Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-20
POLITICAL NOTES.

GENERAL BATE will be elected by at least
10000, and perhaps 10000 majority.
IRELAND is making thorough canvass OF
Texas, and says the Democrats are every
where up and doing.
SENATOR JACKSON and Eb. ] smes, of Chat
tanooga, prime boilers, will speak in the
Greenlaw Opershouse tomorrow night.
THE charges that the negroes were intimi-
dated in Arkansas at the recent election is
refuted by the returns, which show the heavi-
est Republican vote ever polled in The State.
THE Washington Post says that an array
of stump orators, including about all the
leading Stalwarts except the President and
General Chalmers, are going to tear up the
ground in Pennsylvania. There is no chance
for a compromise between the factions. The
Democrats ought to win. But Democrats are
not always sure to do all they ought to.
The next election to take place in Arkan-
sas will be on November 9TH, when the peo-
pie will be called upon to decide who is to
be their congress -at-large and congress-
man from the several districts. Democrats
are expected to turn out in force and vote
foriPoindexter Dunn in the First district, and
Tor Chiffon r. Breckenridge for the State-at-
large.
THE district attorney of Philadelphia has
discovered a echeme for false registering.
The plan was fitted to produce large guam
tity of fraudulent votes. supervisors in one
of the wards are TO be prosecuted. The To-
cality is favorite resort of the spoilsmen.
Last year in division of this ward there
were returned only two reform votes in a
total of 265.
If Governor st. John carries Kansas this
year the prohibitionists need never fear de-
eat for the next generation TO come. Every
social and political element in the State OPP
posed to prohibition has arrayed itself
against him, and the battle is waxing hot
and bitter. In that State, however, the fact
that he is the nominee of the Republican
is more powerful ally than
morals, the law, or the gospel.
PINcHBAcK, of Louisiana, has msnfully
stepped up beside Flanagan, of reIas, who
that unanswerable conundrum
to his Republican brethren, "What are we
for if not for ofice?" Pirchback now chimes
in: THE ofices are our sole great issue; in
some places they try 10 disguise the real
tissue, bnt we don't down South" This
oh arni,o hit IF condor IL fha ,,ozt ,ot,hl.
bid for public respect which this eminent
Louisiana statesman has yet put forth.
The Mormous are reported to claim that
re the regular election for Territorial and
county officers and congressional delegate
vas not held in August, the present officers
AN hold over until their successors are |
egslly chosen aud qualified. The call for |
pecial election, ordered by the Utah Com
mission for November, is declared by Nor |
non counsel to be Unauthorized by the |
powers given the commission. Thus case
will be made up, possibly, for the United
states Supreme Court to settle.
THE Baltimore Day, in speaking of the
TRANCE condition of political affairs existing
D this section, remarks that it must be
title confusing to the simple and credulous
.epublicans of the rural districts at the
Iorth "to find that in Mississippi the regu-
II Republicans are those wao train with
Fort Pillow Chalmers, and that the intole-
mt bourbons, who must be sent TO the wall
il takes every cent that Hubbell and Hen
srson don't need for their own canvasses,
e the friends of the murdered Judge