Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-31

are read in the Senate. Senator Butler IL
not likely to let so extraordinary statements
as are contained in the attorney-generaPs
letter to Dallas Sanders pass unnoiiced.
Senator Blair, in his dealings with Ship
herd, in which he delicately refused re-
tainer lest he might be caught, and then
accepted ii when he was assured there was
no danger, resembles the man in scripture
who said, Il go not" and then relented and
went Remotely at least, that Is, Blair, said
be would take the money, and then took it.
Colonel Calvin L. Brice, a rich ex-railroad
speculator, now worth about s., 900, 900, is
candidate for the Ohio senatorshipt 10 succeed
Pendleton. AS successor; to Pendleton he
would be an ass in the stall of an Arabian
charger, dung-hill rooster with the spurs Of
game-cock Messrs Pendleton and Thur
man are about the only senatorial timber in
the Slate
Judge Howell Cobb lately wrote to gen.
| tleman in New Jersey, who was advertising
brown leghorn fowls, asking price of same
The gentleman, a Mr.. Scott, replied that he
had Just shipped him pair Of the finest in
his lot as present, which he did through a
high regard for the name of Howell Cobb.
The judge thinks this the best way of bridg-
ing the bloody chasm he has yet seen tried,
Joseph Pulitzer, of st. Louis, has been
mistaken for Carlz Schur The result will
from the New York Etenin9 Post az well as
from the st. Louis Post Dispatch. 1t has
often been observed that when an able
Northern or Western editor grows angry with
some outsider, he retires to his sanctum and
takes off the head OF one of his too literary
subordinates; and really, this is as it
should be-
AT meeting of the Anti Kelly -Tamm any
Democracy in New York on Monday night,
i
the so-called Kelly-Cornell alliance is such
an infamous display of party treason as Is
make it eminently advisable for the Demo
cratic State Central Committee to be con-
yened, and such measures taken as will for
ever assure all loyal Democrats that here
after there will be no cowardly recognition
of or compromise with John Kelly"
The Rhode Island constitution of 1912 is
probably the most ingenious piece OF constI-
tutional law in the United States, being 90
we'll reasoned and carefully balanced as to
defy all those who might undertake to find
flaws in its workmanship. The constitution
was devised for the purpose of preserving
Rhode Island traditions against the Demo
cratic spirit, and to keep the governing
power OF the State in the hands of an abso-
lutely and relatively small number of per-
sons.
John c. New, the lately appointed assist
ant secretary of the treasury, was one of the
guests at a recent swell dinner given in
Washington by Thomas ]. Brady, the in
dicted Star-route thief. Wouldn't it be well
for President Arthur and Secretary Folger TO
suggest to New that Brady was dismissed
from the stmaster-generalship for theft,
and that the assistant secretary OF the
must retire if he makes dismissed
plunderers his public companions?-Phild-
delphid Tunes.
Grant is working like a beaver for Fitz
John Porter's pardon. There is no bill on
this subject before Congress, and the only
effect of General Grants arguments with the
senator's could be to influence them to efforts
with the President to remit SO much of Por-
ter's sentence as disqualified him from hold
ing any Office of profit or trust under the
United States. Such action by the President
must necessarily precede any legislative act
the President to appoint Gen
eral Porter an officer in the army.
The Atlanta Post-Appeal, administration
paper and leader of the Liberal movement,
Is out against the syndicate of Georgia poll
icians now controlling the Federal patron
ige in the State and says if their influence
s not subverted Immediately there is little
chance of an anti-Democratic success this
all. 1t claims Longstreet is trying to boss
he new political movement, of which the
POst-Appedl is the strongest newspaper advo-
cate, and without which there is no hope of
uccess. The revolt is open and pronounced, |
md there is a probability that Longstreet's |
emoval will be demanded before compro- |
Mise is reached.
The Charleston Neus and Courier insists |
hat South Carolina cannot be gerryman-
Tered in the interest of either Republicans |
II so-called Independents. The game here |
8 to overawe the people by making them |
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election of 1882 and 1884, serves at poll |
which, according to Stalwart calculations, |
hould be Republican, will be arrested and |
ried in the United States Court. The peo-
lie must prepare at once, and teach the
'talwart conspirators that, neither through |
he agency of prosecutions nor by wolves in |
Keeps clothing, by soft talking sh all |
hie State be put in position to be African
zed again. The place to begin is right in
he United States Circuit Court next week.
1et the accused election officers feel and see
hat the State is with them.