National Republican., 1882-09-04
Chalmers md His opponents.

they feel the weight of Chalmers's blows
in his canvass for Congress against Man
ming by the desperate means they resort
to for his defeat. A private letter from
prominent Republican in that district
says:
Don't be alarmed about one H. C. Carter whom
Manning brought from Washington to run rs a
Republican candidate. We caught that trick be.
fore they knew 1t, and its exposure will do them
much harm. They never expected Carter to
get any totes. 1t Is simply new device to steal
votes If they can hold Carter on the track till |
day Of election, 1t Is doubtless their calculation to
count enough OF Chalmers tickets TO Cdrier to de- |
feat Chalmers, and claim that Carter got them as
Republican votes.
The writer thinks the discovery Of the |
trick will lead to its abandonment.
The following special to the Memphis
Aualanche from Holly Springs Miss, the
day after Carter's arrival there, brings the
plot out in detail:
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, Aug. 15.-Hannbal c.
Carter, whom special in the Apped! of to- day an.
nounces as n Republican candidate for Congress
from The second district of Mississippi, arrived In
this city on the o'clock train last night and inn
mediately asked TO be shown to the residence Of
Colonel Van H. Manning, tho Democratic cindi-
date for Congress, where lie was Immediately taken
by colorcd porter. In short while thereafter
Cnrter in company with Mr. Remensnydor, up
pearcd at the telegraph Office upon urgent busi-
| ne's. Mr. Rcimcnsnyder Is All active Democrat
and is know here the special correSp ,ndent Of
the Appeal, who, while in the office, remarked
that he had an urgent dispatch TO send OF which
would elecriGy the State of Mississippi, MS result
Of which the Appeal Of this morning contains
| dispatch announcing the candidacy of Mr. Carter
| for Congress in this district The leading Demo-
| qoft ic rit hay han nln nrt ull
sending to the country Cartcr's advertisements to
| speak in this city Monday next Carter has
published n circular assailing Chalmers bitterly
| and lauding Manning rs equal TO Christ. So tbinly
| disguised is this Democratic ticket that even
friends of Colonel Manning disguised and ad-
| nit that 1t is boomerang that will injure Man
ming more than It will Chalmers
This peep behind the scenes in the
Bourbon theater will serve as an insight
to all the new aids being brought into
requisition by the discouraged Bour
bons to prop up their waning fortunes.
Chalmers has declared war to the end upon
the Bourbons, and he is to be hunted
down. We are sorry for any Mississippi
negro who can find no higher mission
than to aid in the effort to capture and
return him to the Bourbon slave-pen. The
Republicans of the second Mississippi dis
trict have already made Chalmers their
candidate, and SO have the Greenbackers
and Independents. Carter will get no
votes and Manning will hold no seat in
the next Congress unless elected by the
people.
Republican zeal for Congressional
candidate should be measured by the
zeal of the Bourbons for his defeat. No
amount of raving against Chalmers for
the wrongs he did or failed to condemn,
while acting with the Bourbons, can
change the fact that he now represents
the opposite of what he then did, and
that his defeat would be Bourbon
triumph. Every Republican who reviles
Chalmers now, thereby protests against
any change in the political conduct of
men of the opposite party.
y We can only change the Solid South
from Bourbonism by dividing the enemy.
The present Republican majority in Mis-
sissippi is as helpless as ten rats would
be against seven terriers. Will a},iv man
deny it? The past proves it The North
WIZ NV .i'"nse sHt'' The mdJorty IN We
NORTH is dioided. d.Js;s;,veen ss;;,vee Lamar Democrats
ana Lanae..r Republicans. The present
majority in Mississippi can neverso much
Pi5 share in the rule of affairs until aided
I by seceders from the Bourbon ranks. Do
those who are shocked at Chalmers's
candidacy because he was once an enemy
prefer over him one who still continues
ITO be an enemy? Did Abraham Lincoln
repel from the Union ranks in 1861
, Daniel S. Dickinson, John A. Dix
Joseph Holt, Benjamin F. Butler
and scores of other leading Breckenridge
Democrats because they had ayear before
. been advocates of a slave code for the
= Territories Were Stephen A. Douglas
: and John A. Logan refused the righ
, hand of fellowship because they had the
:, year before denounced Republicanism
g And in 1882 shall Democrats who are
i weary of strife and unwilling longer tc
). resist Fate and the age in which they live
s be. forbidden to change?
r General Chalmers claimed nothing
!. at the hands of our friends. They
-, urged him forward because he coulc
~ get tnOuSanuS Oh NOtcS tiluJ iio lNe
80 publican had ever received. If Repub
,r lican minorites in sixteen South
% ern States are essential to the advance
=. ment of Rcpublicanism in the nation
,o they can be restored at any time. If the
., Bourbons are to be made the minority
i, cannot be by Republican votes alone
70 The last decade proves that. solid Mort
a. cannot be relied on, even through ALI
- anoes with the task-masters of the pee
pie. Only through Bourbon division
can Bourbon restoration be prevented
The tyranny of Bourbon leaders is divid
w. ing their followers. The Republicans VIII
is would drive them together again by eS
,eA hibitions of narrow bigotry are fortur
II hutely few in number. The world move
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~ THE Soldiers Home furry is over TIL
NV NV Secretary of War, being advised by I'll
-, Attorney-G eneral that he has discretio
m under the law as to following the recon
" mendation of the commissioners of til
~ Home, has rescinded the order removir
~ General Sturgis from the governorshi
~ of that institution, which order the Sc
~, retary made under his understanding
~, the law-that the recommendation
of the board were binding upc
81 him MS peremptory directions, TIL
~ leaves tine recommendation of Il
'N Commissioners before the Secretal