Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-07-05
TOO TRANSPARENT.
The SO-Calied Independent POw-Wow at
jackson. Miss, Turns Out s Mis-
cradle Failure.
Less Than twenty-five Persons In At
tendanee-Tbe Anti HoRopoIists In
Convention at Chicago.

special to the Appeal
Jackson, Miss, July 4-The Chalmers
Convention met at i2 o'clock and closed at
o'clock. There wss very slm attendance,
net twenty-five persons participating 10 The
meeting. Wimberly, Chalmers, Howe, Rube
Davis and ). A. Blair we're the only politi-
risns Of prominence IN the movement. Bsn
King presided, end appointed Rube Davis
charm sn OF The Committee on Resolutions.
< ng slated that the movement was con-
iinuation OF the bg ht Of 1881. The platform
i- !fee ballot, fair count, elect our judiciary,
90 pOrate supervision by legislation, the
lection Of school fuperintendents, and
l-,tion law changes. Chalmers spoke two
'ours denuncia,ory OF The polite, of L ,mar
Lowry and Myers and the Lamar Dsmoc-
raey. He claims that the Independent
party will consist Of Changers, Greenbscksrs
fud Independents. No promiaeut Grapg,rs
Fers in tue meeting, however. He made an
attack on Lynch, and read dispatch from
a man named Cesar, in the Postofice en-
ployment at Washington City, claiming that
Lynch told him that thsre is an arrangemen nj
with Lamar 10 provide Lynch Congres,ion-
al district, and render the present Chalmers
Manning district cer ainly Democratic. The
crowd was too small TO hold the proposed
night session. 1t was tame affair, and the
colored brother wss conspicuous for his ab-
sence.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
II T 4
State Convention met to-day. The attend
ance was smaller than expected, not more
than fifteen counties beiug represented.
B.nj King. Of Copiah, was elected chairman,
and John /. Hall, editor of the Tribune and
Receiver of Public Moneys, secretary. AL
together the Convention not a success,
and evidently disappointment to it's man
ager. Gen. J. r. Chalmers add ressed the
Convention this afternoon, and elected some
dpplausP. He fr,quently touched upon his
grievances in the lsst electioo and dealt the
Democratic party and it, officials some severe
blows. He made an exposition of what he
called the Lynch. Lamar fusion, and read the
following telegram confirming his statement:
WAsHINGToN, July 4, 1888.
]. K. Chalmers, Jackson, Miss:
Lynch told confidential friend here that
the Second Congressional District would be
Leoislatnrs wauld make two RsnnhIicsn
disfricts one of which T,vncb would renrs-
se1t. can proye the above statement
JAMES D. CESSOR
Cessor holds a irifliDg position at WASH
inglon in one of the departments. Gen.
Casluners, in the course Of bi. remarks. said
The Bark-dale men have usually shaped the
platforms, but The Lamar men have con.
trolled the mschne and prevented the fuI-
Of iatF ..la -. Ill
die and be buried in the D .uocratic ranks,
but those VINO loved the principles be has
taught more than they loved party name,
compose the Greenbackers, Grsngers and Iu-
dependents of Mississippi, who are destined
to coutrol the political future of the State.
Their principles may be briefly stated az fol-
lows:
First-A free ballot and a fair count; to
secure this a law allowing every party com.
missioner OF election, and each commits ion
er to name one inspector and one clerk.