Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-04
POLITICS.

If the funding bill, so-eaIled, which
Is the most gigantic robbery of the
age, quitting all our legal tender debt
upon a gold basis, passes Congress, as
il is dei Jared it will, there will be but
one remedy, That remedy Is in the
entire Il nd utter Reputation of every
dollar Of it, principal and interest. So
says the Enquirer.
The Executive Committee Of the
Union League Of America have been
holding secret sessions in the st.
Nicholas Hotel, to discuss matters to
promote the success of the Republi-
can party this fall. Ex-Governor
Jewell, OF connecticut, the only
representative from New Eogland,
and the West had but one represen-
tative, namely, James T. Beach, of
Missouri. .-s
The Senate slept over the tax and
tariff bill, which seems to have lost
all its interest since the defeat of the
income tax outrage. Mr.. Sherman
managed to retrieve his defeat of
Monday last on the sugar tariff; the
House classification was discarded,
and the existing one remains ia force.
The bill as thus far agreed upon differs
materially from the House bill, and
the chances are that the effort to alter
the tariff, begun two months ago, will
finally fail altogether.
A convention of citizens of South
Carolina, of all parties and colors, was
held in Columbia last week, with
view of inaugIrating a new party |
movement to secure reform in the adj |
ministration of the State government. |
About fOur-fifths of the counties of the |
State were represented. Several re- |
markable speeches from delegates of
both calOrs were made, the burden of /
which was the necessity of union of |
all good citizens of every class to OBJ /
tain in the fall election an honest and |
State government. 1t /
was resolved to conduct the canvass
under the name of the Union Reform 1
party. Judge r. b. Carpenter, Re
publican and an eX-Officer of the /
Union army, was nominated for Gov |
ernor, and General NJ. c. Butler, a !
ex-COnfederate, for Lieu
tenant Governor. The campaign /
promises to bs active and exciting.
With a single exception, all the pub /
lie journals in Chicago have declared
in iavor of the proposed constitutional
for the free ballot, or pro-
portfonal representative in the Gen
erai Assembly. Outside OF Chicago,
it has received the favorable consid-
Grafton of the Rock Island argus,
Cairo BslJLetiIl, and a number of others
of the leading country journals, while
only one of the same class of papers
the Quincy Whig-has spoken
decidedly against it. Since the
Of the convention,
the provision upon this subjeet has re-
ceived a great deal of attention from
the press, of aH political sides, in all |
sections of the country. And it is
very remarkable that nearly all the
great organs of public sentiment /
speak earnestly in its favor. In New
York the Tribune, 7'iRl6S, World,
Post, Journal Of Commerce, and sew
aral Journals of less note have written
decidedly in its favor. Some of the
eading Journals In Boston, Albany,
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Buffalo, Gin
,innati, and indianapolis have done
he same. And, so far, it has not met
with the positive disapproval of
single representative newspaper any
where. If the trainers Of the new
of Tennessee had been
statesman instead of timid politicians
,ur State organic law would have
possessed this feature by which the
lights and power of minorities may
,e recognized In legislative bodies.