Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-06

The Rival Candidates for Governor al
Fort WOrth-The Impression
they Made.
Richard Coke the Democratic Candidate
Certainty OF his Election By
10000 MsjOrity.
From an oeeaslonal COEresp0ndent.l


FnRr WORTH, Texas, September %,
gS-S-The rival eadidates sfor governor
=, be chosen next December, for the
faiir ensuing years, addressed Us at DIFF
fa-ent davs last week. Edmund j. Da-
vis came inst, on his way TO Fort sill to
--lesse the Indian chiefs Santanta and
Rig Tree. at the instance Of our imperial
master, Grant. 1t viii be remembered
that these savages were imprisoned for
I,sf bv o Texas court, for burning Tex
,llta N .heir own Texas soil, for the fun
of saeing them. seven in number, writhe
SD roast. For this they were mildly
innprisOned for life, but Grant said "Let
ia have peace and they must be re-
leased. This is federalism as
Opposed to States rights. Ed
.QInd took Us in on the way little
iu advance Of the appointment Of Rich
ard SsOke, OF Waco, McLeiland county.
~, addressed Us here last Saturday.
=. avn 'ded meeting Coke, and had you
hc,rB our standard-bearer's speech on
Osvis and his four years administra-
ion Won would be very fully posted on
tba enormities OF that administration.
I Will not burden your columns with
that. but a sketch of the two men and
tbeif anteeedeuis, their personal ap-
Dearance. etc, may no! he uninterestiug
20 your readers. Richard Coke, the
nominee Of the Democracy at the Austin
convention, held recently, was born at
williamsburg, Virginia; Is the son oi
Richard Coke, who fiourished N that
district at one time eOnspicuOusly as the
opponent Of Henry A. Wise. de was
educated at William and Mary
cUlIeee, the next oldest institution
in the United States. He came to
Texas and settled at Waco in 1851, and
has lived there up TO the present time Ia
the practice OF his profession and IN no.
wise connected with public life except
his career during the war, tirst as a pTi-
y-ate in 8 Texas regiment IN Virginia,
-nd then 8 CAPTAIN under POlignae, who
commanded 8 Confederate division IN
Arksusss and Louisiana. After the war
he served 8 term as Judge in his circuit,
and i known byithat title at present
When IN I I,ouisiana his force frequently
met that ~ Colonel Edmund J. Davis
in hattie snG on the picket line, and
men in this town cay that in those days
thew did like al other soldiers
that Is, fought like yuen in bsttie,
aud sWapped tobacco fo- eoilee on
picket. Davis commanded the nIst
Texas federal regiment. He csme mere
sud settled at Victoria, on the coast, II
1873. and prscticed law up to the war.
He signifed his willingness to be made
a Confederate colonel al first, but, fill
ing in this, be crossed the Rio GTande
at Brownsville, and carried with him a
sufficient number Of disaffected men to
form regiment, and thus his ambition
was gratified. At the end of the war he
came back as bitteFs partisan as Brown
low, snd his official acts here viii about
tally with that old wretch in Tennessee.
The people hate him with an intensity
that glOrities him st the national cspi-
tsl. 30 that whatever be says Grant
auctions, and whatever Grant says he
says- "Hes, master Grant, He ran
against Jack Hamilton, yOu will Te-
neaber, four years ago for the Office Of
governor, and was clearly defeated by |
him. but the voting was triggered |
nm. 50 that he had several days in which |
MS party might stuff the boxes by frau
dulent votes, and in this way be repre- |
sents Us as governor to-day, and has the |
cheek TO come into Democratic county |
that marshals two thousand three hun
dred out Of two thousand five bundled |
votes, on the side Of Coke and DemOe-
racy. Davis, the prototype Of Brown
low, actually asked us to vote for him. /
He w.ss treated with marked respect by |
the Democratic crowd that assembled |
10 see what manner Of man that could |
be who fatlIered the infamous police bill |
which sent armed men into the hous s
OF the people to plunder at viii, arrest /
and carry them away bodily without |
warrant, and kept 10 prison without 3 |
hearing, the hd6eGs corpus being by
him suspended. He is a long, lank,
1.-THE. lantern jswed, Horace Maynard |
docking specimen, with head running |
osck into the animal propensities, |
"a Rdy hair and whiskers, which cover 4
his face. he il no orator, and Is very |
ungraceful in gesture. be is, in fact, |
what YOU would term a frst-class
e. rub. His weight is near two hundred |
M. uds, his age about fifty years. Coke |
e al out six feet high, stout, broad- |
shouIC cred, deep-chested, muscular,
lsrge head, over>arching eyebrows, Ike |
ANDY johnson in this and many other
respects. But his oratOry is better
suited to the bar than the TOstrum, as
\ night be expected from the foregoing
n Is weight is two hundred and fifteen
0oDuds. Thus you will see the anti
r,o6as in the two. The one rabid and
radieai as Cassius, and lean and hungry
looking, ike him. The other contain
5ng ali the physique OF conservative
character. The one says by his past
life uruls or ruin:n the other ssys,
sINy country, msy she ever be in The
right; bat right ur wrong, my country
sfiI.U Coke viii be elected by a ma
-J.;t ~ of forfv fhefzQan0.