Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-10
GENERAL CHALMERS
Announces Himself an Independent Can
didate for Congress in the Second DIS
triet and Supporter Of Arthur
When the President Does Not Antag0-
Mise the Views Expressed in the Fol-
lowing Very Defiant Card.

When the President Does Not Antago-
Mise the Views Expressed in the Fol-
lowing Very Defiant Card.
Special Correspondence of the Appeal
VIcKsBURG, May S.-The following ad-
| dress from General Chalmers will appear IN
| the Commercial tomorrow:
To the Voters OF the Second Congress
sIOnai District of Mississippi
Before l was twenty -one years OF age L
| began making speeches in behalf oil Inc
| Democratic party, and Tor thirty years put
| one single canvass has been made when was
in Mississippi in which did not spend time
and money in support oil the Democracy
But believing that the
LAMAR DEMOCRATS,
who controlled the last Legislature, and who
| control organizations OF the party in Mis-
| sissippi have departed from the true Demo-
| cratic faith, and believing further that they
| have attempted to throw me overheard
Jonah to the Republican whale, | shall OPP
| pose them in the next election. They threw
me into a district confessedly and hopelessly
| Republican, and the Democratic leaders in
| Congress seeing Democratic assaults on my
election in Mississippi, were afraid to exer-
else the parliamentary power OF minority
to protect me from what they said was an
outrage ON law, and what they knew the Re
publicans had determined 4, 70 he sri Honse ~
I THE REPUBLICANS SEATED LYNCH
with the same boldness and determination
to sustain their party that they counted in
| Hayes and seated Kellogg in the Senate;
and the Democratic leaders, against the pro-
test of few bold spirits, submitted in each
case with the same tim -ous policy and the
| fY1Ira for hi II; u;l
safety. II they believed that Lynch was
elected they should have voted as did in
| the Curtin rs. Yorcum case dir ectly fer
what they believed right. If they believed,
as they said, that | was legally elected, then,
as my friends urged, they should not have
voted indirectly against me by aiding the
| Republicans to make a quorum. / propose
to appeal from these leaders to the people,
and | shall try that appeal before the voters
of the Second congressional district of Mis-
sissippi. That was the home of my boy
hood. 1t was there / began my career as a
| lawyer, ard served the people district
attorney, and from there
LED THE SONS OF MISSISSIPPI TO BATTLE.
To them once more 1 offer myself as
| candidate. But if those who are opposed to
| the Lamar Democracy in the district pre- fer
| another their candidate, and will unite as
reform party and nominate him on the
| platform herein indicated, | will support
! him against the nominee of the Lamar De-
mocracy II acceptable as their candidate, /
shall stand on my record as a
| PLATFORM.
| On the currency question L shall continue
| to advocate the standard silver dollar and
| oppose national banks. On the tariff ques
| ton, believe tariff for revenue with only
| incidental protection ia true in principle and
would be best for the South. But inasmuch
| as many believe acontinuapce of protective
tariff for few years more will develop m au-
| ufaetures in the South, l willing 10 see
the experiment tried, as believe cOntinu-
ance OF our present high tariff few years
will pay of our national debt, and destroy
the national banks. In
STATE POLITICS
shall advocate the reform of two evils-one
fastened on US By the Republicans and the
other by the Lunar legislature. The first |
took from the people the old Democratic
right of electing their own judges and gave
the appointment to the governor. This he's
brought into our State the spoils system
with lis attendant evils. / do not believe
there two purer or better men in this
State than Ex-Governor Stone and Governor
Lowry, and yet under their administrations |
we have heard charges of judges interfering |
10 political conventions, and of judgeships |
bestowed rewards for partisan support |
The system is wrong; it is contrary TO the |
and We should return to the old system. And |
yet the Lamar Senate refused 10 submit tn at |
question to the people. The second is the
CONGRESSIONAL APPoETIoNNIENTs
of the State, made in violation of justice
and equality among the Inhabitants, with
out regard to party interest, and in utter
contempt of the law of Congress. The ex-
cuse that the new Third is better than the
old Sixth district is subterfuge. The fav-
L. - H. Al.
district to be carried heretofore have passed
away. 1t could not be done now, and TO ask
these Democrats to submit longer to such a
load was gross injustice. The old Sixth was
coniessedly made TO save the other FIVE
based on the vote of 1875. The situation
had greatly changed in 1882, and to say that
il was necessary to make the Third to save
the other six districts to confess that
our State election in 1881 was unfair. Tested
by that vote, seven Democratic districts could
have been made, and the bill introduced by
Senator Reynolds would have accomplished
this end. There was no excuse for genuine
Democrats TO make the Third district, and /
shall never believe they were genuine and
impartial Democrats who did it.
WILL SUPPORT ARTHUR's ADMINISTRATION.
But the question which / regard as far
above and beyond all other political ques-
tions in Importance to us is the protection of
the Mississippi valley from overflow, and
for the patriotic and manly message of
President Arthur on this subject shall sup
port his administration on all questions
where he is not antsgonistic to the views
herein expressed. Whether we shall have
greenbacks or national bank-notes; whether
we shall have tariff for revenue with incl
dental protection, or tariff for protection
with Incidental revenue; whether we shall
have free whisky and tobacco or not, and
whether we shall extend and emphasize the
Monroe doctrine at this time or no., though
all-important in themselves, are Insignificant
10 Miesissippians in comparison with the
great question whether the heaviest taxpav-
ing portion of our State shall be protected or
given over to destruction by
ANNUAL FLOODS.
Men, women and children sitting on their
house-tops amid waste of waters have no
patience with those who talk about a want
of constitutional power TO protect them.
Thomas Jefferson found authority TO buy |
Louisisna. extending then from the mouth
to the source of the Mississippi river, and no
Jeffersonian Democrat should bubble about |
authority to protect it. Neither the Repub |
lican nor Democratic party, party, are
for us on this question; but, if Mississippi,
Louisiana and Arkansas will take a firm,
stand on this question, we can
force all parties to recognize and give our
rights. Mississippi alone can do much to
II
am for that man and that party which will | I
DO most for us on this subject.
SENTIMENTAL POLITICS
are well enough in place, but am opposed
TO sacrificing our material interests either to
sentiment or a name. The position OF Presi-
dent Arthur certainly stands in striking con-
trast with the action of the Lamar Legisla-
ture, who ran away from their post when the
flood was at its highest, as if they were afraid
they would be called on to do something for |
the oveihowed district, and sent commits
sioners to Washington TO beg aid from Con-
gress, while refusing even to pay their ex-
penses. Upon the question OF
LOCAL sELF-GoyERNMENT
l have learned from experiences in Washing |
ton that all parties assert this doctrine when
it suits their own interests. Upon the ques-
ton of full vote, free ballot and a fair
count, all parties in Mississippi are openly |
to it. 1t was Democratic doctrine
under Hancock, and if any attempt to vio-
late it, the United States supervisors, proper
ly instructed, can and will detect and expose
it. In conclusion, / announce myself an in
dependent candidate for Congress in the Sec
aod district nj MisafsSinnS |