Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-07

the militia, a secret service fund, and
a contingent fund, each fund amounting
to not less than ten thousand dollars.
These, when "put where they can do
the most good are worth more in
campaign, under the circumstances,
than dozen committees of such fellows
as compose the State executive commit
tees.
THE HUNGRY RASCALS.
But have not named all, or a fourth
of the aspiFants, whose eyes are cast
upon the executive Office and mansion
with am air of intense longing. There
| are Attorney General Morris, Judge
Chandler, Colonel FlouTnoy, Auditor
Musgreve, and possibly others, all
of whom are undoubtedly keen on
the secret, and, as matters now stand,
any of them have as good or better
chance to get the Radical gOvernorship.
than either
AAIEs OR POWERS.
tits understood that, as soon as the
attorney-general gets through with his
duties before the present term of the
supreme court, which will be in the
course of few weeks, he viii give his
attention to the conspiracy formed
| against him at the late session of the leg
islature. The damaging report" of the
railroad subsidy investigating commit
tee gotten up for the purpose of "killing
Morris off, i" does not seem to have ac-
compiished much in the furtheTance of
that design, and being as much at home
with his pen as on the hustings, his
| forthcoming vindicatiOn is looked for
with impatient interest by all parties.
MR.. ATToRNEY-GENERAL MORRIS,
I believe, is a ''full-blooded Mississip-
pian,p and has, unquestionably, more
| brains, more honesty and more soul
than all his aecusers put together, but
| his open arraignment and public denun-
citation of corruption and plunder-
ing, had given him such a
hold upon the honest element Ofhis own
party and such a growing popu-
larity among the masses of the cOnser-
vatives as to render him an object of fear
in one direction, and of envy in the
other, that it was determined, if they
| failed, to convict with eVide9lce, which
they did most signally, they would at
at least try and besmear him in their
+" TepOTtu AS an illustration, one of the
candidates for governor in a public
speech in North Mississippi,.a few days
ago, is reported in newspaper to have
| said he "did not believe that Attorney
General Morris had sold his opinion
on the railroad subsidy act for five
hundred dollars, nor for any other
sum, but, he said, the bare imputation
that he did, had completely blasted his
prospect for political promotion.p Now
| if Mr.. Morris's prospects are so "com-
pletely blasted" why thus keep attack
ing him? and, above all, if the speaker
does not, himself, believe the imputa-
ton, why does he expect it to injure Mr..
MorrIs's prospects? So every candid
reader in search of truth will inquire.
The truth is, the encouragement al
though a republican, is too much for
them, and having already, by his expo
sures and denunciati0ns, saved the State
thousands of dollars-see, for instance,
the cutting down of their plumber
ing opportunities, in the one item
| of printing, during the last year
to the extent of not less than thirty
thousand dollars-the political cormO-
rants and whippers-in would delight in
getting him out of the way. "That's
what's the matter" and-sO it goes in
| the Republican wigwam.
There has been one or two deaths, and
several cases of sickness here, within the
past few days, of character calculated
to furnish gossip for the sensationalist.
They were nothing more, however, than
sudden attacks of chOlera-morbus,
caused from imprudent vegetable diet
and fatiguing exposure to the hot rays
of June sun. Thine for the right,