Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-19
GOOD OUT OF NAzARETH.


Fansticism and party bigotry hsYe ever
lost q foothold in Boston. There the PEG
pie have combined tomske common cause
against robbery. Prior to the recent cleo
ton for mayor in Boston, the Radical ring
Of plunderers and of~hce-brokers visited
the wards and prsted about the purity d
Rspublicsnism and the atrocities of the
copperhesd.ku-klux Democracy. But
those ordinary election tricks, these cries
OF danger to the party and the country,
this false enthusiasm for great principles,
and the whole system of jugglery, were
seen through and despised, and the plsce-
hunters became the servants instead OF
being the masters Of the psOple, Not
w~ithstsnding the large Radical majority
in Boston, two years & 9 Democrat, as
the Reform candidate, was elected mayor.
A few days since this same Democrat was
reelected in defiance Of the tln-pan
thunder Of the ofice-brokers. Referring
to the election Of CASTOR over the Repub-
lican candidate, the Boston Post has the
following:
aA4lo AaoA1AA AN-NANNAAbAH VI ~ bseA
Of the reform platform laid dow last
year, is a deserved triumph of those sterling
principles in local government which are the
sureSt guaranty Of steady municipal progress
and prosperity. 1t Is a victory Of the citizens
alone, released from party Uammels and
wholly clear Of party associations, They
one year ago, urged 10 Il by the wasteful and
~coEuptlng influences hat had effected an
alaming Judgment In the city government;
and his year they have been but firmly con-
slstent with their former purpose and con-
fined that their last years action by q ma
jOrity decisive enough 70 have settled the
Question OF reform beyond further dispute.
He was elected, not 10 operate as a check on
local growth, but 70 so dlscreetly administer
municipal affairs that that growth might go
on without needless waste ard corruption.
And on that same platform has his reelection
been triumphanuy secured. Last years work
is vindlcated. IL Is done In the interests OF
Boston alone. The citizens at large are re-
spOnsible for II. Partisanship AID jObbery
have alike been made to retire with their pre-
tensions. We have the certainty Of a reform
mayor for another year, equipped with the
Valuable experience Of the past tWelVeInonth,
and instructed afIesh in the wishes Of the peO-
pie. 1t Is, furthermore, with feeling Of gen
uine pride that Boston regards her present
chief magistrate, who, by his superior qualih-
cations Of intellect, training and personal
character, holds up the Office 70 the respect OF
citizens and strangers.
As q general rule Boston serves as q
scare-crow to sdmonish people, what they
should not do, by what she has done.
But for once here Is In example worthy of
imitation. and we are rejoiced to know
that Memphis intends to initiate what
would ordinarily be IN unsafe pattern, by
re-electing an honest and efficient mayor.
Read with care the comments Of the
Post, and see how appropriately
they apply to our own condition. The
spirit developed in Boston by the election
Of q Democratic mayor in q Republican
city, is another triumph Of the people
over the rings. They will learn from
their success in every part eff the Union,
they have only their wi apathy and
neglect to blame for the greater portion of
the misgoYernment TO which they
have been subjected. Hitherto the
managers have been suf-
to run the machine after their
fashion, and the better classes of
our people have abstained from taking an
active part in the elections. Occasionally
they have reused themselves to the point
Of protest and denuncistion, when the
vile character of party nominees has forced
I.zelf upon their notice; but when the
Jay Of election has arrived they have
been too much occupied with business or
TOO thoroughly disgusted with the whole
machinery of politics to take The trouble
10 20 TO the polls. But, for the future, it
will be different. Our solid business men
and respectable citizens, who have here
,ofore taken but little interest in the
Icrsmbles and. chickering's of professional
,~fhce-seekeus are determined to exercise
controlling influence