Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-27
Punch addresses this rhyme to
Sweet Innocent:
POLITICAL.

Maryland will give Greeley about
twenty thousand majority.
It cost three million dollars to carry
Pennsylvania for Hartranft.
Liberals in Connecticut are betting on
ten thousand majority for Greeley.
There were heavy gains for the Lib
eraI ticket in COlfax's district IN Indi-
ana.
Greedy viii probably have a large ma
ioritv in the State of New York outside
of the city.
Connecticut Liberals are betting that
Greeley will carry that State by six
thousand majority.
General Babcock recently advised a
friend to invest money in San Domingo,
as it would certainly be annexed.
Enough fraudulent votes were cast in
the city of Raleigh and neighborhOed to
give the North Carolina election to Mer-
rimon.
The Springfield Republican thinks
Grants Administration is the idea! OF
enthroned mediOcrity. It Is worse. 1t
is euthrOned mendacity.
The frantic rawlings and dismal howl
ing of the Chicago Times are the best
evidence of the great strength Of the
Liberal cause in the Northwest.
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks is the
first Democratic Governor elected in
Indiana since 1856. He has three times
been a candidate-in 1860, in 1858, and
in 1872.
The Canada negroes are all for Grant.
Seven hundred of them attested their
devotion by registering in Detroit. As
a ~colonizer and registerer your patriotic
moke is a grand success.
The Hon. Abiah w. Palmer, a Repub-
Iican member of the New York Senate,
has, since the October elections declared
for Greeley, making the sixth Republic
can Senator who has so declared.
ga Ioafng bullock lately threw thir-
teen ears on the Great Western road,
England, down an embankmeDt."
That's nothing. Down in Georgia a
Bullock threw q State-railroads and all
into bankruptcy.
Colonel Forney put an end to the ru-
NOR that his Press is to be sold to the
Cameron Ring, by declaring that jour
nal a "valuable property which its own
er and founder intends to keep, what
ever combinations may be formed for
its destruction or purchase"
General Joseph Lane, Of Oregon, cam
didate for Nice-President on the Breck-
inridge ticket in 1860, is strongly for
Greeley and Brown. In q letter recently
published, written from his home in
Oregon, he saws: 81 have not cOnversed
with a Democrat since / left Douglas
county that is not for Greeley, and, so
far as 1 can learn, all the Democrats of
this (Coosl county will vote the Greeley
ticket, as also many of the old-line Re
publieans. 1t is said by those who ought
to know, that that ticket will carry this
county by a majority of thirty at least"
Scene in Philadelphia on election day:
An eminent physician presents his vote
and is informed that he has already
voted, whereupon he remarks: 81 have
two sons at home; please let me know
whether somebody has voted Tor them
in which case | will save them the
trouble Of coming here?' The list is
examined, and the information given
that both sons have voted. The physi-
clan departs meditating upon the glo-
rious privileges of American citizen
ship under the beneficent rule of the
Grant Cameron dynasty.
There will be a sweet little sum ex-
pended by the government in printing
this year. Since Congress adjourned, we
are told, the public printing Office has
turned cut seven hundred and fifty thou
sand octave and quarto volumes, vary
ing from three hundred TO six hundred
pages each. There are two hundred and
fifty thousand volumes on agriculture
and the kukluX. Upon this the Boston
RSt remarks: "No wonder Mr.. Clapp
officially favors generous political as
sessments. He can afford it, if his em-
Moves cannot'i