Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-24
,nh COOK. from 4OOO 70 600: Hvnes

/ anu OOOkJ lIOul tVOV " fOVv1 hyu6S
I for congress at large, over 1000; Cause,
| in the first district, 1000; Gunter, in the
| third, 600; Snyder ION the Grant ticket.
| in the second, 1900. Fulton and Cook,
coIored lost about 10, 600 votes and were
beaten in any event The legislature
elect Of 1872, including half the senate
composed Of Republicans put in by
| Governor Clayton, and holding over,
was about 80 Republicans to IS opposi-
| ton on joint ballot, or, at most, il should
have divided on tie. This was about
the situation, as the people OF Arkansas
| made it, in November, 1872; and this
the Tribune then claimed and now main
tains.
Beyoned the rejection Of individual
voteA by the thousand, at the ballot
boxes where Governor Hadley's officers
everywhere reigned supreme, the Clay
tOn-Hadley board of State canvassers
threw out the returns of whole counties
and parts OF counties, cutting Off such
slices of the Greeley Brooks vote that
Brooks was declared beaten by 1886,
other candidates Except Fulton and
Cook by from 4S4 TO 2055, and Hynes's
majority was reduced to 246. AS it was
found difficult to wire out Mr.. Gunter's
COCO majority all iH one lump, Mr..
Gunter's vote was divided between him
self, SET. w. GuRter,n "Gunter ct dl.,"
and the certificate given to Wiltshire,
an Arkansas Clayton recruit from Rock
Island county, Illinois. The legislature,
as declared elected, had 73 Republicans
to 35 opposition, on joint ballot. That
legislature elected Senator Dorsey.
Such was the situation, as high Repub-
lican authorities in Little Rock made it,
in 1872; and that situation has had the
higher Republican Endorsement of both
congress and the President-of the last
congress, in counting the electoral vote
of States; of the present congress, in its
fellowship Of Dorsey, Hodges, and
Wiltshire, whose titles are founded in
fraud; Of the President, whose promise
to Governor Baxter was that he should
not be disturbed.
The governor of Arkansas holds Office
for teur years, and the present period
runs, of course, to the election in 1875.
But the people of Arkansas should, next
November, elect legislature and four
members of congress by separate dis
tricts. Since the last election, the dis
franchised white men, on whose behalf
Brooks appealed to the protection of
the federal law, have been fully restored
to their rights as voters, ~ State law.
The thirty-five Democrats in the
Legislature, fortunately holding balance |
Of power between Republican contest !
ants for the senatOrship, were able to |
exact this measure OF justice from the |
majority. So much of the condition |
being changed, Governor Baxter, Ia /
native of Arkansas), has been able of |
late TO hold out to his fellow-citiZens the |
promise OF a fair election in November. |
"a fair election" means the final end |
of power to the Clayton-DOrsey ring. |
Upon the first signal of such danger |
ahead, Senator Clayton appeared on the /
scene in Arkansas: Brooks was installed |
governor; Dorsey, Hodges, and Wiltshire /
telegraphed their congratulations. The |
sudden discovery that Brooks was en-
titled to the Office, by those who had
deprived him of it, and the recognition
by themselves of their own wrongful
act, appears, however, not so much a
need Of grace as a stroke of policy.
Brooks is of the Harlan school of |
GOd-snd-mammOn-serving politicians;
trainers under Harlan, both in church.
Graf tand State-craft; an emigrant, since
the war, from Iowa to Arkansas,
he. has Joined the Clayton standaId-
that is all. And now that "the opinion
prevails in Washington that Brooks will
hold the office to the end of his term,n
as stated In Yesterdays dispatches, we
shall be glad to see-but shall doubtless
look in vain to sea lieutenant-gover-
nor, State treasurer, auditor, at
torney-general, and two supreme
judges installed in Office, as having
been even more surely elected than
Brooks was; also, q recognition of the
two thousand majority for Congressman
Cause, and the six thousand majority
for Gunter; and, finally, senator in
Dorsey's seat, such as the legislature of
Arkansas would have elected if the
rightful body had been convened. The
installation Of Governor Brooks is an
act of Justice, however tarnished by the
conditions on which it was brought
about. The denial Of their rights to
those others who were elected with him
would be but q new illustration of that
bold defiance OF a consistent record
which has of late marked the course of
the Republican party.
THE DISQUALIFICATION OF JUDGES.
From the Little Rock Gazettel
We are glad to record that Hon. Z. J.
Searl, justice of the supreme court, de,
nies, in the most emphatic manner, that
he has taken any part in favor of either
of the claimants OF the office of COVER
nor. AS neither Justice Gregg nor JUS
tice Bennett are in town, this, of course,
disposes of the statement of yesterday
mornings Republican, that three judges
Of the supreme court of the State have
tslegraphed in advance to the President
their intended decision in the matter,
and thereby disqualified themselves from
sitting in the case.
CAPTAIN MCCONNELL.
Thenews of the death Of Captain John
B. Mcconnell, of Clarksville, gave a
shock to the people of this community,
where he was so well known and es-
teemed, that is only less than the peo-
pie OF Clarksville will feel when the sad
intelligence is broken to them. Captain
Mcconnell resided here several years
before the eivii war, employed in the
United States land-Office. He served
with distinction throughout the war,
and at its close was elected clerk of
Johnson county, in which he was ever
a leading citizen.