Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-07
What Correspondents Have to Say About
tit will Soon Pass Away, and Our
Irish Citizens will Sustain the
Party that has Always Sup
ported them.
The Irish People are Essentially Demo.
cratic, and Cannot be Diverted from
UNFOLDING Democratic Principles
This will be Proven on
Election Day at the
BaiiOt-BOX.

an array of good names; but good ticket
and good names are not, by their own inhe-
rent force, going to carry us through. Our
people must be awakened to the necessity of
working for the ticket, so that its strength
may be polled. The Irish people are essen
tally Democratic. They imbibed a hatred to
oppression and love OF liberty with their
mothers milk; it has grown with their
growth and strengthened with their strength.
They cannot forget the grand struggle for
their political rights, and for the liberation of
religious thought and principle, which was
made by the old Democratic party under its
ime-honored flag, and under that grand old
party leader, Andrew johnson, In 1855. The
Irishman in alliance with Radicals or Repub-
licans, or this new, nine days wonder, the
Nationals, against the old Democratic party
never, never, neveri They have, per-
haps, suffered disappointment, that
some tried and trusted friend has
been neglected and set aside; that
the claims of some worthy asplrant have been
ignored, but, when there were so many can
didates, many good and true men had to
suffer defeat. The old party has never been
prescribe her if in fault this time? Shall we
not rather cling to the faithful old keel that
has borne us through thousand storms,
and, mailing the old hag-all torn and rid
dled-again to the masthead, sail proudly
into the conflict? l appeal to every friend of
the Democratic party, in town and country,
to rally. Let US have meetings In the wards
and in the country districts twice or even
three times a week, organize our clubs,
and, above all, to exemplify the good faith
with which our friends, who were candidates
for Office pledged themselves to support the
ticket, let them come to the front In rous-
ing speeches, until we shall feel the fire in
our bones, and recognize that there is life in
the old party yet. INDEX.
What Another Correspondent Has to
EDITORS APPEAL-Much is said about the
disaffection among the Irish voters of our
party-in fact, great deal too much. 1t is
true, they were greatly disappointed at the
defeat of Mr.. Reilly in the convention, and
this was very natural. But there are many
good and sensible lrishmen who understand
the situation, and who know that Mr.. Reilly
was not defeated because he was an Irish
man, and who believe that any other man
would have been defeated who had held that
Office for eight years. They know, as every
one else does, that the question was not that
Mr.. Reilly was an Irishman; not that he was
not good and unexceptionable officer, but
that he, as an individual, had held the posi-
tien. long enough, and that some other wor-
thy man ought to have it. If it is asked,
then, why Mr.. Duffy could not get 1t, they
answer that he had not sufficient number
of friends in the convention; that
although most worthy gen
tleman, he was not near SO generally
known to the people of the county as either
of his competitors. Now, if our Irish fellow
citizens wished to demand representation
on the ground of nationality, why did they
not unite upon one of their nationality and
say to the convention, we want you to noml-
nate him because he Is an lrishmanp Good
and sensible Irishmen know that when their
countrymen went into the convention dis
united and unorganized among themselves,
and without plan of eXpedlency, that such
a result as occurred was natural and logical.
They know and say that the Irish have had
no grounds to complain of the Democratic
party heretofore; that it had been their friend
throughout the land since the organiza-
ton Of government, and that for these local
disappointments to certain individuals, they
will not turn their backs upon and abandon
the old Democratic flag. Besides, they are
candid enough to admit that tor the last
bssn aFsr sha h i p I'LL Bdb b es h
positions than any other element of our pop
ulation proportional to numbers-that
during this long term they have
chiefly controlled the city government and
enjoyed its patronage. How is it even now?
For the most part the police and fire depart
ments of the city are In their hands, the city
recorder is an Irishman, the wharfmaster is
Irishman, there are Irish deputy sheriffs,
Irish constables and a number of Irish
justices of the peace. And so, while these
good and sensible Irishmen say they would
have been glad to have had representation
ON the county ticket, yet, looking at the past
and present in its true light, they cannot
conscientiously say that they have been
sighted on the ground of nationality. And
as for the improper and angry expressions of
few individuals in the convention, when ex-
element was high, they do not hold the
American element of the party as such
responsible. This is just, candid, manly and
patriotic, and these good and sensible Irish
men-and there are many of them-are going
TO support the straight Democratic ticket.
They know that this Is not the last
election that will take place In Shelby coun-
ty, and they know, too, what party in this
country has always been their friends. They
still turn their eyes, with grateful and at
fectionate pride, upon the old Demos
banner, tattered and torn as it rs with the
trials and struggles of the past and they will
rally to its support in August next, and wave
it triumphantly from The battlements of the
enemy. So, let US not exaggerate this natu-
raj. but temporary ard partial dissatisfaction
among our Irish fellow citizens, whose 6deli-
ty to its party Ia peace and In war,
in glory and defeat, has been so grand and
noble. Irishmen are born Democrats, they
will live Democrats and die Democrats, but
we must do them Justice, and we hope
we have. We cannot forget that they have
been with US through gloom and glory,
through danger and distress, through pros
perity and adversely, and it would be charging
us with deep ingratitude to say that we de-
MED one of their countrymen place on the
ticket because he was an lrishman.
OBSERVER.
"PrO and Con-"
EDITORS APPEAL-From an article in your
Fridays issue | quote few sentences, and
take the liberty to comment thereon, in vim
dicatlon of those who are thereby implicitly
censured. Local politics is a curious thing,
local politics Is, take it from any standpoint
you may. At the bottom Of it can be found
an element of sel6shness, as developed by
the ofice-seeker; this self shness remains to
the last. 1t is exclusive and aristocratic in its
tendency" Further on, you say: The opln-
ions expressed herein, so far as they effect the
Democratic party unfavorably, we need
hardly say, are neither the opinions of the
writer nor of the APPEAL, but they are the
opinions of the people, of representative
men, of nationalities, parties, classes, fac
tions, cliques and rings" You then proceed
to photograph political society" In Mem
haps fairly represented them, although in
few cases they are somewhat overstrained.
From the general tenor of your article, it is
made to appear by certain class, or clique,
that in the Democratic convention the Irish
citizens were euchered by clever maneuver,"
in the nomination by Mr. r. J. Black | do
not believe that this feeling is entertained by
but small proportion OF our Irish friends,
and Nthey are only those who went into
the convention fully determined on
having Mr.. Reilly nominated for re-
election to the Office he has held
for two terms (having accumulated hand
some fortune therefrom), and that no other
Irish citizen should be nominated for county
court clerk, nor for any other office by that
convention before Mr.. Reilly was. Let us
look at the facts at the time. i have been
reliably informed that other Irish citizens had
aspired to nomination for other offices, but
in each case Mr.. Reilly or his friends deferred
them from entering the canvass. for fear it
might endanger Mr.. Reilly's prospects. In
further proof of which very worthy young
man of his nationality Thomas Neatly was
nominated for register, whereupon Mr.. M
F. Ball, one of the delegates, Immediately ex-
claimed, "This Is dodge, the nomination of
Meath, to defeat Reilly, and we must stick to
Strehl." And In consequence, Tom Meath
didn't get a vote from his own countrymen,
at least very few if any at all The writer
had occasion to note frequently the express
sions of many persons during the canvass,
both before the meeting of the convention,