Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-15
THE WEATHER
POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr.. BLAINE recently confessed that thu
Republican reconstruction policy, which h,
took hand in framing, was blunder, ano
the bloody shirt, we suppose, crime.
Mr.. blaine says that if he had his recon
| struction work 10 do over again he would
have purchased the consent of the South L
the robbing carpetbag governments by build
ing $50,000,000 railroad from Charleston
to the Pacific. Evidently Mr.. Blaine is al
ignorant OF the South now as he was in 1865
Mr.. BLAINE, the New York Herald says
thinks 80 meanly of the Southern people
that he believes no amount of "bad govern.
ment' by the Republican party would have
provoked complaint" from Them in the re-
construction era if only the Republican ad.
ministration had bribed them to silence
and acquiescence by loose and lavish appro.
priatiens for their material prosperity"
A TABULATED statement from the census
bureau shows that the States in the last pres
idential election (1SS0) did not vote more
than seventy per cent. of the entire voting
population. The highest percentage of vot-
ing was done in Indiana, where the astonish-
ing number of ninety-fQur per cent. of all
the votes in the State were polled. That was
the place the genius of Star route Dorsey
was brought to bear. That is the ground on
which Fitzpatrick had said the bloody shirt,
with money, would be effective.
Mr.. RUSSELL, the boilers candidate for
governor OF this State, is above reproach; he
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itics and mediocre in intellect, and will be
as easy to beat as any man that could have
been put up. That old political rams like
Senator Bailey, Luke Wright, Ed James, J..
V. Wright and others should have led such
an innocent little lamb TO slaughter is held
by many to have been inca lculably unfair
and absolutely selfish.
II HAS been rumored in Nashville, says
the Coarier-Journal correspondent, that Colo
mel A. S. Colyar, editor and publisher OF the
American Newspaper Company there, is
about selling out his stock in the paper to
death of Colonel Burch, the value of the
paper being estimated at $4,000, Colyar
bought sec, 100 worth-a controlling interest
for which he paid SIS, 600, the stock going
at premium. II the runner be true, H. NJ.
Doak, the editor of the Banner, will be, it is
said, put in editorial control of the American
THE Hon. VIM. B. Bate, of Tennessee,
Democratic nominee for governor, has ar
rived in Washington, where he is receiving
much attention, and every Democratic MEM
Der OF the Tennessee delegation is a warm
supporter of Bate, with the exception of
Jackson. Mr.. House says he believes good
fight will carry Bate through the difficulties.
GENERAL E. A. O'NEAL, Democratic cam
didate for governor of Alabama, and the
Hon. Daniel Coleman, OF Huntsville, will
address the people of Selma on Saturday,
July oath. They will also speak at Green's
boro on the 9th, and at Marion onthe 10Th.
FULLY one-half the negroes of Montgom-
cry county, Als, in formal convention held
on Monday last, declared for the Democratic
State and county ticket.
THE Boston Herald says that the generally
superior character of the Democratic nomi-
nations this year has been generally con-
coded and remarked upon. This is especi-
ally the case IN Pennsylvania.
PERRY BELMONT has shown that the
young man has a place and function in
American politics after all.
IT LOOKS as if civil-service reform would
take its place in history along with Wash
ington's monument. The country will get
it, but it will be when the Democratic party
is in power.
The Congressional Record informs us that
Mr.. Butterworth's speech was held back for
revision. 1t is like a chimney, it needs the
smut taken out of it, says the Mobile Register.
Mr.. CoNKLING, in the course of his recent
speech at Utica, severely criticised the man.
ner in which the public funds are being
squandered This Is all the more valuable
through the fact that all the men who are
shamefulIy Incorporating the peoples
money belong to the ex-senator's own party.
In only two States does the the male col
ored population of voting age outnumber the