Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-19
DEGOLYAR GARFIELD
Has Views in Regard to the Canvass
and he Airs Ihem--He Thinks the
Southern Democrats have De
signs Upon the Treasury
and ~ O Affirm the
COnfederacy.

and went 30 Affirm the
| COnfederacy.
| Cleveland Herald: "You think the Lib
| eral Republican movement was a protest
| against proloDgiug far beyond the war the
methods and ideas essential to the prosecution
of the WARP"
| Eyes; and think 1t has fully spent it,
| force, and that we are now entering upor
| what L might call the reaction from the reac
| ton. The Republicans who went into Gree
| leyIsm never intended that the south should
be given the power to rule the country. They
see that the result of their movement has been
| to throw congress into the hands of the old
rebel leaders, and they have returned to theil
| old allegiance to resist the tendencies OF that
| result. The Democratic party In congress is
ruled by the caucus, and in every caucus the
southern members have an enormous prepon-
| derance. If the Democracy gets full posses
| sion of the government, then the southern
! leaders will have as absolute control as they
| had In Buchanans time"
what are their purposes 2"
First, to fertilize their impoverished coun-
| try with streams of appropriations from the
| national treasury. Every pretext for spend
ing money in the south-ievees, railroads,
| harbors, rivers, public buildings and the like
will be seized on. Last session the north
ern Democrats entreated and swore to NO
avail. They said the party in the north would
be ruined IT the southern members pushed
through their schemes. The southern men
were immovable. Some admitted the politi-
cal folly of their course, but they said their
constituents demanded liberal appropriations,
and they dared not resist
after they have drained the treasury, what
next?''
81 suppose they will assert in some way the
rlghtfulness OF the principle of secession for
which they fought. JEFF Davis said in a
speech the other day that he hoped to live to
see that principle indicated. The southern
congressman are already SD owing great sensi-
tiveness about calling their war rebellion. a."
LAS far as the contest between the two old
parties is concerned, General, you think the
Republicans are united and have the advan-
tage?"
Undoubtedly. The Potter investigation
had a marvellous and instantaneous effect in
consolidating our party in congress. For
months we did not dare call caucus, for fear
the divisions IN regard to the President s pol
icy would break out in open discord; but the
moment the Democrats developed their
scheme our people acted together with the
spirit and unanimity of disciplined regi-
ment."
1--WE have been talking of the old parties,
but what of the new? What do you appre-
bend from this semi-c0mmunistic movement
that has broken out in the east under the
name OF the Greenback party, and in other
sections as Nationals or Labor Reformers? Is
it going to be formidabe?''
lit remit me of an incident in the gran
ger excitement. An old farmer who had
joined the granger party and who was en-
thusiastic over its prospects said to me: wait
till we find out what we want to do, and
you IL lind out what We can do If the COM
munists knew exactly what they wanted
they. would be much more dangerous. A
great share of their agitation comes from a
discomfort that is not formulated into dis
tinct demand for political action. / can see
in the near future, however, time when iu-
creaslng population and decreasing oppor-
tunities for acquiring property will bring
about old world conditions here and old
world situations. As long as communistic
movements are confined to cities they will
net be dangerous, for there they are no new
thing; In fact, they are as old as the cities
themselves. But our farming population is
undergoing great change. The older gen.
Grafton now passing away found opportuni-
ties IN new country and on virgin soil to
acquire farms by their own unaided
labor and economies. Their sons fad
no such opportunities. How long
would it take young man with moth
ing but his own hands to earn enough TO
buy farm on the reserve? He could not do
it in lifetime if he married and had fam
lily. He would live and die hired laborer.
Now the young men are educated to ideas of
Independence ami comfort. Their fathers
were country gentlemen, with good houses,
pianos, books, and horses to drive. Tney
want to be gentlemen, too, but the paternal
acres will not support them ALL and if the
force OF circumstances pushes them down to
the condition of European peasants they will
make powerful resistance, and their protest
will work out in political action"
Communism pure and simple-which
means an assault upon property and de-
mand for division-you do not think dam
gerous ?"
mo; because the men who have something
will always outnumber the men who have
nothing"
''Yes, but the men who hold government
bonds are In small minority, and there is
evidently danger of the sort of communism
that would rob them of Il part or the whole of
their property invested in bonds for the sup
posed benefit of the -bondholders. That
is what the Greenbackers mean to do.
That is a real danger" replied the gen.
eral, and the Republican party should not
parley or tempcrize with it. the Greenback
movement, aiming as 1t does at imitation and
reputation, should be sharply assailed by
the whole force of the Republican organiza-
ton. Ours is a party of conservatism and
honesty ON national finance, and is pledged
to maintain the national honor and to insist
upon the performance OF al the nation OBJ
legations. 1t will be our policy and our duty
to combat the Greenback movement We
are its natural antagonists, and the Demo-
Gratis are its natural friends. If it changes
the face of politics it will be, In the end, If
not Immediately, to shatter the Democratic
party and to strengthen ours.
Speaking Of President Hayes's policy to-
ward the south, General Garfield said he
believed that it was the result of honest con-
viction, forced upon him by what seemed to
be the necessities of the situation. General
Grant saw those necessities before he went
out of the Office, and came to the conclusion
that further interference to keep the Repub-
licans in control of Louisiana and South Car
DINA was impracticable and must be aban-
doned The critics of Hayes were usually the
admirers of Grant, but they were singularly
inconsistent in attacking the former for act
ing under the advice of the latter.
General Garfield is strongly urged to take
the stump in Maine and afterward in Massa-
chusetts If he consents, he will return to
Ohio in time for the canvass here, which he
thinks will not fairly open before the first of
September He thinks the Ohio Republicans
should make an earnest, aggressive, enthusi-
astic campaign this year, and Is ready, as
usual, to do his share of the hard work.
Two Boys Drowned
ALBANY, July 17-This morning two boys,
named Alexander Rothschild, aged thirteen,
and SOLVE Sack, aged eleven, were drowned
in the river opposite this city Another boy,