Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-21

tsrialz- 1t is another and worse IMAM Doss
Tweed affair.
THrSaIt Lake II i5tne thinks it curious
instauce of the gross stupidity OF the Nor
mon mind that their public writers are not
able TO see the difference between the testing
If the validity of law and the advissbility
Of the adoption OF political principle. Per-
haps little illustration will help them to see
it-nameIy, that while the Liberals OF Utah
were firm in their mind that the principle
of disfranchising law-defyiDg criminals was
the correct one for Utah, it was not until
the Edmunds dill was passed that this prin-
ciple could be enforced. 1t may be that
this illustration OF the difference between a
principle and law will aid our thick
headed Mormon contemporaries TO under
stand the drift of the pending test suits.
The New York World has done an inv:l-
liable service 10 the citizens OF New York
and Brooklyn in its investigation OF the
Brooklyn bridge affairs. the significance OF
which will be appreciated from the evidence,
which shows how Chief-Engineer Roebling
bought steel of the Roebling Works; how
President Murphy paid large fees for search
ing titles TO Mr.. Murphy as lawyer; how
Vice president Kingsley not only bought
granite to The extent OF 81 ,000, 900 from COM
panies developed out of other companies
founded by Mr.. KiDgsley, the dealer in
stone, but bought sand and machinery from
one Of his own business partners, and books
and stationery from the Office OF newspaper
of which he is himself proprietor.
THE Clay County (Miss.) Leader, pub
lished at the home OF Frank White, and a
strong White paper before he withdrew,
contains the following: "Mr. 3. NJ. Roane,
of Walthall, has declared himself an indie
pendent candidate for Congress against the
Hon BID Money -asder-tand tn at il
was done after he had met in counsel Gem
erai Chalmers and Wimberly at Grenada.
There is evidently dark scheme on foot by
the Radicals, and they are using these men
as tools to carry out their disbolical plot.
The white people Of the State mast meet it
boldly, and show these men, who care moth
ing for the peace of the country, and who
would sacrifice every interest OF the people
for their own sggrandizsnent. that they can
not and shall not carry out their nefari Gus
schemes. Let us lay the Chalmerses and
Roaues on the shelf forever more"
THE Hon. E. John Ellis, of Louisians, in
his recent great speech, announced these self
evident truths with great emphasis: "Pure
Democracy is the rule of the people; it means
free elections, fair counts; it signifies pro-
gress and anti-Bourbonism; it means that
parties are made for the people, and not the
people for the parties; that parties are or
ganized to subserve the best interests of the
people, and not that the people are organ
lied for the benefit of politicians. Democ-
racy means that oficeholders are the SER
wants and not the masters of the people; it
intends that every public servant shall be
held to the most rigid accountability for his
countable to the politicians. Democracy
signifies obedience to the law, aud not that
politicians and oficeholders are above the
law; it means pure civil service. 1t is
opposed to bossism, political assessments and
rings"
TIE question of the validity of the won an
suffrage law of Michigan is before the courts,
and, if decided in the negative, will annul
the whole result of the coming election. But,
in order that the anti-Mormons may be safe,
the Salt Lake Tribune has been urging all the
women in the Territory to register, the Gen
tiles especially. AS an evidence of the fear
less and manly canvass being made by the
Tribune, we quote from its issue of the 18th in-
slant the'followiug from very strong appeal
10 the women 10 register. Itsays; "In this con-
test between civilization and barbarism, the
leaning of every woman's heart is
toward the light-in favor of decency and
cleanliness. In this contest between the eff
fort 10 purify and elevate woman and the
home circle and the effort TO degrade woman
and make her the homeless and helpless VIC
tim of brutality and lust, and fix the stigma
Of degradation and baseness upon her chill
drep, every true woman's sympathy reaches
forth in full swell like an oceans
tide in favor of purity and the highest de-
Eelopment of humanity. In this attempt TO
'ssten upon the enlightenment OF the nine
zenith century the vice and lawlessness of
linn antiquity, which the human race has
lges ago ontgrown, every woman revolts at
he foul purpose. Her sympatbies and
are all toward social order and a
lean life. 1t is eminently BETTING, then, |
laving the power to register their names |
nd cast their ballots in favor of the right |
n this great question we have here TO meet,
hat every woman should with anxious csre
make certain that her name is on the registry |
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