Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-10
THE PERIODICALS KETURSIEG-THE
Dirty OF DEMOCRATS.


teaches us lesson of human nature
and leads us to expect repetition OF the
scene, either in the tragic or comic
vein. whenever similar circum-
stances again occur, and so far as the
comedy has been played out, we
have in the conduct Of the lnde-
pendent newspapers an exact parallel to
the Cranmer tragedy. Two years ago a
syndicate OF independent newspapers
was organized for the purpose OF con-
trolling the politics of the country.
They pulled and blowed about the pstri-
otism and beauties of independent jour
naIism. The way they dashed. party or
paus was a caution TO tempests IN tea
nots. They told us both the old parties
were corrupt; nothing was pure and
honest but the independent papers then
engaged in the holy task Of organizing
a party as lovely, pure and undefiled as
the snow. Every independent had
new departure. But, some how or other,
the independents are Pickering. There
is an evident disposition to initiate
Archbishop Cranmey in the recsntation
business. The Democratic indepeR-
dents who recanted their solemnly and
oft-expressed opinions about the ssneti-
ty and necessity Of preserving inviolate
the eternal principles of imperishable
Democracy, seem inclined to recant
their recantstiOn. Some Of them no
doubt contemplate with a shudder the
little fiery furnace which is to burn and
broil and bake the naughty hand
that wrote the recsntation OF what
it penned as TO the beau
ties Of Democracy. Some of the Repub-
Hcsn papers that had set up shop as in
dependent journals, have been siezed
with 8 sudden admiration for the mar
tyred Cranmer, and show evident signs
Of 8 desire to bRckslide, to do anything
squirting at recantRtion and to slop over
to any side but the independent side.
This is especially 50 Of the Chicago Tn
Jlme. That model Independent paper
is to be vJciferous in recanting its re-
cantation Of Republicanism, and to-
morrow, like a big black snake, it is to
crawl out of its independent skin, and
become a pure, unadulterated, blatant
Radical. The st. Louis Republican has
forgotten the history of the unfortunate
CranmeT, and in this, as in all things
else, viii be slow in plunging into the
psradoxical business Of recanting its re-
Cantation Of the truths Of the holy and
blessed cause Of Democracy. But the
RupublicdB has done the next thing to
this; it has established an intelligence
Office, and proposes to become the men,
tor, the rudder, the pilot, the guide and
teacher Of the Democratic ship it desert
ed. The UncOnquerable Democracy of
Missouri triumphed over the oppO-
sitiOn of the Republican, but that paper
now seems to think that the party which
knows how TO win victories hasn't got
sense enough to know how TO use them.
Consequently, il psternally mounts the
box, seizes the reins, cracks its whip and
proposes to drive the Democracy Of Mis-
souri, TO the haven Of success and glory. |
This arrogant assumption and brazen |
impudence has excited the wrath Of the |
st. Louis Times, and the irate editor Of |
that faithful Democratic journal dips his |
pen in sulphurie acid and thus cauter- |
lies the impudent editor OF the indie
pendent journal:
"Advice to Democrats from the st. |
Louis Republican, is a sort OF advice |
that Democrats don't want and won't |
even read. For q journal that has re. 1
peatedly pronounced its malevOlent ele- |
gies over the grave Of the "dead De-
mOcracy,n and sought on every occasion |
TO befoul the good name of the deceased
with OblOquy, to come sniveling around
the Teawakened corpse at this late hour
with pTOtestatiOns OF friendship and ad-
monitory counsels for the future, is rath-
eT too heavy dose for any honest Dem
Ocratic stomach to hold on to. The
course Of the Republican, in its relations
10 the party, has always been meTcena-
~ and hypOcntical, and never more
hypOcritical than in the canvass Just
closed. So utterly devoid of principle
has it shown itself, indeed, that not a
few Of those who strangely enough still
placed their trust in this de-
Crepid trickster, have become es-
tranged at last and had their eyes fully
opened TO the hOllOwness of its promises
and the wOrthlessness OF the indOrse-
ment. And now FOR such q faithless
and adulterOus thing as this, to be set ,
ting itself up a. an adviser OF the Dem /
ocratic party! Why the smoke Of the !,
battle has hardly cleared away, in
which this venal journal was found upon [
the field Of contest, invoking destIuc- Z
lion upon Democratic candidates, and
hesitating at no species Of detraction, :
intrigue or corruption to compass their
defeat. With one OF its pirate hands. {
It's true, it held the glorious old stand I
ard alOft, but the other was at the throat ,
Of the Democratic party, elutching for
its blood. At the graVest iuncture in
our political history, and at the time
when the universal heart Of the nation
was thrObbing as never before with ]
Democratic impulses, the st. Louis Re
publican not only arrayed itself in OPP
position TO a leading candidate upon the
state ticket, the head Of which il pro-
Iessed with honeyed phrase TO support,
but BY its splenetic antagOnism TO GER
tain other candidates upon the legisla-
tive ticket, became an ally with hadi-
calism in its last and lowest estate, even
TO the extent Of promoting the interests
Of Radical aspirants for the United
States senate. Yet even 50 scurvy and
unkempt a traitor as this has the un.
effrontery, now that the cleo
ton is over, and with the glorious re-
suits before il that Others have achieved
for the country, to come forward in the
role Of a mentor to the Democratic
party, and lay down the rule of action
by which hereafter it should be guided
AS we say at the outset, the Democracy
have no need OF advice from any such
quarter. If they require counsel at ali
outside Of their own household, they {
viii ask it rather Of an open and con-
sistent enemy than Of one whose pOliti-
cal principles are gauged entirely by the
supposed advantage they may possess
10 the insatiate greed of its own pocket.
There is 40 halfway ground in poll |
tics or in any other question that vitality
concerns the public. The APPEAL, as
the St Louis lines, is a party newspa- &
per, because it believes that parties are {
&c our Republican form of gov /
eminent and it espOuses the principles Z
Of Democracy, believing that they en- 7
brace the essence Of everything ealcu- I
lated to preserveland. .perpetuate pros q
porous constitutional union of the Z
states. There viii always be two par /
ties IN 8 government like ours, and if 4
men cannot have things as they want Z
them, instead of becoming indepen- I
dents, they must cooperate with that !
party whose views .assimilate nearest 2
their own. TIE behests Of party in q
are certainly mora xvoytl,v 4