Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-12
POLITICAL.

Forney wants to be Governor Of
Pennsylvania.
The Sun now wants Seward to run
against Tweed for Governor Of New
York.
A Texas paper calls the present
condition of the State "the cocoon
state"
General Hersey is to be the next
Radical candidate for Governor Of
Maine.
"BrownIow,}' says the Rochester
Chronicle, "has his dying words all
ready"
Forney is a candidate for the next
Radical nomination for Governor OF
Pennsylvania.
The temperance men of Maine say
that they are bound to run a candidate
for Governor this fall.
The Indiana political women are
trying hard to help Julian into the
United States Senate.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton is to be held in Columbus, on
Wednesday, June 1st.
Judge Bradley says he didn't give
the Long Branch villa to Grant. Then
the question is, who did?
The reconstructed State of Georgia
has elected seven United States Sena-
tors, not one of whom has yet been
admitted.
Senator Cragin claims that he assure
of I24 votes in the New Hampshire
Legislature-enOugh to send him back
to Washington.
Covode has discovered that the foul
est portion of the Congressional atmos-
phere is invariably just where he hap
pens to be seated.
Goliday, of Kentucky, now claims
that he is still a member of Congress,
and proposes to contest the right OF
Lewis to take his seat.
Indiana darkies intend to brand
any of their number who vote the
Democratic ticket with the word
"Cain" on the forehead, in written
paint.
The election occurs in Oregon next
June. A Legislature is to be elected,
upon which will devolve the duty Of
choosing a successor to Senator Viii
Iiams.
In the event of Mr.. Morrissey's re-
signatiOn, the Democrats ofthe Fourth
Congressional District could not do
better than to nominate the Hon. NJ.
NJ. Pomeroy.
Senator Chandler once congratulated
Summer with: 81 say, Sumner, that
was the best speech l ever heard de-
livered by a man who knew so little
of his subject"
The Representative for the Third
Wisconsin Congressional District Of
fers his appointment at Annapolis for
competitive examination, and names
a Miss Arlington as one Of the exam
ing board.
1t has been discovered by the Senate
Investigating Committee in the Gecr-
gia corruption matter, that $50, 900
were brought to Washington recently
from Georgia by Bullock, to be used
in affecting Congressional legislation
for Georgia.
After a long contest, MI. Sheppard,
democrat, has been declared by the
philadelphia Court of Common Pleas,
4 District Attorney of that city. Mr..
Sheppard was elected in 1868, and
after holding the Office some time was
counted out, and Charles Gibbons in
stalled in the place.
The people of Vermont voted
yesterday on accepting the amend
ments TO the State Constitution pro-
posed by the council Of censors. The
principal amendments are for bien-
NAL sessions of the Legislature, and
IN favor of suffrage to women; but
little interest is taken in the matter,
and it is thought all the recommends
tons will fail.
Dana is surely the sufferer in his
collision with John Russell Young.
In fact Dana viii never recover from
the effects of that memorable assault
upon Andrew Johnson. His weapon
was a boomerang, and he fell beneath
the force Of the rebound never to rise
again. There was a development of
~depravity which John Russell Young
defines with wOndrous skill.
Mr.. Physick, a Radical legislator
from Galveston, is thus represented as
administering himself, in the late can
vass, to his constituents: 81 tell YOU,
niggers, how it is, you must go back
to Africa; you are incompatible with
US in color, organization and smell;
Africa is the country of your forefa-
thers-the simeon and the typhoon
are the zephyrs of that glorious ia
therland. There is plenty to eat and
no work; the beautiful anaconda, the |
lion, the tiger and the hippopotamus
roam in sweet communion through
the lovely jungles." The freedmen 1
took this dose and threw Mr.. Physick
up as the loyal representative at Aus
tin.
Don Piatt defines the Democracy as
organized ignorance of the country"
To which the Atlanta Constitution re-
spends: THE definition of RadicaIism
is the organized thievery of the coun-
And to this the Nashville Ban
ner responds: "Let organized ignO-
rance and organized thievery' light
It out on that line. But let the honest
people of Tennessee and the South de-
vote themselves to organized immi-
organized manufactures. or
ganized railroads, organized agricul-
iural associations, and organized
boards Of commerce. Let %. l. and
o. IT, take care of themselves, for the
present at least. The SOuth's busv.U
That is all very well, but if will not
10 any harm but a great deal of good,
I the people study politics too, and
yOta the Democratic fiobaf