Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-18
SERMON.
An Appeal TO Candidates. Sad Picture
of MOral WeakneSs-The Steam
Power that Drives the Ma
chine of Politics.

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to sell the votes even of wards, and 9TH
ers will hint to candidates that they
control al will certain workshops. A
barkeeper is known, who sets himself
up as the proprietor of fifty-three votes,
"all in one establishment" The names
of these worthless should be gathered up
and published, by authority of the Dem
Ocratic Executive Committee. There
are negroes that sell themselves every
day, to any purchaser, to vote for any
body; but
THAT CANDIDATE WHO BUYS A VOTE
or spends money for whisky, that dirty
fellows may guZzle it, only eXcites the de-
risiOn and contempt of those who swim
die him. Such a candidate is too absurd
an ass to represent any community in
any position. Long trains of lousy
~lOafers swing around bar-rOoms in the
vicinity of public meetings, and when
the weary candidate closes his harangue
the thirsty camp-follOwers of partisan
ship crack their dry Threats shouting
praises of his %elOquence. 1t is the COM
ing stream Of whisky rather than foun-
tain Of echoing oratory that begets the
enthusiasm of the foul rabble swinging
about the bar-rooms, awaiting the advent
"a liz FANAAAAA AAC A1AAAlAAA1NG OA4N
and what kindly words are spoken!
How earnestlyit is whispered that he is
bound to winI The innocent candidate
is very innocent who becomes the vic
! tim of these worthless.
HOW IT Is DONE.
We watched some of the rascals-the
dead-beats-nOt many evenings ago.,
when many Demosthenean outbursts
had excited the plaudits of a most II
thusiastic thrOng. As each successive
orator came down from the stand the
roughs went for him. They greeted him
with heartfelt praises and their 'hearts
were in their Threats" They whispered
soft words into willing ears, and with
evidently no disposition on the part of
anybody to do 50, each candidate was
gently showed they call il "hUstled'')
into the yawning bar-rOOm. Twelve or
fifteen drank, and as live liquor leaped
kissing and suffering down the Threats
of the besOtted wretches, each went out
of the back door and came round to the
front and again swallowed a maddening,
fiery. potion. Each dead-beat thus Sc
cures from three to five drinks at the
cost of each orator, and as we have
about twenty orators nightly, discOurs-
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hedge in political gatherings, each
secures
AN AVERAGE OF SIXTY DRINKS
per night, and goes to bed drunk as a
lord and besOtted as an American sover-
eign, so-called. These fellows that pro-
fess to WELD vast influence, and tell Of
their supreme power in some shop or
church or mandatory OF ward, are of
this same whisky-guzzling rabble. Bar
keepers know them all, and such is the
skill of ONE ropers-in of weak-minded
candidates, that the barkeepers dead
head them through the week for the
service done on a single night. Each
bar-room about places where candidates
are wont to gather roaring multitudes,
has its special deadhead ropers-in, who
never fail to swallow from three to a half
dozen whisky-straights for each candi-
date that can be hustled" and rushed
into smelling-distance of the counter.
AN UNLUCKY CANDIDATE.
We saw one candidate enter a bar
room after numbering Justify and lumi-
nously for an hour and q quarter. He
was hoarse. His voice was husky. The
swell mob went for him. He fell a vic
tim to their wiles. His was an effort
never surpassed since PrentiSs and Clay
held Senates spellbOund. Gently, ten
derby, blanketed with whispered flatte-
~ of this sort, the exhausted orator was
drawn into the rumhole. Six braWny,
red-faced, half-deeent, half-vulgar, re-
pulsive fellows, went in and drank, and
out and in by the back door and drank,
and continued thus to come in and
drink, until u orator stood aghast. He
saw the process would never end, and
threw fifteen chats the precise sum
dollars upon the counter, and ran away
In horror and dismay. He thought the
infamous swell mob would never cease
to drink, and that it might explode.
SOLEMN.
1t is fearful, this thing of being a can
didate, and more fearful is the response
bility resting upon the voters of Memphis,
God knows that of all States and cities,
Tennessee and Memphis have lost
most by shameful misconduct of place
holders and law-givers.
The Reformers began a great and good
work, but have quietly subsidized. Let
the people beware of vices we have de-
fined and of those who minister to them,
and vote for the wisest and best men,
and whisky will no longer control 9lec-
tons; votes viii not be peddled about
in market overt; whisky-heads will no
longer find weak victims in soft candi-
dates, and private as well public morals
and legislation will undergo the same
process of reform.
CoNCLUSI0N-THE ScHoOLSAND MAYOR.
But what vices and crimes may we
not expect to oveTwhelm a community
and shape its destinies, and degrade and'
curse its people, when money is not only
exacted for votes, but when knaves
go about, even outside of SOdOm,
and pretend to have squads Of
voters mustered like m~ercenaries
in war, for sale, and when the
public schools have lapsed into hands
utterly shameless, and as incompetent
for tasks assumed as the means by which
supremacy was achieved were disgrace
ful. Worse, a thOusand-fold worse, the
degradation of a city whose chief mag
istrate is indicted by the Criminal Court
for trafficking in licenses with unnamed
infamy. Wouldn't it be "a miracle if
such a people, with such masters and Of
fice-holders, and such representatives
of public deceney, selected proper candi-
dates for office?
EcoNoMY.-Take your spring clothing
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