Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-05
Take Possession Of an Orderly Meeting
and Render it Disgraeeful
Beyond Measure.
The Republican Party HOpelessIy Split
in This City-Shaw as a First
Class ROwdy.

of those who favored order and decency las
night was not very large. The day before
they had been showed under and last nigh
they expected to meet in peace and quiet.
Mr. Carter Harris was selected chairman
and Mr.. F. NJ. Dyer was chosen secretary. &
E. IMMACULATE GALL SHAW.
Up to this time the meeting had beer
very orderly, but the foxy coun.erance Of
| Ed Pshaw was discerned among the crowd
and those who knew the unbiushing efront
| cry of the man, hardly expected that the
meeting would pass by without some eyi.
dence of his transcendant gall. When the
| meeting was declared to be ready for bust.
ness, a greasy-looking darby, who bore a
striking resemblance to the great negro min
strel, Billy Rec. got up and wanted to know
"whsr we all was. He didn't stand de sItua-
ton, and he rose to de point OBJ order" "
Recognizing in him one of the members OF
| the Exposition mass meeting, the chair de-
cared that unless he was opposed to the
resolutions OF the day previous, he had no
right 10 express his views. BILLY Rice
replied that he must be heard "whedder de
'yention wanted ter hear him or no. He
wanted information"
At this juncture Mr.. Edward Immaculate
Gall Pshaw arose and censured the chairman
for declaring his friend,
"BuLY RICE" OUT OF ORDER.
He said that he had noticed the call in the
Erening Ledger, calling tor a meeting of
those who were opposed to reputation. As
he was opposed to reputation, he thought
both he and his friend, "Billy RIGS" were en-
titled to a hearing.
Mr. Cassells said the gentleman was mis-
taken; it was meeting of those who were
opposed to the resolutions of the day previous,
and read the call, showing that he was right,
and that Shaw's statement was simply on a
par with everything else that Shaw says and
does.
Shaw now began to show the cloven foot
Several years service in the School Board
gave him the bulge on his opponents. He
evidently brought
A WELL REGULATED RUMPUs
with him. He claimed that there were not
more than a dozen present who were opposed
to the proceedings of the Exposition con-
vention, and asked the chairman to ascer-
tain exactly the status of those present. As
the chairman paid no attention to the re-
quest of the negro rowdy, he stood up him
self and called for those who favored the
resolutions of the day previous. About
seven men sprung up. The laugh was then
against him, and he sent off for more voters
and was soon reinforced.
Mr. w. NJ. Smith moved that a committee
of five be appointed to draw up resolutions.
The chair accordingly appointed Messrs.
w. NJ Smith, T. F. C,ssells, J. H. Saylor, s.
B. Wilson and Henry Towbridge. The COM
mittee retired to prepare their report. In
the meantime
AN INSANE INDIVIDUAL
named Charles Wilson, who was kicked off
the police force for general negligence and
for being caught asleep several times on his
beat, arose to speak. He evidently reg arded
himself as a Daniel Webster and a Cicero
h. L.
of the fence were unwilling to hear his melo-
dious bazoo. Nobody paid any attention to
what he was saying, but there was general
desire to stop his racket. But he would not
sit down. He must have been raised in a
saw-mill, or he would have been slightly
drowned by the noise. In the intervals OF
chaos, one could distinguish the words that
he wanted to know who called that meeting
of the day before. The chairman of the
present meeting had been heard in the Expo
sition convention. Wilson then
sNoRTED AND FoAMED.
and perspired, and yelled, and wrung his
hands, and danced about, and screamed, and
sweated, and gyratsd, and took off his coat,
Occasionally he said something about the
blush of shame and those Republicans who
wanted to hold Office forever. The general
impression seemed to be that bucket of ice
water doused on the fiery orator would have
afforded the necessary relief. He continued
amid the general confusion, and such re-
marks as:
"Give US rest"
"Oh, sit down."
"Put him out"
$50 on, and make an ass of yourself"
Go out and take drink"
ENLIGHTENED FINANCIAL VIEWS.
When Wilson's energies were exhausted
and he began to emit an unpleasant odor,
calls were made by Shaw's 'toughs" for
Shaw.
The Chairman declared that there must be
more order.
Shaw-We will make order for you, if you
don't assert it.
The chairman-This meeting was called
b.. Shaw-We are here to run it and we are
going to do it.
bounded in to the arena, and when the ex-
element subsidized the captivating figure Of
Colonel 7. Alphonse de Lafayette Jennings
materialized before the audience. He stood
tefore the mob like the statue of Apollo, with
one arm pointing at an angle OF forty-fiye
gracefully towards downtown beer saloon.
He said he wanted to be heard moment.
his LIVER WAS OUT OF ORDER,
and he must regulate it. He wanted to know
of the chairman what right he had to sign
the call
The Chairman-I'll answer you, if you
will be quiet a moment.
Jennings-I won't be quiet.
The Chairman-Stut your mouth and I'll
explain.
Jennings-We come to shut you up. You
can't bulldoze US.
LAZY brought his fist down on the table
and subsidized a little.
quiet white Republican, named Vernon,
endeavored to be heard, but Shaw told him
to dry up.
Shaw walked up and down in front of the
chair with the most vulgar insolence, laugh
ing cosrsely, and saying: "If don't talk, no
body shall talk"
4 mild, good-natured colored man began,
"Mr. Shaw, l understand this meeting to
be -"
Shaw-"Gents, this is our meeting. We
are going to run it. Your day is over"
NO CHANCE FOR DEcENcY.
The Chairman-I have been asked to state
why l called this meeting.
Shaw-We know why you called it; we
came to run it.
One negro began to count aloud the num-
Der of those present who favored decency.
When he got to seven Shaw interrupted him
and said: That's enough; there are only
seven here"
The Chairman-I have been asked
A Voice-To set down.
Shaw-Ha ha-ha. We are all posted.
You're goin' to run the niggers, eh?
A Voice. move that Mr.. Green Evans
be chairman of the meeting.
In the hubbub Evans was declared chair
man by the "tougbs."
A grinning negro skunk up to the platform
and took a seat near the regular chairman.
Mr.. ]. w. Vernon attempted to speak, but
LAZY Jennings told him that he was no Re-
publican and that no one wanted to hear
him. Mr. Cassels then read the resolutions
Throughout the greatest uproar prevailed.
Jennings stood beside him and blated in his
ear, while Rome's second consul, Evans, was
baking an ass of himself and putting the
question of indorsing the resolutions of the
day before.
RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolred, Believing that it was impolitic
and unwise for the so-called. Republican
mass meeting that met on Monday, the Sd
instant, TO have passed any resolutions on
the State debt question, but that that ques-
ton should have been left to the State con-
ventioa, to assemble on the 9th instant;
and believing that the resolutions adopted
W the so-called Republican mass-meeting
are so at variance with the known views OF
the Republicans of the State and the Repub-
lican party OF the nation, and so much IN
harmony with the purposes of the repudiat-
ing element OF the Democratic party, we
cannot refrain from entering our solemn pro-