Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

Beaver heads the Cameron ticket In Penn
sylvsnis, but when Wolf gets after him we
| shall zee the fur fly.
The Troy IN. " Observer keeps the name
of the Hon. Erastus Corning standing at the
head of its columns for governor.
Colonel Broadhead, OF ST. Louis and Blair
| letter notoriety, is 4 candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Congress in the ninth
| Missouri district.
| Ex-senator Spencer, of Alabama, is look
| ing after his mining interests in Nevada. He
| is said to have claimed recently that he had
made million of dollars.
Elk Secretary Robson politely and calmly
| remarks that he doesn't care a d for
newspaper criticism" Certainly not. If he
did, be would not be so une1viably notorious.
| The Utica Observer observes with some
| thing like grim Democratic satisfaction, that
Cameron will find good many Republicans
in Pennsylvania longing to smash his
| Beaver.
| The Omaha Bee says Sam Randall finds
himself unable to redeem the Democratic
minority from utter imbecility. OF course
| he does. He is one of the most conspicuous
| imbeciles himself.
The Connecticut Democrats are said to be
anxious to put the name of Ex-Governor
4sgersoli at the head of their State ticket
| this year. He is reported TO be sxiiii-s -,
run if the party show a unanimous desire
| for his nomination.
! The Macon (Ga.) Messenger says the fellows
| in Georgia who roll the term Bourbon so
trippinsly upon their tongues do not under
-t+s4+d its significance. In the first place, q
| Bourbon is gentleman. The record does
not exist to show that he ever denied a friend,
deserted a principle, OF disgraced his blood.
! Governor Cameron, in the presence of
General Malone, Mr.. Riddleberger, and a
representative of Virginia, was told by Mr..
Postmaster General Howe that he should
| have the desired power OF control and be
| given every facility to swing the admins
trative arm without interference il the sold
| Dominion"
Among the prominent Republicans who
are announced to be present at the Iude-
| pendent convention in Philadelphia, are
| State Senator John Stewart, OF Franklin
county; Representative Bayne, of Allegheny;
Senator John w. lee, of Venango; Butler
| b. Srang, OF Tioga; Thomas w. Phillips, of
Lawrence, and Ex-senator G. S. Kauffu an, of
| Lancaster.
! When the history of the dark era Of Amer
| lean finances comes to be written il will con-
tain few more prominent figures than the
| Ttlden fraternal trio, Samuel, Moses and
| Henry. These three wicked partners in
railroad wreckipg and political jobbery have
succeeded in amassing their wealth by means
that have been repeatedly exposed all over
the country.-NetO York Star.
An Illinois member of Congress says that
since the Legislature OF that State has passed
the new legislative apportionmeut bill Senator
| David Davis has determined to be a candi-
date for re-eleotion, and will make a deter
mined fight to secure amajority favorable to
his course in the Legislature. He asserts
| that Senator Davis is already in correspond
ence with friends in Illinois with reference
to advancing the interests of his candidacy.
The Missouri Greenbackers will meet in
| State convention on the 3lst instant at
| Moherly. The party prides itself on the
| fact that it elected four members of Congress
| from that State in 1880, and the coming
meeting promises to be quite successful.
| Jesse Harper, chairman of the National
Committee, General Weaver, and Congress-
men Ford and Burrows have written that
they will be present.
Governor Plaisted, of Maine has written
a letter to the chairman of the Greenback
| Committee Of that State protesting against
| any bargains or compromises in the coming
canvass. The platform upon which the
party must fight in the campaign he says is
equal rights, equal burdens, equal benefits
and special privileges to none, against banks
of issue and national debt, against corpo-
rate power and the money power and all
monopolies"
This, says the Boston Transcript, is likely
to prove a very fair year for independents y
| and, as the political almanac maker would
say, they may be expected to appear in large
numbers in many Northern States. They
are likely 20 prove troublesome to machine
| Republicans at the North, and at the South
the Bourbon Democratic leaders of several
States are under great perturbation at the
appearance OF similar disturbing influences
among the hitherto solid" Democracy.
Ex-senator Thurman, of Ohio, in CONVEX
| sation at Louisville, KY, few days said that
he believed the Democrats would carry Ohio
at the next election. He thought that the
passage of the tariff commission bill might
tend toward putting that question in the
| background in the national campaign. As
| for the next Democratic presidential candi-
| date he hoped that a man would be nomi-
| mated who could command the votes of the
| party, and he believed that the Democrats
have enough votes to elect such a man.
We are at last to have a practical test of
| the value of what little service reform legis.
! lation has been thus far enacted. In New
York, on Thursday, Judge Benedict over
ruled the demurrer OF General Curtis, in
| dicted for receiving assessments from ofhce-
| holders for political purposes while himself
a Federal official, whereupon he pleaded not
| guilty, and the case was set down for trial
| Friday His offense was an open and
| fragrant one, and the defense will doubtless
| be the unconstitutionality of the law, since
| there is no probability of his escape on the
evidence.
Reports from Indiana indicate that the
| political contest, though an off year, will be
7 an exceedingly animated one. 1t is gener-
| ally conceded that The Democrats will ca ~
| that State, but it is not to be conceded on the
part of the Republicans without a desperate
struggle Already the leading Republicans
| in Washington are preparing to do some
| heavy work in Indiana this summer and tall.
Men nave been selected from the best speak
| ers in the ranks, who are to devote their
| time to the enlightenment of the Hoosiers IN
| order that they may not go astray, but surely
vote the Republican ticket.
| The talk about E1-Secretary Blaine re-
turning TO Congress has led the correspondent
| of the Boston Herald, st Washington, to in
terview some prominent members of the
House on the subject. Such representatives
as Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania; Ander-
| son and Ryan, of Kansas; Chandler, of
| Massachusetts,; Hiscock and McCook, of New
| York; Errett and Bayne, of Pennsylvania
| Williams, of Wisconsin; Page, of Califor-
MIA; Dunnell, of Minnesota, and others, all
gave it as their opinion that Mr.. Blaine's
| election to the House would be great gain
to the Republican party and to Congress.
| They all concurred in the belief also that if
| he was elected and the House was Republi-
can there would be no opposition 10 his ele-
| walton to the speakers chair.