Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-22
TIE COUNTY ELECTIONS.

The election for county officers comes
of on the first day of August, n week
from next Thursday. The Democratic
party met in county convention and
nominated a regular ticket, composed
Of good and unobjectionable men. The
time for preparing for the great battle
is short. Eut we trust when the day ar
rives it viii find the Conservative
masses of Shelby county with locked
shields and united in a determined eff
fort to overthrow the common enemy.
Let every Democrat, every man OPP
posed to the corrupt Grant dynasty rally
to the support Of the regular ticket.
To do otherwise would be to commit
political suicide, and voluntarily forge
the chains Of slavery, to strengthen the
hands of ON enemies and by on folly
10 perpetuate am~isrule, the consequences
Of which we nave already experienced.
The defeat of the Democratic ticket on
the first day of August will, in a word,
turn the county of Shelby over to Bar
bOur Lewis and the Radical gang who
have so long plundered the people.
There is no reason for restoring Radicals
TO power in this county. The public
good does not require such a sacrifice. If
the election of Barbour Lewis TO Con-
gress and a. P. Curry to the Office of
Sheriff would lessen the taxes Of the
people, and contribute to the restoration
of peace, there would be some eX-
cuse for supporting them. But as
the triumph of such men would
he heralded as a Radical victory, as an
evidence of the unpopularity of Greeley
in Tennessee, and as an Endorsement of
Grants corruptions and u~surpatiOns, it
behooves all who are opposed to Grant
aud misrule to unite for the successful
accomplishment of the greatest political
result which has ever awakened the pa
triotism and aroused the energy Of a free
people. The candidates for county offices
are nobly performing their duty, and the
nominees for the State Legislature must
at once enter the canvass, for their
success in November depends upon the
triumph Of the ticket on the first
Of August. Elect Curry Sheriff
of Shelby, and this county and this dis
trict will be hopelessly Radical. Then
let us unite and elect our county ticket
week. Not a single man should be
sacrificed. We are unalterably opposed
to the practice, too often resorted to in
our party contests, of swapping votes.
1t is a practice which cannot be too
strongly deprecated, and which almost
invariably results in crippling the cause
those who resort to it. Our notion is,
hat when a party dominates a ticket,
is bound by every consideration of
honor, fair dealing and good policy, to
every candidate upon that
ticket with equal earnestness and
zeal. To do otherwise-to throw
IF one Of those candidates, in
he hope of electing or swelling the
-ote Of another-is an evidence of
gretched bad judgment, and an eutra-
geous breach OF good faith. Offers have
,een made for a trade by some of the
candidates; but we ear elect a !
all ticket, and we sincerely trust there
S no Democrat anywhere who would ]
ntertain such a proposition for a mo- I
aent, and we should be sorry to believe (
hat there is a candidate for any po- /
ition upon our ticket who would not i
corn an election purchased at the sac =
ifce or even at the risk of one of his ]
ssociaUes. Werepeat the admonition t
our friends, there should he no swap $
ing or trading on our part; but let each n
lan, and every Democrat, go to the 4
oils and vote the full, s%traight-out $
Democratic ticket, and, u word for it, e
'e shall achieve a great and glorious d
n