The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-18
CARD OLE THANKS

We the members OF the Alto EXCursl on
party desire 10 return our thanks through
the columns of The BULLETIN to Captain
VIM, NJ. Williams, Agent, and w. A. Keefe
Conductor of the st. Louis and Cairo II. r.
and also to the genial clerk of the Galitan
House At Alto for special favors shown.
Although tho fishing and hunting in the
vicinity of Alto amounts to nothing "a fact
that was known to us before leaving home)
day and night was delightfully."- spent on
the road and in the pure air of the hills
that abound in that section. THE PARTY.
THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES.
Our Republican fellow citizens, both
white and black, but especially black, held
primary meetings in the five wards of the
city, and in the county, yesterday for the
purpose OF selecting delegates 10 the county
convention to be held at the court house in
this city on the 29d instant.
The proceedings of the primaries held in
the First, Second and Third wards werevery
| inharmoniOus, and the results were any.
| thing but satisfactory to the
white Republicans. In the First
| and Second wards two sets of del
| egatcs were elected one each for Damron
and Thomas. In the Third ward none
were selected and the meeting broke up,
after much wrangIng, in some confusion.
In the Fourth ward delegates were selected
and instructed for Damron; and the Fifth
ward selected delegates aud instructed
them Tor Thomas.
In the First ward the
meeting was presided over by
a colorcd gentleman named Less lIar-
ris who had much more faith in the correct
ness of the instructions received from Judge
Damrnn, or one Of the judges friends, than
he had IN the commonly accepted parha
mentery rules, or the ability of II eau
casian majority to rule, There were about
thirty.two colorcd gentlemen and thirty
seven common white trash" the former
were all for Judge Damrou, and the latter,
all for Captain Thomas. But the motion TO
appoint certain gentlemen Of Damronian
proclivitics, as a committee b select the del
egates to the county convention, which
motion was male by n coored gentlemen
OF Damronian proclivites, and voted down
by the thirty seven Th0masonian common
white trash" who were in the majority by
five was declared carried by the august in
dividual who welded the gavel. The
Damronian chair appointed the Damronian
committee which selected Damronian del
egates who were instructed to vote for
Damron, by the Damronian minority, and
then, without waiting for a motion to that
effect, the chair roared forth, above the
loud protests of the whites,
that dds chere meetin' stans adjourne,'
case de objec 70 witch hit were
assemble together were well done" With
this the Damronlan chairman made digni-
fed bolt for the door, followed by his band
OF thirty -two; but the thirty .scven Thorn
asonan whites remained, reorganizcd the
meetingand selected Thomasonian del
egates to the county convention.
In the Second ward Mr.. &. n. Hughes
was elected chairman. The voters were
divided similar to those in the First ward.
But there were twenty. seven colorcd gen
tlemcn on one side of the house and twenty
five meek white citizens hudd!ed together
on the other sidc-the former being for
Damron, the latter for Thomas. The inter
esting work was quickly done Here, as
at the First ward meeting, the plans had
all been laid and before the bewildered
minority could realize it, the work had
been done, and the meeting was declared
adjourned. But the whites reorganizcd it,
selected second set Of delegates,
instructed them.for Thomas and appointed
a committee Of Ave to lay "the whole shamc-
full business as one good Republican
termed it, before the county convention next
Thursday. 1t is asserted that there were
arbitrary rulings by the chair, and irreg-
nlar motions and voting
The Third ward meeting WAS a tumble of
everything unparlamentary, and the terrific
elementary commotion which broke in upon
its iubarmonious deliberations was fitting
finale.
So far it has been an open fight between
the colored and white Republicans in this
city, in which the latter were badly, though
to some extent, unfairly, worsted.
But the end is not yet It
is likely that new primaries will
be held in the First, Second and Third
wards, certainly in the latter. It not,
row IN the convention is inevitable.
No definite, reliable news was received
from the country, but il was confidently be-