Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-31
Preparations for an Earnest Campaign
Liberal Republicans and COhseFV.
atiYes Uniting with Dem,
OeTats.
Letter from Governor Palmer What
He has ts SAY about the Administra-
tiOn Party and the Future
Action OF Parties.

call issued some three weeks since by
Cyrus H. Mccormick, chairman of thI
Democratic State central committee
that body convened this morning al
ten O'Clock at the Sherman house. The
attendance was full. Mr.. McCormick
delivered an address in which he stated
that in view of the approaching election
harmony of action was necessary in or
der to wTest the government from the
present unscrupulous party leaders. He
viewed the progress made by the party,
and expressed confidence in the result
of the coming contest. The meeting
adjourned till hslf-past two, when the
following call was presented:
/ To the Democracy, Liberals, and all other
Opponents Of the Republican Party:
The Democratic State central commit
tee, in pursuance of the power vested in
! it by the Democratic State convention,
/ hereby gives notice that a State cOuVen-
/ ton will be held in Springfield on
! Wednesday, August 26, 1874, at twelve
/ O'Clock. All the voters in the State are
/ invited to join in sending delegates to
that convention who desire to promote
! the following purposes:
First-RestOratiOn Of gold and silver
as basis of the currency of the country.
The speedy resumption of specie pay
ments and the payment Of all national
Indebtedness in the money recognized
by the civilized world.
SecOnd-Free commerce.
Third-Individual liberty, and oppO-
sltion to pre-empting lands.
Fourth-Rigid restriction Of the gov
ernments, both State and national, to
the legitimate domain ofpolitical power,
by excluding them from all executive
and legislative intermeddling with the
affairs of society whereby money which
is fostered by privileged classes is ag-
grandized, and individual freedom un-
necessarily aud oppressively restrained
Fifth-The right and duty of
the State to protect its citizens
from extortion and unjust discrim-
inatiOn by chartered money. The
committee, believing that the Op-
position to Republican misrule can har-
moniously unite upon the foregoing
principles, earnestly soiicits the free
cooperation Of all men, regardless of
past political utilization, in an earnest
effort to place the State and national
governments in the hands of men who
are sctusted by the principles above
enunciRted.
Esch county, except Cook, is enti-
tied to send one delegate for every
five hundred votes cast in that county
for all the Presidential candidates at the
last Presidential election of 1872. Each
senatorial district in Cook county will
be entitled to send eight delegates in
separate delegations.
The cali is sigued by the committee,
and indorsed by number who have
formerly acted with the Republican par
ty, among whom are A. Guessing and
Herman Raster, of the Illinois Stats
Zeitsng, and the names of J. r. DDOlit.
tie and A. r. Matteson, Of the Times,
also appear.
LETTER FROM GOVERNOR PALMER.
CHICAGO, July 29.--Ex Governor
Palmer, in letter to L. L. MOrritt, sec
retary Of the Democratic State central
committee, says thai though it is i'm
possible for him to be in Chicago on the
twenty-ninth, he will take the liber Y
10 make a few suggestions. He says
that the party which now holds posses
sion of the government is 50 completely
under the control of mere political man
ayers and their adheTents that hereafter
is formal platforms will declare any
form OF political doctrine to be Repub-
licanisn which will catch votes, anu re-
pudiate the soundest and best estab-
lished truths whenever and wherever
they may happen to be unpopular. The
letter continues TO say that II cannot
and will never again submit to the cOun-
try an honest, frank and well defined
platform Of principles. II would have
gone to pieces during the last session OF
congress, but for the agreement that
everything in ststesm anship and p IL
a. fsa al ~
nonessential. And il must be apparent
from what is known that the opposition
have as vet determined upon no COM
mon ground Of action; nor do l suppose
II TO be possible now to present to the
country a declaration Of principles upon
which all opposed to the party in power
can agree. 1t is true every citizen must
perceive in the reckless aess and eX-
travagance of congress and in
the gross corruptions which dis
grace almost every department Of public
service, and in encroachments OF con-
gress and the federal Judiciary upon the
people and their contemplations or the
TEMPLES of the constitution, are Occa-
sions for alarm, but the difficulty TO be
surmounted is TO find some basis OF
union which will enable people to CO.
operate for the public good. In my
judgment this end can be secured in but
me way, and that is to go before the
con .7try upon a declaration OF principles
hat shall be franz, unevasive and true, 4
and which shall, by Its plainness, carry |
p-oof with which il Is presented, that the /
fius0ee Of the country is a subject Of I
ieen interest. let II speak out frankly /
for an eaIIy return to specie payment, |
for an honest discharge of the public debt |
n coin. and denouuce the delusive idea OF 4
iischarging any portion Of the obliga- |
tons OF the government In iTrsdeem- |
able promises. The people OF the United
are engaged a a contest with great /
that have monopoliZed the 1
carrying trade. Through appropriate
agencies, State governments are at
tempting to compel them to submit to
rules and measures Of justice, while the
on the other hand. plead
TO escape tie Jurisdiction Of the United
States. Wealy Of restrictions imposed
on them by public law and charters
granted by the State, they ask in con-
vention, Of congress and the federal
courts. IL congress could he induced,
under speeches aiding the construction /
Of uuuk-hnes 10 engage in certain rail-
road corporations, at no distant day .
charters will be abandoned for the or. |
ganiZatiOn under Federal law. The /
whole subject Of railroad control will /.
pass beyond the authority OF the States. !
4 platform should reassert the author.
ty Of the States to regulate their own af-
fairs, and the authority Of congress to
interfere with their internal affairs
should be denied. Taxation is at once .
necessity and burden 10 civilized GOV
eminent. Taxation can only be justi-
fed when imposed for public necessity.
The neople nf the United States will no
longer submit to the burdens imposed
mon them for the sake OF what is called
i9proteetionU IL is hardly consistent
with what / suppose to be the propes
limits of this Communication that /
shouId 90 further; but cannot forbeaT
saving that nearly eight hundred thou.
ssnI scolo-ed voters in the south, and
more than equal that number white
voters in the same Sta0es sIe Jealous
aud distrustful OF each other. Eacn
looks Z the central government for sup
mort against tue other, for which sup
! boIt they are ready 70 pay aay price
| taat may be demanded Of them by the
] party u power and neither have