Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-06
POLITICAL
trakl THE Stokes TRIAL.

& Ex-Governor Vance is running for
Congress in North Carolina, and making
magnificent speeches for Greeley a Fya
Mr. DanieltAyer, a lifelong and in
fiuential Republican of Albany, has
written a letter containing a bitter re-
view Of Grants administration, and
warmly indorsing Greeley and Brown.
A large anti-65 65ustOInEOuse RepublicaD,
mass meeting was held On saturday
night in New Orleans. This movement
is supposed to be equally anti Greeley
and and-Grant. Things are as badly
mixed in Louisiana as in Arkansas.
The Pine Bluff Gas Conapany, wa. are
told, uses croton oil instead of naptha in
making gas, q fact supposed TO account
for the lOOseness Of political morals in
Arkansas, and for the tenderness OF
ClaytOn's bowels Of compassion for
thieves.
senator Morton is another man who
thinks Mr. Summers Republicanism
very doubtful. How many Years Is it
since he made a speech at Richmond,
Indiana, in which be said that State
that allowed negroes % vote would be
too ''degradedn for decent white men
to i've in it?- Springfield RepNRicGn.
The Louisville Courier Jouga0l says
Logan ought TO be dismissed fron the
Church at once, because he don't stray
gle around with the deLiTiu5H tre8lens
and swear with The vim that he did on
his conversion. But We can't expect
convert to everlastingly maintain the
enthusiasm OF his original condition.
The Grant Republican State Central
Committee met at LeavenwOrth, Kan
sas, on Tuesday, and called two State
conventions, one to nominate State OIL
GERS and State Central Committee, to
be held in Topeka, September 4th, and
the other TO nominate COngressmen and
Presidential electors 70 be held in Law
renee the same date.
Disappointed men charge the editors
Of Iowa with having made a corner
In Congressional nominations, and. par
celed them out among themselves.
Those aspiring journalists ought to be
satisfied with the coming election Of two
editors as President and Vice-President,
without Us trying TO fill Congress with
members Of the same craft.
The mania for taking votes on railway
trains has begun again. The latest affair
OF the kind occurred on the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad, on a
train Carrying the inmates Of a lUnatic
asylum on q picnic excursion. The re-
suit was: Grant fifty, Greeley twelve.
We guess 1t is safe to say that the luna
tics everywhere are for Grant
The Oshkosh Times believes Greeley
win carry Wisconsin,. 1t says there are
now more than one hundred Republi-
can votes ia Oshkosh pledged for the
Cincinnati tick ct, and the same proper
ton throughout the State would indi-
cate q change OF fifteen thousand three
hundred and seventy. It is. confident
Grant viii lose the State by ten thou
sand.
Our countrymen residing in the City
Of Mexico were canvassed about a fort
night ago, tO. O.aseertains their preferences
for next President Of the United States.
The result was as follows; For u. ;.
Grant, five: against Grant and other
wise uncommitted, six; for Greeley, but
unwilling to take political sides, five;
for Greeley against the field, twenty
seven. "a ZIP
Here Is a neat and truthful boiling
down Of Henry Wilson's curious Know
Nothing record: 1. He believed in re-
fusing the right Of suffrage to foreign
bOrn citizens. p He did not believe in
refusing the right Of suffrage to foreign
born citizens, but only said that be did.
g. II be did not believe in refusing the
right of suffrage 20 fOreign-bOrn citizens,
be must have had an coject in view in
saying that be did. / He was elected
to the Senate Immediately after the
great Know-NOthing triumph, and by
know-Nothing votes.