Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS

Thomas II. Talbot, Massachusetts, poll.
tician, has sued poor little country paper
Tor calling him "a Butler man." The dam
ages are placed at $4,000. If Ben himself
could be hired to defend the editor there
would be fun in court second only to that OF
the Guiteau trial.
The GJobe-Democrat says that. 'inasmucb
as Mr.. Hayes did not save any of his salary
! while President. he must have lost it while
| playing poker" This is doing cruel in.
Justice to the present road commissioner of
Fremont, Ohio. 1t is well known that Ruth
ertord dispensed his salary in charity.
Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, speaking of the gen
eral outlook of the session of Congress, saws
that he believes that the Republicans will
try to shape policy, the leading feature of
which will be reduction Of taxes with a
view to the perpetuation of the national debt
and national banks, and he thinks they may
succeed in this programme.
Two memories are alive ia the breasts of
the colored Republicans of Mississippi. thew
say-those of the martyred President aud Of
the great soldier. That is, Mr.. Lincoln and
Mr.. Grant. OF Mr.. Garfield they have not a
word to say. Perhaps they thought it not
the best manners to mention his maine to
MIR. Arthur. We feel sure tina. they have
not strengthened their case by the omission.
The demand that every census marshal.
acknowledgements collector, postmaster and
customhouse officer in the South shall he
taken from the Southern Republicans has
nothing to stand on. Ii is no grievance to
them that they are not selected for such
places, and the appointment of Democrat to
these offices may be benefit to the whole
country, as tending to diminish the sharpness
OF party and race antagonism in the South.
Mr.. Riddleberger introduced into the Sem
ate OF Virginia joint resolution, which
passed that branch of the legislature with
only one dissenting vote, instructing and re-
questing Virginia senators and members in
Congress TO give earnest support to the bill |
of Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, provid- |
ing for an appropriation of $15,0O0O0O by |
the national government for the support Of |
common schools in the several States, and to |
be divided in proportion TO illIteracy
Mr.. John G. Priest of St. Louis, recently
spent an evening with the Hon. Samuel J. |
Tilden, and his conclusion is distinct that
Mr.. Tilden will not be candidate for the
Democratic nomination for the presidency in
1884 Mr.. Priest declares that Mr.. Tilden
reads everything. He is as well posted on
what is going on in the world as the secre-
tary of state. No part of the country escapes
his notice, and he is just as well posted in
social matters as political-that is such as
becomes public.
Senator Pendleton admits very frankly the
real cause of his zeal for civil-service reform
He says to a reporter of the Cincinnati En-
Juirer: "As a partisan Democrat | am
strongly in favor of reform. l believe it
will aid us greatly in getting into power If
ny bill should pass it would paralyze the
Efforts of one hundred thousand 1ncumbents
70 ~, SIN0nAN s. ]
n an election as close as that of 1876 or 1880,
would decide the contest in our favor" But
What would become of the reform after Mr. |
'endleton's party got into power? Does he
oppose for a moment that the Democrats |
would consent to have the power of the one
hundred thousand ofice-hcders permanently
'paralyzed?"
In making clean sweep of the Board of
Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, the New
FORK World thinks, has done well, though
lis action is severely criticised in some
quarters and by the nominal friends of good
government. The whole matter lies in a
nutshell. Thefts amounting to hundreds OF
thousands of dollars, and extending over |
ong period of years, have been unearthed |
Either the members of the Board of Educa-
ion knew of these rascalities or else they !
allied to pay that attention to the business )
# their department which the taxpayers
lad rlSnt 10 expect OF them. Whether I
hey were rascals or imbeciles the same con- /
fusion must inevitably be reached-that y
hey were unfit for their duties; and it is c
to observe that the new MAYOR I
las swept them out of place, impartially I
nd en- mdsse.
Ex-senator Sargent as possible secretary !
+ the interior, gets this handsome recon- !
nendation from that most out-and-out DEM a
crat, Senator Beck: "That would be very I
God nomination, for the Republicans That +
elbow Sargent is terrible hard worker. He Q
ever has anything to do but he masters the B
lbject. He used TO know what he was talk +
lg about, and he knows the navy and inte- a
Tor departments from top to bottom. When v
e had charge of an appropriation bill on the {
cor you could not ask him question that a
e was not prepared to answer right off, y
les the most intellectual man, too, that | =
yer knew, and the most persistent. He e
ouid carry his point in the house when
either Blaine nor Garfield could. He'd Just
lng to it till he got it through. tell you "
I'd be good man for the Republicans, for /
I'd do what they'd ask him with wonderful !,
rength and ability" !
COLONEL A. WooD MERRYwEATHER, a,
lom everybody in scranton. Pennsylvania. 8