Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-21
AN IMAGINARY GRIEVANCE
or the POstOfhce- Nation al Independ-
ent-Hayes-K Key Radical RepubIi-
can OFgan-It Fears that the
Boxes will be Given an
Opportunity for
Dinner.
Remembering the Great Ballot-B
Fraud by which Hayes Became
President. and which 1t
Defends, it HOwls
Dread 1t Does
Not Feel.

EDITORS APPEAL-The (un)worthy organ
of the neutrality-suspicious. Workingmen
continues to weep and lament over an mag
mary fraud that might be perpetrated on the
day of acknowledging the boxes dinner"
etc. Well, we cannot blame Republican
sheet for having such forebodings. They
know how such frauds are done themselves.
A little Presidential election a short time
since is giving them some uneasiness for fear
its exposure will induce their opponents to
fight the devil with fire. | would urge the
prodigal (AUaldnche) to keep cool and not to
take trouble IN advance, for l assure you the
Democratic party will have no occasion to
force any refreshment upon the ballot-box,
nor will it need a returning board to put in
office the entire Democratic ticket, which is
fully demonstrated already to be the choice OF
the people. 1t was charged by the Republl-
can party some four years since that system
of duplicate ballot-boxes was established;
that the ballOt-boxes were sent to dinner, etc,
and thereby cheating them out of their cleo
ton The facts were not established, and we
have no reason to believe that the charge was
true; but we do have cause to congratulate
ourselves upon the fact that the very men.
and the only ones charged with this crime,
are to-day the leaders of the National party.
We are glad to get rid Of men who could
even be suspected of such things. We hope
the wall set up by the AUalanche will be kept
up till the cunning magicians they have Sc
cured will be SO terrified as not to attempt
even to perpetrate any fraud at this or any
future election in the interest of any one, or
any party to which they may then chance to
belong. The old a1age of drowning men
catching at straws is verified by the National
Radical party and its organ. They make a
mistake when they think such gross and con-
tinued misrepresentation as to the small
crowd at Democratic ward meetings, a1d the
very large and enthusiastic Radical National
meetings-as, for example, the meeting at
the eighth ward Tuesday mig hit, which counted
over one hundred and twenty-five, estimated
at dozen or more, and the meeting Wednes-
day night about forty, when there were
counted over one hundred and fifty
And then see the contrast they wish to show
by a statement made by the head of the glo-
rious country-saVin party, Mr.. Norton, who
could not find room enough in their spacious
hall, but had to retire to a nelghboring mar
BILE yard. Mr.. Norton, no doubt, selected
that place to work as a gentle reminder to
his new alliance the propriety of selecting a
monument to erect to his next political grave
worthy the effort he is making as party
leader, and at the same time to serve as a re-
Duke to other parties to which he has be-
longed who failed to mark the political grave
which he dug and buried himself
in. 1 would fail to do my duty,
Messrs. Editors, if l neglected to tell
you the daring courage exhibited by a
David who would Pierce the Goliah-like AP-
PEAL and its many readers through, by the
fierce and bold comparison, VIZ: ''The AP-
PEAL, like the voice of the fsh-woman, is
heard in the market, but nowhere else, and
is not read by any decent people" We can
only excuse this reckless and sweeping
charge on the ground that some people s
ability to determine who are decent and who
are not, is just as liable to err as it would in
the selection of school superintendent.
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT.