Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-10-14
THE SHELBY COUNTY REA0JUSTERS' Goa
LITIOR NTH REPUOIA TING,
coMMURISTIc NEGRO
REPUBLICANS.

OF all the infamous, groundless,
unsupported, silly charges which.
have been hurled against the State
Credit Democracy by the unscrupu-
lous members of the Readjuster
party, those of "aiding and abet-
ting the Republican party, of max
ing coalitions and alliances with
that party to defeat Bate for Gov
ernor and to prevent the election OF
a Democratic United States Sena-
tor" have been the most persistently
urged, and, Notwithstanding their
utter falsity and absurdity, have
perhaps had some influence upon
those of the honest masses who
have had no means OF examining
into the truth Of the charges and
who have been persuaded by APP
peals to party passion and prejudice
to believe them. The State Credit
Democrats have never thought it
worth the while TO dignity such
lhISCHOOdo W AlAl ACoPCNN
of even a denial, confident that
time would prove the falseness OF
the accusations and hurl the infa-
NOUS ISLANDERS as a boomerang upon
the heads of the party that uttered
them. And sure enough the vindi-
cation has come sure and swift by
the infamous alliance of the Bate
Readjuster party of Shelby county,
with the cOmmunistic Republican
Ed. Shaw element at Memphis, last
week, and the placing Of two OF
these low, unprincipled Republican
negro characters on the sO-called-
Democratic Readjuster county tick
ct. Here we have the alliance, the
coalition of the Readjuster party OF
Tennessee, with notorious repu-
dating band Of negroes, for what
purpose? For the base and con-
fessed one of gaining votes, electing
their Legislative ticket and destroy
ing the good name, faith and credit
of Tennessee.
We can see how a party claiming
to be Democrats could nominate
for office colOred men, provided
they are reputable, honest, capable
and are Democrats, that is all right,
but these men, Norris and Price, do
not claim to De Democrats. They |
boldly asser! that they are Repubti-
cans, and are simply in sympathy |
with the lOw-tax communistic, re-
pudiation wing of the so-called De-
mOcracy. They are for repudiating
the honest and sacred obligations of
the State, not a dollar of which the
pauper regulators would ever have |
to help to pay. What is the histo-
ry of this Ed Shaw crowd anyhow?
They are the representatives of a
low faction of negro Republicans |
who were kicked out of the Repub-
lican convention at Nashville last |
April as disruptionists, regulators
and communists and whose leaders |
have long been frowned down upon /
and fired out as even too disreputa-
BILE to do the dirty work of the |
Republican administration. They |
represent the worst element in Shell
by county politics and have the
respect of no party or people yet it
remained for the self-cOnstituted |
guardians of the honor and good /
name of Tenne5see-theR eadjuster
party-to take them up, to affiliate
with them and put them an their
ticket for the sake of gaining a few
votes and electing a repudiating
Legislature. We Gods, what pur-
pose, what an alliance of a party
claiming to be respectable and wOr-
thy of the confidence and respect of
the honest masses of Tennessee.
Will not this infamous alliance,
this disgusting, unhOly coalition,
prove to the good people, the pure,
honest, self-respecting Democrats OF
Tennessee, that the Readjuster par
ty is not worthy of their support,
respect or confidence. God grant
that it may.