Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-10
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Last evening several ciuzens, such as
Jesse Brown, Robertson Topp, and few
workingmsn, invited their friends to at
tend dark.lantern meeting in the JEFF
ferson block, on Second street, when it
was expected the process Of incubation
would take place and the political chick.
ems would break out of the Independent
egg. II was rumored that the chickens
then TO be brought into light from dark.
ness would be able to raise such cackle
that the political day would break many
hours in advance Of its time, and that a
general division of Offices would take
place. Mr.. Jesse Brown expected to be
on the ticket, but by some strange twist
of the wheel he was left out in the cold.
He even had invited his friends to attend
in order to witness how a man could
have Office thrust upon him, as the peo-
pie were calling upon him in loud tones
to sacrifice his business.and fortune and
once again enter the political arena
Colonel Topp and other gentlemen had
been visiting leading business men for
several days asking them TO accept NOM
nations, but score of refusals met the
aristocratic looking committee on every
corner. At last it was believed that a
sufficient number of Independents had
formally given their consent to sit in a
chair at Nashville. The meeting last
night was a secret conclave, dark-lan-
tern Know.Nothing concern, from
which reporters were excluded and to
which the suspected were refused admit
lance. Just imagine a citizens meeting
to nominate legislators for the people
holding dark-lantern meeting; but
few old Know. Nothings in the gang uu-
derstood how all this should be worked,
they having been through the old bust
ness years ago. John W. Doyle, of the
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad shops,
took the chair, and Mr.. Harrington. OF
the Machinists and Blacksmiths Union
acted as secretary.
The brethren were all there, and Rob
ertsou Topp, as chairman of the com
mittee to select nominees, informed the
crowd that the committee had had hard
work endeavoring to induce merchants
and leading men to run on the ticket, or
in other words, they wanted no indie
pendent movement in theirs. Mr. Topp
commenced divulging the dark lantern
secrets of the order, when it was discov.
cred the Avalanche reporter was pres.
ent. Horror of horrorsl Turn him out
What business has reporter in dark
lantern meetingP Why, he would make
everything public And that's what the
boys did not want. The reporter was,
on motion, expelled from what was
called citizens meeting
After the expulsion the People Re
form and Workingmen's party commit
tee went to work in the old style, and
from out Of the dark cavern came the
following ticket:
Senators-George B. Fleece, VIM. NJ.
Randolph.
Pictorial Senator-Emerson Etheridge
Pictorial Representative--To be filled
from Fayette county.
Representatives j. T. Reynolds,
Henry Craft, j. W. Doyle, L. B. Horri-
gan, D. B. Molloy, Judge George Dixon.
While Messrs. Robertson Topp, W. L.
Vance, Ramsey, Jesse Brown, A. Hitz-
field, Messenger, Doyle, Harrington and
score Of others known to the back
kicking movement we're fixing up the
politics of Shelby county and nominal
ing imaginary Senators and Representa-
tives, who we're to attend the Barmece-
dian feast of Office, another party were
fixing up ticket, which presents
stronger material, and in point of avail.
ability drives the p. R. and W. ticket
into obscurity. This ticket is as follows:
Senators-Emerson Etheridge and A.
j. Kellar.
Representatives-W. NJ. Randolph,
General NJ. 7. Williamson, l.. B. Horri
gan, John 7. Reynolds, j. W. Dolye
John ]. Duffy, H. Lemon and R. c,
Daniels.
When the two tickets are compared it
will be seen that they materially differ
in complexion, snd all this furnishes
food for thought to those who can take
the trouble to think Of politics. 1t is
evident that the Robertson Topp ticket
is as weak as could be desired by even
its most earnest opponent, and could
not control FIVE hundred votes in Shelby
county. Colonel Jesse Brown was left
off the ticket, as were several others who
expected to be on. The other ticket
may be called the Independent and
Radical ticket, gotten up with view
to combination of elements from
representative classes of people
1t may be that several of the nominees
on both tickets will refuse to run, and
that their places will have to be filled by
other names. II is said that Colonel
Kellar, II. Lemon, H. Graft, D B. Mol
10y and Judge Dixon refuse to allow their
names to 20 before the people on these
tickets, but time will pan cut this politi-
! - mystery. The P, R. and W. party
,;okot comes before the people in bad