Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-03
Local Political Points.

Local POLITICAL Points.
Shaw will not withdraw.
The polls open at 9 o'clock and
close at 4.
Read the list of orators for to.
morrow nights grand rally.
Ten-minute speeches is the order
for the grand rally tomorrow night.
The straight democratic ticket will
win this time, and don't you forget it.
At the grand rally tomorrow night
Colonel Josiah is to preside. He
knows how.
Judge L. B. Horrigan's majority is
~yariously estimated ranging every
where between 5000 and $500.
&. l.. McGowan will defeat L. B.
Eaton on Thursday by 1900 majority.
G. B. Fleece is nowhere in the race.
Twenty or more orators will make
brief addresses on the bluff at the
closing grand rally tomorrow night.
Close your business houses aud de-
vote one day to the redemption of
Shelby county from radical misrule.
The nationals were unsuccessful in
their effort to force Shaw off the track.
The mountain failed tn coma IN Ma.
homet.
Politics are getting red hot, judging
from the crowds that congregate on
street corners and discuss the merits
Of candidates.
Athy, $500 votes; Shaw, 1900
votes, Powell, 2,2OO votes, are the fig
ures marked out by our political
young man.
About 10000 votes will be polled at
the forthcoming election; 1900 in the
city and $500 in the country districts
so say political sages.
THE town is filling up with strange
darkies, and we are not going to have
any easy thing of it," Thus spoke a
leading merchant this forenoon.
Athy's majorities in the First, Sec
ond, Third, Fourth and Eighth wards
will not fall short of 1000 votes,
which will be swelled to 1000 when
the full returns of the city are made.
Thirty days in the ward or district,
six months in the county and twelve
months in state, is the naturalization
necessary to enable an American citi-
zen to vote at our election next
Thursday.
1t is now in order for General w.
j. Smith to publish another denial.
Esquire Tom Lewis, of the Twelfth
district, has been heard from, and
backs up his irststatement by a sworn
affidavit and other PROOF.
One of the best and hardest worked
members Of the democratic executive
committee, during the canvass now
closing, is the chairman on orators,
Colonel VIM. Lamartine Duff. 1t can
be truly said, without d~etraction from
others, that Colonel Duff has ner.
formed noble duty.
Southern Democrats" expressions
have been incorporated into northern
political literature, and are on the
grand rounds doing campaign service
with a vim. An extract appears in
the Cincinnati papers, copied from an
Albany IN. w. paper, and they print
it as having actually been written by
a southern democrat.
Politics in rhyme, politics in prose;
politics hot, politics cold; politics
fresh and old; new and bold; ugly and
bad; mean aud mad; at the corners
and in the house, in the woods and
everywhere around. politics are the
center eff attraction. After Thurs
day we may enjoy a brief breathing
spell, then we so in lively for a new
governor and the next president.
The Fayette county convention met
last Monday at Somerville, and four
delegates from each civil district in
the county we're appointed to attend
the Nashville gubernatorial conven-
ton on the 10th inst. Speeches were
made by the Hon. Casey Young, Tx.
Riddick, Geo. Hardin, and Q. A..
Stainback. The latter presided as
chairman,