The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-05
VOTERS CAN HEAR
LAST APPEALS At
CLOSING RALLIES
With a Square Deal at Polls,
RoWlett Paine and All Citi.
zens' League Candidates
win Win, Says Stratton.

with an honest election. and we
are relying upon Judge Puryear and
NJ. J. Anderson to guarantee that, every
man on the Citizens league ticket will
be elected said l.. NJ. stratton, THE
majority viii only depend upon the
number Of votes. Every vote over TO-
900 win be a vote for Rowlett Paine
and his associates, In my opinion"
Final rallies will be held by candi-
dates on both tickets Wednesday night,
and final touches will be given the
campaign otherwise by the. campaign
managers. A large majority Of the
voters know exactly for whom they are
going to vote, but touch of red fire
and band music and few appropriate
remarks are considered the proper
things at the close of any campaign,
The Citizens league speakers will be
heard at Forrest park at general rail-
", at Lamar and Rozell, and at Court
land and Cooper,
= The big Williams rally will be held
In CASTOR park, and one other meeting
will be held at Poplar and watkins.
l.. M. Stratton, manager of the Citi-
aens' league campaign, expressed re-
gret that the election commissioners
could not find any law permitting them
to allow watchers to be named. Judge
Puryear holds that the law as Ia
ty elections. Therefore the Citizens
league candidates must depend for an
honest count OF the ballots solely upon
the few men and women named 4
judges or clerks from the lists they
submitted.
Judge Puryear and the other election
commissioners, however, have, In the
tta Al tai 30 t.alI ~ AL.
ton against whom there can be no sus.
picion OF any intention 10 permit fraud
and have pledged themselves personally
to see to IT that no fraud Is perpe.
trated
Both tickets held rallies Tuesday
night, but nothing new WAS brought
out by any Of the candidates and the
crowds, owing to the sudden drop In
tempera ture, were small at all rallies.
At williams headquarters the claim
is insisted upon that not less thar
5000 majority will be piled up for Mr.
Williams. and slightly less for his run.
ming mates. c. G. Breeden In q speech
Tuesday night got things twisted a lit
tie and claimed that Mr. Williams
would be elected by three thousand
dollars" but revised the statement wher
someone laughed.
Neither any Of the candidates OF tht
the Citizens league nor l.. M. Strattor
has made any boasting claims, but they
are confident they have the election
won, and that In many wards claimed
by Williams q surprise Is IN store whei
the votes are counted.
An order for the release of the bailo
boxes was entered In circuit cour
Wednesday morning and the boxes will
be taken from the bank vault during
the day and will be fitted with LOCKE
and be ready for delivery TO each pre-.
cinct early Thursday morning.
Alist Of the voting places Is pub
lished In another column today, Their
will be shortage of voting booths II
several wards. due TO the small spac'
secured, This will be the case in sew
eral of the strong Paine wards. lik'
the sixteenth. Seventeenth. Eighteenth
twentieth and Twentytirst.
In all the residence wards there viii
be an unusually heavy vote and II will
be necessary, unless everyone who cal
votes early In the day, for voters 4
stand In line waiting their chance t
mark theiE ballots,