Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-23
HEMPMIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 90, 1882
sUeAR.coAY1xG EACH OTHER.

U6A R.COABING EACH OlBEk.
General Chalmers and the Republican
party are having a nauseatiDg time in try
ing to swallow each other. The Republic
can party has sugsr-coated Chalmers, and
Chalmers has euveloped the Republican
party in a huge capsule, bat the deses
are still more pnpalatable than cOd-liver
oil, jalap and castor oil. Both present
bitter pill to each other. The Republican
party has stomach like an ostrich, which
can swallow anything, and tsbooed chronic
ofice-seeker will gulp down anything that
will enable him to renew his grip upon the
emoluments of Office. We intend to make
few extracts from General Chalnlers's speech
against the Republicans, which will account
for his recoiling and shuddering at the medi-
cine he has to swallow, and the following
article from the Washington Posi- will ex-
plain the cause of the wry faces among the
Republicans of the Second district:
The ant-Bourbon organ attempts to justify Re
ground that mo man is now judged by what he |
did during the civil war; We suppose that Is in
history Of that alleged 'massacre'-a history, be
It understood, which we have never believed But |
the war which render It impossible for any self |
respecting Republican to support MT. Chalmers
lively preclude his support by any but irteating
Republicans. If the Republican press aud party /
have not shamefully vilified and slandered this
man, he of the leaders in those deeds OF
blood and brutal violence" one of the foremost
men in those wholesale murders' by which his /
State was redeemed" eight years ago. II the
Republican press aud party have not Will
man ever since that date until within few weeks,
he has repeatedly gotten into Congress by intimi-
dation, violence and fraud II the Republican
press and party have not been guilty OF infamous
calumnies, the course of this man in stealing the
shoestring district" is such as should cons1gn his
name 10 endless infamy. Are we to understand |
that the Republicans confess that they have thus
penitenee He is Just what he has been. There is Il
no possibility of his support by the Republicans
without the most disgusting display of officiating
ever witnessed in American politics
Notwithstanding this loathing and aver
sion, degluition will go on, and in few
weeks the Republicans will glorify General
Chalmers as a political divinity-the PAN
aces, the elixir, the salve and ointment 10
cure all the evils that beset the country. 1t
is plainly TO be seen that General Chalmers
has checked his baggage all the way through.
His attitude already is that of an enemy to
the Democratic party. He has started out
TO walk the track of Malone. He now
pirates about Democracy, but before the
close of the canvass he will be a full-blown
Republican. Malone started out by play
ing The same game. He concealed his real
designs; otherwise his defeat would have
been overwhelming. The Democracy of the
Second Mississippi congressional district
will understand the policy of the feeble i'm
itator of Malone. General Chalmers has
launched out upon the same whirlpool, but
he will not meet the same success for he
has no local issue to sustain him. The
Democracy about which Chalmers boasts ia
solely and entirely by the ability
Of the Democratic party to give him Office.
II the Democrats had been able by filibus
tering to keep him in a seat to which he
was never elected, or il the Mississippi
Legislature had gerrymandered the 'shoe
string district" according TO the plan he pro-
posed, he would still be denouncing and per-
scouting the Republican party in Mississippi.
But the Democratic party had higher duties
o perform than to legislate Chalmers into
,fice, and now he proposes to revenge him
elf by becoming the candidate OF a party
Which, if he Is TO be believed. is made up OF
obbers and plunderers. The apostacy Of
Chalmers affords another instance of the
egredation to which a debsuched poll
ician may be driven when nseessitated
y lust for Office to seek employment.
he people of Mississippi who have pros
cred since the tidal wave swept the plum
erers out of power by the Jealous aid OF
Ieneral Chalmers have prospered as no peo-
lie ever prospered before. They contemplate
nth alarm the possibility OF return 10 power
I the Republican party, which would again
old high carnival by robbing the taxpayers.
he movement Of General Chalmers is re-
arded as an effort to Mahonize Mississippi,
nd leading citizen of the Second con-
ressional district, while in this city few
avs since, publicly announced that the peo-
lie were unwilling for areturn of the rule that
ad been stamped out by the aid of Chalmers,
nd that il he should succeed in Republi-
anizing the State it would be given over TO
ne plunderers, as good citizens would not
ave the heart TO make another contest for u
ne perpetuity of good government and that g
rosperity which had followed Democratic II
ale. But we do not believe the people OF e
Will prove fslss to themselves in c.
llure elections. They owe it to themselves, a
the State, and TO the party that has given h
i peace, good government, honesty and re- "
,rm, to stamp out this effort under new a
lspices to restore to power the party which c.
nee ruled and ruined. |;
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