Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-11
The MaSs-Meeting To-Day at Ten
and a Half O'Clock, at the
Greenlaw OperahOuse. .
Delegates to the State Demo-
cratic Convention, and
Democratic Executive
mittee to be
Elected.
Call of the State democratic EX-
ecutiYe Committee and of the
Bartlett Executive
Board, Etc.

p Board, Etc.
To-day, in answer to a call of the Bart
= lett executive board, a mass meeting
vii he held at the Greenlaw opera
> house, which will be called to order at
half past ten o'clock, and which, in re-
spOnse to call of the Democratic State
executive committee, viii elect delegates
to represent Shelby county in the State
Democratic convention called for the
: nineteenth instant, TO nominate Dem
! Oeratie candidate for governor, and
elect an executive committee in room
Of that appointed at Bartlett, which
resigns to day. Below we present
all the official documents bearing upon
this mass meeting, which it is most i'm I
portant should be attended by the best
men of Shelby county. 1t is the first
step toward recognition and reorgani-
cation Of the Democratic Conservative
party in this county, and it Is essential
to success that it should receive the
hearty support Of every man who
favOrs good government, and who
would not countenance the ascendancy /
or success of black Republicanism. Ii /
is mass-meeting called to elect dele |
gates to Democratic convention, and 4
We trust the business before it viii be /
conducted according to Democratic /
usage and rule, and that it Will be /
characterized by harmony and |
accomplish its work with celebrity. /
There is no platform to higgle .
or squabble over, only the election of a
/ Democratic executive committee, and
the election of delegates to the State
Democratic convention. This done, the
rest can be left to the people, who are
thoroughly aroused, and thoroughly in
earnest In their determination to defeat
Rsdicalism in any shape. Here are the
documents:
CALL OF THE STATE EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE.
NASHVILLE, May 22.-The executive
committee appointed by the Democratic
State central committee, held on the
ninth of May, 1874, has, by a resolution
unanimously adopted, called a conven-
ton to assemble in this city on Wednes-
day, the nineteenth of August next, for
the purpose Of nominating a candidate
for governor, and to take such other ac-
ton relating to the next State election
as that convention may deem most ad-
visable. The committee earnestly urges
upon the Democracy in every county in
the Slate the Importance of at once be
Cunning the work of organization. 1t
with pleasure extends a cordial invita-
ton 10 sll conservatives, to all who Op-
pose Rsdicslism, to unite with the De- {
mocrsey in this work of organization,
that thereby united, harmonious and {
well-diseiplined front may be presented, {
and thus an emphatic victory in the
approaching election made certain.
The result of the recent Safe {
elections in New Hampshire, Con- :
necticut and Ohio, and OF the s
municipal elections in some of the T
other States of the north and west is 5
full Of encouragement to the friends of a
constitutional republicanism throughout /
the Union, aud appeals with Pc
culiar force, at this time, to Tennesseans, T
if they would escape the despotism
which rules and the desolatiOn which
pervades our sister sOutern States-South
Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas-tO 4
array themselves in unmistaksble Oppo-
sition to the national administration,
which has established that despotism
and encouraged desolation. The graft
fyirg fact that the great agricultural
Sts lss Of the south and west are recOg-
nizlng more and more clearly the unity fr
OF heir interests, and that there is in Ii
the s stes Of the north and east a noble Il
band who perfectly guarantee a full al W
lOwance of impartial rights to the Op- al
pressed and plundered people Of the pi
south; that there is in each and every q
State an increasing number who spurn O
whether banking or railway; W
who hate class legislation, whether itGp- al
pear as discriminating tariff, or another th
guise, and who demand, with potential h'
voice, a reform Of the official corrup- ~
tions which not in every department Of Il
the general government, not as simply ei
charged by partisan malice, but fully es- al
.sblished TO the satisfaction Of all men, ct
and all Of these bid US not to despair OF Is
the republic, tut to strive for victory .:
ike men who know their rights, and pI
knowing, dare maintain them. Though q
the recent past may be dreary and dis a
the future Is full Of hope. n
The fruition Of our efforts after repeated II
defeats In national stu ygles and in II
many State elections is about to be re- Il
slized in the restoration to power of the Sc
party of constitutional principles. The u
State committee uIges the necessity of n
the organization OF civil districts by So
wards and by counties. The congress OF
siOnal committees should look TO a A
organization of their respective So
congressional districts; and each COM u
mitTee should see, as far as the power in
il lies, that defeat shall not occur by the "
of candidates or dissension q
In our ranks. 1t is the duty OF every b
citizen to feel an interest aud take an n'
active part in our political struggles. Sc
Fne good men Of the State should see hC
hat only the best men are brought for e
ward for Office, whether it be OF high or al
ow degree. 1t is in the highest degree OF
IMPORTANT that the various county and W
conventions shall be fully Ia
attended by delegates fairly selected be
rom the body Of the people, that these Ia
may be, in fact as well as in TO
name, representative bodies. Let all re- pT
member that the interest and honor OF te
he State and the welfare Of the citizens CT
ire largely dependen. upon the result OF I'll
zach election. Impressed with this con- no
7iction, let all unite with us In the good o1
work Of perpetuating genuine Tepubli- "a
,anism and promoting the general good a
Il sll the people. 81
John c. BURCH, Chairman. on
JOAN BLENIN-. I'm
W. j. NANDNKE. J.,
JAMES W. NE NMAN. p'
THOMAS b. MURRAY. af
y. 4. DUNNINGTON. M
LUKE E MklGhT. IL
AL FOR A MASS CONVENTION BY THE Ia
BARTLETT EXECUTIVE BOARD. a,
The executive board appointed under fiji
be Bartlett resolutions hereby order W
nat the people of Shelby county meet hi
a mass convention at the Exposition az
uilding, ia the city of Memphis, on H
'uesday, the eleventh day Of August, CO
s74, al half-psst ten o'clock in the de
morning, for the purpose Of electiDg del W
gates 70 represent Shelby county in the
onyention called 10 meet in the city OF
ashville on the nineteenth day Of r
august, 1874, TO nominate candidate III
Or governor OF Tennessee, and for the 81