Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-28
MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.

We learn from the Jackson Clarion that
Captain Frank Johnston has called a meet
ing of the Democratic Conservative State
Executive Committee on the 18th OF June to
prescribe a plan for organizing the party in
the several congressional districts.
The Atlanta Constitution says that if there
is any virtue IN Mississippi Democracy,
Chalmers will never have an opportunity to
figure as a Republican on the floor where he
has so often fired the Northern heart. In
Georgia, the Independents and their coali
ton have been repudiated by the very man
whose name they have been using TO give
respectability to their purposes, and it is
timely, therefore, to hang Chalmers on the
wall to keep them company.
The Port Gibson ReuciVe reviews very
thoroughly General Chalmers5 letter an
nouucing his change of political faith, and
says he "is no Gemagogue nor entrapped
official. His personal integrity is as spotless
as the sword he wore so honorably, and
hence his erratic political wandering Is
source of sorrow and disappointment, and if
we couId-if we can-we would bring him
back to the circle of his old friends and to
the sunshine of his bright career"
The Chicago Times says it is stated in
Washington that General Chalmers's new
departure does not surprise President Ar
thur, or any friends of the administration;
that two months ago, Mr.. Chalmers being
confident that the Democrats would not hill
buster to save such brazen fraud as his pre-
tended election, he offered himself to the adj
ministration as dernier resort. 1t Is I'M
necessary to say that his offer was rejected,
and subsequently he went to his fate. His
new departure will be given time to develop
whether it is simply an effort for office by
another avenue, or whether it is change OF
heart on the part of the Bourbon leader.
In his last letter to the public General
Chalmers says: 81 cannot prove II, but
believe the friends of Mr.. Lamar made COM
bination with Lynch when he was contesting
my seat, and when it was feared that Barksdale
would carry the white counties Tor senator"
Here is another specimen OF the manner
in which little man ISLANDERS those who do
not agree with him. He cannot prove it,
but he believes it, 1t would have been lar
more honest for him to say: 81 would like
to believe this thing, but have no proof Of
it, and hence cannot believe thing which,
if it were true, there would be no difficulty
in proving" Still he insinuates that TO be
true which he does not know to be true, and
of the truth of which he has no evidence.
Comment is unnecessary Mobile Register.
There ia blood on the face of the moon in
Mississippi. Thomas II. Woods, who is a
candidate for Congress in the Fifth district
swer to a card from the latter that "if it
were necessary that he should divert atten-
ton from himself while he climbed over the
back wall' OF the district end took up his
abode in Scott for purposes which you can
Judge az we'll as myself, / respectfully SUBJ
init that he might have done 80 without fill
ing the air with shameful hints and insinu-
ations and inuendoes. To put this whole
matter at rest, now and forever, / beg to say
that the man who connects my name with
trickery, jobbery or disgraceful gerryman-
dering does that which is unworthy OF one
engaged in the pursuit of noble ends by noble
means, which is viciously unjust 10 me, and
which is conspicuously false to truth"
The congressional announcements so far
made in Mississippi are: In the First district
the Hon. II. L. Mnldrow and the Hon. J. A.
Blair are announced as candidates; in the
Second, the Hon. Van II. Manning and the
Hon. J. Il. Chalmers independently are in
the field; in the Third, several Republican
candidates are mentioned, and Democratic
opinion bias concentrated upon the Hon. W.
A. Percy; in the Fourth, the Hon. II. D.
Money and the Hon. Frank White are an
nounced; in the Filth, the Hon. o. r. Sim
gleton and the Hon. Thomas III. Woods are
regularly announced, while the friends of
Messrs. Gibbs and Luse, of Eszoo, and Hud-
dleston and Graham, of Scott, are mention
tioning them; in the Sixth, no announce
ments have yet been made; in the Seventh,
the Hon. c. f. Hooker is announced, and in
the Eighth no announcements have yet been
made