Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-30
TO THE DEMOCRACY.
The Executive Committee of Ten.
nessee to the Democratic
Voters Of the State.
A Thorough Review Of the Situa-
tiOn-Cheatham, johnson
and Maynard.
The Work that Must be Done b.
fore and On the Fifth of No.
Vember-Take Heed.

From our Special Correspondent
NASHVILLE, October 81 enclose to
you a copy of an address Of the State
Democratic Committee, which will be
issued tomorrow for general circulation
throughout the State. 1t is a mastery
document, and coming at this time can
not fail to arouse the Democracy Of Ten
nessee to united action on Tuesday, the
fifth of November.
To the Democratic Voters Of Tennessee:
The present anomalous political situa-
ton in Tennessee renders it the impera-
tive duty Of the Democratic State Ex-
ecutive Committee to communicate to
the party such information and advice
as may seem necessary to attain the sue
cess Of our party, and through this the
triumph of those political principles
which we deem essential to the public
welfare. We find the Radical party Of
Tennessee thoroughly organized, active,
energetic and watchful. 1t has at its
command TO do its work in this canvass
thousands Of volunteers and seven-tenths
Of the Federal officials who are to be
found in every county and in nearly
every civil district of the State. On the
other hand, We find the Democratic
party torn with dissensions and dis
tracted about personal issues, as though
the contest was one Of men instead of a
struggle for principle. We find
q INDEPENDENT" CANDIDATES AND
"B0LTERs"
in every Congressional district, and in
nearly every county, thus endangering
the success Of the party, and bringing
within the range of reasonable probable
ity, the election of three or four Radical
Congressman and greatly jeopardizing a
Democratic majority in the Legislature.
The result Of the recent elections insome
Of the Northern States has largely in
creased the probability of Grants re-
election, and thus largely increased the
necessity for a solid Democratic delega-
ton in the House Of Representatives
from Tennessee, in order TO prevent a
I change in our government from Demo-
cratic Republicanism to Radical Con-
solidation and Capitalization. This
change the Grant administration could
easily and would surely make, if we can
judge the future by the past, if the Grant
party should again have a two-thirds
vote in the House of Representatives.
The memory of
RADICAL RULE IN THIS STATE
IS too fresh in the minds Of our people
to require any argument to prove its
certain fatality both to Our material in
terests and u political rights. In adj
dition TO other important legislation,
the next Legislature will, by an act Of
Congress, again lay Off the State into
Congressional districts 50 that we shall
ha re ten Congressional districts instead
Of nine, as at present. The Radicals,
who claim that they viii, through
Democratic dissensiOns, elect a majority
Of the next Legislature, openly ayow
that if they succeed they will so district
the State as to certainly give them five
members of Congress for the next ten
years. These are matters Of Federal
and State legislation too important and
too threatening TO be overlooked OF dis
regarded.
How shall these apprehended dangers
be surely avoided2 We know Of but
one plan which insures success: That
is for
H DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF TIE STATE
to lay aside all personal preferences and
prejudices, 10 listen no longer to the dis
cOrdant voices of those disorganiZers who
for months past have been prOclaiming
from the stump and the tripod that the
great political need of the day is the dis
ruptiOn of the Democratic party, and
stand firmly in the hour OF trial by the
well-established usages OF the party, and
vote for its nominees. The question is
not now whether this or that Democrat
would have made the better candidate,
but whether the nominated candidate is
not preferable to his Radical opponent.
We have endeavOred to obtain from
reliable sources in every county in the
State approximate estimates of the vote
that will be received by the various can
didates now before the people. From
the information thus obtained we give it ,
as a sincere conviction that there is
not an independent candidate for
COngress-nOt one-who has the re-
hottest chance for election. We further
give it as u earnest conviction that the
support Of
THESE INDEPENDENTS"
by a respectable proportion of the DEM
ocratic voters Of the State will insure .
the election of from three TO five Radi-
cal members Of Congress-among them,
that chief Of the tribe, be who for seven
years has been the most bitter, the most
proscriptive, the most vindictive. the
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