Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-20
THE SENATORSHIP.
Z Are the shelby Representatives In
sIruetede

EDTTORS APPEAL-Much has beel
said, and is being said, through To
press aud elsewhere, in regard TO To
election OF a senator TO fill the place 0
Senator Brownlow, whose term expire
on the fourth OF March next. Speeula
ton is rife all over the State as to whS
will be the next choice Of the genera
assembly, and the friends of each aspi
rant are hopeful, to say the least. IL i
assumed as q fact by the advocates Of
certain aspirant, that the representatives
from Shelby county are instructed by
their constituents as to whom they shal
give their votes. Basing their calcula.
! lions upon this assumption, these cast W
s strong count for their friend. Such 3
calculation is based on error. Let Us
look at the facts of the csse impsrtially
and justly. The candidates who were
nominated by the Democratic party
land who were elected pledged them
! selves to the people to abide by such in
suuctions as majority Of the co7lseTUa.
! tive UOters of the county might give
! them, provided that it was clearly salts
/ factory to them that a majority Of that
element did so instruct. What are the
/ facts In regard 10 the vote of in
4 struction2 The Radical and Republi-
j
with the independents and pro.
/ claimed that they were for the election
/ of Ex-President johnson to the senate.
/ In this conglomeration or fusion the In
dependents numbered about fifty, and
/ ali the balance of the vote cast against
the Democratic nominees was Radical
or Republican. A large and respectable
/ number Of Democrats who were not in
favor Of the election of Mr.. johnson con-
/ cluded that inasmuch as the issue was so
shaped in the countya as to makeit john
+ son or anti-J OhnsOn, they would just not
vote st all, and thus, 10y their silence,
/ defeat the positive indOrsemont of Mr..
! johnson. The Radicals determined to
/ defeat this plan, and many Of them, who
I voted at the election polls for Horace
/ MAYNARD and Barbour Lewis, turned
around and deposited a ballet in the
other box for johnson for senator. The
writer Of this stood near the polls and
witnessed these things, and ne is satis-
fed that where be saw one Democrat
put q ballot in the senatorial box, he
saw ten Radicals do so. This was not
the conservative element of the cOun-
IT," instructing the Democratic repre-
ssntatiyes, Rs the candidates had invit-
ed hut the reverse. To illustrate this:
Suppose these Radicals had concluded,
in their secret cOnelaves, to cast
their vote for Horace May
nard for senator instead of for
Mr. johnson, is there a Democrat or fair
minded Republican in the county who
would insist that the Democrats who
were elected to the legislature were in
structed to cast their vote for Maynard
for senator? OF course not. Then does
the vote OF instruction have any more
binding force because it happened ID be
cast FOR q man who claimed to be
DemOcrat2 1t is 8 well known fact,
that at every voting place In the city, ne
grOes were seen to vote at one box the
Republican ticket and turn around and
vote at the other one for Andrew john
son for senator. And this is not all, for
there is ample proof that many of these
negroes put in more than one ballot in
the senatorial box at once, and were
heard to boast of it afterward. II was
easy TO do this, for at some OF the polls
no one seemed to exercise any control
over the senatorial box, and it is matter
of astonishment that the vote for john
son was not larger than it turned out to
be on a count. il any one doubts the
facts that negroes who voted the Repub-
lican ticket also voted for johnson for
senator, let him go to any corner Of a
public street-crossing and make the
inquiry Of such Scquaintances
as he may meet, and he viii
soon find number Of men,
who witnessed such voting. And yet
men who call themselves Democrats in
sist that the Shelby representatives are
bound to obey the instructions so given.
There might be some plausibility in the
assertion, had the vote Of instruction
been cast for a man who gave all the aid
ia his power TO the election Of the DEM
ocratic candidates in Shelby county,
and all over the State, for he could say,
"I did my duty to the party to which L
claim 90 belong, and did not psnder to
the Radicals for their suppOft.'- Can
Mr.. JOhnson's friends say this for him?
Do not all remember that in his cam
vass, the whole force Of his attacks and
poWeT OF his eloquence were directed at
the Democratic administration in Ten
nessee for the last four years, thus fur
nishing the Radicals with ammunition
with WHICH to Ga battle against the
Democratic party. Can any one remem-
Der anything he said in his speeches
against the Republican party? II such
was the case IL ulu not DbCuA IL MS
speech in Memphis, for il Is Q we'll
known fact that crowd Of the leaders
Of the Republican party Applauded his
speech throughout. Does any sane man
suppose for a moment that political
speech which receives the applause
OF w. J. Smith, s. S. Garrett,
Ed. Shaw, et id Oalne genus, could by
any possibility rebound TO the advan.
tage or benefit Of the Democratic party?
When Mr.. Johnson was told that an In
dependent ticket was being run nere in
his name and against the nominees OF
the Democracy, he could have smashed
that ticket with word, and be did not
utter the word, but left the Democrats
to elect their ticket without the aid OF
Mr.. johnson. And yet some say that
these men selected ars bound to cast
their votes for Mr. johnson for senator,
although be declined to lend helping
hand in their election. tits ridiculous
and prepOsterous proposition. When
the Independent ticket went down IN
Shelby county, Andrew johnson went
down with It. DEMOCRAT.