Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-23
POLITICAL PERSONALS.

! Colonel John Carroll will be a candid ate
Tor reelection for mayor OF Eureka Springs
! Ark. He is a good man, and Democrats
| Republicans and Greenbackers ought to unite
on him.
Governor Cullom, of Illinois, declines to
! favor the amendment to the constitution to
allow Chicago to increase Its bonded debt
The city is already shingled over with mort
cages, and the governor deems it dishonest
to put on a second roofing of the perishable
material.
Colonel Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
Tunes, has been studying the political situa-
ton at Washington. He finds profound
unrest and visible Decentralization" in the
Republican ranks, and looks for open war
between Arthur and Blaine which shall end
in "the overthrow of Arthur and the mas
terry OF Blaine"
The Chicago Tribune is a remarkably con-
sistent sheet. 1t is terribly indignant that
Sergeant Mason has been sentenced for a
crime against military discipline and the law
of the land, and yet it is not at all indignant
that that gallant soldier, Fitz John Porter,
has suffered from an unjust sentence fer
more than twenty years.
The Boston Herald has the faculty of talk
ing very sound sense, as witness the follow
ing: "Do the thousands who are sign
ing petitions for the pardon of Sergeant Ma
son wish TO be understood as encouraging
mob rule in the army? Sympathy is a noble
attribute, but it should not be allow ed to
usurp the throne of reason"
Colonel J. G.. Bryant, of Georgia, lately
told the Methodist ministers of PHILADELPHIA
that the Southern people are preparing for
another rebellion. The natural inquiry
arises, what does this colonel expect TO
make by such talk? The answer is furnished
by Bryant himself. He wants support f. Or
an alleged newspaper somewhere in Georgi g.
The Hon. John Bates, one of the Oldest
surviving ex-members of Congress, who died
at Yarmouth, Me-, February 25lh. at the,
greatly advanced age of ninety-three YEAR,,
represented the Somerset district half a CEN
tury agO-lS3l to 1S33-as a Jackson Dem
ocrat. He was in the war Of 1Sl2-15, and
served on the Niagara frontier until its close
in General Winfield SCOTS brigade, and was
present at the surrender of Fort Erie, the
battles Of Chippewa and Bridgewater.
The United States Senate has voted to
William Pitt Kellogg the muniicent gratui-
ty of $1,000 on the ground that in order to
get his seat in TIE Senate he had been put to
The extraordinary expense of proving the
validity OF the legislature which elected him
We don't mean to say that the dignifed
Senate used precisely those words, but it
comes to the same thing. As he sits, it fol-
lows that the legislature which elected him
Is valid. No greater farce ever came OF
carpetbag government than Keliegg's sena-
torial title.
Ex-senator Joseph Cilley, OF New Hamp-
shire, now nlnety-one years OF age, lies dan
gerously i'll at his residence in NOTTINGHAM.
in that State, with but slight hope OF recnv3
cry. He served in the war Of 1872 -, and
entered the United States Senate thirty-fve
years ago as successor of Levi Woodbury.
and Is The oldest ex-senator now living. Col
onel Cilley Is a brother of the late Hon
Jonathan Cilley, who was killed in a duel
on February y, 1888, while a member of
Congress from Maine by William J. Graves
member from Kentucky.
The Hartford Courant appears 10 think
that the Southern press are premature in
celebrating the conversion OF the Republi-
can party TO the doctrine that white men
must rule this country. That Is Democratic
doctrine, and we DO not expect the Republi-
cans to adopt it until the force OF events.
operating through such dangers as Chinese
immigration, shall bring them to that point
Meanwhile the South has no desire TO de-
prive the colored people OF their votes. Agi-
tation to that end will come from the North
and be snutfed out in the South.
\ conference of leading independents of
Georgia, headed by Dr. FELTON,, was held at
the Markham House, Atlanta, on Monday.
when 1t was decided to issue an address to
the people OF Georgia who favor honest GOV
eminent and opposed to ring rule, To assem-
bic fin grand mass-meeting at Atlanta Oh
June lst. The conference adopted a plat
form in consonance with that recently form
ulated by DIR. FELTON,, and the address will
contain a depreciation OF both parties as ex-
listing at present, aud urge the necessity of a
liberal party to subserve the best ends OF the
government. This new-compexi move
ment will result in the probable nomination
of FELTON, for governor in the event Of Mr..
Stephens uncompromising refusal to run;
the Hon. Albert Cox, of Lagrange, for Con-
gresE-at-large, and Judge Hook in the Eighth
(the Hon. A. II. Stephens's district. The
address to be issued Is pronounced as ringing
as the Declaration of Independence"