Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-10


county offices, as the election comes off
in August; but it is entirely too soon to
put candidates in nomination for the
legislature. The election for governor,
congressman and State Legislature does
not occur until November. We have
no doubt that other gentlemen viii be
willing to do service for the State, and
they will in due time be called out by
their friends. Let the convention,
therefore, which meets in May, nOmi-
nate for the county offices, and appoint
the first Monday in September a day
to hold a convention to nominate a
State senator and legislator.
\ SUGGESTION.
From the Nashville Banner.l
All admit that our success depends
upon harmony. This can be obtained
if the chairmen of the executive COM
mittees will call upon the citizens of
each civil district, in every county in
the State, TO select one of their number
as delegate, whose duty it shall be to
attend the county convention, and there
select the delegate for the State conven-
ton for the purpose of making the nom
ination for governor. This gives each
ballot-box in the State a chance to be
anu 4CdNCS VIII Tie the
responsibility of the ticket. Then let
the candidates for congress, who are op-
posed to the Republican party, announce
themselves early enough in the contest
to make the canvass before the August
election, and in that canvass let them ask
the people, when they cast their ballots
for county offices, to write upon their
tickets their choice for congress; have
them pledged to abide the result. After
you shall have counted the ballots, have
the one receiving the highest number
on the track as your candidate, the
Others retiring in his interest. Nothing
but most brilliant victory can follow
in nearly il not all of the congressional
districts in your State.
RUMOR.
From the Mckenzie Times.
We hear it rumored that A. G. Haw-
kins, Esq, of Huntingdon, proposes run
ming for the office of State senator from
the counties of Carroll and Gibson.
NO LIBERAL PARTY.
From the Brownsville Ststes.I
Here in Tennessee, there is
really no such party as a Liberal party.
The thing is a myth and shadow, and
has no form, substance or strength. Out
side of the editorial rooms of two or
three newspapers, it has not even an ex-
istence on paper. All of those who
ventured in that year of disorganization
and disaster, 1872, On the political seas
upon such weak and fiimsy bladder,
were submerged and swallowed up by the
contending floods. The fact is, the vast
majority of the white people of this State
are Democrats, while the negroes and a
minority of the whites are Radicals.
This is the true political division of the
commonwealth. The people are either
Democrats or Radicals. They under
stand these distinctions, and they nei-
ther know nor care for any other.
WHAT WILLIAMSON WANTS.
From the Columbia NALL
We hope the people will be alive in
selecting the right sort of men to repre-
sent US in the next legislature. We
want men of energy, intellect and in
tegrity OF character to represent our
county. Williamson county demands
that we put out first-class man for the
senate.
THE RUTHERFORD MOVE.
From the Nashville Union and Americana
The letter of our Rutherford CORE
spOndent, under date of March 5th, will
that the people are fully alive to the
need for organization, and that il they
would control their own affairs they
must emulate the industry of the office
seekers. Speaking of the primary elec-
ton proposed by the candidates meet
ing mentioned in the columns yester-
day, he states that all qualified voters
under State laws are expected to par
ticipate, whether they be Radi-
Gals or Democrats. His repre-
sentatiOn of the reasons for thus
allowing the enemy voice in selecting
our candidates shows the difficulties of
the primary election plan in the alb
sence of preliminary organization. 1t
seems to us that the plan portrayed
would practically give the choice of
candidates to the enemy. They are well
organized, and by massing their votes ON
the least available candidate, could
force the weakest man on our party,
making odiOus both the DemOc.
racy and the primary election plan.
DISTRICTS ONE, TWO, AND THREE.
From the Chattanooga correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial.l
For congress there are already half
dozen or more candidates in every dis
trict. In the first district Roderick But
Ter will run and be elected in spite of all
that can be done against him. He seems
to carry that district in his coat-tail
pocket, and nothing can be done in the
party or out of it to get rid of him. Run
he will, and be elected he will. Several
candidates are already in the field against
him, but he will come down from WASH
ington with back pay in his breast pock-
ct and his carpetpag full of garden-seeds,
and defeat them all. His supporters are
for the most part mOuntaineers and ne
groes, and neither his rebel record, nor
his dubious claim agency record, nor his
cadet-peddling record, nor his back-pay
record will have any effect. You had as
well talk to a stump fence about the in
fIuence of the church over the middle
ages,sas to do anything with the Repub.
lican voters of the first district. They
are welded to their idols.
In the second district we may prepare
for floor full of candidates, with the
chances in favor of the election of
Thornburg, Republican, provided, of
course, that Maynard does not run.
This is Maynard's old district, and if he
can be put on the track for governor, or
sent off on some other wild-gOose chase,
the young fellows about Knoxville will
have chance to run all they want to.
In this, the third district, we have the
inviting prospect of a scrubrace. Crutch-
field, James, Snyder, Savage, Dibrell,
Spears and Bill Stokes, are spoken of as
candidates. Crutchfield is the present
representative, with chances Of re-elec-
ton bordering on the slim. He intro
duced an amendment to the civil rights
bill, which will not commend him
to the suffrage of the negroes
whose votes elected him the last time.
He offered an amendment TO the bill,
making it unlawful for any white
woman to refuse an offer Of marriage
from a negrol or course, our uncle
William did this in a vein of playful
ssrcasno, but the negroes do not fancy
having their sacred rights thus held up
r. n ridieuIe. Mr.. Crutchfeld is man of
large means and of q very independent
tnrn of mind, and 1t is not likely he
cares very much whether he is IN con-
gress or not. ,,.,e =
BiII Stokes has announced himself as
an independent candidate, and VIII run
regardless of party Dames or conven.
tiOns. By way Of encouragement u