Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-19
politics, Southern industry, and its future
MElhPIiIS APPEAL
TUESDAY, !: DECEMBER 10, 1852
REORGANIZATION IN DEFEAT

X In
Alter the little episode at APPomattox
Courthouse, the surrender of Lee and the
capture of Mr.. Davis, if some stalwart rebel
bad proposed to reorganize the rebel army,
he would have been regarded as lunatic.
But few stslwsrt Republicans have under
taken project equally as absurd. On the
7lh of November - just five weeks sgo
the Republican party met ITS Appomattox
Courthouse. The party Lees surrendered
and the Davises were captured. There was
general stacking of arms. The paroled
privates accepted the situation, and the Re-
publican party was regarded as much disor-
ganized and dissipated as was the rebel
army on the 9th of April, 1865. But the
Republican stalwarts have blotted from
their lexicon the word "fail," and with
heroism which should extort the admiration
of mankind, have undertaken to rebuild the
RACED temple. The situation is such that an
abb will not serve good purpose, and it is
proposed TO heal all dissensions, retrieve
disaster and set the "grand old party" on it's
feet once more by reorganization. Exactly
how they are to reorganize without retaining
all the old causes of ruin, nobody pretends to
explain, FOR the Republican party without its
bosses, its Hubbell fund, its Capitalization,
It's usurpation OF the rights of the States, its
despotism, its protective policy, its sectional
ha.reds, lts extravaganza and its corruptions,
would be az stale and Improbable
Gas the play of Hamlet with the
part Of Hamlet omitted" How any
reorganization can consolidate the party
and make everything lovely to everybody is
indeed a problem worthy Of greater genius
than has yet appeared on the agitated sur
face of Republican politics. In discussing
the possibility of resurrecting and reor-
ganizing the Republican party the New York
Tribune says:
A sick man is sure to be deluged with advice
posed 70 be enough Of an invalid to warrant the
political doctors and quaeks in overwhelming IL
past all the old women in the party have been
rummaglng through garrets and musty trunks and
SEEDS, any one OF which is recommended as in
fallible cure for political defeat And they stand
around with bandages and bowls of steaming tea
and hot foot-baths ready to undertake the task OF
restoring the patient To political health Tney
and applying lotien there and pouring in little
oil elsewhere the party can be stood upon It feet
again and entered for the presidential race OF 1854
After thus discussing the many quack nos
trums for treating the chronic sores OF the
Republican party, the Tribune recommends
-aL1- -Ali-i- af -nanneracx in the following /
language:
None of these expedients will serve the purpose.
They have been tried, and rejected with contempt
by the people. For quarter Of a century the
Northern States have acted with the Republican
party. They care very little about 1t "a an end
forms carried and abuses corrected and the
country we'll and economically governed. IT the |
ends they viii stand by It loyalty But If it forgets
its mission and merely fattens itself upon spolis
Republican party then If It wishes to continue
the dominant party in the country, must take pos
the day and trust 10 the intelligence OF the people
TO sustain il. It has never yet shown that it was
and failed to receive the support Of majority Of
the intelligent voters.
All this simply means if the Republican
party would cave itself, it must disown itself
and oppose the Democrats in the next presi-
lential election by favoring Democratic
principles and policies. The reorganization
If the Republican party has not yet been
proposed except on the basis of adopting |
Everything for which Democrats have con-
ended. The Republican party has been
routed, horse, foot and dragons, and amid |
he groans OF the wounded, it proposes to re-
organize by espousing the principles of the
nemy. 1t has been reorganizsd out of ex-
sience. The problem of mixing oil and wa
er has never been solved, and the task of
hitting the antagonistic elements in the Re-
ublican party is still more difficult task.
he stalwarts engaged in the labor
reorganization insist that fire and tow | 0
INST be hsrraoniously united, and that the :
on and the lamb must lie down together.
sch faction charges the other with being u
10 architect of the general ruin. Grant is
ured, Conkling is pouting, Cameron is
aging the part of Samson, Arthur is re- G.
ldiated, Robson is powerless, Keller ia
sgraced, and the Republican leaders are L
arling and barking at each other with all &c
g venom and ferocity of so many mad ~
gs. Judging from the hard names with ~
itch the leaders reproach each other reor-
nization is much needed. The signs of N
times unmistakAbly indicate that thou r.
Ids of Republicans are in favor of reor- u
1ization, but it is that kind of reorganiza- CT
n which organizes them into the Demo 70
tic party.