Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-04
Local PoIIticnI Points.


on the bluff last night.
The last democratic grand rally
comes off on the bluff tonight.
The old rhyme, "The beggars have
come to town, some in rags and some
in tags, and some in dusty gowns"
fitted the rabble last night to a dot.
Said a sporting man on the street
corner this morning: 81 can call the
turn for a ten-dollar note. 1t will be
Athy-Shaw-with Powell in hook. "
Employees regard the ensuing cleo
ton as a sort of general holiday. En-
ployers look upon it in a more serious
light, as large business interests are
at stake.
Athy, Shaw, Powell, is the way the
count will show up. Several bets
were made to-day that this would be
the order of the three candidates nu.
merical strength.
They had a damp bad time at the
Brunswick and Cuba barbecues yes
terday, but politics made up in
warmth, what the dripping skies
lacked in dryness.
A barbecue to the colored people
on Presidents Island is in progress
to-day. Tie orators of this occasion
are Mr.. T. R. Boyle and Colonel A.
H. Douglass.
All of the orators at Cuba yes
terday spoke from a perch on top of
an open wagon, and during the rain
drizzle, yet held the crowd and
kept up the interest.
Every effort to cast an illegal ballot
to morrow should be promptly
squelched and the rascal who attempts
to perpetrate the wrong should be
sent to the lookup.
It was generally conceded by all
shades of political feeling last night,
thai Elder Hurley, colored, made a
much better oratorical effort than his
coadjutor in the cause, Col. Eaton.
Sidewalk observers remarked that
they saw in the black pageant last
night numbers of country-looking
darkies, with fresh dust from the
Mississippi cotton fields on their
shoes.
Not a single white man could be
discerned in the RAIDS procession last
night. AS usual, they generated
their forces from an invisible bomb
proof place and sent their black CO.
horts to the front in solid columns.
The contest has narrowed down to
a fight between honesty and i%ntelli-
gehce, as represented by Athy, and
dishonesty aud ignorance as embodied
in Shaw. The picture is faithfully
represented. Gentlemen, you who
have the welfare of Memphis at heart,
take your choice.
1t is plainly apparent to many that
certain representative men of both
the RAIDS and the nationals would be
delighted to make trouble at the cleo
ton tomorrow. Their incendiary
advice may be a sort of "sarkasm" in
their individual opinions, but it has a
deeper meaning to the peacably dis
posed.
About one hundred and fifty con,
victs on the Ensly plantation, in the
Thirteenth civil district are debarred
from voting, and some twenty-five or
thirty other colored men of the same
district have been in states prison and
are therefore infamous, and, under the
law, if they attempt to cast an illegal
ballot, they will be challenged and
arrested tomorrow.
The most serious feature Of the
local contest is the Athy-
Shaw contest, Powell being too
weak for serious consideration. w
could stand a two years siege of a man
like Eaton, and even bigoted Bigelow
might be tolerated with meekness, but
a dose of Ed Shaw would be worse
than a summers visit of Yellow Jack,
small pox and cholera, all to wunst "
In the long procession of blacks
last night, each carrying an illumi-
mated tin oil lamp, as the bowling
crowd passed the Peabody hotel,
every loud mouth bawler, with one
exception, yelled, SHAW Show !
hurrah for Shaw III" The exception
referred to was a little limpy squeaky
voiced roustabout. whose falsetto
notes were interpreted into, "Hurrah
for Harry Hill for criminal jedgel"
Ifanything was needed to forcibly
impress upon the minds of the doubt
ing ones that there was a chance for
John Powell, the display of the re-
publicans last night rudely dispelled
such thoughts. Even the blind can
now see that a vote for Powell is half
q vote for Shaw, and personal friend
ship should not be allowed to stand in
the way Of those who wish to stand in
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