Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-17
THE DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK.

1 III every Oh the L mon the lIculO
Gratis are harmonizing preparatory tc
the elections this fall and the presidential
campaign two years hence. 1t is only here
| in Tennessee that the serpent of faction ha:
raised its head but we still believe that wise
| counsels will prevail, and that the Tennessee
united on the same basis of compromise on
the State debt question which the present
malcontents advocated in 1878. In every part
of the State the Democrats are working
with good results to harmonic the party on
the very proposition which was once accept
able and earnestly advocated by the very
men who now denouuce such proposition as
reputation. The Democratic members of
Congress, and especially Mr.. Cobb, of
Indiana, and Mr.. Fowler, of New York, are
doing much to bring the National Democracy
together. A call has been issued for u
Democratic congressional caucus for the pur-
pose OF devising common planks upon which
the whole Democracy-EastW West, North and
South--can stand on all the great issues of
the day. The Republican party is divided
as no party was ever divided before. The
leaders see the handwriting on the wall.
These divisions have mad powerful effect
upon recent elections. A special election
was recently held in the State OF New York
to elect state senator. The district was
carried in 1881 by Republican majority Of
67S2. At the recent election the Democrats
carried the district by 296, being Demo-
cratic gain of 727s. In discussing this re-
suit, the New York Tribune says
We commend these figures to the thought
full consideration of the people who believe
that when Guiteau set the office-hunters and
the flunkeys to worshIpping a new man he
also made the mssses OF the people forget
either Garfield or Garfeld'e enemies. Web
ster Wagner was essentially a railroad ms an.
II an anti-railroad feeling, capable of causing
a political revolution existed in his district,
II would have been concentrated against him
more powerfully than it could by any posi-
bility be against body else. Yet one year
ago he was elected by 6762 majority in q
district which now defeats the Conkipg
sympathizer, nominated by the machine TO
succeed him, by 296. The twaddle about
a nti-monopoly influences will, in the light of
these facts, deceiye nobody. The Conklipg
man was defeated because the Republicans
OF his district resented his nomination as an
insult to the memory of Wagner and of lar
field. The same result can doubtless be had
in good many other places this fall, if the
machine is insane enough to invite it. The
nunkeys and the office. hunters race after
the power Guiteau created. But with
the plain country people, who turn cleo
tions, Garfield dead is u bigger power than
the whole host of his enemies and revilers
living. The grass had not begun 10 grow
over his grave before they suspected this,
and resolved that their only hope lay in de-
flaming his memory. To that end they have
opened concerted campaign. First, mas
Iuerading friends of the late president"
they represent him as a mere puppct in the !
hands of others. They bride telegraph OPP
orators, steal confidential dispatches, lie |
shsmelessly about their origin and misrepre- |
sent their purpose, to this end. Then they |
howl over the Peruvian business hoping to |
smirch Garfield or his friends, and succeed !
only in catching Grant and his friends |
Then they rob the correspondence files of the
dead to produce letters from CART ED which |
they think will stir up living enemies to |
fresh venom. 1t all tends to one end Gar
ield had and has the hearts of the people. |
The machine knows that it must break this |
lold before 1t can succeed; and that there |
lore steady, systematic, concerted cam |
paign OF Islander is its only chance. In |
Saratoga it got its first dividend on that in
vestment. How many more does it think |
desirable?
The feuds in the Republican party are
PERSONAL and irreconcilable They will |
WIDEN and deepen in every succeeding cleo
ion. While the Republicans are drifting
part the Democrats in every State of the
Jnion are uniting and harmonizing. The
My note of discord is heard here in Tennes-
ee. Heretofore this State has been able |
o deal with all grievances inside of the |
'arty, and it will in the future adjust its diff
erences in the party lines. The contest in
tennessee will assume national Importance,
$ ii is plain to be seen that any further dis
migration of the Tennessee Democracy will
the State. The Democrats
tho plead for harmony propose no new or
terms on which to anite
hey simply ask the malcontents to meet
hem on their own platform, the same basis
Dr. settling the State debt which they so
ealously and ably advocated in 1875.