Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-08
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THE snEAr DEnoUEAr1o VICTORY.


glad tidinss of great joy, from every pa
Of the Union; from far New England to ii
Pacific, and from the lakes to the gulf, Il
Democratic party is triumphant. Il has mi
the enemy which for go long has lorded
over the fair heritage of the people and b.
utterly routed him. The figures we pul
lish this morning, as they reache
us by telegraph, are SO many SUI
prises surprising belief that the
challenge credenoe by even the most en-
thusiastic Democrats. Not since the goo
old days when the noble ana chiyaIri
Franklin Pierce headed the column of Ney
Hampshire Democracy has there been sucl
good news from New Eo9Iaud. Til,
old Bay State wheels into line with Connect
cut and New Hsmpshire, and calls 10 til.
people Of the South with a CHEEKY voice
"We1l ,bFithers be for a. that" And New
York, mSkipg amends for the waywsrdnea.
OF these later year., passes all be.
lief as sie swings into her accustomed
place one hundred thousand strong. United,
the Democrats of the Empire State are in
yincible. They joined hands to crush the
hydra Of corporation monopoly and place.
buating corruption, which threatened to
wreck the best interests Of the people, and q
signal and unparalleled triumph is theirs,
Their brethren Of Pennsylvania, their
memories of the better days of the republic
quickened by the Penn memorial services OF
the past week, make bold stroke and sweep
the last vesiige Of bofs rule out of existence.
Penusylvania is once more the keystone of
the Democratic arch, the streogth and
stsy Of power that is to crush the
trickslers aud demagogues who have 30
long lorded it in the high places of
the republic. The Csmerons in Penn
sylvsnia, and the Trenches and Folgers of
New York must retire. Bossism has had its
day. A cruel, remorseless, infamous sys-
tenn, foreign 10 the genius of our institu-
tions, and at emniiy with the best interests
Of the people, ii could not longer reign un-
less they were to consent to the loss of all
their liberties. Sustained by theft, by usur-
patiOBs Of power, scarcely stopping at
murder where its PeFpeigity was at stake,
30 nefarious a sysIem must shortly run its
course with the American people. 1t can
never be resuscitaled. The chiefs who
made it are forever disgraced. They have
been retired. Taey have been ordered TO the
rear, where they may repent at
leisure of the gross abuses OF the
powers intrusted to them by a loo copfd-
ing people. Folger, lately chief justice of
the Superior Court of New York, and pres
ent United StaIes Treasurer, made the Re-
publican nominee fer governor of New York
by forgery, has been rebuked as no public
man of his day has. The people Of his
State have told him that f1rgery is q crime
in politics as much as il is In private life,
and that it is to be punished just the
sams. They have told him that the
beneficiary by the forgery must share
the fate of the forger, and they brand him,
and they brand Arthur's administration,
whose candidate he was. They will not tel-
crate the politics of the gutter and the s!qms
in the highest officers Of the Union. The
people of New York are one with their
brethren OF Peunsy lyania in suppressing boss
rule, With its criminal followers and
ies long roll Of infamies. They respond
to the call of the people OF Ohio, who only
Q few weeks ago entered strong, an almost
unanimous proIest against boss rule and the
tyranny and exaotions of PLACE -hunters--a
rule which New Jersey, in her defeat of
Robson, says muat not be allowed any
longer to exist Keifer, the supple toel, the
eager satellite, the cFiuging ioady, must take
his seat in the Forty-eigbth Congress alone.
Robson, his boss, will not be there.
The people OF New Jersey have said so.
Thus from all paris of our glorions Union,
from the mountains and the plains the voice
of the people goes up to-day in a swelling
chorus against the Republican party. From
the Atlantic to the Pacific and the lakes 10
the gulf, s. if deep called to deep, the peo.
pie declare fer the principles of the party
founded by Jefferson, and which, sur
great civil war, asserts itself the
party Of freedom, within whose limits
every demand of the people can be
met, and every claim for individual liberty
and State autonomy can be afhrmatively
answered without encroaching upon or en-
dsngsring the strength of the Union. The
people of the Wsat respond to The people of
the East. Indiana ranges herself by the side
of Ohio as one of the banner States of
the Democratic party; and the South,
linked between these great States
and those of New England, New
York and Pennsylvania, fuds greater
occasion than ever to be grateful and be
glad. Peace hath her victories no less re-
nowned than those OF war What greater
victory could the South ask for than to fud
the principles she has cherished indorsed by
Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hamp-
shire2 We can easily span the past with
the figures of to-day, and bridge the chasm
of war with the stiIl-cherished memories of
4 by-gone epoch. Flushed with this
spirit we have no stones 10 throw
at those of our brethren at home
who s,ught 10 lessen the common
triumph and defeat our candidate Bate.
We can forgive all Of their bitterness, their
narrow hostility and their demagogue-like
enlistment Of prohibition, the pestiferous
dogma Of q narrow creed that would smother
all individuslism and make snivelling, bare
bones hypocrisy a fashion sgsin. We
forgive all this, snd we extend the
right hand of fellowship to them. The State
debt is settled. 1t can never divide or dis
trac. the Democratic party again. Bate is
elected, and with him an overwhelming ma
joriiy OF the Democratic legislative candi-
dates. Casey Young is elected, and the
APPEAL is happy. The APPEAL is happy not
for its own sake only, bat because the enemies
of Democracy can find no consolation for
their labor, and must be content to ind
themselves measured by few dozen votes
against the hundred thousand or more that
says Bate shall be governor Of Tennessee.
The APPEAL is happy because the d.
cratic party ia triumphaut in Tennessee