Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-01

q are not belittling the enormity OF thl
former; we are calling attention to th'
fact that asa hath slain his thou
sands" but David his ten Thousands
These are unqusstionsbly the command
ing issuss, and we do not quarrel witt
the order SO much ss with the mannel
in which one of them ia put. The de-
s mands for reform are they keynote and
the Tsirain of about four-fitths OF the
platform, and they are forcibly, eto'
quently, justly phrased-just and elo'
quent and foTeible because based upon
facts. Il builds It's demands for reform
upon foundstiops as broad Ss the
| Union, for 1t Insists that such cor
ruption as has disgraced this country
during the lar decade Is the most dam
eeroUs foe OF the Union, Gevouring sii
respect for thc .co,, ,v-I,.un.u, us.,I. ruv-
ling in the foreground that watcbword,
reforua is demanded in the name OF a
''eound currency which the Ohio plat
form slso demanded. IN thG Matte OF
.'the public credit which all should be
anxious to nisintaiD. In the name OF
aGhe national Eonof,J which al should
/ escredly preserve; in the name Of an
over-tsxed people whose increased and
increasing burdens are briefly, but elo-
| quently shown. The foul cause OF such
! s demand is the stain Affixed TO the ma
ttonel name during the last few years OF
Republican rule, and the space it occu-
pies in the public mind justifies all the
attention which will be given TO 1t
during the Presidential contest which is
now iDaugurated. II is due TO the con.
veDtion to say that its nominee was se-
lected, among other causes, because of
his supposed embodiment OF the idea OF
reform, 1t being determined to fight the
battle chiefly upoh that Issue. On the
currency question there is an issue
sgn2.-esssy no: esy Jolned between the Republican
and Democratic parties. Parties must
not be Judged ~ their ''glitGering gen.
| erslities," but by their specific meas.
ures. For eighteen months the Rspub.
lican party, by every conceivshiy ne.
cessaIy legislative or oiieial act, by
every vote OF its congress, by every ger
| main act of its executive, by every act
of its secretary of the treasury, as well
as by the statute OF January, 1875, has
stood committed to the resumption act,
and the Democratic platform plainly
and squarely demands its repeal. That
IL the only financial measure practically
before the people of the country for ad-
judicatien, ard the two parties have
locked horns upon that issue, The Re-
publican party In every possible wsy has
declared that resumption on the first of
January, 1879, is lis "fixed policy" and
the Democratic party arrays itself |
bluntly against that policy. The ten
dency to ''trim," and "hedge," and to |
kid-glove the ideas, which both plat |
forms reveal, cannot conceal this sharply |
defined issue. Resumption jan |
uary l, 1879, no, represents the atti-
tude of the Republican and Democratic |
parties respectively, upon the currency |
question. We find, too, that the DEM
ocratic platform demands policy "cre-
stiDg at no time an artificial scarcity OF
the currency,n and denoances the policy |
which has "locked fast the prosperity OF
an industrial people in the paralysis of
hard times" Four years ago the Demo
cratic party accepted at Baltimore, when
other questions seemed of higher eonse-
quence, Republican money-lehders'
platform. Two years ago had Demo
cratic national convention been held, no
miracle could have moved into Its plat
form such declarations as are found 10
the one adopted yesterday. And yester-
day twO-sevenths OF the National Dem-
ocratic convention, and the represent
atives-on the committee on resolutions
of one-fourth of the States Of the Union,
which contain nearly One.half of the
votes OF the party, protested against
even this platform as saying too litGle in
opposition to the oppTessors' policy. Ger.
tainly We are msking progress. Upon |
other declarations the platform is q no.
ble Democratic declaration. 1t opens
with loyalty; loyalty 70 the Union, the
constitution with all its amendments, to
the equality of all citizens before the
law, to Individual liberty, and with en-
phaic declaration in favor Of the total
sep sration Of church and State, for the
SAKE alike OF civil and religious freedom.
Its splendid scathing of the tariff system
c0u hardly be improved. Both parties
had manifestly sgreed that something
should be said about the Chintss ques-
ton, that there was an evil to be |
remedied, and while the Republican
convention said what it had to say in a
covert, sinister man
ner, the Democratic platform speaks
plainly. To the Democrats OF Ohio,
who have nobly stood by the cause Of
the people, we desire to say that we
have in this State platform which
now douhly needs vindication at our
hands in October.
Cincinnati Enquirerl
AS for ourselves, we believe that we
can ssy that Tilden was not our choice.
The party to which we belong, and to |
which we have always given our ale
glance, has made him the standard
bearer. Our battle for currency reform,
we are pleased to kGow, made some i'm.
preston upon the st. Louis convention.
Things might have been wor4e. We pre-
fer Tilden to Hayes, and shall advise
the Democratic organization to stand by |
the nominees. Our friends in the st.
Louis convention, who voted to the
mum bero! two hundred and nineteen for
the minority report of the platform com.
mittee, kept faith with the convention
and indorSed it's action by participating
throughout. As we represent that ele-
ment of the convention, We feel it our
duty to acquiesce. The people in con-
gressioDal districts throughout Ohio and ,
Indiana have way open to them
selves, and can reach one Of the vital
issues which the convention, in study
ing nothing but success, saw lit
10 ignore. The election of Til. {
len would signalizs the triumph of
certain Democratic principles. The
election of Hayes would ,signalize the l
success of principles, pracs2css and theo-
ries which we have ms5ie it our life
business to oppose. We have many
sentiments Ia common with TildeD.
We have none in common with Hayes
What we have said in opposition to Mr.
rilden-our arguments to prove his un- !
illness for the leadership in this great
,truggle-must stand. The party, in its ]
wisdom, has overlooked these potent
reasons, and il they now serve the enc.
ny we can't help it. The Democrats of
Ohio feel reseutful toward Mr.. Tilden
md the element Of the party which he
'epresents. They feel that they have
,ause to dislike him, and it viii be q
iifficult matter to bring the strength Of I
he organization to his support. We
hall feel it our duty to counsel har-
nony, for the organization of the DEM
,crstie party must be preserved. 1t is !
he Only organization through which I
ertain great principles will be estab.
ished and certain great reforms brought
bout. 1t has disappointed Us in some 8
but we do not feel called up y
n to encourage the enemies of the par
Y, who have counted largely upon d.
Iision. We can extend no comfort to
uch. The incongruous elcmeats OF the C
Republican party have united upon +
Hayes, suppressing their differences, b
nd sui jectiDg sll questions 10 the one Z
question, There is nothing q