Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-25


msgnates do about they please with the |
telegraph lines. Their use for the transmis-
zion of communications is but small part |
OF what they are constructed for. Ihey are |
made 30 as 10 "bulp and shear" the stock lar. |
kets, to effect combinations, monopoIies and
the like, all OF which have TO be paid for by |
the people. In England it costs twenty-five
cents to send = message of twenty words to
any part OF the kingdom, and six cents ad- |
ditional for each five words in excess. For
the year 1881 80, receipts of the management
of the telegraphs above the expenditures
we're over 100000.
A LIVELY csnvzss is now going on in
Obion county between the Hon. D. d. Bell,
the boilers candidate for the State Senate,
and the Hon. B. B. Watkins the nominee OF
the regular Democracy. Mr.. Bell was
member Of the last Legislature, and made
himself conspicuous for the one-hundred-
and-three bill, with its COUPON attachment.
His vote is found recorded for every settle
ment proposed by the bondholedrs to the last |
Legislature. He is a staunch supporter OF
sixty-and-six, and proposes TO run on that
ticket. The Dyersburg Clipper says he will
not get twenty-five Democratic votes in
Dyer county. The Republicans will vote
for him, as a matter of course, but Watkins
will carry the district by large majority.
THE question who is to be the next
speaker of the House of Representatives is
now attracting much attention. Among
others mentioned is Mr.. Carlisle, of Ken
lucky, whose speech on the subject of the
tariff at the last session put him in the front
rank of Democratic statesmen. Mr.. Carlisle |
is without doubt, one of the ablest of living |
Americans, and he is fully equal to the dis
charge of the delicate duties of that high
position. No doubt is entertained that the |
next House will be Democratic by consid- |
cradle majority, our own estimate placing il |
in the neighborhood of fifty. New York, |
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio will
have great influence in the Democratic eau
Gus, and it is very likely that the speaker
snip will be given to Kentucky.
THE Grenada Sentinel has a word TO cay
about the presidential candidates. 1t thinks
"Mr. Cleveland is a good and reliable man
in the subordinate position TO which his |
friends have assigned him, We have not
doubt, but that he should be chosen as the |
great Federal head of the Democratic party, |
simply because the dissensions of the Re- |
publican party may elect him governor of |
the great State of New York, is just what We
are opposed to. When such men as Tilden, |
Thurman, Mcdonald, Hancock, and many |
others who have stood in the forefront of
the battle for twenty, and even forty years, |
shall be cast aside on.the mere spur OF expe- |
diepcy, is just what we do not recognize as
good common sense, event. handed justice, or
4 statesmanship."
| A SUIT for criminal libel has been filed |
against Senator William Window by the |
| editor of the National Free Press weekly |
| newspaper at Washington City, published in
the Interests of the Union Soldiers and |
Sailors League. This journal has been |
| making war upon Window in the interest of |
| Dhnnell, and the former has retorted by de- |
nouncing the editor and his assistants as |
| blsckma alters OF the worst type. A late issue |
| of the Free Press is largely taken up with an |
| exposition of WINDOWS suddenly acquired |
wealth. A short time ago, before entering |
| the treasury, 1t alleges, Window was poor |
man. Now he builds 81 900 900 mansion,
drives SIS, 900 turnout, and is reputed 10 be I
| worth 100000. This while Window is
pleading his poverty in Minnesota as Illus
Irative OF his honesty.
PoINDExTER DUNN is making brilliant
canvass of his district. The Batesville (Ark)
| Guard, speaking of his speech in that town,
says: I'VE wish every Democrat and Re-
pu blican IN the county could have heard his
presentation of facts regarding Republican
| legislation in behalf of capital and wealthy
| corporations, and against the lsboring
classes; of the baneful effects of the OPP
pressive and outrageous tariff exacted Of the
| producers and consumers. Frequent rounds
| of enthusiastic applause were proof conclu-
! sive that the hearts OF his hearers were with
him. Every man who heard HIM was firmly
| convinced that this district has in him
worthy, able and faithful represent alive,
| and that the best interests of this people de-
mand his election and return to Congress,
and we are satisfied that the Democracy of
this county will do their whole duty to that
end on the 9TH day of November"
The Vicksburg Commercial says of Mr. V.
B. Waddell, Democratic candidate for Con-
| gress in the ShoestriDg District, that he is
| worthy and we'll qualified for the high and
| responsible position TO which he aspires.
| Besides, he is representative Democrat,
Jealous, energetic and faithful in the advo-
cacy of the Democratic party which is the
| true and reliable safeguard to the country.
| Although not formally nominated, it becomes
| us as Democrats to rally TO his standard and
give him an undivided support. He is
| gentleman of unblemished reputation, cspa-
| bic and honest, and will represent the true
interests of the district in the next Demo-
| cratic House far more efficiently than it is
possible for either one of his opponents TO
do under the inevitable circumstances of an
| impending Democratic triumph in even the
very slrongholds of Republication in the
| North and West.
THE Ripley (Miss) Sentinel tells its read
ers that ''Wm. r. Moore, who won the prize
| in the present Congress as the longest cared
animal on exhibition, msde a speech, or
rather we should say in greater Difference
| delivered Grafton in Memphis Tuesday |
| night, in which he recounted his many won
drous feats during the last two years, princi-
pal among which was the reformation of
Chalmers.' We remember that when the
| game cock presented himself last winter TO
be sworn in a member OF Congress that
this Memphis prodigy got on his stills and
'scrsped the ceiling while in indignant and
patriotic protest and sin the name of civilian
ton Of the nineteenth century, demanded
that Chalmers be kicked out unceremo-
niously, but we didn't know that he was the
father of Bunny's Republicanism. But so
it is so it is 1t was always 30. Some of
the grandest achievements of the grandest
minds are long kept slumbering in the back
ground"
The Chicago Tribune, of Saturday, fur
nishes some proofs of the turpitude of the
Arthur administration, and that Malone
ia just now playing the role OF despot In
Virginia with marked success. 1t is under |
stood that the Cabinet yesterday gravely
considered the subject of change of post
M asters at Manassas, where the salary OF the
Office ia $500 year, and decided to remove
the present incumbent, who is a sister OF a
prominent anti-Mahone Republican, and
appoint in her place one of Mahone's hench-
men. Again, in the case of little postofice
in Franklin county, whose postmaster sent
$40 in Confederate money in response to
Malone Hubbell assessment circular, notice
was promptly received from the Postoffce
Department in Washington that the post,
M aster might consider himself no longer in
the service of the government; and, worse
still, the Office itself was abolished, and the
nearest postoffice is now ten miles away.
Malone and the administration are between
them making it very warm for Straightout
Republicans in Virginia.
Al. |
nearly all in, says the Nashville World,
Russell has been mopped up and flung out
OF the race. The fact also is disclosed that
Beasley is hanging on by his eyebrows
Bate is gloriousy elected, thanks to the
patriotism of such men Gen. Hood, who
left the sinking RUSSELL craft, and Col. Ed
wards, the lesder of the Greenbackers. Both
of these patriots and thousands of others
like them all over tl.o o.etv3 ~, for
Bate to overthrow Hawkins. He is over
Judgment that has seen those reports is very |
anxious to back the prophecy that Bate will
be our next governor to any amount. These
October reports from The counties where the
war is waging for the people against
Hawkins show conclusively that Gen. Bate
has added MANY votes to the September poll.
They also show that Fassell is clean out of
the race, as we have before said, and that
Beasley,s moon has waned almost out of
sight. We congratulate the people on the
glorious condition of the struggle. A long
pull and strong pull and pull altogether
and the victory is ours.
In reply to an intimstiou of the Yazoo
Sentinel, that the Hon. c. E. Hooker, like
Achilles, was sulking in his tent while the
battle was fercely wsging around the walls
of our political Troy, the Vicksburg CONNER
eial recently stated on the authority of Col.
Hooker himself that his services were atihe
comm and of his partv in any congressional
district In the State after he had filed a