Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-25

ton is the most essential and vital issue OF
the day, and that the soft money democrats
should dissolve all connection with the hard-
money Democrats, let US see WnaS Ine result
MIGHT he. We lose New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut without doubt If we drive
out Bayard we may expect to lose Delaware,
and then let US turn to the solid Democratic
sonth. We must drive out Hampton and
Butler with their almost imperial sway In
South Carolina; we must discard Joe john
ston, the idol of the Virginia Democracy; we
must expel Gibson and his hard-money dis
trict In New Orleans, and we must
GIVE UP LAMAR,
who retains the worship of his friends and
challenges the admiration of his foes in Mis-
sissippi These are not men "to be whistled
down the wind" with IMMUNITY. Any effort
to drive them from the Democracy and force
them into the leadership of hard money
party in the south, would be disastrous act
for the present organization of the Demo-
cratic party, and if such division of parties
should come, the Greenbackers in Mississippi
who now count on the aid of the dlsbaEded
Republicans, would find the nselves as insig-
ni6cant, helpless and astonished as the UNI
skillful miIkmaid whose overturned lamp ig-
nited the great confagration In Chicago. The
resumption act would have destroyed green
backs and substituted national bank notes.
The Democratic party in the forty-fifth con-
Rress saved greenbacks from destruction and
is on the high road to the retiring of national
bank paper. The Republicans demanded re-
sumption in gold alone, which meant confs-
cation of the whole debtor class. The Dem
ocratic party restored silver as a money
metal, and made resumption not only easy,
but at once an accomplished fact. When
these things have been accomplished,
NEW PARTY,
protesting our principles, springs up and de-
mands the fruits of our victory. We can
greet them as friends whenever they work
with US to promote the success of our COM
mon principles, but we must treat them as
enemies whenever, by their separate action,
they contribute alone to the success of our
common foe. But, in my judgment, Missis-
sippi should look more in this canvass to State
than to Federal issues. Any one who appre-
ciates the rapid development of the north
west, through the fundamentally of rail-
roads, should study how to develop our own
State. The great success of the narrow-gauge
railroads that have been commenced in vari-
GUS sections of Mississippi show what may be
accomplished by energy, perseverance and
pluck. The State of Mississippi has wisely
determined to incur no debt for public i'm
provements, but she oaa and should devote
her convict labor exclusively to this purpose,
and the member of the legislature who de-
V6lOpS OQ6 D6SG plhu lOE Tic luJ6Eudl
ment of the State will be her modest son and
her greatest benefactor. With good system
of internal improvements, a better class of
immigration will come, and with railroad
from Memphis to Vicksburg, through the
center Of the rich Mississippi swamp, and
such cross roads as are now being built, the
wealth of Mississippi will be more than
doubled. This is one question that should be
considered in this canvass. You have another
In the
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
proposing to change the time of holding
State elections. This think should be de-
ieated so long as the present United States
election laws stand unrepealed. There is an
other and perhaps the most vital question in
the election-the choice of United States
senator to succeed B. K. Bruce. In view of
the now mooted question in the State as to
whether the legislature has right to instruct
the United States senator, it becomes essen
tally necessary that the views of every man
who aspires or expects to be United States
senator should be understood by the people,
and l know of no better way to arrive at this
knowledge than by proper canvass before
the people and thorough discussion of all
political topics by the candidates. Such q
canvass, if properly conducted between hon
orable gentlemen, would not, in my judg-
ment, contribute to any dissensions in the
Democratic ranks, but, on the contrary,
would contribute to the strengthening of the
party, and at the same time enable the peo-
pie of the State to determine which of the
aspirants was best qualified to sustain its
honor and defend its principles in the senate
of the general government. Political science
requires as much study as law, medicinS Or
divinity, and
THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW
not only the exact views, but also the politi-
cal capacity of all who propose to represent
them, and especially of those who aspire to
represent them for six years in the senate of
the United States, when, according to our
theory, the senator is beyond the instruction
of his State through her legislature. never
was a believer in the old Know n othing
platform that the Office should seek the man
and not the man the Office, and am still less
SO now. 1t is based upon the idea that some
men are so very ethereal in tone and eleVa-
ted in purpose that 1t is somewhat a condes-
cension, if not pollution, for them to ask
Office after the manner of ordinary mortals.
l am too much of Democrat to believe in
any such doctrine. Mississippi has many
worthy sons who have been bred in
POLITICAL LIFE.
Some in the halls of congress, some as gov
ernors, some as State senators, some as State
representatives, both on the floor ard IN the
speakers chair, and some in the most trying
of our political positions as editors of news
papers, where they must think quick and
where their everyday thoughts stands re-
corded for or against them. 1t is to be
hoped that all who desire to represent the
State In the senate will not only so announce
themselves but enter the coming canvass
with Vigor, and that he who is worthiest will
be accepted. l do not desire to see per-
sonal canvass, but a generous emulation of
good men, all struggling for the success of
the party, and each for the high honor of
proving himself most deserving the esteem
and confidence of his fellow-laborers. There
is work to be done, and when it is accom-
plished, | hope the laborer will be deemed
worthy OF his hire, that we shall not see fruit
gathered by diligent toll poured into laps
that have borne neither the heat nor the bur-
den Of the day. Yours. respectfully,
JAMES R. CHALMERS.