Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-15

will overwhelm Chalmers on the 9Th Of No
vember. His defeat will be no surprise TO the
country, for if he IL too large TO join either
OF the Two great political parties, he will
scover that he is too small TO
create a party of his own. Ga the other
hand Manning is the champion of the party
which has, through thick and Thin, been the
hope and mainstsy of the South; the party
which has redeemed the South in the past,
and the party which the South has labOred
30 long AID so earnestly to give control Of
national affairs. Chalmers has lent the
uie of his name TO bring the Repub-
licsn party back into power in Mississippi,
aud TO give the State TO the support Of the
Republican candidate for The Presidency in
1884. The supporters OF Chalmers are and
have been the worst enemies of the taxpay-
ing people OF Mississippi. The triumph Of
Chalmers in the Second Mississippi District
would be the signal for Ames and other fu-
gitives and refugees 10 commence packing
their carpetbsgs, with the view of
returning 10 the State they had
robbed and pIundered, for they would argue,
correctly, that the people were dissatisfied
with Democratic rule, and had indicated
readiness 10 restore the Radicals to power,
with Gen. Chalmers at the head, invested
with all the despotism exercised by Boss Ma
hone. We tell the people of Mississippi that
the triumph of Gen. Chalmers and the dis
memberment of the Democratic party in this
canvass will destroy home-rule, good govern
ment, and they may bid long farewell to
peace and prosperity. A change in the po-
litical complexion of Mississippi would be
followed by anarchy and confusion. Labor
would be disturbed, commerce interrupted,
values unsettled, and the State would lapse
back to the deplorable condition it oc-
cupied during the reconstruction era. Peo-
pie of Mississippi, are You willing to again
wear the the yoke of tyranny-to see the
State conyuIsed with old strifes, 30 injurious
to your material interests, simply to aveDge
the petty malice of chronic officeholder
like Gen. Chalmers, who proposes to destroy
the Democratic party for the crime of refus-
ing to 6libuster 10 keep him in a seat in
Congress to which he was never elected?
The Republican majority in Congress, with
a long pair of tongs, lifted Gen. Chalmers
out Of his seat in the capitol OF the ma
ton and cast him out at the window as I'M
as the country maiden chases
a big black snake which she finds crawling
upon the parlor carpet. Is this a sufficient
reason for disrupting the Democratic party Of |
Is a new swarm of Radical |
lies TO be turned loose upon the tsxpaying |
people of Mississippi, because the Radical |
msjority in Congress kicked Gen. Chalmers
out of seat to which he had no more right |
than a seat on the throne of EDgland? The |
Republicans Withdrew the public teat from |
the mouth OF Gen. Chalmers, and he now
joins them for the purpose Of inducing them
10 place the same nipple in the same mouth.
But the signs of the times are unmistakable.
they indicate the certain defeat of Chal-
ners. Even the full Endorsement of the
Republican party, whose candidate he is,
and the aid of Jay Hubbell's corruption fund
It Washington, will not prevent his
gnominious defeat. The people of
he Second Mississippi District can
lot be deluded by Gen. Chalmers's
that he is still Democrat, for
lis speeches bristle with hard words against
Democrats, while kind words for the Repub-
leans fairly ooze from him. The only won
er is that he does not throw off the pretense
D Democracy and indepsndentism and come |
ut for the party he so plainly loves. In
ne simple light of his speeches blind man /,
an see that he is Republican. But it
i'll seems he has some selfrespect left, as
e is ashamed 10 assume the name of the
arty he has joined. But he is now Re- ;
ublican at heart and has promised to vote
) Republican. He holds up his scars as
veteran Democrat, but these are no more
gidences of patriotism than was the
rokea leg of Arnold a. Quebec. Men are
dged by the company they keep. When
icy band together for common purpose
ey forget old animosities and hatreds.
late and Herod m ade friends at the cruel !.
zion, and Chalmers and the Republicans of
ississippi have combined for a common :,
lrpose-the defeat of the Democratic party
and the Democrat who casts vote for
ialmers is voting the Republican ticket Il
ID for the restoration of the Republican
rty in Mississippi, for that will be the
gaming OF Chalmers's election.