, and
frequently receiving, we believe, por-
ton Of their ill-gotten gains; that he, in
common with them, proscribes and de-
nounces all who present their claims for
public Office to the Republican. party,
without first greasing their polluted
fingers, and the palm Of his unctuous
hand, with the usual tribute of bride,
and That all men who seek to resist or
overthrow their reign as party leaders,
receive from him and them storms of
Vituperation. falsehood and abuse.
In support Of these wholesale allega-
tions, the committee produced affidavts
from DR.. P. NJ. Dickinson, H. McDon>
ough, Judge Waldron, Nelson Coleman,
Abraham Humphreys, P. D. Beecher,
and Frank Steiber, all showing corruption
and bribery.
JOHN H. BOWEN PAYS $4,000.
Oh the 23d day of March, 1869, DIR.
M. Dickinson declares on oath
That some time in the spring of i S6S,
John Fl. Bowen, present Tax Collector
for the city of Memphis, informed him,
Dickinson that in the canvass for the
city officers in the winter of 1878, he,
the said Bowen, paid to Edward Shaw,
VIM. I. Kennedy, and afisnt believes. to
u. c. Carter, the sum of two thousand
(S2, 900 dollars, in cash, to secure his,
(Bowen's) nomination and election to
the Office of Tax Collector, which he now
holds, and that the said Bowen advised
him, Dickinson, that ifhe wanted an Office
he could procure it in the same way.
LEWIS PAYS 1900.
On the same day, Il. McDonough des
ciares on oath
That just previous to the convention
for the nomination of county officers,
and member of the Board of County
Commissioners, in the spring of 1868,
afhant, as the agent and friend of both
parties, negotiated between f. W. Louis
on the one part, and W. T. Kennedy upon
his own, and on behalf of II. C. Carter
and Ed. Shaw, an agreement, by which
the said F. W. Louis agree to pay to the
said Kennedy the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars-fve hundred to be paid to each
of the said three named mens-for their
influence in securing his nomination and
election as one of the Board of County
Commissioners of Shelby county, and
that it was the understanding that the
said amout was to be paid out of the sal-
airy of the said Louis after his election,
and that said Louis has since repeatedly
stated to affiant that he has from time to
time paid them various sums Of money
since his election, according to said con,
tract
WOODWARD DAVIS.
On the 23d day of March, Dr. p. NJ.
Dickinson declares on oath
That during the spring Of 1868, when
Jesse b. Woodward, of Memphis, was
endeavOring to obtain the appointm mt
of County Attorney from the County
Commissioner of Shelby county, he said
Woodward, both before, and after his
appointment as such Attorney, frequently
told him, Dickinson, that, in order to ser
cure his appointment, he had agreed and
promised to pay to VIM. T. Kennedy,
Ed. Shaw and Ii. G. Carter portion of
his salary during the whole time that he
should hold said office, if they should
succeed in obtaining his appointment
from the said Board Of Commissioners,
and that since his being appointed to the
said Office that he had paid according to
his agreement, and that he had still to
pay them during the time that he shOnld
remain in office.
THEY PRESS LOUIS Too HARD
Judge Geo. w. Waldron, on the 23d
day of March, 1869, declares on oath
That sometime about the month of
January, 1869, f. w. Louis stated to him,
WaldrOn, that he had agreed to pay to
Ed Shaw five hundred dollars to secure
his nomination and election for County
Commissioner. That he had his family
to support, and that Shaw wanted the
money faster than he could afford to paw
it, and support his family too
9EO NJ. GREEDY LEARNS THE Secret.
By the affidavit of Nelson Coleman. the
committee shows that Geo. NJ. Greedy OBJ
tanned his nomination for the Office OF
County Register, by paying Shaw, Carter
and Kennedy, each, fifty dollars down and
from time to time, the balance of five
hundred dollars, as agreed upon.
CORRUPT PROPOSAL DECLINED.
Abraham Humphrey testifies on the
9Th day of April, 1869, on oath
That on Monday, the Goth day of
March, 1869, afiant had conversation
with VIM. I. Kennedy, in which he,
Kennedy, asked him, Humphrey, to 90
and see Hon. Henry G. Smith, Judge o.
the Supreme Court of Tennessee, and
sae if Tudpa Smith xronJ