Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-08

NE PInyeth Two Hands M Little
Game OF Chancery.


the Sun, Sheriff Wright has received, as
we'll as an order to serve copy Of the
same on the defendant, r. j, Morgan,
and setting the case for trial in the Office
of the Clerk and Master OF the Chancery
Court in this city on the llth f'July
next. Following is the manner in which
Ayres plays the game Of Chancery, which
in Texas would be called the game Of
impudence:
FIRST HAND-FIRsT CARD.
The new Constitution which has lately
been ratified by the people under article
IL, sec. 8, says the Judicial elections
shall be held on the first Thursday IN
August, and forever thereafter, next pre-
ceding expiration Of their term of office.
The election is therefore void.
SECOND CARD.
Relator is of the opinion that the Com
missioner of Registration shall hold the
election instead of the sheriff, and the
election is therefore void on this account
THIRD CARD.
The Code requires that the voting
places of any county must be changed
six months previous to an election, and
in this case the County Court only passed
the order of change on May A, preceding
the election. II is therefore void.
FOURTH CARD.
The order restraining voters from
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than those in which they resided relator
believes operated so much against HIM
as to change the result of the election.
1t is therefore void
FIFTH CARD.
Relator is informed that some of the
judges and clerks who held the election
in certain districts did not sign them
until June 9TH. The election is there
fore void.
sECOND-HAND-FIRsT CARD.
Relator believes that sufficient num-
Der of colored voters were excluded the
right of voting on one pretence and an
ether, so as to have changed the result OF
the election. 1t is therefore void.
SECOND CARD.
Relator alleges great frauds in the
First Third, Sixth and Tenth Wards,
particularly in the Third, where there
were over eleven hundred votes cast, and
in the last election preceding the present
one, only 700 votes were polled, showing
a clear gain in two months of nearly
four hundred voters. The election is
therefore void on this account.
THIRD CARD.
Relator alleges in general that, In
many instances, officers holding the cleo
ton made false returns. The election
is therefore void.
FOURTH CARD.
Relator alleges that in many instances
the Judges of election elected from the
polls negro voters, and relator believes
that he will be able to produce sufficient
proof at the proper time to show clearly
that enough colored voters were thus
elected as to have changed the. result OF
the election.
FIFTH CARD.
Relator believes that the regulations
requiring voters to vote in their own
wards was enforced for the purpose OF
ensuring his defeat.
(Signed) 7. S. AYREs.
Well, this is jolly old game. Ayres
knows right well that he cannot win a
trick, but his object is to create as much
confusion as possible, and by that means
step into some position against the
wishes of the people As to any one, white
or black, Democrat or Radical, being ex-
Guided from voting, it is all bosh, and
every Radical in towa knows it. As to
the frauds in the Third Ward, it is all
twaddle, the increased vote of that pre-
cinct resulting from the fact that large
number of workingmen who reside in
that ward were compelled, under the
law, to vote there, although in previous
elections they voted in wards and dis
Iricts wherein they worked. That any |
of the officers who held the election made
a false return we do not believe. There
was mistake made by a clerk in one
Of the districts, but it was not taken ad-
of or counted against Mr.. Ayres
in the returns published. As to any
negro being elected from the polls, ex-
cept upon lawful grounds, we do not be-
Iieve either, because so far we have not
heard single statement to that effect |
from any person not personally inter
ested in the result of the election. We
we're in the County Court when the
u regulations requiring voters to vote in
their own wards were passed, and heard
no discussion about any point of the sub
ject save that Of saving expense to the
county by curtailing the number Of voting
places. We don't think any magistrate
at the time thought of Ayres or his de-
feat Some game must be played to keep
Radicals in office, and Ayres is as good
a one to play it as any. But he won't
win.
MEMPHIS AND SELMA RAILRoAD.-The
citizens of Oxford, Miss, meet to-day to
take into consideration the subject Of
building the Memphis and Selma rail-
road through Lafayette county, via Ok
ford, and the probable amount of stock
they will contribute to this great work.