Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-26
i.EIEPHIS APPEAL
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 20, 1919.
INPrRII.LEn nIssIssIpPI.

The elections occur in Mississippi! one
week from to-day. The future destiny
Of the State is bound up ID the next
seven days. The liberty, the prosperity,
the peace, the tranquility, the property,
the very existence Of the people are
jeopardized, and they are working with
the energy Of despair With anything
like a fair election the taxpayers will
triumph over the tax-eaters. On the
day OF election Tennessee must aid her
struggling sister, not by the importation
OF voter, but by thwartiDg the attempt
to inject fraudulent votes at the precincts
contiguous to the Tennessee line. Mar
shall county will give a large majority
for the Democrats, if the effort 20 pre-
vent the importation Of coiored voters
from Shelby and other counties in Ne-.
Tennessee succeeds. At the Mississippi
precincts near the Tennessee line an eff
fort will be NJ sde to colombo large num-
Der Of Tennessee voters. The people OF
Memphis, or our Democratic executive
committee, should hold meeting and
appoipt q committee Of citizens living
near the State line, with instructions to
attend each voting place and point out
every man living in Tennessee who pro-
Loses to cast his vote in Mississippi. We
owe this much TO our sister State stTug-
Cling for deliyeranCe, and whose success
will greatly contribute to the pros
perity OF Memphis. The cireu-
lation OF the APPEAL is 80
large o in Mississippi that we feel
as much interest In the pending election
as II It were In our own State. The
prosperity of Memphis is so inseparsoiy
connected with that Of Mississippi that
our business men are looking to the re-
suit of the election which comes off one
week from to-day with as much anxiety
as they did when our own State was
struggling for acknowledgements and free
dom from misrule The fight which the
taxpayers OF Mississippi are making for
that peace and guietude which pervades
Arkansas, Texas, Alabama, Georgia,
Virginia and Tennessee since their de-
liverance from csTpetbag rule COM
nsnds the sympathy and admiration OF
the whole south. We have an abiding
faith ia the success Of the tax-paying
people. The suffering masses under
stand the vital issues involved, and they
are aroused, determined to triumph.
Nothing can make them turn upon
themsel yes and their great interests to
follow the prostituted flag Of Ames and
his infamous gang Of corrupt place
meR. The battle in Mississippi is not
simply between Republicans, Democrats
and Conservatives. It is not conflict
for any Of the loDg-settled issues Of the
war. 1t is not to determine whether
slavery should have been abolished de-
csde ago, or whether the reconstruction
acts were wise. 1t ia a battle for toe
present, for the issues, the vital living,
life and death issues Of to-day;
for the trial Of those who GEEK
to perpetuate s power which ALLEVIATE
the people and prevents the return Of
prosperity. 1t is q battle between cor
rupt, prostituted power On one side, and
the tax-psying people on the other. 1t
is to decide whether csrpetbag DONNA
ton shall be perpetuated, or whether It's
shameful reign shall give place to
law, order, economy, honesty and Te-
form. 1t is to decide whether the pros
trated industry Of Mississippi, Occa stoned
by hostility of races. aud high taxes,
shall continue to langu'sh, or whether
it shall be quickened and fostered by
rigid economy, wholesome legislation
and harmonious relations. between the
whites and blacks, whose interests are
identical. The long-continued extrsva-
gance and reckless abuse Of power of tue
Radicals, their success in arrsylng the
blacks against the whites, have been the
fountains of all the evils that beset Mis-
sissippi. The honest masses, white and
black, see that there can be no healthy
energy and prosperity 60 long as tue
State is rent by hstreds, antagonisnIs,
the prolific sources of riots and outlawry.
The same energy and enthusiasm which
has animated the Taxpayers Of MISS.
sippi for the past three weeks, if con-
tlnued until Tuesday next, will give
them a glorious victory, and thus
save their property from contis.
cation. Thousands Of cOloTed vO-
ters have struck hands with the whites
in a noble and patriotic effort TO secure
peace and prosperity to the State. This
plan would have BEEN brought about
years ago, but for the interference Of the
Offics-sseking Adventures, who fiocked
to Mississippi, aud by appeals to the
passions and cupidity Of the blacks man-
aged ID get control OF The affairs of the
State government, which they system |
a.icslly proceeded to rob. The story OF
their crimes and their mjsdemeanors
will some day make a page in history
shameful 10 those who have Tu,ed and
made the State psndemOnium. 1t has
been one long steBl since the csTPetbag'
gers assumed control OF Mississippi.
They have never sought to rebuild the
land ruined by the war. That would
have been their ruin. So long as they
could keep up hostile feeling between
the two races, they prospered. So long
as they he'd the aid CT Federal bayonets
they carried elections by fraud. But
happily Mississippi is about to be re
deemed, regenerated. Honest, sensible
cOlored men are bow the wort enemies
to the plundering carpetba gger, and have
j)iGed the whites in an effort to drive
them from power. This viii be done DC
Tuesday next, when better men will |
take their places; men who will seek ID
do justice to all; and who will restore
the disOTdereG State to peaceful, pros
porous condition.
THE Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
8 national bank organ, maintains that |