Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-11
The Effect Of the Great Political ReVo-
luton on the "Third-TermCr''-''Be
Brief, Pm Sick''-''0 LOrdyT
What the Cabinet Ministers of the
WOuld-Be Emperor Think OF it
Vhe-President " wilson BIames
the Party.
MOsby SOOtbes Grant-But Morrill, Dis
turbs Him Again-The Causes
OF the Victory Discussed
by the London
Press.


/ talked, read or thought ABOUT IN wash
ingt1n. For nearly six years the Demo
cratic element of the district has beer
dormant, the exit Of President johnson
carrying with it the last surviving relit
of Democratic administration. MeI
who were supposed to be dead now
walk the streets with faces beaminl
with smiles. They are the remnants o
the ancient Democracy. But in officia
circles the scene is different. Two year
ago the President and his cabinet me
at the White House to hear the election
returns. This time the President saiC
lit would be time enough to hear the
news through the newspapers. No one
sent him election returns, and to-day
as well as yesterday the executive man
sion was deserted. Secretary Bristow
called to transact business, and the
President, with q melancholy voice
said,
1 "BE BRIEF, AM SICK"
He does not hesitate to put the re.
spOnsibility upon congress, or rather up,
on the Republican members in both
houses. 1t was enough that the country
should suffer the privatiOns and losses
| incident to the panic of 1873, without
adding thereto the protracted uncertain
| ty OF useless debate on the currency
question and the suspension OF business
! consequent upon this congressional agi-
tation. One thing, however, the Presi-
| dent does not concede, and that is that
the senseless agitation of
THE THIRD TERN NONSENSE
had anything to do with the result; nor
does he think that Tuesdays vote is q
reputation of the Republican party OF
| Republican principles. 1t only appears
/ to him as the work of the panic, but he
/ fails to say to what extent the distress
was the result of the legislation and ad-
ministratiOn of the Republican party.
/ In the midst Of it, however, he renews
/ his determination to fill the important
Federal offices in the south with better
men, and y i'll, so far as ii is in his pow
ct, see that no further weakening Of the
| Republican strength shall be laid to his
charge. 1t is such circumstances as
those attending the recent elections
| that make the President reticent. In
/ his forthcoming message be will, in al
/ luding to the condition OF affairs in the
south, recommend that such measures
/ be Immediately passed as will enable
| the Federal authorities to make the
/
/ is not now clear what additional legisla-
ton is necessary. He doubts the pro-
Driety of passing the civil rights bill I'M
less congress is prepared to give him
such aid as would enable him to make
the law living fact, and not dead let
ter. Unless this is done it were better
the bill should be defeated.
THE NIUCH-TROUBLED WILLIAMS.
Among the members of the cabinet
Attorney General Williams appears the
most distressed and has little to say.
The only consolation which comes to
him is that the result is as astonishing
TO the Democracy as it is humilisting to
the Republicans. He finds no fault with
party management, and says he has
had but one desire, and that was that
there should be fair elections in the
south. Postmaster General Jewell dis
Germs the source of this great revolution
in bad party leadership, though he
doubts whether the best workers could
have averted the political revolution.
Not in this, but in previous campaigns,
he thinks the Republicans weakened
themselves.
THE GHOST or CESAR.
does not, in his opinion, excuse the par
ty nor explain the defeat. Secretary
Bristow, hailing from a State that is al.
ways Democratic, regrets the change
lest 1t will interfere with the credit of
the government and unsettle the value
Of our bonds, and make it difficult to
fund the whole of the five per cents. 1t
does not appear to him an encouraging
sign to see so many Democrats in con-
gress, for already the revenues of the
government are falling off, and the
probability is that at the next session of
congress additional taxation will be
urged as a financial necessity. The
prospect then of a Democratic house a
year hence does not give much promise
of increased revenues or diminished eX-
penditures. Being a lawyer, however,
he is willing to wait until he is called
upon to indge the facts and not the fan
cies Of those who think they see the
handwriting on the wall against the Re-
publican party. The secretary of war
was formerly a Democrat, but does not
sympRthize with the success of that par
ty as against the one which has so fond
ly cared for him for five years. Secre-
taFy Fish is not here, but Secretary Rob
esOn, who returned tonight, facetious-
ly and briefly says the defeat is attTib-
utable to q want OF votes. Secretary
DelanO has no opinion to express.
But all with one accord declare that
.C8sarism had nothing to do with it.
I hat is
THE ONLY COMFORT
a members Of the cabinet seem to
b, In the departments, among the
rave. Is of clerks, the opinion is the
housaI. Neesarism did it all, and now il
everse. L. ides OF November killed
5 dead. The e, about the hotels, in
{. On the stree, hears on all sides
be street cars. one "a talking with
'Cesarism is killed. &c held the
senator Kelley, OF Oregon, Z Grant
anne opinion. The thought NtSlye
spring to third term was so rep. -
o the sentiment OF the American De
lie that in their sovereign capacity they
ad declared how odiOus the administra. [
lon had already become. At present !
here are but few prominent men in /
The elections over, the {
ltuTe leaders Of society and politics at j
be capital will begin to gather here. !
BUSINESS already feels the result, and the ,
lumber Of keno and faro establishments
Yill be doubled in few weeks. Hotel I
nd restaurant keepers are glad, and
ven the boOtblacks, scions of emanci- ,
alton, are rejoicing that the 'gemmen
Tho don't black their own boots" are
oming to Washington.
WHAT HENRY WILSON THINKS.
Vice-President Wilson is one of the
cry few Republican statesmen who saw
ne dangers TO the Republican party of
be canvass now closed. He recon-
lended to the President and the cabi-
ct u course of conduct that would have
lOdified, il not altogether averted, this
lsaster. Going back as far as the
of Mr.. Sumner from
be craftsmanship Of the COM
littee on foreign relations for
resuming to have opinions on for
IGN affairs contrary to those Of Mr.. Fish,
fir. Wilson has always protested against
be Wanton acts of the President end
be party. He saw the evil Of st. DO
lingo, the incredible folly of the back
sy and ''salary grab'' business, and
ihen the President was sullenly an
Ouncing that his ''dignity" would not
ermit him to speak on the question of
be third term he said unless the Presi-
ent did speak his silence would be the
1Ost serious burden of the canvass. AS
Dr himself he spoke with no uncertain
Ound, declaring that under no circum-
tances would be support General Grant
Z any other candidate for third term.
his noble record on the part of the
'ice-President, standing out as it does
a such marked contrast to the coy
ess Of COnkling and the abasement
{ majority Of the party leaders,
ives his views on the recent cam
ass unusual Importance. They will
e found elsewhere as reported by our