Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-08


I any proper perception OF the fitness
things, it would have given MIN, and a
others Of the same way of thinking, to u,
dersiand hat. whatever else it NAV be, Ii
government is not an almshouse.
The New York Tribune has column d,
voted to 'the State canvass" consisting q
extracts from the press throughout that Stat,
A glance over the extracts ought TO distraS
the average Republican. They make tn
hopelessuess of the Republican cause yer
evident, as each is bat the repetition of tn
other, Criticism, isnlt-hnding, or the state
ment OF some local break. up in the part
over Congressional legislative, or county
candidates; while the common mournin,
over Foiger's candidacy has assumed r.,
sonorous proportions of heSi.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says sit is ;
shame there should be on the Police BOARD
OF New York City notorious seorndfels and
iorgers, and that the Chief Magistrate of the
nation makes such men his bosom counselors
and permits them to visit at his house. Itjs
infamous that the Convention, having mt
this man in place of Cornell, instead of
healing the wounded feelings of the great
macs of the voters of the State, should put a
man In the charm. anship OF the State Execu-
tive committee whom will not describe ex-
cept BY saying that he is notorious for want
of reputation"
Mr.. SAvAGE's letter to Senator Harris and
the school fund is attracting some attention.
Bat the Jackson Tribune and Sun says that
the senator has the hearts of the people
With him in his 6ght for the organization,
and it is to be regretted that his candidacy
for the United States Senate is m ade the &C.
easiou of assaults upon him from every
quarter. If he falls in this fight he will
only be one more added to the list of sacri-
fees TO the idea of party unity, aud the sue
cess Of party principle, and while he is re-
ceiving the blows of the whole bolter organi-
cation, no Democrat in the party line should
strike him blow.
THE Philadelphia Times is gtatined to pub
lish the information from Washington that
the Democratic Campaign Committee is too
poor to circulate documents or furnish pecu.
mary aid 10 close districts. 1t would be
fortunate day for the country if both cam
paign committees and other party Commit
tees could be hopelessly bsnkrupted. The
people would then be allowed to attend to
the election of their public servants in their
own way, and that would assure vastly i'm
proved standard of public honesty. 1t would
throw few thousand party bummers out of
nominal employment in the leading States,
but nobody would lose by the operation but
the discharged bummers.
Ex-Gov. REUBEN E. FENToN is now num-
bered among the prominent Republicans of
New York who have announced that the
Republican State ticket cannot be elected.
He was in New York City last week, and he
told several of his friends that Cleveland
would sweep the western part of the State
From the remarks made by Mr.. Fenlon it is
Lakeu for granted that he will declare his
opposition 10 Secretary Folger before cleo
ion day. Ex-Speaker Sloan, ex-Assembly-
man Duguid and Thurlow Weed Barnes are
also against the Saratoga ticket They say
hat there is no possible chance of its being
elected.
THE Congressional Convention Of the Demo-
cratic party to nominate a candidate for Con-
sress in the Sixth Tennessee District, met last
week at Pulaski and nominated COL John q.
Ballentine, of Giles county. The Columbia
Herald says: "He is a gentleman of intslli- |
sence and culture, lifelong Democrat. He
comes Endorsed by large vote from his
own county, of those who know him best,
and there qualified TO speak of his fitness for
the position. Upon all questions distinctly
national, we understand him to be in full &C
cord with the Democratic party"
GENERAL GEORGE has been making a very
telling canvass of Mississippi, as the RanoIa
Star tells US, and will speak at Batesville,
October 18th, and at Sardis the next day.
Wherever he has spoken he has made a pro-
found and most favorable impression, point
ing out the dangerous and centraliziug ten
iencies of Republican rule, and arning the
people of the peril of intrusting that party
with more power and of continuing it su-
preme in tn councils of the nation. The
senator has also been demonstrating with
much force and impressiveness the fact that
Democrats can neither consistently nor atri-
otically support such Republican ally as
Gen. Chalmers.
The Winona Advance is quite sure that
Money, the congressional nominee ia the
Third Mississippi District, "will be elected by
. handsome majority. There is no doubt
about that, but Democrats should organize
md work to give him such a majority as will
each all who sell their principles for spoils
hat the people of this State know the bless
ngs of an economical, peaceable govern
nent, and mean to preserve these blessings
for their own happiness and that
If their families. Deserters from our ranks
nope to profit by our indifference; let us teach
hem in unmistakable language that we do
rot mean to be governed by men who jump
rom one party to another as occasion may
-equire, and who are willing to keep any
for the sake of Office"
SENATOR JONES, of Florids, who is one of
The South in the Senate, has just returned
o Washington from an extended tour
through the North. Senator Jones is man
who does not travel in vain, who keeps his
eyes open and sees what is going on around
him, and who is able, therefore, to make
wonderful accurate predictions ss 10 how
things are going to turn out. The New Or
leans IfmeS-Demoerdt Gays his Northern trip
b as convinced him that the old sectional
feeling against the South is dying out with
lime. Occasionally the Republican politi-
clans drag out the bloody-shirt and wave it
a little, but, year by year, the admirers of
that CORY garment grow feeble in numbers
and less enthusiastic. On the other hand, he
was met everywhere by farmers, mauufac
turers and mechanics, who wanted to hear
about the South, the character of the land,
its products, its forests, streams, wsges, etc.
The Charleston Ne,rs and Courier says that
the shame and loss which Mahoneism has
inflicted upon Virginia will be light and en-
durable, in comparison with the humiliation
and suffering to which South Carolina will be
exposed if the opponents of Democracy sue
coed. There are white men enough in the
Malone party in Virginia to restrain the
negroes. In this State the victorious party,
whether called Greenback or Republican,
would be the African rarty, and it would
rule the State as ruthlessly as in the days of
Scott and Moses. Virginia, so coon as any
considerable number of the white Mahoneites
grow disguised With the nerroism of their