Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-05
PRO AND con.
What is Said OF the Democratic and Ma
tiOnal Tickets by the Friends and
Enemies OF BOth-Hard Words
Butter no Parsnips.
But then it is well that we Should Have
an Opportunity OF Seeing Ourselves
as Others see us-Here's Your
Looking Glass.

as Others see us-Here's Your
Looking-Glass.
Local politics is curious thing, local
politics is take it from any stand
point you may. At the bottom of it
can be found an element of selhshness
as developed by the Office seeker; this selfish
ness remains to the last. AT the bottom,
just as did Hope in the Pandora Bor, but
| unlike Hope, .SeltshnesS does not go forth to
| gladden. the heart of the world generally. 1t
is exclusive and aristocratc In its tendency.
| From the above text, short as it is, can be
! preached a huge sermon on local politics. In
our city at present, the politicians hold each
| other by the ears; they are vexed III spirit,
and between the cOntendIng parties no great
amount of cordiaity exists. The Democracy
| In convention put forth county ticket,
which appears at the head OF the APPEAL
| columns, and which the APPEAL Is anxious TO
see elected. The Nationalist also put forth
ticket in opposition. We are going to give
! an account of what they sag as TO both tickets.
| Mrs. Grundy has word about politics as well
as propriety In society The opinions ex-
pressed herein, SO far as they affect the Dem
| ocratic party unfavoral0ly, we need hardly
say, are neither the opinions OF the
writer of the article nor of the APPEAL, but
they are opinions of the people, OF represen-
| tative men, of nationah6es, parties, classes,
| factions, chques and rings. We are merely
| photographiDg political society, which has
been talked at as into a monograph, and 1t
| is repeating itself.
| CHARGES AGAINST DEMOCRACY.
Grave charges are made against Memphis
| Democracy, or rather against what the
disappointed term the self-appointed and
| favored leaders of the party. The
| Democratic executive committee is charged
with ''skullduggery'' they so ar
ranged the order OF business before the
Democratic convention that the Irish citizens
were euchered by a cleN maneuver andnom-
| nations were made by the stutfing pro-
cess. Some of the Irish citizens charge that
they were sold out by the executive
committee, and by men IN the conVen-
ton who appeared there as duly elected
delegates, and by others who secured
proxies for the purpose of doing the dirty
work. They.say, in brief, as follows: That
| when James Reilly first ran for the office OF
| county court clerk on the Democratic ticket
many years ago. the American element put
| out Major Strange as an independent candl-
date Ill opposition, and that fifteen bundled
names of men who pretended to be good
| Democrats signed the call on Major Strange
to run for the office on the Independent ticket;
| that they then and do now regard that as an
outcropping of Acknowledgment. In order
! to be elected, mir. Reilly and friends had to
| cOnQlnG WIN the elements Vi
nothing else saved him from the overwheim-
ing American vote which was given to his
opponent. They say the same men brought
| out John r. Flippln for the office of mayor
| against the nominee of the Democratic party,
! and succeeded In electing Fhppln. They
charge that the same men wIre-worked IN the
| county convention SO as to secure the noml-
nation of r. }. Black, Fhppiu supporter IN
January last, and to defeat the IRISH; that
| the convention, while pretending to ignore
the question of nationality, recognized the
question 10y giving the German element
| representative-Mr. J. A. Strehl, nominee for
| the office of county register-and recognized
the American born element by giving it the
| twelve other nominations with salaries at
tached amounting annually to nearly two
hundred thousand dollars; that the Irish citi-
zens have ever been Democrats, while large
| majority of the Germans have been Repub
licans since the war; that they have worked,
| fought and voted to assist In enfranchlsing
the Confederate soldier, and that that Con-
federate soldier has, on many occasions since
| that time, forgotten such acts of kindness on
| their part.
NO IRISH NEED APPLY.
They assert and are ready to prove it,
that on the streets men have been and are
now publicly asserting that the Irish can go
to hell;" that for every Irish vote they lose
they will win as many negro votes, as they
did in the F'lippin mayoralty election; that
the men who took possession of the Demo-
cratic convention were Fhppin boters from
the party IN January last and that these old
boilers now say: eve have captured the
| Democratic machine, and we intend to run it
to suit ourselves" They also charge that it
was the result of well organized scheme to
use the Irish delegates in the convention,
and, when it came to the last nomination flor
the office of county court clerk, to sell them
out, and put in X. j. Black, representative
| Flippin boiler.
| THE IRISH ELEMENT.
The Irish representative men state that
| the Irish citizens poll some 1900 or more
votes and that these votes will now be given
| to Mr.. Owen Dwyer, the nominee of the
| National ticket for the office of county court
clerk, and to General A. }. Vaughan, the gal
liant Confederate soldier, who is the nominee
on the same ticket for the office of criminal
court clerk. They further state that they
| will vote and work for the entire National
| ticket, and will teach the Democratic iDgrates
lesson that they will not soon forget, and
| that, if they do not succeed In electlng their
ticket, they will nurse their wrath and keep
it warm" for the fall congressional election,
when they will give the Democracy another
dose that will work well, because they assert
that this county and congressional district is
VIGOROUSLY Republican on test vote, etc.
They say further, that they have been again
thrown overheard, but they have strength
|
mand respect from that other side; that few
men on the Democratic ticket will get fifty
| Irish votes in Memphis; and that r. J. Black,
for whom they have personally much respect,
has been put into the mine hole to make
war on their nationality and carry out the
maxim "No Irish need apply.
THE GERMAN ELEMENT.
Our representative talked with large
number of our German fellow-cItizens. There
is quite difference Of opinion among them,
and most probably the German vote will be
nearly equally divided between the Demo-
cratic and National tickets, on both which they
have a representative-Mr. J. A. Strehl on
the Democratic ticket for county register,
and Mr.. Joseph Uhl on the National ticket
for clerk of the circuit court. These two
gentlemen will no doubt receive the strength
| OF the German vote.
THE NATIoNALIsTs.
The Nationals, formerly the Working
mems party, claim that they polled some
400 votes in the January mayoralty election
for their candidate tor mayor, j. w. Ander-
son, and that, having now organized clubs In
| every ward, they are $500 strong, which,
added to the Irish vote of 1900, the German
vote of 600, and the colored vote of 1000
| (which they claim they can control), make up
! a vote of $500 in the city, sufficient to elect
their ticket handsomely, as it WERE to say
nothing of some $500 votes they expect to
receive in the county. They admit that the
Republican party has six representatives on
their ticket, and that it assisted them in max
ing it up; that the Germans and Irish have
representative each, and the Nationalist the
remainder. They claim that their ticket is
made up of representative men-General A.
]. Vaughan, gallant one-legged Confeder-
| ate, on whose character not blemish rests;
Mr.. Owen Dwyer, an Irishman and lifelong
Democrat, against whom no tongue can wag;
| Mr.. Uhl, a representative German, who
stands high with his people. and other repre-
such by their fellow men. They claim that
their ticket possesses elements Of strength
unknown to the Democratic ticket. and that
] it will be triumphantlY elected from top to