Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-02


to be a more aggravating question this year
than last. Many county nominations have
already been made on that ticket.
THE LOUISVILLE (Ky.) Democrat tells SEN
| ator Williams and Representative Blackburn
| that their quarrel and threatened duel
| an open scandal on the lair lame oil their
State, and that they ought to resign their
| seats.
| NOTWITHSTANDING THATthe South will get
most of the money, nearly all of the Boston
papers are heartily in favor of the bill pro-
| yiding for the distribution of $40, 100000
among the States and Territories upon the
basis of illiteraey.
THERE ARE said to be two strong move
ments organizing to kick out Keller. One
| in the House to depose him from the Speak
ership; the other in his district to prevent
his reelection. Both reforms have sympa-
thetic followers in the country.
SUNSET Cox is reported to have said:
"This whole performance is for the benefit
of Randall, Hewitt and the clique which
sold out Tilden in 1876, when he might
have been declared president. 1 guess our
fellows will begin to see it before long"
The DEMOCRATS of Indiana propose to
| fight the fall campaign on the issue of sub
hitting the question of prohibition to the
people. The Republicans place themselves
on the ground that the people should be per-
mitted to vote on the question if they wish to.
CONGRESSMAN J. c. S. BLACKBURN, of Ken
lucky, is willing TO serve another term in
| Congress, though he has been elected four
times in succession from the Seventh district.
He has some opponents who will try and
nominate w. G. Owens, who has announced
| himself candidate.
GENERAL RAUM's chances for seat in
the United States Senate, from Illinois, do
not seem to be as bright as be- could wish.
The best informed Republicans in the State
think that, owing to the multiplicity of can
dIdates, David Davis may again slip in and
carry off the honors.
THE GREENBACKERs are building largely
upon the split in the Republican party in
Pennsylvania. They anticipate vote OF
about $50 900, divided among the different
candidates as follows: Armstrong, 10000;
Beaver, l25 900; Stewart, 40, 900, and the
Democratic nominee, $4,000.
REPRESENTATIVE HARMER, of Pennsylya-
MIA does not favor the reassemblipg of the
Republican State Convention, but advises
submitting the two tickets to the votes of the
Republicans of the State, and accepting that
which receives the majority as the nominees
of the party, to be given unanimous support.
Ex-GovERNoR BISHOP takes a sapguine
view of his party's prospects in Ohio. He
predicts large gains for the Democracy in
Congressman and an easy triumph for the
Democratic State ticket. He says he has
been urged TO accept nomination to Con-
gress in one of the Cincinnati districts, but
has refused the use OF his name.
PUT THIS down to the credit of the Forty
seventh Congress: 1t is the biggest success at
doing nothing on the records. No other
Congress in the history of this government
has done as little in six months as that now |
in session. 1t is very nearly six months !
since it first met, yet the bills of interest and
l.. "a
can be counted on the fingers of one hand. |
st. Louis Republican,, Dem.
SENATOR EDMUNDs and Justice Harlan, |
of the Supreme Court, appear TO have laid |
aside all the cares and digni6ed restraints of |
official life at Atlantic City. A correspondent |
says they are not unfrequently seen on the |
beach throwing clam-shells with all the |
enthusiasm OF schoolboys in the classic game
of "duck on rock"
In THE trial of General N. NJ. Curtis, for |
receiving money for political purposes from |
customhouse employees in New York, one of |
the contributors testified to a classical entry |
in his check book. On the stub of the check |
sent for campaign expenses, this official had |
indicated the object for which the check was |
drawn, in the words, pro bono publico.
THERE HAS been some talk in Kansas of |
nominating John A. Martin, editor of the |
Atchisoa Cham Dion, for governor of the State. |
however, and Gays: aft Republican con-
vention was sitting upon us, this year, we /
think its verdict would be: His time has
not come Perhaps it might add: 1T |
never Will
MASSACHUSETTS Politics" is the subject |
of an editorial in the Albany Journal, which |
takes the ground that the Stalwarts, having |
let the public into their secrets at the outset, |
are destined to meet defeat "Stalwart prin-
~, ,,,atboIo - go IN
there. In no State has civil service stronger
support, and in an open and pre-snuouncsd |
fight no distinctively Stalwart candidate can
hope to defeat Senator Hoar."
THE FACT that the Cameron Republicans
in Pennsylvania have one one-legged soldier
upon their ticket, and the Independents two
on theirs, is said TO be giving the Democrats
some anxiety, and, according to one report,
it is proposed to bring Fighting Dick Coul-
ter" of Westmoreland, to contest the gov
ernorship. He is the hero of two wars,
Mexico and the rebellion, and is said by his
admirers TO be a walking lead mine.
TEXAS HAS been so prodigal with her mag
ni6cent land domain in the way of grants to
railroads, schools, soldiers, ETC., that, deduct
ing the INDICATED lands, estimated at $780,
600 acres, there are claims now in existence
Tor 100000 acres in excess of the whole |
area OF lands, and if the reserve lands are
given up, the State will have only 100000
acres left. A measure is before the Legisla-
ture repeating the railroad grant law.
THE DEMOCRATIC papers in Michigan are
discussing the prospects coalition ticket,
made up of Democrats and Greenbackers,
would have of being elected in that State
this fall. Some of them are not very hopeful
and one paper remarks that "there is no sign
now in the political heavens that the Repub-
licsn party will not carry the State next fall,
by whatever majority the earnestness and
activity OF their opponents may call out"
THE MASSACHUSETTS Legislature has adj
journed after one of the longest sessions it
ever held. Few laws of general importance
were passed. The chief result of the session
is to strengthen the impression that the
annual meeting of the Legislature is unnec-
essary. The sentiment in favor of biennial
sessions Is said to be growing and to be sure
of adoption by The people whenever the
Legislature submits The question to the
voters.
SOME OF the aspiring Democrats in South
Carolina who are anxious to serve the State
in the United States Senate are said to be
urging Wade Hampton to run for governor
this year. As they represent the case to him
the situation in South Carolina is serious,
and unless some popular Democrat heads the
ticket there is possibility of the party be- ,
ing defeated. Senator Hampton has nearly
three years more OF his present term to serve
in the Senate. ,
COLONEL DUFF, nominated for lieutenant
governor by the Independent Republican
Convention of Pennsylvania, and Major
Merrick, another nominee of the convention, I
each lost leg at Petersburg, June Is, 1864. I
They were in different commands and now
live in different parts of the State, and the
coincidence of the meeting on the platform 6
excited interest and enthusiasm. Mr.. Will !
lam McMichael, candidate for congressman c
st-large, also was a soldier.
THE ADoRATIoN which Alexander ii. Ste
ohens's neighbors feel for him is illustrated
,r ridiculed by architectural story told in
he region of Charlottesville. 1t is said that T
When, several years ago, Mr.. Stephens g
Uttered his house, every resident Of the vii ]
age, accepting: his amendments as constitu S