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

As THE Philadelphia Ledger puts it,
Through the agency of the internal revenue
taxes we managed last month TO drink up
| and smoke out of existence S16,000,000 OF
| the public Indebtedness"
The Democratic Executive Committee is
| calculating upon the following among other
| gains in Congressmen: Five in Missouri, one
in Kentucky, one in California, one in Min
nesoLa, two in Iowa and five in Ohio.
WHAT an admission is nat OF Ar. Folger,
that if his party were now to dissolve part
nership with fraud and forgery, it would
"utterly collapse and be completely disor-
ganized and disintegrated."
The town elections in Connecticut show
only a very slight change from last year. AS
far as heard from, there will be probable
Republican loss OF three towns and Demo
cratic gain of the same number. There are
in all 165 towns in the State.
IT is a pleasure to learn that the latest
unfavorable reports about Mr.. Thurlow
Weeds heath have been considerably exag
gerated. The veteran journalists condition
last evening was much more comfortable
than it had been for several days.
COMPTROLLER PATTIsoN, of Philadelphia,
the Democratic candidate for governor in
Pennsylvania, says that he will not allow
any of his clerks to be assessed for election
purposes, and denies the report that they
were each assessed $50 by the Democratic
City Committee.
AFTER Mr.. Chapman was nominated for
Congress in the Convention at Marlboro, Nd,
recently, he made a speech in which he said
the departments at Washington were filled
with persons who claimed to be residents OF
Maryland, but who, upon investigation, were
found TO be from Massachusetts or some
other New England State.
THE reason OF the strong resistance to the
election of Mitchell as senator from Oregon
lies in the general belief that he would be
only another TOOL for the monopolies if he
should be sent TO Washington. 1t is stated
that there are now in attendance upon the
Legislature about seventy-6ve men who are
working in Miichell's interest.
The New York Tribune hopes that Alex
ander H. Stephens will be the governor OF
the whole people of Georgia, and not of a
party, and says he "will be il he keeps his
pledges He comes into the office at the
close OF his lie, and eau have no other am
bition than to take that course which shall
be Tor the highest good of his State"
COALITION is dead in Arkansas, buried
beneath 10000. II is dead in Alabama,
buried beneath 1900. And now it is dead
in Georgia, busted beneath 10000. Where
ara those growing ROSTERS that the coalition
lists were TO bring out when they heard the
news from Georgia? The Jig is up, the
music by the band has stopped. Let the
hearse drive on.
JOHN +. FoLLETT, Democratic candidate
for Congress in the First District of Ohio, is
an avowed free-trader. On the Esd of May,
1881, before he was mentioned for Congress,
Mr.. Follett delivered lecture before the
Society for Political Education, in the rooms
of the Cincinnati Law School, in which he
held that the three great principles which
should prevail TO make this country great
we're free press, free speech and free trade.
Mr.. ROBERT MARSHALL has declined the
Greenback nomination for Congress in the
First District of West Virginia, pleading
that there is not time TO organize the party
in the district before the election, and that as
between the Republican and Democratic
candidates he favors the election of General
Gof the Republican, "because the material |
plank in the platform on which he stands is |
substantially the same for the protection OF |
American labor and industry as the platform |
of the Observation-Disclosures party"
CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM o. BRADLEY, Of |
the Eighth District of Kentucky, made no |
public explanation why he refuses to run |
again, simply saying that his refusal was by |
reason of circumstances which in the main |
had accrued since the nomination and which |
could not have been at that time reasonably /
anticipated, and over which he has no con-
troll. The chairman of the Stale Central |
and Executive Committees approve his ac-
ton, "being acquainted with the circum-
stances which induced him to retire."
The proposed contest for the governorship |
of Georgia had its origin in the fertile brain
Of the Republican Committee of that State
which desired to make capital for the Re-
publican party by trying TO create the i'm
preston that it is impossible to have fair
and free election anywhere in the South. |
The Republican leaders are very anxious to
get this impression firmly Fixed in the pub
lie mind, because if the next Congress is Re-
publican by small majority they propose
to increase that majority by seating contest
ing Republicans from the South. They are
to prepare the public mind for
this kind OF work now, SO there will be
no great cutlery when the work is actually /
begun.
IT is very evident that Mitchell cannot be
re elected TO the Senate from Oregon. The
boiling Republicans have solemnly vowed
that no power on earth will force them TO
vote for him, and they have put in nomina-
top a new man, Mr.. Richard Williams, who
was a representative in the Forty-ffth Con-
gress, serving from 1877 TO 1879. Mr..
Williams is lawyer of repute, and was
elected over Lafayette Lane, Democrat, by
.maT majority. The New York Times says
hat should he be chosen TO the Senate in
place Of the regular caucus nominee, his /
election will be thing almost unprece-
denied. 1t will be one of the few triumphs
which party independence have gained over
tyrannous party discipline. In any event,
Oregon may be congratulated on It's escape
from being unworthily represented in the
United States Senate.