Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-18

Speaker Keller has sought TO allay antagonism md
| reconcile members by creating additional places
| on important committees. This viii probably
answer his purpose but il viii make the commit
tees very large and unwieldy. It is also proposed
TO establish committee on the Interoceanic canal.
The following States will elect governors
this year: Alabama, ARKANSAS, California, Colo
| RADIO, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas
braska. Nevads. New Hampshire New York. Penn
sylvania, south Carolina, Tennessee and Texas
and eight Democratic governors
Contests are made over the seats of twenty
Southern members in the House of Representa-
tives, and the committees are so arranged as to
Gust the Democrats and give the places to the
view OF this threatened injustice IL is understood
that the Democrats propose 70 flibuster in the
tended iniquity
In 1870 there were 29O,549 persons in
Tennessee more than ten years of age who could
read. In 1870 there were 3Gi persons in this
State who could not write Ia IsoO there were 40,
the fact that we stand number i've in the list Of
States in the point OF illiteraey now instead OF
that while other States have fallen back in ed
ucational statistics. we have made no Irogress-
The prospect at Washington, so far az
Congress Is concerned. is regarded terribly de
pressing Republican member of the House
says: "The speakers appointments have demon
allied the party, and fear we shall have serious
trouble The important committees as now con
structed do not have the confidence Of the House
and everything Will have 10 be fought out over
again the floor. Here at disadvantage, |
for the Democrats exceptionally strong in this
Congress in debaters. Our Leaders, like Kasson !
and Robson, will find themselves opposed by
such parliaInentariRns Randall, Hewitt Cox, |
and Others of scarcely inferior merit Neither /
Kelley nor Hiscock, who by committee position are
er-0fcio leaders OF the party, have record per-
sonal qualities to command allegiance On The |
floor while Keller himself has no following"
In double-leaded article Mr.. Helms, of /
the Morristown tEast TENNESSEE GAIT uses this /
language Thus early in the new year let Us sus-
gesf. in terms of respect and moGesty, that 4
welfare a town and county depends almost ex- 4
clusiTely upsn our laying aside political diff
ierences, buTying our political feuds and our po-
Etical ostracisIn and uniting for the /
commonwealth Politics don't pay: they never i
did and never will. They are a blight and cure
any community. They make meu worse. and 4
they make them mean and often contemplate. /
They make them deViliSh, and destroy manhood. /
Whenever people community ignore them,
quit discussing them stop their political EEaDg-
ling and unite their energies and their means and /
good sense 70 build up and foster their industrial
interests, they viii b. successful. We beie7e that
what need IN HorTfstOwn and throughout
tsst Tennessee IS more earnest, determined Work
IA less Poltnes- The Go-g-te helcsforIh viii act
rI&n this idea"
THE editor of the Augusta CozstitEdoaGlsf,
writing that paper from Washington, says u
have met all the ulsInbers OF orr delsgsnou. They