Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-12
THE ISSUE PLAINLY STATED.

The Augusta CoRStitatiORdlist, one OF
the oldest and ablest papers in Georgia,
has hoisted the Greeley and Brown ban
ner. The editor says: "The Reform
movement is something more than a
party question confined to Democrats.
1t reaches deep down into the popular
heart and extends far and wide into
every section Of this great country,
among the honest masses who feel that
something higher and holier than party
ascendency is involved in the question.
In this vital struggle We recognize a
grand fraternity Of sympathies and Of
interests extending to the remOtest sec
tons ofthe Union, and hailing as broth
ers Of a common perl and in a common
u Republicans and Democrats alike,
who vote and act with us.
"In our best judgment the support Of
Greeley and Brown by all the elements
of opposition to Grant affords the best
prospect Of success in the coming con-
test. Every vote not given TO Greeley
viii inure to the benefit of Grant. All
roads that lead from Greeley 60 to
Grant. This is Impractical result Of all
efforts to get up a third ticket.
Profoundly impressed with this con-
viction, we appealt to thepeOple of Georgia
to urge upon their State Convention the
acceptance of the Liberal republican
tickets themost available. We appeal
to that convention to urge upon the
Baltimore Convention to adopt it, and
to recommend it to the support Of every
Democrat in the country. Such a course
will at once add strength to the Demo
cratic organization in every State, and
insure the ultimate return of that party
to power. Without the aid Of the pa
triotic and honest reformers ofthe coun-
try outside ofit, it must remain where
it has been for years, in a minority, and
Radicalism viii still be master Of the
situation.
"If We were to select for the head Of our
columns the name that would cOmenear-
est being the exponent of our opinions,
We would place there Jefferson Davis.
"But as the question is one Of policy,
and for the rescue Of the country by the
concurrence of the largest practicable
vote from a threatened calamity, we
place there the name of Horace Greeley"
The COHStitlHiOndlist, in a long and
able article ~canvassing the chances of
carrying the doubtful States, shows that
in Oregon at the last general election, in
1870, the Democrats reversed its position
from the Republican side, and carried it
by the slim majority Of six hundred and {
t~wenty-one votes. But now that result
is lost, and it has gone Republican 'fby
increased majOrities." Would a Demo- :
cratic nominee be apt to carry the State
now against Grant? Clearly not. If
carried against him at all, it must be by
the help Of Liberal Republicans and with
a LiberaI Republican nominee. Take 4
each State and discuss the probabilities
IN view Of Grant being in the field. v
What Democrat can beat him? New t
York. 40 the election last year, went :
Radical by eighteen thousand five hun !
lred and t~wenty-nine majority. What I
Democrat can overcome that majority b
opposition to Grant? The former o
would have to carry all the Tammany !
niquities on his shoulders. These 4
would outweigh all the customhouse t
corruption, and every other local objec-
ion against Grant. Take P~ennsylva- -
Tia: Last year it went Radical by a
majority Of fourteen thousand, four hun "
lred and ninety votes. What Demo-
rat can overcome that this year against
irant? So on to the end Of the list. !.
The defeat Of Grant by Greeley, if the ri
after receive a cordial and united De "
n~Ocratic support, we believe to be pos !,
ible. 1t is not safe to be very sanguine \
bout it. But such a result is only posi- fl
lie by a cordial and united support of all el
he Republican elements in opposition ~
o Grant; and of this we have no as a,
urance. There is no ground upon which b
We can calculate on it as a probability. g