Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-01


five thousand dollars per anniim. This
county alone pays more taxes to-day
than the entire State did four years ago,
and vet neither the State or county
treasury has a dollar in currency In their
Golfers to even pay the interest with on
the funded debt of the State or county.
| The day of reckoning Il close at hand,
and when it arrives and these thieves
are displaced and honest men are occu-
pying the places that they simply used
! for their own benefit and selfish ends in
robbing the people, there will be more
than one OF these scampS made to dis
gorge his
DISHONEST GAINS,
or else it will be o short shrift and a
hempen cord, or q notice TO cult the
State for the States good, like the notice
and intimation of the people OF Idaho
TO Ex-Governor Bowen. This thieving in
Office, however, is not confined exclu-
sively to the Minstrels, but also to the
Brindles wherever they yet have had
an opportunity to obtain place TO
serve the people in public capacity. As
an instance, the offices of County Clerk
and Road Commissioner of this county,
and this is the special objection urged
against electing Mr.. Brooks Governor,
that his unfortunate connection with
fellows of this character, and this fact
alone will lose him one thousand voters
in this county, and will
HAVE ITS EFFECT
all over the State. Were it not for this
propensity to steal Of all the hangers-on
to the coat-tail of ''hOnest old Joe
Brooks" he would receive fifty or sixty
thousand votes out of the seventy
five thousand. AS ii Is, he can
not receive, at the outside, more
than two-thirds of that number, and will
receive fifteen or twenty thousand less
than Greeley and Brown, Grant and
COJd6Gite Wilson will not poll twenty
i've thousand in the State, even If the
head of the Liberal ticket should be
given to that staunch and honest Repub-
lican, DR.. A. It. Shaw, of Cass county,
formerly Of yCJr city, and the former
editor of the Memphis Post. 1t is, how
ever, immaterial who may be elected
Governor,
JOE BROOKS OR DIR. SHAW.
Their hands vii. he tied to do the State
any further damage through Radical
ism. The Legislature will be ConservR-
tive, and the first business it will do will
be to lessen the taxes and decrease all
fees and salaries OF Office at least one
half, wherever the constitution in its
provisions does not prevent it, and it il
folly for the Liberals to suppose that The
people this fall viii permit anything but
a fair election. The days of ballot-box
are played out. 1t has had its
day, and the sooner that the thieves in
Office get to understand this the better
for them. We either will have fair
election or a free fight. And the quick
er the Gins and outs" get to understand,
and are convinced that Pulaski county is
not the State of Arkansas, the healthier
it will be for these dishonest knRves both
in and out of office, in the neighbOrhood
of the StatehOuse, that it would not be
a healthy arrangement to attempt to
CARRY THE ELECTION
like the last few years by fraud. A
thousand bayonets and muskets would !
not save your necks from the just ven
geance of the people in another outrage
upon the rights. of the people. That
thing is gone by. Nothing must be |
done through intimidation OF threat. |
Every one who is qualified must be per- |
mitted to vote, just once and for whom |
be pleases, without fear or molestation |
from any quarter, and his vote counted |
fairly and honestly, and the people will |
abide the result without q murmur.
ANYTHING TO BEAT GRANT. |