Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-02

THE first number OF the new Radf.
cal paper was issued yesterday
called the Memphis Republican. 1t ia
a campaign paper, and will be pub
lished monthly for the next -four
months, under the control of the
County Republican Committee OF
Shelby county" This new Radical
organ talks just as the defunct Post
did in the days Of disfranchisement.
at the masthead Of this new Radi-
cal organ floats the following ticket:
Fol Judges Supreme Court-Samuel
Milligan, Zenophon Wheeler, John Trim
BILE, w. II. Wtisper, Alvin Hawkins, Bar
bOur Lewis.
For Probate Judge Shelby County
Harry S. Lee.
For Attorney General Bartlett Circuit
William Craig.
For County Register-George NJ. Gree
Icy.
We understand that the Radicals
intend to run a ticket also for Cham
cellOr and Circuit Court Judges, upon
the ground that Yerger, Morgan,
Heiskell and Halsey s.were illegally
elected. But for prudential reasons
the names of their candidates are not
published. The candidates which
the Radicals have presented to the
people, are composed of the bitterest
and most ultra men of their party. The
name of Barbour Lewis is enough to
cause every decent taxpayer in Shell
by county. to turn from the ticket
with disgust and lOathing. Harry S.
Lee, George NJ. Greeley and William
Craig are plunderers of the same
ilk, and are stenches in the
public nostrils. The election of such
men would revive the hatreds that
existed in our community when the
taxpayers were disfranchised, and
the peoplewe we're robbed and plundered.
The new Radical paper is sanguine Of
victory. The Democracy now know
whom they have to fight. Unless
they turn out and work, the "unetiOus''
Lewis will defle the Supreme Court
Bench; the estates of widows and
orphans will be in the hands of Harry
S. Lee; and Greeley and Craig will
defeat good and competent men.
Verify, the wolf is at the door. We
know there is among politicians all
the world over a disposition to mag
Nifty the Importance of every struggle
in which they are for the moment
engaged. They are accustomed TO
describe the particular existing cOndi-
ton of affairs as a crisis. But we can
employ no hyperbOle or e~xaggeration
in speaking of the gravity of the pre-
sent struggle. The contest now going
on in this county is grave in the ex-
IRENE. 1t is not a struggle, as of old,
between two old parties, who equally
acknowledge their fealty to certain
established principles, that rise in
dignity beyond mere questions of ex-
pediency, and who are only struggling
for a victory which carries with it no
permanent injury; in fact, no injury at
all to any cardinal maxim, or to any
solid interest of individuals or COM
munities. We wish with all our
hearts that the contest now convuls-
ing the State, and especially this
county, were only such Al one, so that
no matter what its final issue might
be, honor, integrity, intelligence, bust
ness, property and the vital interest
Of our people could escape unframed.
But it is no such contest as that; it
Is one in reference to whose moment
BUS importance there can be no exag-
yeration of language. 1t is a contest
in which we see all the rights of our
white people, property, our tradi-
ions, and all that we value, at stake, |
and about to be played for by a set of
white adventures and gamblers and
.gn0rant negroes. On one side are the
rue taX-paying children of Tennessee,
with every right that nature and law
IAN give them, and on the other a
heterogeneous assemblage of aliens, adj
venturers, carpet-baggers, and negroes
only object is to secure a por-
ion of the plumber. We feel a rever-
snce for the good name and fame of
)ur mother. Now that the State of
is about to select her judges
L
md her officers, it is Important to see
hat her destinies shah be guided by
rood men. II vagrant adventures,
all the ends of the earth, as
listed by unlettered Africans, but
ately emancipated, are to fill the
offices, to pollute the Supreme
)Ourt Bench and TO mould and shape
be destinies of the State, what a
Melancholy and what an ignominious
areer awaits OUr people and our
tate. Does it seem singular to any
that the descendants of those who j
ettled Tennessee, and who own al
lOst every foot of her soil, who con- !
her railroads, built up her I
tiles and towns, erected her colleges,
nd pay n~inety-nine h~undredths of
ne taxes levied, should feel that il is
leir right to fill the offices and to
lape the destinies Of the State? Does !,
seem wonderful that we should
'Ok with an evil eye upon the scum .
ON the slums Of Northern cities, :
no would wrongfully wrest from US :
n just inheritance, and divide it
1T among themselves, as wolves tear :
nd divide a carcass? The election of =
arbour Lewis and Lee and Greeley =
Id Craig would be an outrage hor- :
bic TO contemplate. Fortunately :
is in u power to prevent such a :
We have the numerical ),
rec and it will be the fault : :
u own people if this \
.lamity befall Them Democrats, lock =
the Radical ticket, contrast il with :,
our own proud sons and all the en- :
iusiasm of your natures viii be :,
'oused. There must be a general q
rn-out on Thursday-every Demo- !,
attic vote must be polled or else all !
lost. Democrats, in other and better :
lys you have often heard the cry !,
wolf WOLF But in this struggle q
e wolf is actually at your door. b
I'LL you admit him or viii you slay
ID forever destroy the accused \
eed? The result is with yourselves. Il
1T has been atime-honored practice fl
It'll the Democratic party, in settling Q
posing claims Of rival candidates for =
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