Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-30
MESSES sIPPI.
How the Radicals are Moving to Carry
the state The Cubs il UP'-COI-
OFed Democrats 90 the Front.
From an Occasional Correspondent of the
Appeal
MERIDIAN Santamhsr 2h Tn the cas-.

Appeal
MERIDIAN. September 25 To the cas-.
ual observer it is really amusing aS well as
In nleresting to tlce the dTilt of The polite i
tide at this particular time. Nearly all have
'Ormtd their oplui us III regard to tle cleo
ton, but theV are now beginning t. eXpr s.
Ihrm more freely as the day of election ap
p o ches OF course this will be kept up un
Til the cam paign closes. The most important t
po Mt now discu- ed Is the fruitless aUte PTS
of the Repu 9lican party to leave the / pres
sion thAhl e Dem cratic ticket is ell ed,
1t will be done by intim ldation. The well :
formed reader has dou Jtl-ss noticed this her
Gu can effort on the pa OF the Republican
party. but perhaps he mas no had the oppo =
tuniJy of witne@- ing 1t to so great an exteLt AS
we have in tuls ST te. ne ~ OF a close Obser-
yer Ould fail 10 see it, for such Is done secret
ly, at secret political meetings held at night,
as was zted in a previous letter The par
tsan csrpetnagger land all of them are
partlsan) rs thu enemy mostly dreaued. He
viii Lerambulaie over the county at nigL t,
attending gaInerings OF the cOlored pc pie,
aud Try To intimidate them scar them-to
vote the Republican ticket. But he has n"
influence now, and his attempts to niimi tate
the cOloTed man nave been 50 often repeated
in previous campaign that the effect has be-
come unpalpab and pOWerless. He once
ad influence and power 10 IN imldate the
colOred man, and Tor this reason he was put
forward Tor oth "a in the p ace of liberal and
more considerste Republicans. But he Is now
a dead donT-nafI. knowing positive Y that
sucn men could 7ver again represent to q in
teres's of the p opie of tnis state in the halls
y
its cand dates from among men posses ing
more influence and ability, and 10. quite SO
much power to Intimioaje, 10 lie, TO
cheat and 10 steal. Judge William NJ.
Hancock, the scalawaS Republican can
did.te for congress, If a. al
IOWed to Use the term, from this the fourth
district, ha- always been LIBERAL in his pt liLl-
cal views He has been too conservative for
tine Republican party-is 100 conservative
now bat he was the only choice. hut he has
no power, no Influence, no OIatOry tact to
enter he field with his opponent, Colonel D..
r. sing eton, and no hope OF being elect d.
Politically ne is dead; he knows 1t, aud IJ Is
b-l eyed that before the cam paign closes he
W IL ''step across" and shake hands with the
fieuUs # riden aud reform 1t is also
stats that Thomas Walton, the Republican
rs calmly consi ierin ng the benz fl it would be
TO himself, his family, his friends, his State,
bis cOuntrS to meet MS Od friend and CO.
lab rer, Judge hancock on the same grounds.
Whether hUse rep JrLS are tSue or not we can
not tell, but certainly there must be some
fire where there is so much smoke.
Henry Musgrove, Esq, chairman of the
r republican state central executive commit
tee of this Stst-, who ought to be well posted
nrLIe hope tnat the Republicans will carry th e
state. Things are 10 king too disc uTaging to
him. be tuIther states: ",OlOred men are
affiliating In large numbers here with the
ID mOcraJS. AT a barbecue in the vicinity of
JacEs n five hundred ntgTOe. marched in
procession in uniform" Jackson as you
know. Is the capita of the STATE, and the verS
center of The Republican army. The omens
for glOriOus victory next November are very
are utting forward all Their Zeal and en- nergy
ACCOMPLISH this eI d. kEIZ,