Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-05
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uItimo, the following resolutions were
adopted, viz:
ResOlred, That a Republican Convention be
called TO meet at the Exposition building, in
Memphis, on Saturday, September 9Th, at 10
O'Clock am, for the purpose OF selecting
thirty-nine delegates to attend the Republic
can district convention, at Somerville, on
Thurday, September 14th, to nominate a
candidate for Congress.
ResolUed, That said convention be composed
of delegates from the wards and districts as
follows, to-wit:
Fourth, 3; Fifth, 7; Sixth, 4; Seventh, A;
Eighth, 5; Ninth, 8; Tenth, s..
Girl District.-First, 2; Second, 2; Third,
!; Fourth, l; Fifth, 2; Sixth, A; Seventh, 81
Eighth, 2; Ninth, 2; Tenth, 4: Eleventh, g.;
Twelfth, 4; Thirteenth, 4; Fourteenth, 8;
Fifteenth, l; Sixteenth, 2; Seventeenth, 2;
Eighteenth, 1.
mittee designate suitable persons in the sew
eral wards and districts to call said meetings.
10 publishing the foregoing call for a Re
publican Convention, we must direct your
attention 10 the call of the fraudulent COM
| mittee, signed by T. A.. Hamilton, chairman,
End L. Jennings, secretary, for a Mass Con-
vention at the Exposition building on the
7th day of September, 1882, for the purposs
| of selecting delegates to the District Conven-
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18th.
1t will be seen, from this call, that the
| recent Low-tsx Republicans, Notwithstanding
| their defeat in the late election, are deter
mined to continue their opposition to the
| Republican cause in the interest of the Dem
ocratic party. After their recent co-opera-
ton with the Democrats and for Democratic
success, they openly boast that their victory
was in securing our defeat, and that if they
- 100000 IN the NnuannhaF olpHtTnn
they will at least see tbat we are defeated.
They fought US in the August election ss the
Greenback ,Low-tax Republican party, and
was one or the other, or both, as occasion
demanded.
Do not be deceived by their call headed
Republican County Convention" and the
recital cat a meeting of the Republican
committee" for they are now so frenzied and
desperate that they will do almost anything
to defeat US and contribute 20 the election oil
a Democratic congressman, Democratic menu
berssof the Legislature, a Democratic gov
ernor and a Democratic United States SEN
ator.
This fraudulent committee represents the
rejected delegates from the Nashville conven'
ton in April last; it represents the Low-ta1
element of the Republican party (see resolu-
the Beasley platform of reputation, but al
Beasley cannot be elected, intend to supper
Bate to secure, ii possible, the defeat OF on
candidate, Governor Hawkins; it represent
those who are opposed to the present settle
ment of the State debt, whereby, by issuing
new bonds, S1l 900, 1000 of the debt will
be paid at once. leaving. only s17,'
100000 to be paid in thirty year
at a reduced rate OF interest; it rep
resents the only disconnected boiling fac
ton of the Republican party in the State; i
represents the ~ofice-hunting ring, who boil
the party whenever they cannot control it il
the interest of themselyssss; II represents thos,
who cry out Federal ring when they know
tneres IS no such thing except in their owr
im~sginations, and when they know that to b.
a Federal ofice-holder in Memphis is TO be
Republican on all questions OF State and Ma
tional politics, and that, as such ofncers
they must work for party success; it repre-
senls those who, If they cannot rule the
party, seek 10 ruin it; it represents thosI
who are on the way to Democracy, and yYbo
are worse than Democrats, because, profess
ing to be Republicans, they deceive you as
to their purposes and ends; it represent
those who, in the late election, sold out Il
the fsg end of the expiring Greenback party
and d sgraced themselves by s~urrenderipi
the best offices TO candidates taken from
the Democratic ranks, and, until they tool
one of our candidates, were content will
a representation of two out of the eight can
didates on the Greenback, Low-Tax Repub
lican ticket; and, finally, this fraudulen
committee represents those who, in the Al
gust election, with the aid of The Green
hackers, made a bad third in the race, ant
whose favorite candidate, Green Evans, re
ceived only 1880 votes, while Fred Hunt re
ceived 1895 votes, and the lowest candidate
of our party received 1850 votes.
The great mass OF the Republicans ar
true to their party, and many who vote,
-.:4 .4b, Oh - An.,c, anl bnaJraJ
who did not vote at all, regret their sin
of omission and commission, and have ex
pressed their determination to be active ant
Vigilant in the November contest for the tru'
Republican party as against the Democratic
party and its allies, the Greenbackers anC
Low-tsx Republicans.
We call upon the true Republicans o
Shelby county 10 become sctive workers il
1.-THE coming election, and thus secure TO Tho
Republican party that vindictien which itI
principles deserve, and that victory which 1T
numerical strength demands.
CARTER HARRIS, Chairman.
N. T.. WILLIAMSON, Secretary.
a Forgery.
An act Of scoundrelism and v~illainly wa
perpetrated on the day preceding and thu
day of election, by having printed aud send
ing through the postofice at Memphis t.
postmasters in the country, the followin:
circular in the interest OF the Low-tax Re
publican ticket. We denounce the circular
az false and libelous, and a premeditsted anG
malicious forgery. We give the circular ii
full, viz:
To the Republican Voters OF Shelby County:
By request of Governor Alvin Hawkins, tn
High-tax Republican ticket is withdrawn, anC
our friends are solicited to vote the entire Low
tax republican ticket IN order 70 secure unity o
CARTER HARRIS, Chairman.
NJ. T. WILLIAMSON, Secretary.
POSTUM sters and others receiving this hand-bil
will please post up and circulate.
M. 7. WILLIAMSON, Secretary.
MEMPHIS, August 2, 1881.
The men who perpeIrated the forgery, and al
who knowingly aided and abetted in its csnsum
nation deserve to be frowned down and spurneC
by all Republicans.
ARTER HARRIS, Chairman.
NJ. T.. WILLIAMSON, Secretary.