Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-25
THE POLITICAL L
In their Efforts to Inaugurate . Sci.
fish Scheme and Pledge the Irish
Vete TO the Republicans
Something About the
two Meetings.

main in it, becoming a candidate for
office at the hands Of the party. Mr..
Anderson vas barred from seeking the
nomination for sheriff, and that If he il
now placed on the ticket to be formed. It
must be 10 violation Of their established
laws. We have further shown that as
chairman Of the Central Club be named
those composing the committee Of eight
cen, who were instructed to make out
a ticket, and that the most of those
named by him were new members, and
all Of them were his friends; aud also
that they placed him upon the slate they
made out. We further showed that h.
was, as it were, the choice of the Rspub.
licans, after Mr.. Garrett; that they had
selected him, but why, we did not state.
Was 1t on account Of any agreed favors
be was to bestow upon them in Ease OF
his election2 Or was it because of the
resolution above referred to, ~forbidding
his candidacy, and his desire to evade
itY Perhaps it was both. But if 30, now
that the Nationals seem to be deter.
mined to make the canvass independent
of any entangling alliances with the Re
publicans, both these reasons vanish,
and it is impossible for him, under that
resolution, to become q candidate at all,
unless in violation OF all law.
AT the close of yesterdays article we
stated that on last Friday night, while
the National Central Club was in session
a small squad of self styled leading
and representative Irishmen held a
secret aucu at No. l8 Madison street,
up stairs. We promised to speak OF
their action to-day. We shall do so now
and tell how we came to know what we
speak Of. While saunteriag about on
Front street we came upon quite a large
number OF persons near the corner OF
Court. They were discussing political
matters with each other, but in a low
tone. They seemed to be there on some
common purpose, and to bs waiting for
something, which, By the questions asked
and the answers given in reply, by those
who came around the corner of Madison
and Front streets, we afterward discov.
cred was the action Of the high Join
commission Of the Nationals and Re
publicans who were to make out tht
slate. AS we went in the direction from
which the couriers cam we saw quite {
number of we'll. known Nationals arount
the entrance of the custom. house, wher,
the commission was in session. Pro
ceeding further toward Main, we also
noticed several of our Irish fsllow.citi.
z9us, VIGOROUSLY the friends and sup
porters of Mr.. Reilly at the late Demo
cratic convention, vending their way ~
stairs at No. Is Madison street. Oul
Curiosity was awakened then, and we de.
termined to watch what was going on.
We did so. About haltpast ten p m
the commission rose, went to the Nation
ais hall, and after consulting the cam
paign committee, who disapproved oil
the treaty that had been projected
the members of the Central Club were
assembled, the hi'tory of whose pro.
ceedings we gav yesterday. Outside
on the street, after the whole club had
met, certain persons were seen who
seemed TO take great interest in what
was going on in the club, for nearly all
they did and said could be easily heard
as far as the bluff, in front of their hall.
These persons were seen to 60 thence to
No. l8 Madison street, and it was clear
to the least rejecting that the Madison
street meeting bore some relation to the
other.
We ore informed hat the Madison
street sucus was presided over by Mr..
John League, aud from the active inter-
est several Of those who attended take
in politics, we think the inference jrsti.
fable that its object was political. At
least we saw 60 there, one or two, who,
after the failure of Reilly to get the
nsmination, offered 10 bet thousands
that his successful competitor, Mr..
Black, though nominated, would not be
elected, and that be would name the one
who would. We are also informed that
several others Of like inclination, aud
perhaps Of more wealth, we're there too.
Anyhow, there were at that meeting
several who assume to be leading aud
representative Irishmen." In what re-
speCt they are leading and representa-
tive" hswever, may not be so easy to
state. In point of wealth we know
several did not attend that are
far richer, Though they do not
boast of it. In regard to intelli.
gence or education, we think we
would not be mistaken should we say
that we know q few Irishmen, SO called,
who are the equals Of any OF them.
Leading and representative Irishmen,''
pshswl Whom do they who met there
lead2 Will any of them answer OF
whom ere they representatives." Ger.
tainly not of the Irish born of Memphis,
for much as the education of many OF
the Irish Of Memphis was neglected or
restrained in their early days on account
Of poverty and tyrannical English laws,
their average attain ments far exceed