Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-28
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
The DeHeerass Must Not Only Elect
Bate Governor, bat . Clear Majority
I'm Both Heuses OF
The Legislature and Defeat . Coahtton
Between she 6O-6 Democrats and
the Republicans.
Nashville American

In the political contest now going on in
this State, Democrats should remember that
they are making fight for the preservation,
If not the very existence, of their party.
Only q few more such blows a. il received IN
the Wright Wilson campaign, and the
strength, power and influence of the party
will be so crippled that it will be many years
before it RECEIVERS, if ever, sufficiently to
make itself felt again in Tennessee Affairs
However much we may desire the success
of the rational Democracy, and be convinced
OF the great benefits that are to come to Us
through its success still we have much
greater interest in the success OF the party IN
the States of the South than we have in its
national success. ------
whatever the Democratic party may be in
the North, in the South 1t represents The IN
telIigencs, property ,ra ability oil the entire
section, and is therefore in the South the
narty of progress and development.
No Southern State was able to recover
even in the slightest degree from the effect OF
| the war until 1t first got rid OF the rule OF
| this Southern Republican party. This was
| the very frat essential step in the march OF
| progress. The recuperation, the rebuilding
l.of the South's shattered fortunes was in no
way advanced in any single Southern State
| where this party governed. nation or
State can only be safely and wisely governed
when the party in power represents the
State, and the Radical party in the South
| gave us a striking illustration of this. But
| as the Democratic party obtained control
| of theRStates of the South, one BY
| one they began to recover from the effects
/ of the war; to build up the waste places;
| TO revive and start new Industries; 10 open
mines, buil3 factories and improve lands,
| until within a few years their Northern
| friends could hardly be made to believe the
|
| South in open-eyed amusement. Nor has
| any very large proportion of this work been
| done with Northern capital. In the sections OF
F. country around Birmingham, where ii is es
timated that the product OF the coal and iron
mines aud furnaces will, within a short lime
bring annually Sl5,000OOO, the investment
| of Northern capital is Insignificant. The
| great msiority of the Mines furnaces, fac
tories, etc., throughout the South are owned
| and operated by Southern men, and almost
| the entire agricultural product is e-work
OF Southern capital and labor.
These industries have been built up under
Democratic rule in the South; under Repub
ican rule they exhibited no signs of life
Remembering these thingr are we willing Il
stroyed in our State without regard to the
fact that we desire to see the principles o.
this party govern the country?
In our Judgment there Is only one way II
which this party can be saved now, its priu
ciples maintained and its usefulness pre-
served, and that is by voting the straigh
Democratic ticket, like John Harper ran hi
horses, ''from eend to eend." In some coun
| ties the boilers have put out candidates TO
the Legislature, and the Republicans MAKE
| no nomination. In others the Radicals pu
out a ticket and the boilers run none Of thei
OVID Still in other counties they have
mixed ticket. Under these circumstances, q
this junctllre of affsirs, the duty of Demo
Gratis is plain, and that ia to go solidly TO
their straight ticket Ii we elect the gov
| ernor and lose the Legislature we may hav
succeeded in holding our army intact, bu
} the Republicans will camp on the felt
! that night. This coalition between pre-
tended Democrats aud Republicans mean
more than we see on the surface. 1t mean
something else beside the mere fact tn at the
will vote together upon The State debt quei
! ton 1t means thai they will be together i
the senatorial election. 1t means that the
will be together to shape the legislation {
the next session and TO make the laws tbs
will govern US for the next two years. Th
dsmsee done the Democratic party in th
split two years ago was almost irrepArabl
and perhaps never would have been even pa
tally healed but for the position taken b
!. the American. But If the present bolt ca
succeed in defeating it, it will strike a muc
1880. There was no playing into each other
!. hands by their faction of the Democrat
/ and the Republicans in the last canvss
q and while the Republicans we're in the LIE,
. islsture they succeeded in getting everythin
: that they wanted, except the senator, and
: was the purest accident that made the
> fail in this. All remember how fearfl
+ they were that Mr.. Maynard would be Sci
y to the Senate, and it was only bad manag
e ment upon the part of the Republicans th'
0 kept him from being elected. The Demo
: racy was divided, and men who were electe
s BY Democratic votes, felt that they had I
s party-or at least so acted-that could hol
= Them responsible for their votes, and Il
e result of it was that we had a great deal ,
!. legislation with which very few were saii
y fed, and the Legislature was most hearth
q | Cursed from one end of the State TO the othe
e Yet, in point of intelligence, it ",
t rather above the average, but it was divide
into factions, and no party could be exact
f held responsible for the legislation OF Il
4 body. 1t is better for the State, better for th
v people OF all parties, that one party sha
o have clear working msjority in deliber
: tive body and be held responsible for its aci
!" And to accomplish this end, and TO preser'
: our party, Democrats should not hesitate
: this hour OF trial to stand shoulder
1 shoulder all along the line. Our judgme
: is that under all the circumstances this wi
J, be the best for our people and their materi
:. | interests