Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-31
SOLID DEMOCRACY
Meeting Held at the Exposition Bniid-
ipg Last Night 10 Send On the Leg
islatiVe Candidates.
A Manly speech by Col. Patterson 10
the CoIOred People, and a Sensible
One by DIR. Porter.

There was grand rally 81 ibe E1posi-
ton building lat night 10 give the candl-
dates on the Democratic ticket a send-on.
All the candidates made speeches except
Mr.. Price, who is doing good work out 10
the country. Col. Patterson made stirring
address, chiefly to the aolored people. He
gave them some sound and convincing
reasons for supporting the Democratic ticket
He smoke wisely about their education and
Advancement He alec touched lightly upon
the State debt question, and showed the
economy of the Democratic proposition to
settle and how the exir4 S5O3,OoO could be
utilized in educating The people. Dr.. Porter
made frank and pleasant little talk, sd-
dressed principally to the workingmen. AS
usual with the doctor, it wss filled with
gritty sense and vim. The other speskers
addressed the crowd in very brief terDs5 and
the meeting terminated very harmoniously.
Mr.. james NJ. Harris, az chairman OF the
Executive Committee, called the meeting to
order and introduced Col. Josiah Patterson
as a gentleman who needed no Introduction
Col. Josiah Patterson
began by SAYING Ia at il was not his intention 20
say anything about the State debt, as that ques-
ton had already been discussed by such able men
as Gov, Harris. Gen Bate and Others; He was .ss
first canvass made in Shelby county in which the
vexed issues of the war did not enter. He had
made some sixteen speeches before the people,
aud he had endeayored 70 show the black man
that he stood equally with the white man: He
before the public the public school
system. He had endeayored TO impress upon the
colored people the necessity OF education. There
were plenty of white aud colored children in the
State, uneducated. 1t was the most I'm portant
analogy that the majority of the white people
were opposed to the sixty-and-six, while the col,
Ored men we've mostly in favor OF 1t. The United
states government had emancipated the colored
people and yet had made no efforts TO educate
them up 10 the requisites OF good citizenship Yet
that government mad donatea to corporations and
Donopolies three times as much as the State OF
two platforms s5O3 per year for thirty years
an amount sufficient 10 furnish more than 1000
schoolteaehers for the State. The sky,bue orators
were continually blushing for the honor of the
the State. but no one ever heard them
dfen OF the workingmen. They blushed
not for the people, nor the want of education in
the State but they blushed Tor their beloved bond
holzer. No effort was made by Hawkins and his
corInorants to educate and to elevdte the people,
He was in favor of the Bate platform, because it
honorable settlement The speaker claimed that
taxes were levied upon the bone and sinews and
muscles OF the laboriug men. IaboTers usually
thought that because the boss paid over the money
to the taxcollector, that they did not pay taxes
the wages of the laboring men were
large. tax was simply impost on labor,
that Ieeislation in this country ought TO be so
shaped as to prevent the granting of privileges to
to run in the race of life This would difuse the
wealth of the country, and would bring forth the
from the government, and the people given a
show At the last meeting OF the Legislature the
vile and established a lobby that for shameless
luxury, bribery and debsuchery had never
e Segn t These " men had i'' wined and
courted the members of the legislature
ana had induced the legislators to pass the one,
in the city of New York. The speaker was OPP
posed 10 the free pass system, and he intended TO
for any member of the Legislature to accep free
pass from a railroad. He believed in railroads.
IeeislstuTes and make unjust determinations in
freights A short time ago colored man in the
postoffice, who had performed his duties in way
beyond criticism, intimated that he intended
voting for the Low-tax ticket No sooner bad
man had ia his pockets SIS or ST in receipts from
that man Jay Hubbell. The speaker was IN favor
of a meehaiics lien law to protect the labor OF
The workingman. II he went to the Legislature
the lobby would never approach MIN and his asso
ciates. They intended TO execute the will OF the
with the Democratic platform. The speaker con-
Guided his speech by appealing to tine people 70
that his own name should be scratched than one
OF the colored men on the ticket.
DIR. ID. n. Porter
was the next speaker TO address the meeting,
who spoke substantially as follows: He was not in
the habit OF speaking. he had sometimes thought
that a man could not be good worker and q
g0t claim to be the latter He said he intended
TO be elected in November next. So far as the
favor of scaling it The three
bill ought to be called the grab bill, as II wanted
to take all the people had for nlnety-nlne years;
city debt but they cut no figure in the matter.
The people rev that when the Board of Edu-
cation wanted money he had Endorsed their paper.
He had never seen me on eot ~S
the wealthier were all well educated but the poor
people were totally ignorant. They worked in the
mines for seYentytYe cents day They were SO to-
tally ignorant and uneducated thst they thought
they actually could be imprisoned for debt
eoneerned. he would see that no legislation was
made which should illEeIil the rights of the Ia
could never prove untrue to the men VINO labored.
He wanted this class of the people to be secured
in the results of their labor. He thanked the
audience for theiF attention 10 him and retired
Mr. i. y. Norris
said he would not at empt 10 make speech.
Those who heard Col. Patterson NUT have been
platform. Political slavery wis the worst kind of
slavery. Some people said Norris had sold out
himself and his 70 tdf % st H
could sell out 1000 colored votes Col; Patterson
and fS G es
was tir. OF political slavery.
Mr.. Il. j. Wenasg
being introduced, said he would be much
obliged to the people if they would vote for him
tiiler OF the s'il and If he sent up there he
Mr Morgan J. Kelly
said he was no speaker, and probably the
crowd WAS glad of it by that time. If sent to the
Legislature he would work for the people of Shell
~ He hoped no one would scratch anybody of
the ticket,
HP. EdRard Shaw
made a short and stirring speecb. He said
that every man that had voted for the LoW-t4x
ticket in the last election, and 500 more, would
walk up d cast their votes for the ticket There
Was time when every cOlOred man was Repub-
fiean aud every white man Democrat, but 1t was
Ion Earn
agreed with Col. Patterson in his views upon edu-
cation Mr. Shaw spoke at some length, and was
followed by Mr.. Lafayette Jennings. The meeting
then adjourned.