Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-25
A FAIR ELECTION.

The Radicals are insisting on fair, hon
est, square election next Thursday. That is
just what the Democrats want and intend to
have. In every election held in this city an
army of colored repeaters has been organ
lied, and it is notorious that they voted
early and often" in every ward in the city.
To show the frauds that were committed in
this city two years ago we make the follow
ing extract from the APPEAL of November
"a, 1876: ''The proof of these irregularities
may be found in the comparative figures of
this and other elections. For instance, In
1874 Young, Democratic candidate for con-
gress, received 1857 votes, againts 1853 for
Lewis, the Radical candidate; whereas this
year (1S76) Young received 5645 votes, or 10
less than Tilden and Hendricks and 312 less
than he received in 1874; Randolph receiving
1888, or 1919 more than Lewis received in
1874 and 20 votes less than Hayes and Vince
Ter. Again, in 1874 Young, for congress, re-
ceived in Shelby county 8841 votes and Lewis
$40, making total of IA, 681 votes; contrast
ed with which this year Q876) Young received
in the county 1903 votes and Randolph
1892, making total of 1886 votes, show
ing an increase over the vote of 1872
of 1858, and over that of 1874 of
1914 votes, and showing, also, falling off
from the Democratic vote of 1874 of 339
votes, and an increase of 2252 over the Re-
publican vote of 1874, so that while Young
runs with his ticket he receives 339 votes less
in 1876 than he received in 1874 and Ran
dolph, while he runs behind his ticket, re-
ceives 1882 votes more than Barbour Lewis
did in 1874. Where did this increase of vote
come from? From a tabulated statement
of the city vote before US we find 1910 of
these votes accounted for those wards being
most'conspicuous for increase that were I'M
der the control of Radical manipulators,
backed by the Federal authority of Garrett
and his deputies" These figures demon
strate that the grossest frauds were commit
ted In the November elections two years ago
by the Radicals, and an effort will be made
to repeat them on Thursday next. 1t is
known that the colored voters are as much
alike as so many blackbirds, and can there
fore repeat their vote in the same ward. This
they have done in former elections, and will
no doubt make an effort to repeat the expert
ment on the first Of August. There
are colored voters in this city
who boast that they voted as often as
they pleased in the last election for mayor
For ten years the Radicals carried all the
southern States by the grossest and most pal
pable frauds upon the ballot-box The dis
closures recently made by the Potter COM
mlttee demonstrate how the Radicals manip-
ulated the ballot-box in Louisiana and Flori-
da. In every election in Shelby county an
organized band of colored repeaters have
voted IN every ward from the first to the
tenth. In the face of these facts the Radi-
calls are clamoring for fair election. The
evidence of Radical fraud in the elections in
this city two years ago consists in this: That
while Csseyl Young received 339 votes less
than in 1874, Randolph, while running be-
hind his ticket, received 2252 votes more
than cast for Lewis. In Memphis Young lost
3l2, while Randolph gained on the vote of
1874, 1919. Randolph gained on Lewlss
vote IN the first ward, 90; in the second
ward, 50; Ia the third ward, 81; In the fourth
ward, s.; in the fifth ward, 1877; in the sixth
Svard, 70; in 1.-the eighth ward, IA; in the |
t3nth ward, $50. This unvarying increase of
the Radical vote, without a corresponding |
loss on the Democratic vote, indicates that |
the negro repeaters performed their work in |
every ward in the city. Tie gain of nearly |
two hundred Radical votes in the |