Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-21
COMMENT ON A SOUTHERN
REPUBLICAN.
The Holly Springs South On the
WiId-Eyed Candidate for
Congress.

By request from a Memphis friend
we publish the following extract from
the Holly Springs South, Of a late
date, but will simply say that Mr..
Moore is merely running for bun
combe, is not in the race, and we do
not propose to waste much ammuni
ton on this half demented monomanl
&C. 1.-The keeps on long tho way ne is
going, he will be in a luuatic asylum
instead of congress; -,
w. r. Moore, republican candidate
for congress, for the Tenth congress
sional district of Tennessee. read a
speech at the GreeplaW opera house
in Memphis on the night Of the 4!h
instant, which, without being remark
able for any considerable or novel
force, has attracted no little atten-
ton from the fact, that, born in the
south and enriched by the favors OF
the southern people, he has taken the
occasion to misrepresQnt and abuse
them. He referred to Solomon as a
wise man who said that though you
should bray a fool in a mortar among
wheat with a pestle yet would not his
foolishness depart from him. If he Is
a fool who knows no better than Ia
falsify his neighbors and friends, W.
thinkthe gentleman quite well answers
the description of the wise man be
was so silly as to quote. He declared
that certain editors we're now adyo-
eating the policy Of making the south
solid by a system Of intimidation and
terrorism unknown to any other pee
pie under the sun claiming to be civl
lied" 1t would seem singular, il
this is true, that with a lifelong ac-
ouaiutance with hundreds Of this
description of men, we are not &C
auainted with a single one OF the sort
in Memphis or out OF it in the south.
He calls this charge Of advocating
lawless violence a grave one. lie
proves it by saying that poor White
trash had committed violent and un-
lawful acts in certain neighborhoOds
which the body Of the people OF
all parties disapprOyed and discoun-
tenanced, but, like the people Of the
northern section, we're unable e
suppress. And then he has indelibly
stamped himself a fool by attempting
to prove one charge by makinganother
in substance and meaning as false a.
the first. He cannot name a man.
And 50, for the benefit Of his northern
coadjutOr, he makes a general charge
and seeks to escape responsibility ioI
the falsehOod BY saying that if he
should venture to name D It would
be resented even unto blood There
was another man as wise as Solomon.
to whose caution be should have given
heed not to write himself down az
ass" If he had done SO, be would
hardly have spoken Of nine-tenths Of
his white fellow citizens as guilty Of 3
moral c0Eardice," which it is the
mission Of the republican party 70
dissolve and dissipate. Oniy ass
No. / could stand befgre an audience
Of the intelligent men Of Memphis and
tell them they used only sbotgua
arguments" while a few dozen Of bis
pale color depended alone % free
and open and intelligent and honest
discussion. The world knows they
Oh craft aud the bsyOnet and
misleading colored people, mainly BY
belyiBg the masses Of the white peO-
PIE. and making pretenee Of being
friends than their neighbOrs,
ike carpet baggeTs, they are
only the wort lie is either ine1na
BE. or tWo maligBant tOWads bis
toEnsmeu. V zee that the Tea& for
rotten awning few Immigrants, and
~low-pncei buildings and lands. Of
which be speaks, IL not the result 81
any abuse Of c0iOFed people o strang
ers On the part Of the people 81 Mem
phis, but the direct consequences o.
the Misrepresentation and ISLANDERS
which he and men like lin
are continually perDetrahbg and
circulating throughout the north
err states for political purposes