Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-10-05
Opening OF the Electoral and Congress
siOnal CanVass-Speeches by Hon.
j. W. Clapp and Hon. I. ID.
Ildridge.
triumphant NinlicatiOn Of the Demo-
cratic Party, and Successful As
saiImeDt Of the Radicals by
Judge Clapp.
Able and Eloquent Speech by Hon. Casey
YOung-A Thorough, Masterful
and Scathing Review OF
Radical Legislation and
Robbery.


Special to tue Appeal
BOLIVAR, October 4.-Tuesday night
Lagg's train brought Colonel Young,
Ju igs Clspp and Thomss Eldridge TO
our burg to start the campaign in Har-
demsn. Last night Young and Clapp
We're serensded by the cit zens, and from
the gallery OF the h)tel responded in
apprOpTiste speeI hes. Yesterday was
very inclement, yet our solid men
turned out to see the tilt between Clapp
aud Eldridge, and to hear Colonel
Young.
JUDGE CLAPP
lod eff in a sharp, searching exposure OF
Radical misrule in all the departments
o gov erument. He Ehowed that IL the
Federal debt W re 70 be appOrtioned TO
the several States, Tennessee would have
to pay seventy milliyrs; that the only
over productions which have cursed the
country is the over production Of Re.
publican villSiny; that Radicalism has
JoTced the cLultry into the crushing
embrace, Of a powerful Craditor.cIsss;
mat the financisl' legislation OF Grant
is a series OF cruel exactions a. the sac.
iIfice of the productive industries; that
the bondhoiders have been enriched,
and the lsborer impoverished; and that
corruption and fraud had wasted the
substance Of the people, and soiled the
skirts Of the highest officials in the land.
We can but outline his mastery al
dress. He cOntended in conclusion
that Hayes is but Grant in disguise,
while !liden - the refoImer demanded
py hsuoIal exigeney OF deep peril. Now
htR. ELDRIDGE
was introduced. but ne dodsed the issues
presented by Mr.. Clspp as an old fox
avoids bis pursuers. He launched off
into threSdbare, anti. war Political plati-
tudes, and labored by appeals to bring
old Whiggery to life, but it's ghost would
not even do his bidding. He touched as
lightly upon Federal questions as he
could, bu claimed that The Rapubiicon
administration had been highly hon.
Ored and honest, and that Hayes, il
elected, would prove 10 be a second
Monroe or Washington; that the Breck-
inEdgs Democrats provoked the late
war, and that the Republicans saved the
Uu'on and gave freedom to the slave:
that the eight hundred millions alleged
to have been squsndered by
his party had been used in
The legitimate expenditures of
the government. Be it ssid to his credit,
he raised no bloody-shiTt, but spoke his
piece in temperate, gentlemanly man.
Der. He is man Of some power, but
the Republican losd he had to carry
msde him drag heavily. His antagonist
was to bin real clap Jf thunder. Af.er
the two electors closed our popular
CASEY yUUNG
came to the ffont, and in one hours
tins shiversd EldrldA Ae's battle lance
into thousand pieces. He proved, out
of the mGuLh of Republican witnesses
themselves, that the Republican party
have sffi cted this country with evils
unparalleled ia the history of any people
upon the face of the earth His srgu-
ment Of Radical rule, in all the branches
OF government, was one Of the
most convincing arguments heard
from the lips OF any speaker.
Having been daily eyewitness 10 the
peCulatiOns and iniqu ties of the Grant
pzrty, he uncovered a Eeethiug mass,
aud showed what a foul and filthy
thing Rldicalism is, has bee3, and ever
VIII De- Especially so long as MOrtOD,
Blaine ana fitzpatrick control its sf-
isirs. His fac and figures were stun
Bing. Ssven hundred and sixty-fouf
officials had bean found stealing under
the immediate eye Of Grant, and not
one Of tue thieves was prosecuted until
the Democratic house demanded an in-
vestigatiOu, H9 eaid a solid south
meant not sectionslism, but an honest
administration Of national sffsirs, and
that il, as Eidridgs claj,Ded, the Repub
licans had been blessing to the cOun-
try, they had certainly most sdrOitly
concealed them from the public gaze.
Enough TO say that Clspp bruised
Eldridge right much, but Casey Young
made lilly cut OF him. Even these in
cIjDed to The Republicans say that they
had no idea 'hat there was so much in
Young. This has been good day for
Z .lden aud bad one for Hayes Three
chsels for Casey Young! E'dridge will
never forget him aad this day. The fol-
owing is full synopsis of what Mr..
Young said.