Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-01

greatest anu most extensively redu
newspaper Of the Southern States, the
great and good
MEMPHIS APPEAL,
that he has 50 soon been demolished bv
this great modern Ajax from the Dew
i's Own Bluff. Squire Jonah, ESQUIRE,
that hes the whale in his belly for the
last yyy5 thousand years, or thereabouts,
who ecuSd tell to a nicely, if he would,
how sool. il became apparent IN the as
semhig ot the immortal Minstrels
thai We assemblage Of young Democracy
ana Conservatism would not upon any
pleas or circumstance ever indoTsed any
nominee that this self-constituted and
self-elected convention had have pre-
sentedt to the people as candidates of the
Liberal seekeTs of Office rather than the
welfare of the people, but would swal-
low cold Honestly Joe Brooks a thou
sand times with all his unfortunate isms
than to follow in the wake of any of
you, even if you had have swung out
with the name of DIR. A. T. Shaw, the
best, the greatest and most honest OF
Republicans Of the State; and, bye the
way, the Doctor did not put in an ap-
pearance at this great wrangle of Glib
eral seekers of the fat places of the
Minstrels, though those Liberal seekers
after the salvation of the people banked
heavy that the Doctor would be there.
They were greatly disappointed, and
the Doctor displayed his usual good sense
and judgment in keeping away from this
crowd of immortal nineteen that are too
eager to save their country than for the
good people, for the pay there is in it
rather than from patriotism or an unsel-
fish motive. Therefore from this too
eager spirit and disposition displayed by
these "nberal-seekers after the saliva
ton of the people.n They forced the
of old Honest Joe upon the
young Democracy as the coming man,
and if Hodges, RUdd and Company can
only be kept in the distance, all will be
well, ard the editor of the
ILLUSTRATED "FoR THEIRU
r. JACKAsS
will display no more of his foolish fears
of attempting to ride two horses at the
same time, and quit guessing of the
probable localities of the thousands of
Of the forty thieves in office
in the State House ring, and endeavor
to concentrate the entire opposition as
one man against these villains, he, too,
Will find that "all's well that ends
well, - and that we will have work
enough and our hands full to accom-
pIish this desirable object without
T" SCRATCHING ont each others eyesn upon
paper. The young Democracy means
business, and if they cannot obtain
the object of their hearts desire, the ex-
altatiOn of the Hon. A. H. Garland to
the guberla, arial chai:, they at least
NEVER will strike hands with the ac-
cursed thieves, and aid them in the cleo
ton of their candidate, eyens if they
sh0eld sandwich the bait with half
dozen weak-kneed, thin-shinned old fat
sides, unless a good and tried and hon
est Republican, like Dr. a. T. Shaw,
was working in the lead. Then thev
could be induced, without consideration,
to swallow the ticket, 'alfand-alt, by
Il with Mills, Baxter and
Alphabet YOnley, but not otherwise.
Therefore, let US have peace" aud 10
more wraBgling in our own camps by
outside interlOpers, and unite to fight il
out on this line, if .t-.0f
"IT TAKES ALL SUMMER"
Tie Conservative Democratic Con-
yentiOn, which met in the capital last
y GGA ~ Illuminate hNAGEAbC5 " TIE D1l-
imOre Convention, and to agree uDon |
he best plan TO conduct the campaign /
n this State, was on the whole the /
argest and best looking body of intelli- !
sence that had assembled here for many |
year. Nearly all the prominent Dem
,crats and Conservatives of the State |
we're either here as delegates or advisers
n the first onslaught of Radicalism in |
rLraraaog II haaa axviIav,F orl-- -
he conference OF its sittings that they |
would advance the work of what pur-
,oTts to be the reform platform Of the |
convention of the twenty
econd of May. Perceiving at a glance
hat the liberal wing of dissffected and
disappointed office-seekers bad not the
host of a chance before the people in
lectng their favorites to office. Could
hey have harmOnized among them
elves for one brief hour, and lead off in
dominating a ticket with DR. a. 7.
'haw's name at the lead, the result, no
Oubt, would have been the Endorsement
T their ticket by the Conservative Con-
entiOn; but from the fact of this great and
oble Republican not responding to their
INVITATION to come to their aid that their
hip had fOundered. 1t was presumed
hat this gentleman would decline the
rst place upon their ticket anyhow,
han permit his name to go before the
eople for certain defeat, with the in
orsement of a self-constituted and
leeted convention of the nineteen great
ghts Of modern Liberal Republicans.
therefore, the promises of the great up
eaval of the Liberal Republican di-
ectory of the "Great Illustrated " COM
lg to naught 80 early in the campaign. !
he l.
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRACY
er force were narrowed down 20 the
ecision of the least evil of the two great
wills of the COmmOnwealth-B Brooks's
ldicalism or the Minstrel thiayes-for
nother four years, they wisely chose the
'rmer as at least, if they were not as
bod as they ought to be, they pro- :
ssed to be honest, and would again en-
eavor If they obtained the reiIls of gov
to so administer the affairs
State as to require but two per cent.
venue upon the assessed value of the
roperty Of the people of the State, in J
cad of the enorm0us tax of five per
mt. Thequantity assessed and fieeced Z
om the people by the minstrels and !
iilway nanipulators, who, in the short ,
ace of four years, have banl1rupted not !
lly the State treasury, but the
TAxPAYERs THEMsELvEs. I
mother four years of government like {
e last, we would not only have hard |
mesy everything dull and astand-still "a 1
ovemeBt I'M all the commercial busi- '
ess and affairs of our people, grass l
owing in our streets of commerce in {
e capital as we have to-day, but would {
I'VE all this, with starvation, famine, |
It'll the cry for bread everywhere, in
cry nook and corner of the State, with @
pine and murder from the effect of e
pacious NAV of the public plunder ofits S
ople.- Of these Voracious, rapscallion I
llains that rgn the machinery of gov r
nment tO-da.s and rob and fleece thelt
ople Of the snd-earned dollars in The
iyment Of this outrageous, exhorbitilnt q
Xes, the Ike of which there has never B
en- q parallel since the. earliest days-of {
G republic, or even IN any of the no Il
rchical governments Of the old world, 5
d why these people are permitted 10 a
lie as they do, even for single day
lger over a State that should flow with
-nty instead Of poverty and want, is a =
ystery to the natives themselves. No J
e-eonfented; no one has anything to I
are outside of his or their own imme- Y
lte ewants, except the - "a = =
-. VILLAINS IN OFFICE a
Two thousand leeebes Of great and o
lRl degree of the body polite of this u
ate. The county of Pulaski supports Il
me a hundred and fifty Of these q
lmps, from the Deputy Cen n
.ble, Deputy Road -0verseer to the b
unity Judge, at salaries ranging I
"a one hundred dollars per an Ii
N for a months idleness, no work, Il
do 10 the salary of its County Clerk q
d Sheriff. with fees each about twenty Il