Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-25
POLITICAL POINTS
From Every Part Of the Country Which
Make Interesting Reading for All
Good Democrats.

Good Democrats.
Everywhere We Are Making Gains ant
from Every State There Comes
Encouraging News.
Col. MAEEINe is bringing to close one o
the most brilliant political canvzsses eve
made in Mississippi. He will be returned t
Congress by rousing nsjority-
The CoHeeville (MIss.) Times hopes ths
Mr.. V. 3. Waddell will be elected to Con
gress from the Shoestring District. he IL
good Democrat, and "ss there are Two hePuo
iican candidates in the field his prospects ar
good"
WITH Democratic msjority OF thirty o
forty in the next House, what good ls Ger
| Chsluoers going to do the Republicans if b
should by chance get there? And what sd
vantage will his election be to the Green
hackers?
GEN, BATE will speak in Brownsville, Sat
urday, October 18th. Il will be gram
day. The Democrat says that not only al
The citizens will turn QUITO hear him, bu
the ladies will shed their smiles upon hir
aud cover him with flowers
THE Brownsville Demserat says that Col
Savage, who addressed the people OF Browns
vile Saturday, exhibited good taste by no
| indulgiug his usual TRADE of abuse sgains
| Senator Harris, which would have been re
ceiyed with misses instead Of applause.
1
TEE Boston Journal is still dilating ups
Bourbon outrsges in South Carolina an
Alabama There are some organs tina
haven't got a large selection oil tunes, AM
thew therefore are continually going bac
and playing the whole collection over again
THE slaughter of Republican congre Sme
J in Ohio has many lessons, but one OF ther
| il tb at it is fitting sequel to the gerrymar
der which was made by the last Legislature
by which the Republicans claimed that on
| OF the twenty -one districts, at least seVentee
would be Republican.
BosroN Star: SEX Cadet Whitaker, in
lecture at Athens, GA, spoke OF traudulen
Hayes 'horse-loying Grant and Academia
Arthur besides intim ating that he has ha
several chances TO marry white girls. Hl
reasons for Sitting his own ears are now oh
| yious. They shaded his face tso much"
BEING bantered to name expected Republl
can congressional gains in the South, MI
Gorham responds as follows: "One in Mary
land, four ia North Carolina, one IN Georgia
| three In Alabama, two in Mississippi, one II
| louisiana, two in Texas, one IN Tennessee
: and two already secured in West Virginia
| SENATOR HoAR's friends are very anx
ious about his political prospects. The sen
ator wants to be reelected, but there Is
strong movement against him which ma,
produce Legislature hostile to his inter
esis. Gov. Long is Hoar's strongest oppo
nent, but probably Mr.. Grape will prove I
stronger candidate, and Ben Butler
stronger candidate still.
THE unseating business will now probably
! be conducted on the other side of the House
j. H Wallace, Democrat, will contest thu
election of VIM. Mckinley, Republican
from the Eighth Congressional District o
Ohio, who has been returned IS elected by 1
naierity OF eight votes. Il is said the can
yassers of one district in Stark county threw
out fifteen legal votes cast for Wallace.
THE Hon. w. P. Brownlow, chairman o
the Republican Executive Committee, has re
quested of Senator Isham G. Harris di
Vision of time at his appointments for the
| Hon. A. A. Taylor. II has been granted
and the Joint discussiou began at Fayette
Vile on Monday last, and will close a
| Union Depot, in Sullivan county, on the
first day of November. An interesting dis
cussion may be expected.
| l"OUR anticipations," says the Boston
Herald, ''of the ipadequacy of HubbelPs bar
rel and the Presidents patronage to work Z
| political revolution at the South and of the
/ chilling effects of the Ohio election upon the
budding coalitions in that section, are con.
| irmed BY he surrender of the Republic ar
| pretensions to two Louisiana districts, and
! the evident loss of confidence in regard to
4 other localities"
| The country sustained the "great evil" Of
a De IN cratie Congress from 1875 until 1881
| during hich lime business rose from state
| Of frightlul de preston to a condition OF I'm.
exampied prosperity. The first session Of
| the Republican Congress that succeeded II
| vas marked By an enormous and outrageous
| increase of this public expenditures. Can
| the people see anything alarming in the
prospect of another Democratic Congress
next year?
| MALONE is the boss of the henchmen in
| Virginia, and makes every man in his party
weat collar, labelled "Mahone." But the
| says, wears the collar of the Guiteau admin
| istration. This is, indeed, a sorry state OF
| affairs for Virginians TO behold. White
| men in the Old Dominion enslavedl The
| leader of so-called party enslavedl As we
| said long ago, Malone is boss in Virginia
and slave at Washington.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Lancaster (Pa. J
| Ii.telioencer writes: at has grown 10 be the
H. h.
da'e. continue to bear up under the incessant
strain upon their powers. The earnestness and
eviden. sincerity of Pattison, the versatility
and polished rhetoric of Black, and the
grace OF logic of Elliott under the trying cir
cumstauces, mark them as one of the strong
est combinations of speakers which ever es-
sayed the task they are now performing in
Pennsylvania"
THE ST.. Louis Globe Democrat, in alluding
to two after-dinner speeches recently of
Emory Storrs and Gen. John B. Gordon,
| SAYS that it is Understood that the latter will
90 TO the Senate as Ben Hills successor. Ii
| is probably not go written by men who think
they know. Unless the machinery breaks
dbwn generally, and goes TO pieces after the
manner of the deacon's "O1e-Hoss Shay"
Gov. Alfred I'll. Colquitt will be Senator
Browns colleague after next March certainly
and December probably.
WHEN Cameron was urged to compromise
the split in Pennsylvania by taking Beaver
off the ticket, he threw down his check for
500, 900 with the assertion that he "would
buy the d-n State" The Montgomery Mail
SAYS that that sort of thing may be tolerated
ip Pennsylvania, but when the blackmai
propose TO buy the honest voters of Alabama
they will have only their trouble for their
pains Money campaigns find no favor
among Southern white men, who count an
honest cause their own.
The Coffeeville (Miss.) Times says that
the dirty, base, oficious tricks OF the bosses
10 Mississippi in having Republican Pres
ident send letter to Ham Carter sin care Of
the Hon. Van II. Manning" is too thin
to hold water. Like the Jonas-Lamar
letter, it came from their own camps, and
neither Manning nor his friends had any
control over it; but Republican President
did have control over it. A lovely President,
he! Aud q nice lot of seo-censpirators has
he got in Mississippi.
ONE of the most sfercely contested con-
gressionsl districts in the country ia
The Fifth District Of Minnesots. The in
terest is wholly conferred in The Republican
canyass---With two candidates in the field.
L-tA- 81 Ahem eking an energetic campaign,
the Psry is getting the most thorough
shaking up 1t ever had in that region.
Neither Kindred nor Nelson can claim.
regular nomination, but thsSs--Parhles OF
the better elass-0f VOTERS are with the latter,
and it is reported that the hopes of his cleo
ton are becoming brighter.
POSTMASTER GENERAL HOWE has recently
expressed his unqualified opposition 10 the
proposition to reduce letter postage to two
dents for the half ounce. He asserts that the
loss to the revenues will be at least $40, 0O0,-
600, and that it will be folly TO make such =
reduction. Mr.. Howe assumes that there
will be no increase 10 letter writing, just as
did the British postal authorities when Row
land Hills reforms were brought to their at
ton. This is demonstrably erroneous, as
the history of postal matters shows in this
country as we'll as in Eng land, as the next
Democratic Congress will prove to him.
THE Kosciusko Star says that with Col.
Singleton there are no "silyer threads among
fba r,ot1 - for HE Had - -