Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-13
MEMPHIS APPEAL
JUNE Ii, 1878.
THURSDAY,
THE CONVENTION TODAY.

The Democratic nominating convention will
be organized at the Exposition building to-
day at eleven o'clock. The duties intrusted
to the delegates are great, and it Is hoped
they will be equal to their responsibilities.
Those that believe that with any sort of tick
ct the Democracy can carry Shelby county in
the August election are sadly mistaken. The
opposition to the Shelby county Democracy
has been reinforced by such men as w. B.
Wadran and A. J. Vaughan, and unless
there be IN the convention to-day harmony,
and great care manifested in the selection of
the best men, defeat is inevitable. Personal
fitness for office is the magnet for voters in
Shelby county. Each delegate to the
personal friendship is not a good
arbiter, especially when he sees
that there are insuperable objections to
his favorite. 1t is to be hoped that the cor
venhon will not be embarrassed and OBJ
structed with the unseemly and grievous
squabbles and disorderly scenes which so
often make political conventions a mockery
and farce. There will be ample time for
conference among the delegates, who will be
undisturbed by candidates or their friends or
their enemies. We are glad to believe that
it is the desire of the delegates to nominate
the strongest ticket possible. If that be the
desire, 1t is easily accomplished. But per-
sonal intimacies and debts of gratitude, and
personal hostilities, and the anlmoslties OF
c,Iques and nationalItles, and pledges, and
bargains and sales, never madea good ticket
THIS is no time for DESERVING the only party
that can save the country from the evils en-
tailed upon it by Radicalism. The "Green-
back party" the Labor party" and
the Nationals" may profess to
point the path that will lead
the country out of its embarrassments and
distress, but all their professions and all their
efforts, secret or open, must not only prove
powerless for good. but must help to keep in
power the party which tramples upon con-
situations, de6es the will Of the people, and
revels In the recklessness of It's lawless and
corrupt administrations. There can be no
safety-no hope-now outside of the great
Democratic party. Once let the people aban-
don it, and the country drifts inevitably into
rim, wretchedness and death. We cannot
close our eyes to the frightful fact that
GraLtisnl, alias Radicalism, is a giant in the
land. 1t still has desperate grasp upon the
throat of the republic, and it requires the
united strength of patriots of all compilations
and all sections to unloose that death grip,
and to utterly destroy the monster whose
baneful policy has brought untold misery,
desolation and woe upon the laboring
classes and the great business interests of the
country. If the Democratic party should be
abandoned, the last bulwark of good gov
ernment-of constitutional freedom will be
broken down. The country, from the Allan
tic to the Pacific, must stand by that party
or else give up all hope of the republic. The
National party, the Greenback party, nor any
other new party, no matter what may be its
name or pretensions, could check for a mo-
ment the vast tide of corruption and lawless-
ness that is scarcely restrained from sweep
ing over the country. Even the pretended
civil-service reform is openly abandoned. Not
only does the dc Jfdcto President reward the
thieves and rascals that raised him to his
high position over the plainly expressed will
of the people, but he even enters into maGhi-
nations for perpetuating them in power.