Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-01
LYNCH VS.. CHALMERS.
The House Listens 20 the Two
Wen ia Their own Behalf
The republicans 20 Dust
the Latter.
snerinl 70 Courier-Journal.

WASHINGTON, April "a. = The
| Lynch and the Chalmers, of the
| Lynch Chalmers case, had the floor
to-day, and Lynch had the gallery as
well. There has been a spell of purely
white craftsmanship in the House,
which made the speaking of . colored
man somewhat OF a novelty, and some
how the ether colored men all man
aged to find out that their Mississippi
champion would have his say to day.
At 3 o'clock he was given the floor,
Elk Senator Bruce had come over
from his easy place in the Treasury
Department, and sat his tat and COM
Portable self down in a chair next the
Speaker. The north gallery was one
black cloud of interested brothers,
and when Lynch rose to his feet there
was applause, promptly suppressed
BY the, Speaker. The white and
beautiful wife Of Bruce sat in another
gallery, all traces of her African de
scent literally showed under. Mr..
Polygimous Cannon, fresh from his
own unsuccessful contest, came in to
see how Chalmers would fare at the
hands of the majority. Kellogg came
over from the Senate and sat
through both speeches, evidently in
terested TO know how the black and
white districts of the lower
Mississippi are going to stand in com
ing years. Lynch is good speaker,
tall and comely of face, with droop-
ing mustache and Roman nose; one
might say he looks like Pitt Kellogg
done in Bronze. He waived the law
and facts of the case, and plunged at
once into the sentimental part OF the
question. He said the old color pro-
scription did not now exist In the
South; that an ante bellum white aris-
toorat, who had record in the Confed-
crate army, would have Jared as hard
as he in making Republican race for
Congress in the Sixth Mississippi dis
trict; and the one place in his speech,
applauded with much demonstration
on the Republican side, was where he
said, with much emphasis, that AL
the South wants is public sentiment
that will destroy political prescription
and intolerance and this was the
burden Of the speech. He bore down
particularly on the word political :
| then followed his figuring up of his
majority and charges Of personal con,
niying at fraudulent throwing out o.
ballots on the part of Chalmers and 9
peroration filled with quotation from
Lincoln. The Republicans all rushed
up and shook him by the hand.
General Chalmers went to the hear
of the matter by commencing Lynch
| for adhering to his opening statement
of determination let the law and the
| facts in the case entirely alone, anC
then proceeded to deal mainly will
the law and the facts, answering viii
some fire in his eye, the charge Of an.
personal conniving at wrong, alludinl
| in this connection to his "contestan
and his co-conspirators." Then h
made for himself clear case in tn
law and the facts, explaining tn
marking Of the illegally marked bal
lots, after which he explained the hol'
he had on the colored vote, saying that
instead Of making his canvass wit
shot guns and pistols. as charged, h
made it with colored band Of musi
in a wagon painted red, white an
blue.
The excellent array Of facts an
arraignment Of high-handedness o
the part Of the majority in Congress
will 20 for nothing, however, for Nj
Lynch will be voted in to morrow
aud the Democrats will not, as ha
been said, flibuster or make della
/, other than to stand up as a solid pre-
test against the Illegally Of the thin
Mr.. Lynch, it is said, would be Dc
: lighted to have Democratic filibustel
J ing and general illumination Of b
case, but there is no time to give I
, his vanity.