Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-21
THE NATIONAL
Meeting In the Ninth Ward on Friday
Night-Turner's Attack on General
GOrdOn-A Speech Full Of
MISREPRESENTATION.

EDITORS APPEAL-On Friday night the
Nationals had meeting near the stock-yards,
in Chelsea, at which Messrs. Turner, Green, y
Evans, Kortrecht and Rankin harangued
them. 1t was amusing to observe how oell-
cose Turner was, knowing his competitor was
not present and no reply expected or desired
from any one of the Democratic party. He
charged the Democracy of Tennessee with be-
ing responsible for the hard times, and ina
bility OF so many thousand laboring men to
obtain employment. His picture of the poor
laborer was given in the usual manner.
Starting out at six o'clock in the morning,
and after hunting all day in vain for work,
he returns to his wife and children e.Cdctty at
six o clock in the evening, they receiving him
with the cry of Bread, bread, father, give
US breadr' Turner ought to have this poor
fellow photographed. He has told the story
SO often, never varying IN the pathetic de-
scription, that l have no doubt he himself be-
gins to believe in it as sketch of true life.
Very often case like this has that effect
Turner said to his colored hearers, that the
Democrats expected to buy their votes, and
advised them to take all that was offered
them, and then vote the National ticket.
Green Evans, colored, who followed Turner,
talked more honorably than Turner did on this
subject, as he told them that if they received
money from Democrats, then they should
vote their ticket; but he advised them not to
take any money from Democrats, but vote
the NdIlOnal UlCkeC. NulIo a Qlnerenc6 IN the
morality and integrity of the two speakers, in
which the colored speaker comes off first best.
But the most outrageous assertion made by
Mr.. Turner was when, after spread eagling"
the great privilege of the elective franchise,
enjoyed, as 1t now is, by men of all national
titles, and the native born, white and colored,
he asserted that the Democrats were getting
tired OF buying negro votes, and that they
intended, In the next legislature to make a
property qualification for voters of two hum
dred and hfty dollars worth of real estate.
Raising his voice to a high pitch, he yelled
out: That law would deprive me (Turner)
of a vote, as it would all of you colored men,
He continued in this demagogical strain for
some time, on this and other kindred misrep-
resentatlons, made 'out of whole cloth"
Vide kortrecht. He was terribly severe
upon his opponent (being we'll aware he was
| ABSENT, asserting that he (Gordon) was re-
peatlng falsehoods about HIM, but presumed
he learned them from others. Turner re-
tailed another Bartlett story, in which he was
| the hero and champion, in which, presume,
there Is about as much truth as in that other
Bartlett story, which was so admirably ex-
posed by General Gordon at Kerrville last
Tuesday. | would not give much for Tur-
ner's skin when Gordon gets hold of this last
Bartlett banting. He will fay him out nice
ly, | am sure, although never heard of the
matter before. CHELSEA.
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