Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-07-07

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did not concur. IL we "know not our
A. B. c. in the manipulation of peliti-
cal organic stions,n on which we rather
congratulate ourselves, we are not "bent
on mischief" and do not need to be
sterniy met" Speaking for ourself,
(and we think we can say so for the
Club, we do not propose or desire to
supersede "the men who have hereto
fore contributed most in the support of
our cause, the men who have made the
party what it Is" We do not desire to
supersede or interfere with the Execu-
tive Committee, hut to cooperate with
it, II those who have scarcely, as it
were, taken Off their swaddllng gar
ments, in political point of view,"
may be deemed worthy to do so. As
neither we nor the Clubhave any right or
power to interfere with the Executive
Committee, it would be folly to think Of
doing SO. We can work, we suppose,
side by side with it.
The communication of A Voter dis
closes more thar was intended to be
mada manifest. No one can mistake
the meaning of the words faction and
1 ingrstes, as applied to those who voted
against. appointing new Executive
4 Committee. We heard nothing said
about ruling old political hacks off the
track. No other considerations were
urged against appointing the COMMITTEES,
than those that were legitimate and un-
Objectionable. II was said that the con-
sequence would be. divided councils, and
loss OF efficiency aud unity of action.
Not a word was ssid about men.
So the oninlus that prompted the re-
mark, that the opposition Of this faction
to the appointment Of a COMMITTEES, " is
attributable either to aspirit fatally bent
upon a usurpotion of the control of our
political organization, or to 8 total want |
OF information and experience in the
discipline and management of political
campaigns, y is unintentionaly manifest
Are there men here, then, who claim
the exclusive right to "control our pe-
litieal organization" and 70 act indie
pendently Of whom is usurpation?
It is intended TO organize Democratic
Clubs ali over the State, to act in con-
cert with each other. 1t is intended to
establish Ward Clubs ia Memphis, and
District Clubs in Shelby county. It is
intended to procure exact information of
the number of Conservative and Radical
voters in each county, and Of the dis
frsnchised who cannot vote. Nobody Is
intended to be ignored or sRubbed, or
made hewers of wood aad drawers of
water. Nobody was thinking about the
Executive Committee, in any respect,
until It was moved 10 the Club to elect
one. II it has ceased to exist, it must
have Ebdieated. The formation of the
Club in no way affects it.
The tone OF A Voters communics-
tion is, we hope unintentionaIly, rude
and offensive. Men who have the same
right to work for the cause as others,
sud are as Unselfsh as others, and who
have rs much right as Others to lead and
CONTROL if they can de it by honorable
means, snd perhaps are as fit to do so,
should not be called, by those OF their
own faith, faction, and ingrates, usuTp.
eTs and ignorant.
For ourself we shall be exceedingly
glad if some one better acquainted with
"the discipline and management of 20
litical campaigns - win relieve us OF the
labor and trouble which the Presidency
of the Club must impose on one who has
SO little time to spare to attend to its du- {
ties. We have not the slightest desire
to lead or manage or control anybody,
and do not want or mean to be in hot
water on account of any unweleome Of {
flee, which a sense of duty alone induced
us to accept. We really did not know
that there were any gentlemen here who
claimed to be leaders. We were innO- :
cent enough to think that there were no
no rivRlrIes, no ambitions; but
that sll were working together as equals.
none having claim of right to the posts ,
q leadership Or the petty honors Of polit-
ical organizations. If there be such
leaders, they would not be wise to dis
play splenetie disooHtent, il new men =
should for the moment be preferred to 4
them. Men do not retain or regain f
power in that way.
Passing from that subject. in the bo,o
that the Executive Committee and the z
officers OF the Club viii be able, as we (
believe they will, to act har- {
together, and that even A
Voter viii fad that there was no peees.
sity for his communication, we have a
word to say on another subject.
We are quite aware that efforts have
been made to prejudice our Irish fellow
citizens against the County Democratic
Club, by representing it as a Know.
Nothing organization. It is quite true
hat the President OF the Club was a
Know Nothing; bu: that, like other
.hings, is Of the past. IfDemocrats are
10 ostrscize those of the American party,
hey viii ortraelzs, when they have the
power, those who were Wings. How
hen can there be a cordial union among
We accept the name
Democrat, and we do it in
yood faith, and without mental res
,rvation, for the sake OF the q
When we accept the fellow
hip in politics, of men of foreign birth. | n
We do so for all the future. When it is U
attempted to make the negro our equal,
very white man opposed to that becomes
,ur brother. We clasp hands With the
the Teuton, the Seotehman :,
md the Italian, and the heart goes with -
be hand. That is enough for US to say =
or we never say what we do not mean.
As to the Presidency of the Club, it Is II
lothlng. Any one q, welcome to It but
Vhilewe hold it, we shall perform its tlu-
les. Letevery one dothatin his place and I
phere, and pitifJl jssIOusies be buried, y
md all be content TO work where the ot
'eople put them, and there may be hope sss
4 eifecting somethiugtor the country. pC
Five inquests were held in Chicago
N the I'd, the cases being those OF Della :
suicide; George Reynolds, who
,roke HE neck by filling from barn:
jonrad Iiehauser, who was kiekad bv