Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
CHAPTER XII 134
Politics and Politicians--Disruption of the Republicans in Arkansas--"Minstrels and Brindle Tails"--Early Canvassing in the South, with Its Peculiarities--Ku Klux Visits--My Appointment as County Attorney and Election as Municipal Judge--Hon. John Allen, of Mississippi, His Descriptive Anecdote.