Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-12

Republican party, You held possession Of
the government. of all its departments. fer
years, and you are responsible for all these
| evils which attilct u.s." Let the Nationals
| look before they leap, to look well before they
leap, or else they may be leaving the ills they
have; to fly to Others that they know not OF"
| The south, taken as a section of country has
| uniformly been Democratic. We had two
| schools OF politicians; one that is tempted to
consolidate power in the hands of a few-to
make this country an ol'garchy-the other
school wanted to enlarge the powers of the
people, because the government was made for
the people, not the people for the govern
ment. The parties still exist, and you have
| always seen southern statesmen standing by
the bulwarks of the constitution and defend
| ing the rights of the people, Hence the
| southern people were members of the Demo.
cratic party Before the war the Wing
party hon0rably contested for power
with the Democratic party, but
| even then the south remained Democratic
But now the men OF ruvso &c great parties
are together, standing shoulder to shoulder
in defense of the rights of citizens. The
| Republican party intended to 20 outside of
the constitution, and crush out liberty in the
south. Andrew, johnson; Democrat, sought
to defeat the infamous nlsasjires of proserIp-
ton and oppression about to be etiforted by
the Republican party, and for this did that
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| they might continue to Cypress the south.
| He Judge .ClappJ warned the people
! that the Trojan horse was sought to be
| introduced uhoe- the guise of Nationalism.
| The tread Of Grantism was heaf2 al over
| the land, and the people were cruelty OPP
| pressed. The Republicans are responsible
| tor our present financial condition. They,
soon after the war, flooded the country with
| paper money amounting to two thousand
millions of dollats This inflated values,
property ran up rapidly, and everything vas
beyond its real value. Then they commenced
contracting, converting that money into
bonds, and thus created bonded aristOcracy
in the Land. They swept out of existence the
vast tide of money and then created an enor-
MUS shrinkage, which destroyed the land
Our financial troubles to-day may be placed
directly to that party, which to-day attempts
to take control once again of the government
When the Democratic party got into power
| 1T had control OF one branch of the govern
ment emily. The Democrats restored the sill
yer dollar as a circulating medium, they
have brought greenbacks into circulation, and
have reduced the expenditures more than afry
million dollars year. All this was done in
the face OF the fact that the Republican party
had control of the other branches of the gov
eminent, and sought to obstruct in every
manner the efforts of the Democrats to assist
the people and restore financial confidence.
The National party asks for economy. Will
the Nationalist strike hands with the Re-
publican party, that has ruined the industrial
condition OF the country and op-
I pressed the .labOring men, or will
that has always stood by the people and de-
Tended their liberties. The Nationalist
claim that they are the friends of the work
ingman: They must, then, either act with
the party that has been the patron Of the
bondholders, who pay no taxes nor support
the government, while the workingmen pay
the taxes and support the government; or
they must join the Democratic party, which |
opposes those vile, oppressive measures car
RED out by the Republican party. The DEM |
ocratlc party was never known to steal, and |
1t has gone as far as it could go in congress to |
relieve the people. You have two parties be- |
.ore you, and you must choose between them.
Judge Ciapp made an eloquent appeal to the |
Nationalist, the Irishman, the German, and
other citizens of foreign birth who came to
this land in search of freedom. He recog-
nized on the opposition ticket many known to
the class OF historic carpetbaggers; men, who,
as Horace Greeley said as soon as they went
south had one hand around the niger neck
and the other hand in his pocket. He also
saw with sorrow on the opposition ticket sew
eral of his old Democratic friends. He re-
GREETED to see this, but to them he could say:
Il have loved you like child, but goodbye;
you have got in bad Company and you must
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amid loud cheers from the crowd.
ATTORNEY GENERAL WRIGHT.
General Luke E. Wright was the next
speaker. He was glad to see the outpouring
of the people. 1t spoke IN unmistakable Ian
guage that, whatever croakers and malcon-
tents may say, the people are fully alive to
the occasion. The ensuing election will de-
termine who shall govern your local offices
for eight years, and will give shape and form
IN the elections nat will CANA aft II
will determine, for veal or woe. whether you
will be governed by men of sense and hon
esty, or by the demagogue or the irrepressible
1t will determine whether or not
you will place in power the leeches and
blood suckers who ruined the land before
The Democratic ticket presents list of can
dldates worthy of your Endorsement and suf-
rage, and you have met to ratify these NOM
nations. BY comparison with other candl-
dates presented by other political parties, are
hey not more worthy of your suffrage? You
should pause and think who you will select
o serve and rule you for the next eight years.
There is no remedy for secret hlching or in
ON the part of public servants
except by the great remedy of Impeachment.
The people, then, should look well and deter
nine who shall govern this county for eight
7ears to come. He did not address the bloat-
ID capitalist, but the Lowry and the humble,
lie addressed the man of humble means-the
capitalist can take care of himself-and he
lsked them to pause and reflect. Did they
propose to place over them men whose only
merit is their power TO please the fancy; men
Who were irresponsible, and whose charac-
ers stink In the ncstrils of all honest men? :
He spoke to all classes of men, and asked
hem, if the laws remained unvindicated,
whose property suli, red? Not the man who
ould fly away on he wings of the wind, but
he man who was tied to the soil by every
consideration. The ticket of the new party,
IL. LII L.
,iven name, Is In the field. Four or five of
he men on the present Democratic ticket |;
we're elected almost unanimously four !
ears ago, under the Bartlett movement.
you want your judicial business properly
administered in the criminal court, you will q
ave TO vote for General l.. b. Horrigan
our criminal court judge; if you do not want it
roperly administered, you must select some /
Their man. irresponsible clacquers may y
owl, and blackguards and demagogues may
BAR, but the majesty of tue people will al E
rays arise and control the destinies of the l
eople. If this was only an election of the {
test, there would be no need of party l
lie did not altogether indorse the convention c
stem; it is necessary evil, and he would
ways prefer to rely upon majority of the T
eople than to their delegates In a con-
ention. The Radical party of '
helby county to-day rears its
razen front and offers to step forward and
LhcS pUSS6SSlOu Vi Tic dlldiIo vi lLC OOuHIJs |
he history of that party Is anything but a
bod. The Radicals pretend to be the friend y
the colored man. They recommended fru- :
Atty to the colored man so that they would y
their earnings, so that they, the u u
epublicans, could steal it from the Freed u
an s bank. So long as the colored man q q
es himself to the skirts OF the Radical party y
, has no destiny in TINS country. To-day a X
tile coterle OF white men pretending to be
e repository of the Republican party, and
lother lot of irrepressible men, meet in Sc
ct and tell the colored man how to vote and
ho to vote for. The Radicals have used f
cir power for a selfish and an unholy end, ca
I'd the sutferings of the workingman to-day al
e attributable to their misgovernment. til
eneral Wright gave history of the Radi- az
party on the financial question, and eff
owed how their policy was ruinous to the TT
orkingman all over the country. The Radi- ul
party has brought about the state of pow 81
ty and restitution now felt in the land. q
no are the men who compose the Radical m
rty to. day? They had not a word to say te