Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-10-21
TIE aEAOJusrfR-fO. SHAW ALLIANCE.


III there is any one thing, d5oUe
The many, that ought to disgust the
honest, respectable Democrats of
Tennessee, with the principles and
tactics Of the Readjuster party, it is
the recent unprincipled and disrep-
utable alliance of that party with
the notorious Ed. Shaw gang, OF
Memphis. "Who is Ed. Shaw ?n
Why, he is a negro politician at
Memphis who Is such an avowed
communist, repudiator and general
disruptionist, that he was kicked out
of the Republican State Convention
at Nashville last April. They could
not stand him.
"Does he claim to be Democrat
now?" you ask. Oh, no; he merely
says he sis an Independent Repub-
lican" and wants to do anything to
disrupt the true principles of De-
mocracy and repudiate the honest
Indebtedness OF the State.
And this is the man, the low,
unprincipled negro whom every re-
spectacle, honest, fair-minded col
ored man in the State would repu-
diate and have nothing to do with,
that the Bate Democracy of Shelby
county has taken to its bosom and
now proposes to place his tools in
the Legislative halls of the State to
dishonor its fair name.
Why, it has hardly been six
months since the Memphis Appeal,
now blatant reputation sheet,
and supporter of the "unholy alli-
ance" denounced him In the most
bitter language. The Avalanche
tells how the Appeal loved Ed.
Shaw then, in the following trench
ant paragraphs:
"Ed Shaw is death to every pub
lie movement he has anything to
do with. p Appeal Dec. 80, 1881.
Exactly so. He will be the death
of your reputation ticket.
Jan. 5, 1882, the Appeal said
"The triumph of Boss Ed Shaw to-
day would be the death of decency
in Memphis" The Appeal Is now
working for the triumph of Boss Ed
Shaw in Shelby county.
Jan. 2, 1882, the Appeal said
"The very thought of an active
community like this of Memphis
being dictated to by Ed Shaw is
enough to make the blood OF honest
men boil with indignation" The
Appeal now supports legislative
ticket dictated by Ed. Shaw. COM
ment is superfiuous.
Jan. 4, 1882, the Appeal said
''The idea of Ed. Shaw-a disgrace
to his race, characterized by low
cunning, lying and deceit-ruling
Memphis is repugnant to every de-
cent man, black or white" Ed.
Shaw is now the Boss of the Bate
reputation party, and he is backed
by the Appeal.
Dec. 81, 1881, the Appeal said
"Ed. Shaw is bad man; he is to
the negroes especially a very dam
gerous man. He is purely a selfish
man and should be avoided as
wholly unworthy the confidence of
even his own race" The Appeal
is now cheek by jowl with this
"dad man" in Bossing the Bate re-
pudiators.
Jan. 6, 1882, (the morning after
the electiOn), the Appeal said
1.-THE Shadow of Death has been
removed from the city. We breathe
freely. The people by large ma
jority yesterday voted that Shaw
can Boss himself but nothing else"
But political bedfellows change and
Ed. Shaw is now the Boss of the
Appeal and the Shelby county Bate
readjusters.
Dec. 80, 1881, the Appeal says
"Bossism in any guise is an insult
to the intelligence of the people, but
when it asserts itself in the person
of Ed. Shaw it is most offensive,
and is calculated to arouse and sol
idify all the better elements of the
community, without regard to par
ty, race or creed" Just so. BY
your surrender to the Bossism of
Ed. Shaw you have aroused all the
better elements of the community
who will sOlidify at the polls against
the Bate-Shaw legislative ticket.