Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-15
POLITICAL



The Philadelphia City Item goes int
ecstaCies over ga rumOr, apparently au
thentic, " that Simon Cameron will sOol
succeed Don Hamilton Fish in the de
/ pdrtment Of state.
Explaining the Thing.
We fear that Mr.. Murst Halstead j
! becoming so much OF an orator that il i
/ impossible for him to be much Of an edi
| ter. These double barreled intellectual
/ ties-sO TO speak-sre rarely enjoyed il
/ a large degree by one and the game per
/ son.-&. Louis Globe.
Free Trade ReVIVinE.
"Gath" makes this observation OIL
/ the drift OF Democratic sentiment;
"1'he free trade question is assuming
\ prominence it has never had since
| 1926. Kerr, Wood and Cox are all
free-traders. / find Democrats of q
mild type, like Congressman Ely and
Ex-COngressman Roosevelt, who would
| not touch free trade in 1870, now radi-
cal that way.
TIIden's Chances for the Presidency.
According to a reporter OF the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, Beck, OF Kentucky,
thinks Tiiden stands no chance for the
Presidential nomination. "The south
aud west will have the naming of the
Candidate-yOu can't keep it from them
if you want tO-and no eastern bond
holder candidate will stand any show
whatever" Such is the opinion Of the
coming United States senator from
Kentucky.
Give Him a Rest.
Senator Sargent, OF California, said ia
recent speech in San Francisco, that
President Grant lOnged for rest. He
means to convey the impression that he
was above any third-term aspirations.
Now, the rest which the President longs
for is simply the retirement and blissful
repOse one finds at rural retreat like
Long Branch. Puta gOod cigar between
the bearded lips of the President and
place him behind a pair of highssteppers
and then let him rest. A hermit life Of
this sort is what the over-wOrked whist
player of the White House bankers
after.-Fort Wayne Sentinel.
Buying Up or Heading Off
One of the things that the politicians
would like to know is, whether the
President is buying Mr. Morton up or
heading him off, Both theories fiud
adherents. From one point Of view,
the recent appointments from Indiana
are rewards for the senator's good con-
duct in taking himself out of the way;
from another, they are a shrewd at
tempt to "cut under" a formidable ri
val in his own State by attaching the
most influential Republicans to the DO
Hlcal fortunes Of their benefactOr at
the White House. Time will probably
shoW.-SpTtaGteld Republican.
Passing Strange.
It will doubtless appear passing
strange to the majority Of Tennessee
readers that Missouri bonds, bearing the
same rate OF interest as our own, should
promptly command from one of the
largest banking houses in New York
ninety-nine cents on the dollar, when
our Tennessee bonds cannot be sold for
more than fifty cents ON the dollar.
Upon investigation this is easily under
stood. In Missouri there is no cry of
reputation, nor Of scaling bonds, nor of
postponing the payment OF taxes or in
terest. Their State constitution prevents
any such Improbable ts.-NaSh.
vile Union and american.
The Enforcement AcI.
1t has been given out that the last act
of Attorney General Williams's official
life was to order the discOntinuance of
all prosecutions pending in the south I'M
der the enforcement act. There seems
to be some mistake about this matter,
as telegram to the Chicago Tribune, 3
Republican organ, says, under date of
May 9Th: "Oficers in the southern
States have recently been removed for
their neglect to carry out orders with re-
spect to this act, as we'll as for general
inetticienCy. 1t is not many weeks since
instructions have been sent to southern
officials to carefully execute this law"
Nashville Union and american.
The Money Power.
Whether or not the masses of the peo-
pie can be corrupted, is question that
Radical tactics will put to the test this
year and next. The money power will
be eXerted without stint, and in a thOus-
and devious ways to perpetuate the par
ty in power. We have seen the Chicago
Tribune converted by direct purchase
from an Independent journal into Re-
publican organ. The present attitude of
the Cincinnati Commercial is very pc
culiar. And now we are told that the
Boston Post, an old Democratic journal,
has been purchased by young million
aire named WinslOw, who is represent
ed as an eX-minister, State senator, Rad
ical Republican, and prOhibitionist.-
Nashville Union and american.
cash" clay as a Democrat.
The Frankfort correspondent of the
Louisville Courier. Journal, in his ac-
count of the great Democratic conven-
tiOn at the capital of Kentucky last
week, furnishes a pleasing incident of
that great outpOuring of Kentucky
Democrats. Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay, one
of the speakers on the occasion, was an
Wing who finally drifted into
abolition, and, when the Republican
party was born, naturally took position
as one of its leaders. General Clay was
not only Whig, an abOlitionist, and a
but he was and is a man of
brains, culture and courage. No one
ever impugned the integrity or the
courage of "Cash" Clay, and we COM
mend his manly action and utterances
to some Of the narroW-minded gentle
men in Mississippi who are eternally
telling us what the "old Wing" will not
do.- VickSburg Herald.
North Carolina Politics.
Influential North Carolina COnserya-
tives report that the canvass just begin
ming in that State for a constitutional
convention will be one of the sharpest
that has occurred there for years, and
that, while the Conservatives will prob
ably carry the State for the convention,
it will only be by hard-work. The lin
itatiCns placed upon the duties of the
convention have removed from it many
Of the most serious objections that
would otherwise be urged against it.
The only nomination for delegates to
the convention yet made by the Con-
are in Orange county, where
VIM. A. Graham and Jo-
siah Turner, jr., have been placed in
the field as candidates. The former,
who was nominated by acclamation, is
one of the very best men in the State,
and formerly stood high in national
politics when the WING party were dom
inant. He was secretary of the navy
during FiIlmOre's administration. Mr..
Turner is the editor Of the Raleigh Sen
tinet, and has been rather extreme in his
views. At the same time, the outrage
Gus treatment he has received at the
hands OF Radical desperadoes, has
aroused great amount of sympathy for
him, and given him a popularity he
would not otherwise enjoy. During the
Ruklux excitement he was kidnapped
by HOlden's militia, and subjected to
the greatest indignities. His house and
Office were repeatedly fired into, and
finally, about q month before the
election in 1872, his office
was blown up. The election takes place
during tho Fl rst week in AuOust - H0s sb,