Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-29
1910.
Is ham HI ARRIS.


the Legislature will also have beei
elected. The Democratic party, al
most unit, will have sigualized its sbiIit
10 rise superior to the dictation of a few seIi
seeking and self-sufficient men and the opno
sition OF the Republican party, and Iookiu,
to the future of the State, will have decide,
for the administration of the government
according to the economical and proyideu
methods that are the result of Democrat,
policy. Peace should then prevail in al
our border, and a Toll ensue in politica
anairs. Nictery over all our enemies should
encourage US 10 hope for concord and agree
mem to the end But we are not so fated
lie fierce and unappeasable ambition which
has seized upon few men to succeed Isbau,
q. Harris in the Senate of the United S,.fas
viii precipiiste a hotter CANVASS and. II i.
feared, SndsHgrr one of the resulis aAo pee
pie look Tor in his re-electioa. ImreIIed
BY an all-devouring greed, before we
are done with the common enemy. thew
are casting lots for his chair, and are quarrel.
slg with Themselves over what they consider
the tsrdiness OF the people in reco1.
nIzisy their impudently asserted claims 10 a
pace which, II all OF them together were put
in it, there would still be space and vacancy.
1t Is in the nature of things that the Repub.
hcans should be filled with desire to ele-
Vate Hawkins to the Senate. With them. ON
that score, we can have no cause of ouarrel
Ae represents their corruption, their i'm
Plaeabie malevolence and hate of the peopIe
on the South, and The average Of low cunning
and gutter-like turpitude which has pro-
duced the successive battalions of thieyes.w
IN " ashingtop, Perpetuate the special distinc-
lion OF their party. They have no use for
man like Harris. His honesty is perpetual
'affront 10 them, add his N anIiness and frank.
ness constant menace to their peace. To
them, as indeed 10 the whole country. he i
the very embodiment Of that sterling recii-
tude IN public life which has brought peace.
content and the busy hum of an ever.
living industry to the South out of the CON-
luslon and chaos Of reconstruction. To re.
tire MIN iroTl the high station wherein he
n as iour.d favor at the national capital for
an p,Jyieldins and unqualified love of truth
and dealing, wsuld be triumph for them
more sweet ihsn the defeat of Bate. With
them the State is nothing nor the interests of
her people. Their party is paramount. Hawk
ms and his little clique are the party-the ne
groes only CO unit al the ballot-box. To tri-
HmPh over Harris, to elect his successor, be be
who he may, would be their greatest victory
eince Brownlow misrepresented the public
sentiment Of Tennessee and lent himself to
the splenetic and r.vengeiul legislation OF
Rsdicalism Harris not only menaces their
peace as their living aniithesis, as living
rebuke to their intolerance and narrowness
as well as their crimes, but he is hateful 10
them as the embodiment of the spirit, the
energy and intelligence which survives their
sPotiaiions and attempted degradation OF
brave people whom they conld neither con-
quer nor subdue. The Tennessee Radical
leaders hate Harris for these reasons and
more, because they see that in this canvass he
Is the leader, he man above all others 10 whom
She Democrats look to guide them out of the
mazes which are the eshlt f the mism anage-
laeni of the pennY-whistle politicians, who
have been playing but tune for years.
ana Ir1sure rueIr Iiresome extravaganza
are, msnskiu. like, posing for he senatorship
which their sham shanks will never carry
them TO. We do not expect from the Re
publicans, who build upon Ignorance and
hate, anything but opposition to Harris.
Bot from those in our own party who know
how invaluable his services have been TO the
State, how useful he is now to her, and how
much more nseful he may be in the future, |
we have right 10 expect that the unity 10 |
which they have pledged themselves ehall |
embrace him, and that every link in the |
chain of that unity shall encircle him and |
strengthen him for that future useful |
cess. We have a right to insist that the |
indecent spectacle of few wol6sh place.
hunters qusrreling for his seat before it ia |
vacated and while in the peoples service he
is pleading for party unity and party success
shall cease, and that the uutimely obtrusion |
OF a personal venom that would satisfy IL |
self at The expense of his retiracy from pub |
lie life shall yield 10 meri;ed rebuke and |
stink back to the slimY nest whence it issued. |
The stake the Democratic party is playing |
for is not the promotion of purposes person
al to men whose ambition far outmeasures
their ability. In any case, the people who
compose it are too generous 10 lend them
selves to the encouragement of a vendetta
like spirit or the aims of cormorsnt cabal.
Just now they are wholly taken up with the
great purpose they have in hand-the de.
feat of all the enemies of the Democratic |
parry. While that defeat is In abeyauc
they have no mind for any other question.
When il is an accomplished fact, as it will
be in November, they will, after a short sea-
con of rect, settle all disputes about the
fnrahin hv Harris Thav
have watohcl his course during this canvas
with keener eyes than ever, and fad more
and more occasion every day to admire the
loftiness and singleuess OF a course in which
self inds no place, every hour of which is
devoted to the defense Of the Democratic
party and its policy and the beat TO-
terests of the State. They see thst
while this unseIfsh leader, whom
they have trusted and tried for
forty years, goes about their business
AID gives no heed to what might be deemed
his own, secret combinations are arranging
fer his successor and are barking at long
distance their complaint of his better title
to the peoples confidence, his greater ability,
his fuller measure of craftsmanship, his keen
er sagacity aud penetration, his closer sffin-
tiles with the people. and the place he hes
inside as the only man in the State who can
reach to the hight marked by the giants
who from Sewer and Shelby's day have been
the lights Of their generation and the pride
OF the State. Harris is too deeply imbed-
ded in the popular heart to be touched TO
his injury by the self-selected candidates for
the senatorship. The blight of decadence
has not yet falleh on the people of Tennes-
see; they are not ungrateful, besides they
know the value of the man for
whom they made the possibilities in public
life, the fulillment of which are his history
and part of the proud record OF the State.
They will continue him where he is until
his life has been rounded to its fullness, and
when the pimple-headed politicians who are
dropping their dirty piddle at the base of the
hight on which he stands have passed away
to the oblivion which awaits them, the name
of Isham q. Harris will still be enshrined in
the hearts OF people grateful for the patri-
otto work he has done, for the example he
has set of AN unblemished integrity, for an
honesty without the faint of sham, and an
incoruptibility remarkable in this era OF
corruption aud fraud.
FROM GRAVE To GAY.
The people of Matamorss believe in a
rapid passage from "graye to gay" They
celebrated yesterday with the banjo and the
dance, fireworks and the fandango, the
subsistence of the yellow-fever. The de-
psessions incident to the plague were
Thrown off as the last case wss announced;