Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-25
Coming Events and What May
Happen.
0vRRTON HOTEL,
MEMPHIS. TENN.. July %. $50. !

MEMPHIS. TENS., July q, lSIO.J
To the Editor of the Ledger:
As chip of the old block / claim
an introduction to your readers. l have
been left with Simon Beaumont while
the old gentleman Commodore Stout
has gone to Washington with Barbour to
perfect their plans and counterfeit the
misunderstanding Rutter in New York.
Simon, after the late defeat, invited me
to 90 with him into Mississippi is net
necessary now to go into details of the
sensation we created there, for Simon
has really become a changed man in his
department as a politician; he is more
docile and tame, compared to his early
history as Radical.
Our appearance in Memphis at this
time must not surprise you. As an cleo
ton is approaching, Simon and my
self packed up for Tennessee. Our ar
rangements were made in the absence of
Barbour to secure something available
for Simon's friend, Harry Lee. This
could be done only by packing the ward
meetings and buying up any oppo-
nents. 1t worked finely and the result
is Harry got the nomination for Probate
Judge, and to keep Barbours friends
quiet Craig receceived the Attorneyship
of the Bartlett Court, Simon will be
satisfied for the present, as his ambition
is now TO 90 "on record " as a Republi-
can in good earnest, and something will
turn up to his advantage hereafter.
Several incidents occurred worthy of
note at our ward meetings and the con-
vention following them, and as we drove
to each meeting we found our selection
of delegates successful Simon and Jesse
in one ward Curry, 4 Co., in another, and
in the noble Seventh Shaw and Kennedy
with payments dozen can be easily taken
care of. To which Simon exclaimed:
my boyl this is fine nights work.
On approaching Lincoln Chapel, at a
late hour Seventh Ward, the uproar
and tumult there indicated something
was wrong. We found the first set Of
delegates were thrown overheard by a
fresh arrival of African troops, and
new seiectiap was demanded, 1t was
forgotten that white man had not been
put on, when l.. E. Dyer was nominated.
CIV. Cook and one or two Of his friends
voted in this negative. Dyer could not
stand this Raising his cane, he ex-
claimed he knew why this opposition;
the dog and cur Cook was at the bot
tom of it, as he Dyer was going to OPP
pose Cooks nomination in the conven-
ion the next day. After trade of
personal sbpse, with vulgar epithets, he
is replied to in q gen.lsmanly manner by
Cook; but Secretary Dyer e1pld moi keep
still, and made another onslaught, when
DR.. Beaeker made motion to ad-
journ, and those who wanted to change
the meeting into a 1oh gould stay
and fight it out. This was too much
a matter of good decorum, when Dyer
charged into poor Beecher as being a
Democrat, and no Republican, and Dyer
being reinforced by Shay, b9th BECAME
furious, aud indications were bad whisky
had something 10 do with it. when
charges with proofs were offered that at
a former day Dyer had said he wanted
no piggers TO vote for or nominate him
as candidate, and, hence, he could be
no consistaAt Republican. But while
clerk for BarbouTs County Court at
81 500 per year, he quietly changed bis
mind
at the convention Simon and myself
we're exceedingly mortified, for no high
position of trust was rendered Simon;
and the most cutting breach of usual
parliamentary rules was, when Simon, in
one of his patriotic and pathetic speeches,
made a motion a certain committee