The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-18

AID stimulate the build GERS, that in
timidatlon was used by county off
cia and thst by bribery, intimida
ton and ballot box ST. ffiog a large
majority for me YVES converted into 60
MAORI y for you. / charge ihst by
similar practices at P essant CIR We. 10
Pamela county, maj lrity for ne was
, counted ioio 80 majority Tor you. A.
this box Col. Ma ming received 76
votes in 1882 ard you 90 in 1884, the
full s'reneth Of the Democrats in a
Prssid initial year, snd this time by
Ia lot box stuffiog yu are counted
l57 votes in an off year and after re-
duced registration. | charge that at
Popes, in sad county, your inspector,
Dave BAer, was caught in the act OF
changing the vote of my supporter,
W. L. Smith, into vote for you, and
that at Ssrcis, leading supporter OF
you 8, who attempted the same thing
for 9 Manning 10 1882, wa caught
attempting to vote two ckets for you.
l charge that at Chulaboma, in Mar
shall coun'y, your Inspector who re-
ceived the tickets from the voters was
seen constantly putting tickets har d.
ed in for me into his pocket and put
tipg into the box other tickets for yoH,
and by this means the strongest Re-
publican box in Marshall county,
which in 1882 gave me a majority Of
252 over o.. Manning, and in 1884 q
majority of 223 over you, was counted
into a majority of 104 for you over
me. change that the ballot boxes
were stuffed at the various boxes in
MARSHALL, DeSoto, Tate, Pamela, Talls-
hatchie, Lafayette, Benton and Union
counties so as to convert q
majority cast for me in the dis
trict into about 5000 majority for you.
l charge that TIppah was the only
county in the district where l was al
lowed fair representation in the In
spec ors of Election, and the only
county where the election was fairly
held and the votes honestly counted,
and that in Tippsh, where the Demo
cratic majority ranges usually from
800 TO 1900, you beat me only 200
votes, thus showing how badly you
would have been defeated If the cleo.
ton had been fairly held and the votes
HONESTLY counted.
INTIMIDATION.
Fiji TIL charge that large numbers
of my supporters were disheartened
and deferred from coming to the
polls by the various methods of fraud
and intimidation practiced by you and
your friends. l charge II at the unfair
appointments of the Commissioners
and Inspectors of Election deferred
many from coming to the polls, who
knew from experience when they saw
this repeste d that 1t meant their votes
would not be fairly counted if cast for
me.
1 charge that in your speech at
Bybalia and other places you said if
the negroes were organic d into squads
OF ten, as recommends by me, and
came thus to tia polls with their lead
ers, they should be met as you and
others met them in 1875, when you
buckled on your six shooters, and,
with clubs in your hands, knocked
the leaders down, ard said: Take
that, and damn YOU" an0 that your
advice was partia ly followed at Bates
vile, where / state on information
and pelief that one Of your supporters,
who is leading county officer, met
the negroes at the polls, aud, snatch
ing my tickets from their hands, gave
them tickets for you and said: Damn
you, vote that, or words to that effect.
! charge that you had heard how the
Democrats of Pamela went out with
guns and pistols to Greenback meet
Ings to intimidste Greenback speak
ers in the canvass of 1885, and
how one OF their inspectors at
Sardis held the election with
loaded double bMreled gun
near him in the room, and which
1 aver to be true, and that in your
speech at Batesville you urged your
party to carry the county again as
they had carried in 1886; that is, that
they should by intim dstion and bal
lot box stuffing convert the GreeBback
mai ority Of 1400 into Democratic
majority OF about 200. ,-.
l chsrge that the open threat made
by your prominent Democratic
friends that / should or would be
counted out, and the speeches made
by you and others for you, and eape-
cially these made by Senator George,
were intended to intimidate and deter
the negroes flom coming to the polls,
and to show that you succeeded here
in to a very great extent l exhibit the
of votes in Lafayette
county, both in an off yesr--one at a
fair election and the other fraudulent: