Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-05
THE SHADOW OF DEATH
I'm the Persons of sos, Ed sbau,s Nom,.
nses Hangs over Memphis
To-Day.
"a Can Only be Removed by the Votes
of Honest Citizens-Questfons
for Chase.

| To the Editors of the Appeal:
There has existed for some time a gooC
deal of apprehension among all who hac
felt interested in the prosperity of Memphis
lest her government should fall into tn,
hands of lot of tricksters. This apprehen
sion was increased by the delay in bringing
out ticket, and the seeming apathy and in
| difference manifested. But the community
breathed freer and felt that an oppressive
| burden was taken from them when the Had.
den and Burke ticket was announced. The
hope was INDUCED that the people would
harmoniously rally around this non political
| ticket, discriminating against no race, ma
tionality or color, and we would again have
good government without any chickering's
animosities or dissensions. Hadden and
Burke and others were not selected for any
benefit it might confer upon them, but
simply and solely for the benefit
and prosperity of the city Of Mem
phis. But suddenly there emerges
upon the platform, as if from trap
door, Chase and Scheibler, and say "talSe u.s.
Well, everyone is ready to ask, What for?
you would like to fill? Are you more honest;
more capable; more unselEsh; less tricky;
lees liable to consult your own interests; less
liable to put up jobs; less liable to pander to
the wants Of those who are bowling for your
election? Tell us why we should take you
in preference TO the ticket nominated by
twenty-five hundred esteemed citizens? Ii
you had been placed upon the ticket at first
no complaint would have been made. We
know nothing against either of you, but
when you jump up like jack-in-the box, to
disrupt the harmony that would have other
wise prevailed, you excite suspicion and
we demand 10 know the grounds of your
superiority. If you claim that you can and
will do more for yourselves and your friends
than the other men, we don't want you. Ii
you claim that you can do more than they
for the prosperity of Memphis, we don't be
lieye it. We ask you again TO give US the
evidence of your superiority or else get out
of the way. The whole affair of your candi-
dacy has suspicious look about it There
was no sort of necessity for it; and even re
moving Ed Shaw's musk clear out of reach
of our olfactories, it has bad odor, and we
require that you be disinfected and wait for
your publication until the next election
before we will consent to consider your
fitness, for claims you have none, nor has any
man. We are not working in this election
for men, we are working for Memphis; and
the men who manifest the most eagerness
for the positions are the ones OF
whom we feel most suspicious, and whom we
wish most to avoid. Ii Porter and Overton
had shown an eagerness for the position, we
should have felt suspicious of them; but they
had no selfish purposes TO subserve; they
had no jobs to put through; and
with feeling that they had unself-
ishly borne the burdens OF the government
sufficiently long, they retired to attend to
their private interests and Endorsed the Had
den and Burke ticket, and their Endorsement
will be honored by the whole community
1t is an injunction of Scripture that we
should avoid all appearance of evil. There is |
undoubtedly disreputable appearance and |
an offensive odor about the Chase ticket. Let |
US give Memphis the benefit of the doubt,
and keep on the safe side by electiDg a ticket |
destitute of all ugly aspects and all unsavory |
smells. H.