Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-23

| a Speaker Of the National House oil Representa-
/ tives would depend, who thus chosen, would a
4 the fruit of said conspiracy, exercise paramount
| influence and control over the whole characte
| was in further violation Of said laws, in that i
undertook to usurp the rights OF the citizens
| votes to the benefit Of the said
| CHALMERS,
| who, it was well known by each of the partie,
| thereto, would not have been voluntarily chosen
by Republicans nor selected as their candidate bs
the Democrats of said district, he having at tht
time of said conspiracy become as intolerable tc
| the latter, against whom his name had for years
been hurled as degrading epithet, as he had Ions
been detested by the former for crimes perpetrated
SsH i benefit Is so heaftiess and brutal
bold and bloody, in their character, that
the name of mississippi and the "Shoestring'
adopted as texts whereby to atralgn the civliza-
ton, humanity and government OF the American
that the self-announced candidacy of said Chal-
mers never received the Endorsement of the Re
Republican Convention at sardis was an unau-
thoriZed assemblage of individuals selected by
Buchanan and other! working with him, whose
action they. could direct and c0utroi, most OF
whom represented its several counties by proxy.
appointed as such by Buchanan, who himself
acted as proxy therein for another county besides
his own: that there was no pub &c call issued for
the holding Of such convention, and that it was
trict until after it had met and adjourned.
In support of the foregoing charges, am pre-
and conditions Of said conspiracy, A. T. Wimber-
ly, one of the parties thereto, and chairman, as
aforesaid, OF the Greenback party OF. Mississippi,
and Edgar A. West, also a member of said party,
were commissioned at salary OF SIS per day, in
the disguised capacity OF special agents of internal
revenue, by
GREEN B. RAUM, COMMISSIONER OF INTER
NAL REVENUE,
for a period OF time to extend only beyond the
date of election and assigned to duty in said dis
Service, and where they both devoted their whole
time and service elecIioneenng in the interest of
Ia Nun a nj nfc T Qnur n
70 have been irand I,tasa the kaseIane ses<ie 81
the government and the fund appropriated for its
that the stipHlated influence of the administration
was exercised In the interest OF said Chalmers,
ces in said district the tenure to which was made
subservient to a willingness TO support and work
with removal, by Chalmers's Managers If he did
not cease supporting rfei the postmaster at New
Albany being Immediately removed for refusing
to obey Wimbery' command TO go out and WORK
for Chalmers; and the postmistress at Holly
springs being also removed to make place and
salary for another of his workers: their removal
and the appointment OF their successors being
made upon Recommendation of D. b. Henderson,
secretary OF the Republican Congressional Com
mittee, at the local instance and request of either
Buchanan or Wfmberly. l am further prepared
to prove that the stipulated
INFLUENCE OF THE ADMINISTRATION IN
CHALMERS'S BEHALF
was, at Chulshoma and other places In said dis
trct still more fisgrantly exercised by Wimberly,
just returned from Washington, who, being intro
duced to the voters there as special envoy direct
from the seat OF government TO tell them what its
leaders wanted them to do, stated to them that he
had met and talked with Ill tho leading men and
politicians there. and they all h7l but one word,
Congressional Committee wanted them to elect
Chalmers; that the Presidents Cabinet and friends
wanted them to elect Chalmers and that the Presi-
dent himself wanted them to elect Chalmers,
which attempt to control The viii of said voters
was seSiti91s and reyoI1tisneTy tending TO su6-
makes the humblest of its voters the sovereign
not the subject of its executive servants In COM
pllance with the te ms of said conspiracy
SecoRd.-I am further prepared to prove that va
rious and large sums of money, furnished by the
in said district in the purchase votes to be cast
for said Chalmers, and that in further compliance
By Geo. c. GOrnam. and claiming 10 reflect the
Republican sentiment of the country as well as to
speak for the wishes of the President and others in
authority upon all matters pertaining to the South
which paper was freely distributed throughout
said district as campaign sheet-devoted its col
Of Chalmers's congressional interest urging and
;olemnly exporting its Republican voters te elect
him That while thus performing its stipulated
service, this administration" organ issuing from
me seat Of government. claiming to voice the SEN
: .. PRESIDENT
whose nomination had voted for; because that
|, to save The party which had so nonored BIN,
rom an infamy that with one voice it cried out
because urged by the pleading help
eSsness OF those of my own race, whom these
eions of Judas and shylock aimed TO deliver into
he hands Of this living Legree had dared In their
License. to opposs myself to such conspiracy, as
Republican candisate this organ and its attsinted
ditor undertook TO read me out OF the party which
had helped to found; had dared to serve and
ad labopet to malntain; AGAINST the leagued as
assins and hangmeu, led by this man Chalmers;
Ehen the fresh blood of their victims greeted |
very mornings sun and rose in damning testi- |
e belonging to the salaried and secure ranks of
ne latter; this Chalmers eulogist and panderer;
nd beiied as its high 'primate and priest. at
empted 70 proclaim me as Democratic hire
a stalled sire to brand me as ''slavehound,"
nd to anathemattze me as NEGRO who would
roeably in slave times. have fetched the goodly
1hird.-In supported the charge of Intimidation
% n s% e Prove that
ere deferred from assembling at the places where,
candidate was announced 10 address them,
Id his managers who warned them that trouble
as sure to follow If should offer to speak at said
Ieh places If they did not want to be killed or
lrt, which warnings aud advice, to people ae-
tainted as they were with
CHALMERS AND HIS METHODS
the adjoining '.shoestring'' district they could
u be blamed in needing, rightly concluding, tnat
ID already been sacrificed. That to confirm the
ars and spread the terror thus created my meet
g were in different places broken up 9y ms
ection, my friends were driven from the voting
aces by threats against their lives should they
ltch reasons / charge that 1904 Repuoncan
tsrz Of said district were unlawfrlly disfran-
y SHOWN census 81 Of WITCH only
SOS are shown by the returns Of said election 70
We voted, said number exceeding the total white
te of said district by only $50, flon which, de-
citing the 129 returned for myself only rs OF its
lored voters found to have responded 70 ;
her your appeals or Chalmers's corrupt bid
ngs, which deductions am sustained in by the :
rtainty of the entire white vote of said district
wing been polled at said election, owing to the .
IRENE raneor and determination exhibited
roughout the canvass by both its Democratic
d Green back parties. II
Fourth.-I am also prepared to prove that said i
ction was illegally conducted through unlaW- !
interference on the part oil special deputies, l
pointed in the interest OF Chalmers, by the r
lfted States marshal and supervisors of election /,
said district, who, in several places, where the
syented the holding of an election by causing q
arrest OF The officers in charge OF such voung
Ice, or, an election was permitted TO be held,
soon as the polls were Closed would
SHE THE RALLoT-BoXEs /
d carry them away before any count or result OF !
balloting had been aseertalned; that such I'M
Vful conduct was notable on the part OF J. K | I
mum and w. II. Bruton, the former of whom I
lsed the otlcer charged with the holding OF an
ction at Byhalia, in Marshall county, 70 be ar I
ted on the morning of said election day, Just
ore the hour for opening the polls; the latter
selling the ballot-box at Jacksonville, in the
ne county, as soon as the polls were closed
nping on the train and carrying il to Holly
general conduct OF said deputies, who, IN p
u -handed disregard OF law. constituted them e
YES the sole functionarieS OF said election A | :,
'eWortny feature of The appointment OF these !
lnnes, being their selection in almost, II not l
~, case IRON a political body in said State Il
Ing Itself the Greenbsek-Laoor party, com Z
a, of its most lawless and and irresponsible
IS OF citizens, the accreted sloughings of is b
lnent and foul political ulcers, who have y
opted this appelative in concealmeut of their z
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