Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-10-10
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ws5 called to order by Edward Shaw, who
SAID tlat inasmucn as IL was customary to
nave a el Tman 20 preside upon such occa-
sions, he syOuiu nominate Tor this pc 81 ion
Mr.. Alfred Froman. TUis mo ion was carried,
and Alfred FromRn, BdiJor of the Memphis
Planet, mounted the rOstrum and said:
GENTLEMEN AND FELLow-CITIzENs-I re-
turn you my heartfelt thanks Tor this honor
you have conferred. The object OF this meet
ing is TO hear an address from Mr.. w. F. Yard
ley, the Gclcred Republican candidate ior gov
eTDor. We have come here TO do a very unu
sual thtng-to hear speech from a colored
candidate for governor. The time has cOy1o
in Tennessee when a citizen eaS enjoy the
high prerOgative Of free sF ech. In the south
the time has tOnc when there can be free
speech without regard TO color or difference of
pcntlc0l Opiuien. This il a step toward
perfect and absolute freedom. II has been
said that man of different political op mo- 8
Is not q IL ,W ed this right. Tonight We give
Truth TO the statement that free speech is al
lowed and exercised by everyone Irrespective
of political OpinIoE, race or color, for now
am going tc do what no other person, before
God, has ever done here before. take pleas
ure IN introducing to you colored man ask
ing the people Of Ter nessee for their hnffrages
for the highest ONCE in the git Of the people
Of Tenpes ee. lApplausel
SYNOPSIS OF Mr., YARDLEYR SPEECH.
After expressing his pleasure in being al
lowed the opportunity to address such an en-
lighte1ed audience, and explained the fact
that ne had not announced himself a candi.
d~te Tor governor until fifteen days or more
after the convention failed to make q ncmina-
publicans. After fifteen days ne saw that the
hght between Thomas and Porter was ineyi-
table aud unavoidable, and he having receiv-
ed urgent solicitations tJ become q candidate
c7nseDted and assumed the grave RESPONSE
biiitles of doing what re Was requested to do,
as some g YVES wanted to discuss the meas.
1res aH / csincip es of the Republican party.
Sb9rlly thereA ter gentleman from Nash
vile went to Knoxville, and in a mezting of
thirteen men, had him (YsrdIey) denounced
as Republican and a trpitOF 20 that parlV
BE hoped that tho time OF his ,mpetitoTs
ha been taken up in defending their recor',
brt now he, although an obscure citizen, ha1
10 meet charge against his own charac-
ter. some had charged in directly that he had
b en- bought and hired by the Democratic
party. II is one thing to make charge, and
another to prove 1t. He Noul repeat what he
had said in other parts OF the State that the
m an or woman who said he was hired or
b tught by the Democratic party were not
GENT 9men or lady. He was Republican,
and candidate at the urgent solicitation Of
Hayes ana Wheeler clubs all over the State,
and also in shelby county. After this ex-
planation he proceeded TO discuss the Ma
uO08l campaign. He rrais-d Hayes and
Wheeler, denounced Tilden as a Railroad Job.
bsr and copperhead during the war, and said
Hendricks was also an anti war Democrat.
These two tickets were before the people, VINO,
be ng the judges, were competent to say as to
governor on the Hayes and Wheeler ticket.
buJ AL Of his comp titors, except one, were on
the Ttld and HerdTicks ticket. He would
convince tie RI Rtpubli cans that he was more
entitled 10 the support OF The RepubIi
parry than the other competitor, General
George Nancy, whom he Just kdew as 8 gen.
eral IN the Conf derate army He knew
nothing of his record in the army, being on
the Opposi te side, and the records OF the Con-
federacy being very short as TO him. The
speaker referred to General Maney's connec-
ton with the Fennesses and Pacific railroa1,
and evidenced this as an illustra on of Gen
Iral Maney's bad management. General
NJ 5ney claimed to be an independent Repub-
lie ] candidate, and not running en- ther
National ticket. As an evidence that Cen
eral Nancy is not Republican, he resd
from the Nashville Am rfcdf, OF Septen-
ber Htl follows: 1t was stated, md
currently reported, that in speaking Uf
the subject he claimed TO be DEM
Nancy being st Franklin and announcing
him elf a candidate for governor. He be-
lieved that General Nancy should be Ie-
ceived on probation like convert In the
Methodist church. In his platform General
Nancy distrusts the ability to pay the public
obligation. When General Nancy received
the first one hundred Thousand dollars, he
q strusted this am unit as necess IIy to bu Id
the Tennessee and Pacific railroad. Yet he
rec elVed fCom t2e STATE one million eight
hundred and thirty-tve thousand dollars.
General Nancy, IN Dixon, largely Demo-
cratic county, said he was much Demo-
Crat as anybody and did not diff r from the
D-mOnIatic party nut only its M 4nagement
He denied al |averly being other than a
Democrat. The speaker denied being can
di ale by virtue OF his race, or because he
was c2lored man. He denied that Nancy
w,s ever selected q Kepu blIcan candidate,
but failed 10 secure the Endorsement of the
Republican eXecu i've committee. He crlti-
cized Maney's advocacy Of Stokes against
Sc oter in East Tennessee; Nancy eult gized
BIZ Aliens Imitation theory. which is obtec-
tiOnable 10 tennessee Republtcanism. 6en-
eral Nancy said in voting for Hayes and
Whee!er he had TO sacrifice his feelings and
pleasure; should another war arise, ne didn't
Know where 10 md him, though he didn't OBJ
] uct personally TO the course of any gentlemsn II
In the late unpleRsantnesT, for the result was
beneficial 10 HIM (Yardley). Mr.. Thomas
r. huV PnFflF
D y sw York bonds on which to borrow money
for Tennessee, which bonds should have been
state would have been morally bound for
the amount. He (Yardley) charged that
4 nder Governor FOrter's administration
there had been passed unjust and illiberal
J. VS.. He alluded first to the act protec ting
The hire of laboreTs, March ., 1875. 1t a.
passed not in the interest of the po1T and Ia
boring classes, for under 1t man can be
ch, sted out OF his wages. This is one If the
! avs which makes laborers slaves, irrespec'
I've OF their condition or politics. Another
law passed under forter's administration is a
novelty, and not to be found in any other sat
ute book in the Union. II is eXempting COM
mon ar1lers proprieJors Of places OF amuse-
wing, receiving and enteTiaing persons, and
Glowing The latter no remedy at law. This
law was not sanctioned by the enlghteud
people OF tennessee, irrespective of any pOlit-
i 3al predilec ions. By the workings of this
IaE any citizen may demand accommoda-
tion in railroad Tram, steamboat or hotel;
fused or denied by the proprie-
tor for any reasonable cause, and
have no legal means of redress. He pro-
Ceedec o illustrate this, and asked the people
Of shelby county, irrer rpecliye or politics IL
they sustained this law. [Cries Of Mol"
s. NJi" aud one person saying 'Yesi"l An
other law passed under P0Tter's administra-
tiOn, snG OF iT jury 10 the cOlOred people, as
he termed IL, was the vagrar tact, >" by which
any unfortunate person, while not employed
OF out OF business, can be arrested, fined and
sent to the ICTKuOuse. II poverty had be-
come a crime IN Tennessee, il was discOur.
tgtng 10 immigration. The speaker said he
lad now come 10 the record OF his other com
petitoT, Dorsey 3. thomas, whom he had un.
dersiOUd had done faithful service for the
STATE, SO d Democrat aud a good citizen,
aud he hop the friends OF that gentleman
would not mink ANYTHING he said about