Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-27
rur PEOPLES TICKET.

sired to participate, TO speak an
vote. in the selection and nomination
for candidates for mayor, city tax-eol
lector aud wharfmasGer. On both occa
sions the doors of the building wer
thrown wide-open, and the invitation c
the signers of the calls was 80 broa
and so generous as to embrsc
within their scope the whole bod.
of voters of Memphis without regard t
party. All were urged to attend. Tha
the meetings were not larger was du
TO the want of capacity of the house
aud if there are any dissatisfied,
must be because nothing short Of tn
prevalence of their own individua
will or whim over the expression O
the majority would satisfy them
We have it on the testimony of the dis
tinguished gentleman who wrote tn
call for the first meeting, that it wa
dictated by a spirit of the utmost fair
uess and candor, without any concer
of action with any of the numer
Gus gentlemen whose names had beer
mentioned for Office, or with any one
known to be friendly to them as can
didates. That it was received in thai
spirit must be self-evident to every man
in Memphis; indeed, the character oi
the larger part of those present, espe-
eiaily on Monday, was proof that it was
81. for never in the history Of the city
has so much Of its worth, ability and
intelligence been convened for the
nomination of candidates. 1t was a
mass-meeting in the best sense, in that
it was composed of as many of the best
ran-esentatives of every class of our peo-
pIea as could find place in the operahouse.
Its action. therefore, and that Of the
meeting of last night, will be ratified
and accepted by the great body of the
people as securing to them candidates,
every one % whom have hitherto been
far removed from the office-seeking
class for although MIR. Rogers has
served the city in the humble
capacity of policeman, we have never
before heard of his being a candidate
for Office, nor an office-holder. He is a
plain, unpretending man, but tried IN
any path of duty; in war, pestilence or
peace he has given the highest evidence
of manhood in a truthful, steady, con-
sfant devotion to the interests
q, unmitted to him. That be
wilt make sn efficient, honest wharf,
master, characterized by fidelity to the
intere yts Of the city and the steamboat
owners none can doubt who have
watched his course in life from boy
hood IA m manhood. OF Mr.. Locke We
can hardly trus,' ourselves to speak. We
feel toward him 10 q brother true and
tried. and could honestly muster a
whole army of sdiec tives affirmative OF
the nobility ofa character that is blame
less, and that is yet strong in every
good quality. Charley commenced at
the newspaper business, as 50 many able
men have done before him, down at the
bottom of the ladder. Even while his
father-a gentleman whose name w>s
synonym for integrity-was an hon
ore,9 and one of the wealthiest
of the business men of Memphis,
he "struck out" for himself, and served
the APPEAL on one of its then few
routes. From this work he went into
fathers office, and served as clerk
and book-keeper; and afterward into
the composing-room of the Bulletin,
where he learned to set type, and whence
he graduated into the business fully
and thoroughly prepared for all the po-
sitions he has since held. From
the Bulletin office he went into the
army, serving in the fifteenth Arkansas
from which be was transferred
to the ninth Tennessee, serving four
years, until the close Of the war, when
he was paroled. He was dangerously
wounded in the left leg at Chickamauga,
and lost bisright arm at the shoulder.joint
Il West Point, Georgia, before the
wound in his leg had healed up. Since
he war he has been engaged as book
zeepeF in the Avalanche Office, and in
he APPEAL Office as bOok-keeper
md bu. ,iness-manager. We know
iim well, intimately; and can
,ay of him that neither Mem
,his nor any other city Of the Union
,ver had an opp, prtunity of voting for
,etter or a truer man for any Office.
like modest Serg, can't Rogers, he was
,orn and reared in Memphis, and like
iim, is well known to the great body Of
,ur citizens; and we hope, ike him, VIII
,e elected in January py an
overwhelming majority Of the voters
# the city. Certainly no voter can
ind an excdse for opposing either ol
hem in politics-for they are not pat
onward by political party-nor on the
core of character, fitness or ability to
ransact the duties that may devoIve
ipon them, for they possess every
Opposition they will have,
IS will Major Busby, but we hope our
.itizens viii remember, and always keep
{ before them, that neither caucus, nor
Iarty, nor any of the machinery in
,ident to official elections, has
leen msde use of or been
.alled into play to secure their
They stand before
heir fellow-citizens the almost spon-
anenns choice of the mass-meeting Of