Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-01

/ W0Stc iHNcsNiBhilIR CON- ullifSr& nave
stripped the silver veil from the
| hoTrid cOrTuptions Of Rsiicalism "a
| left its leaders to stand forth In theil
naked deformity, and as ahn Randolph
once said, so shine aud stink, and tc
stink and shine like q rotten mackerel ia
the moonlight" We find In the De-
mocrscy party which can beast OF its
achievements "a war as well as peace;
which ext Hded the protecting folds OF
the American q x over Martin KOsts,
who had only declared his intention 10
become an American citZsn, and saved
him, harmless, In foreig port; which
tamed the British lion at the battle oil
New OTle3I and dictated terms OF
pence to Mexico ia the halls Of her Mon.
teZdmss; whose sons In the north bait
tied lnanfully f-r the Union, but who
would now rather fIget their boast of
military victories when a brothers. hand
wss imbusd in brothers. blood. 1t ia
the party Of the people, opposed TO the
ofiice.hClders who would psrpetuste their
power and make themselves our mast
ers; it is the party OF
THE TAXPAYERS IN THE SOUTH,
opposed to the public pluuderers who
have converted offices OF public trust
into franchises for embezzlement; ii in
the party Of honesty, intelligence ana
virlus, opposed TO corruption, ignorance
aud vice; it is the party OF local self
government, opposed to centralized
despotism; 1T is the party o. cOnssitu-
tional liberty, opposed to the One-msD
power, WHISTLER it come by Inheritance
or ny the usmpations OF q successful
military lead 7, or the gradual en-
chroachments Of pFotracted power; iG is
the party which Hendricks in Indiana,
aud rilder, in New YOrk, led to victory
in their last gubernatorial contest, and
whose banner Tilden and Hendrick will
plant in triumph on the CAPT oil at
Washington in the next Presidential
election. He then compared the plat
forms, and showed that the Republican
platform YVES q repetition OF broken
promises; that it Endorsed all the mi
quities Of Grants corrupt Standardization.
Ga the money question, he ssid he
vas Tor the silver dOllsT; blt that it
was not matter of Importance to us
now what kind OF dollar We had. The
question with us is whether we can get
any kind Of dollar, and whether we
can keep 1t, after We get it, from tax
gathereFs and thieves OF the admins ra.
had more res; ect for the constitution OF
one Of their mongrel loyal Leagues than
for the constitution OF the United States,
which they had tinkered with three
times since the var, and Were now pre-
psriDg to tinker with again; that tie
beginning and the end OF the Republican
party was hatred Of southern Democrats,
and that, while their platform pro-
claimed that call governments derived
their just power from the consent OF the
governed" that the lang dage vigorous
enforcement Of a cheerful Ubssiience,n
implie coercion without consent; thst
We hsd been whipped into sullen sub
mission, and, like unluly children, must
ne whipped still more until We were
cheerful, under the process; thst we
must not only "eat our crow" butsmack
our lips, ard swear that we love it. lie
compared the action of the Republican
party north and south, in their treat
menI of
THE COLORED PEOPLE,
and illUs rated the carpetbag rule in the
south by some telling and amusing an
ecdoteS. He showed that the Demo
cratic platform came fully up to the
timer, beginning and ending with re.
u
promised reform within their party four
years sge, and could not be trusted sDy
more; that the same men who were
sponsors for Grant four years ago are
now sponsors for Hayes; that the prom
Uses AM vows now made for Hayes are
but q repetition of the broken promises
M SIDE for Grant. He then proceeded to
make a comparison OF the candidates.
He said the American peopls demand
an honest II firm, and they will demand
that it shall be made by honest Ie'ofmg
ers. They will turn away rom Cincin-
matt, where Br stow YVES defeated, and
look to Sc, Louis, where TildeR YVES
nominated, ard they will see
that refoTm-the stone which the
builders rejected at Cincinnati
was az st. Louis made the chief stone Of
the corner. They will turn away from
the unknown and untried msn OF Ohio
TO the well-known and accomplished
statesman of New York-a man hose
fame is upon every lip, whose integrity
is household word, whose life is plat
form in itself, and whose name has be-
come q synonym Of reform.
THE INsIGNIFIoANCE OF HAYES.
called Hayes On untried man. This
was incorrect. He has been tried, and
il he has not been found wanting 1t has
at least been found that there Is moth.
Jog 10 him. He has been twice a MEM
Der Of congress, and he succeeded In
drawing his pay like q little man, in
Guiding the back pay tackled on to the
soldier bounty bill. He wes three times
governor of Ohio, aud Till be remem.
bered hereafter a. the man who was so
numerically bsaten
ON THE STUMP
by old Bill Allen. He was at the Gen.
tennial, and viii be remembered there
as the man who was in the hands OF a
committee and could rot tell when he
would take tea. He may be a most Gle.
CANT gentleman for 8 small tea party,
but as the President Of the great consti-
tutional republic ne will be ss insignifi.
cant as the by monarch OF Spain. He
will have about as little to do with guild
ing our ship Of state, if elected, IS the
jackstaff has to do with guiding one of
the magnificent steamers on the Mssis-
sippi river. Grant will still be captain
Of the r idical steam boat, old Boss
Shepherd will be the mate, and "Sylphn
will be the chambermsid; Morton and
Blaine will be the pilots, and Dirty
Work Logan and the sycOphsntic Conk-
ling will be the "cubs," learning to turn
the wheel; Old s mon Cameron and
Tom Murphy will be the engineers; Bel
KNAPP will be chief purser, and BAbcock
will turn out the crooked whisky st the
bar; Spoon. Thief Butler will be- the
head steward, and John r Lynch will
run the baIbsrshop. Hayes will be hut
the jacks.af for Morton and B aine to
sigh by, and Wheeler will be the little
yRwl tied on bshind for the crew to es
cape in when the cussed thing blows up,
as il will after the next November cleo
ton. He said, in further comparison of
the can 1idates: Let us try them by the
standard fixed by the Liberal Rspubli-
can meeting woich assembled at the
Filth Avenue hotel in May last. They
gave Us two descriptions of men, one OF
which they said they did not want, and
the Republican nominee seems exactly
to fill that bill. They gave US the de-
scriptiOn Cf the man whom hey said the
times and the country demanded; and
whether so intended or not, that de-
scription furnishes a full-length portrait
of s Amuel j. Tilden. They told US they
did not want a compromise N I'D, who
was neither SO bad as to deter sood cit
liens nor go good as to discourage
THE BAD ONES.