Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-28
The Presidential Race the Absorbing
Topic Of Conversation and Pub
lie Attention.
State POlitics-The Brindles-Genera
Tappan for Governor
The Crops.

/ State POlitics-The Brindles-General
Tappan for Governor
The Crops.
HELENA, May IS, 1877.
EDITORS APPEAL-The leading topic
of conversation here is, of course, the
coming contest for Presidential honOrs.
"Who do you think will be the next
Pressient?' and "What do you think
of Greeley's chances?" are the saIutato-
ry interrogatories addressed to every
stranger, or pushed into the pauses of
every "talk'' in the street, office, store,
OF wherever two or three "sovereignsp
meet to exercise the inalienable right of
freedom Ofspeeeh. Inthese conversations
the white hat of the philosopher of Chap
paqua is CALAMITY cooked, and prophe-
cies and bets are freely made that "our
later FranklinD will succeed the mar
cotic and military man Grant as
the Chief Magistrate of the country.
Our friends of the Republican party wit
ness the general popularity Of Mr.. Gree
ley with surprise, because he is in all
things-say they-tOuching latitude and
longitude, a Yankee, one of the founders
! and fathers Of the Republican party, a
lifelong AbolitiOnist, and, as long as he
could stand it, the right hand man of
General Grant. But these gentlemen
should remember that the people are
actuated purely by reasons Of patriotism,
and are willing to forget Mr.. Greeley's
past hostility to them in his present
manly effort to defeat the common enc
my. These gentlemen should follow
MR.. GREELEY's EXAMPLE,
and they would o learn how gener-
ously the people can forgive past errors
when there is a present and honest effort
and intention to maintain the high and
honorable part of patriot in future. True
it is that Horace Greeley will be most
warmly and welcomely supported by this
people, that they will esteem his cleo
ton to the Presidency of the United
States as a blessing, a consummatiOn
devoutly to be wished, and that they
will deprecate any act which would de-
feat him and result in the election of
General Grant. And this brings
US to the probable action of
the Baltimore Convention. Staunch
old Democrats here fear the action of
that body. There are signs that a straight
Democratic ticket will be put in the
field, that the advice Of Mr.. Voorhees,,
the
NEW YORK WORLD,
and a handful of members of Congress
-..-.s ~r.,- AIo x~,aan., Of tho ngan1a
that personal hostility to Mr.. Greeley
wiz outweighthe great political necessity
for his election, that q false sense of
party pride will triumph over the great
principles of reform of which
HORACE GREELEY Is THE CHAMPION,
and that the Democratic party in con-
ventiOn assembled Tor its accredited rep
resentatives} will commit the crowning
blunder of its history by leaving the
Liberal Republicans to their fate. Let
us hope that this will not be the case,
and that prudence, wisdom and patriot
ism will mark the deliberations of the
convention in the ratification of the Gin
cinnati nominees. Such an act will be
hailed by this people as the dawning
light of that day of political redemption
for which they have prayed since they
came home from the Confederate army,
weary of war, division and diSsension,
but which has been kept from them by
the curse of ~earpetbag government. Let
US have Greeley and Brown against
and we car go in and win.
The action of the Brindle wing Of the
Republicans-this is a distinct sect from
the Liberal Republicans who sent dele
to Cineinnati-has taken US a little
by surprise in declaring for Greeley and
Mr.. Brooks, the leader of the
Brindles, while bitterly opposing Clay
ton and his ring, has been all along, with
antagonism of ideas, supporting
But, now that he has accepted
the nomination of the Brindles for Gov
ernOr, of course, he will bring his fine
5tump-speakng qualities to bear in favor
Of
THE CINCINNATI TICKET.
1t is rather late in sold Joeu coming
over to the right. butwe welcome him in
good faith. He is no small accession to the
Greeley strengthen Arkansas, being, by
ong odds, the ablest man in the old
Simon-pure, dyed-in-the-woOl Republi-
IAN party. This little affair at the State
makes three nice divisions of the
party, tO-wit: The Clayton
ties, the Brooksites and the Liberals.
What effect viii this division have upon
he gubernatorial GALVESTON the DEM
,cratie party? 1t would be premature
9 answer this question now. Events
lave not SO shaped themselves as to
the policy Of Democracy. VIII
he mountain go to Mahommet or will
dahommet go to the mountain? We
hall see what we shall see.
The Democratic County Convention of
county meets next Monday, in !
his place. The deliberations Of that
,ody will shadow forth in no small de-
,ree the action of the Democracy of the
Until then we are silent. The Z
Daily World, a live paper, came
'ut this week in an able editorial advo-
ating General Tappan for Governor of
Arkansas. The General is fully up to
herequirements of the times, and would
make agovernor acceptable toall classes
{ our people.
We have had fine rains in Phil
lps county iduring the last few days. A
he cotton crop is q little klate, o
ut looking well. The area in enltiva-
is not as extensive as that of last !
ear. The corn crop promises a good
ield, Il IS hip-high on many planta-
IONS. TRIBUNE.
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