Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-23
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
The Avalanche. EmeFsan EtherAdge and
Andrew Johnson Persscated.


EDITORS APPEAL-As II seems 1oW 10
be In order TO ask questions through the press
SIN your leading editorial on the FIRST page OF
your issue OF yesterday erhuEsdayl, do yoa
I log the election Of Emerson EtheEidge, and
others on the independent ticket tso-celledj
with him? Do you not know, as a fact, that
and Conseryatiye party now before the peo-
/ pie Of Shelby county for seat in the next
general assembly who favors the iunding bill,
while two Of them voted against the biL7"
The AraIanche advocated the calling OF the
| DemOcrRtlc-C Conservative convention, which
met at the Exposition building on the nf-
| teenth OF September, and the name OF Colonel
/ A. 4 KelIar OF that Journal was put before 10
/ for nomination, and he received a very re-
/ spectacle vote, and that, too, after the conyen-
| ton mad adopted resolution incorslng the
platform which was established by the Demo
cratic and Conservative party, in convention
assembled at Nashville on the nineteenth OF
Sat souv SSSnst 10 sappo Ehe Nominee
whoever they might be-" Does he intend 20
indirectly repudiate that pledge, by
son Etheridge and the Others on tue
Radical ticket, who, under the niInsy disguise
Of Independence" are fighting the battles Of
kadicaliEm and the social rights party in
Shelby eountyf Can the Avalanche point out
| q candidate for any office in the state, or
county in the State, VINO has been nominated
i BY tie Democratic party and VINO favors the
funding bill7 To encourage Emerson Ether
idge and his independent ticket cannot fail to
/ great extent TO disOrganize the Democratic
Conservative party and thereby endanger the
election Of Colonel Casey Yeung, who is put
ting forth every effort to defeat Barbour
/ Lewis for congress. Does the AUGLdncas de
sire again 10 elect Barbour Lewis by the ac-
/ vocacy of an independent ticket in Shelby
/ county? II the Avalanche intends 10 bolt the
| ticket put out by the Democratic -COnserya-
/ tive party on the fifteenth OF September, the
people OF this county and OF this cOngression-
al district would like to know It, so as 20 To-
| cate 1t hereafter. II.
FROM THE AVALANCHE.
The following is the article which ap-
/ peared in the ADai0gcss OF yesterday, and to
| which our correspondent refeTss
! 1.-The funding party VIII make a desperate
nay, they are now making q desperate nght
4 10 iasten their tniquity on the people CT Ten
/ nessee. Hence the war they are waging on
/ Andrew johnson, Emerson Etheridge and
/ the Ardld1che in this end OF the state. They
are sending out their scouts and runners to
bolster up the funders, and TO prepare for a
wholesale demand on the next legislature to
| sustain the funders. Ihes are preparing 70
raise taxation, To Increase assessment OF prop
| erty, and 10 extort from the people every
/ available dollar under the hue and cry Of the
party. We are glad that Judge Porter, the
next governor Of Tennessee, Kicks aside the
| funding tn1quity, and that he refuses
70 be its advocate or elector. The
public faith and credit forget that
| The appeal they make comes through the viO-
lation OF equity between man and man, over
| the polluted Threshold OF public Justice, and
| shameful disregard of every principle OF
good government. These advocates OF the
/ funding ring appear To act as II the people be-
| loDged 70 the machinery Of the state govern
| ment; as II the officers Of the State were the
masters and owners of the people. These
/ funders are adroitly using all The machinery
! Of party TO browbeat, TO inttmidate, and TO
suppress The people must not give expres-
/ sion 10 their Indignation against unjust legis-
latiOn; against tObbers in the public faith
against the robbery OF the people. The AuG-
ld5aehs fought the funding iniquity in its In
cepuon, and VIII continue the war until II be