Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-09-29

machinery, with all its departments, and
are shaping up the future of the country
in a way with which the people have but
little to do" Thus speaks the Paris In
~teligencer, and it speaks truly and soberly.
The monopolies are taking possession of
the political power of the people. The
monopoly of Northern Democrats has hold
of the electoral vote of the South and is
determined to hold it to the exclusion of
Southern Democrats, whom it would ostra-
else in obedience to the Republican cry of
the "bloody shirt" No Southern man
need apply in 1884, nor in 1888, nor in
1892, nor for the next seventy-five or a
hundred years; or so long as an Exon
federate or the son of one is living.
Col. r. p. HOWELL, editor OF the Atlanta
Constitution, who is in New York, is re-
ported as saying that the people of the
South would hail with delight the nomi-
nation of the old ticket, Tilden and
Hendricks. To this the Charlotte IN. c.
Journal Observer says: "What Col. Howelrs
particular sources of information are is
not stated, but so far as we can see the
people of the South don't care a CONT
mental about the old ticket. What they
want is a good ticket, whether it be the
old one or a new one, but up to this time
they are not losing much rest cogitating
over it."
THE Okolona Messenger remarking upon
the renewal of the charges by the Vicks-
burg Herald that the Jackson Clarion was
a partner with the Jackson Pilot (Rep.l,
during the carpet5ag reign in Mississippi,
says: "The Herald or some of its friends,
doubtless have an eye on the public print
ing, hence the motive for raising old is
sues. But the result is likely to be the
same as heretofore, unless some other and
greater sin can be laid at the door of the
official journal of the State. By the way,
how would it do to expose the part played
by h Clarion in securing the passage OF
a law in 1876, in which Confederate
Archives figured? AS we commend this
innocent query to the writer on the Herald
(who we suppose is fully posted), we beg
to be allowed to suggest, that if a full his
tory of all that was said and lone by the
Clarion and its editor in this behalf, to-
gether with the results attained, does not
suffice to squelch Barksdale's reputation as
a sagacious statesman, and defeat the
Clarion for a reelection to the Office of
public printer, then the thing cant be
did, that's all"
The st. Paul Pioneer Press, good Repub-
lican authority, says "the soldier in poll
tics is wholly unnecessary. The soldierin
himself is ever to be honored, distinctly
and lavishly. But the same feeling Of
patriotism which dictates this recognition
of the men who fought for our country
prompts us also to forbid by every means
the prostitution of the soldiers claims
upon us to the sordid purposes of politi-
clans. The soldier is now a citizen, and
the country needs his intelligent and hon-
est suffrage, just as once she depended
upon his strength and courage. But the
need is different. He is called upon now,
not to repel an armed foe or put down re-
bellion, but to see that the business of the
government is done as well and as cheap
ly as private business; that the nation
may pay its debts, reduce taxation, and
so contribute to the general prosperity. A
soldier who enters politics and makes his
way on the fact that he bore arms for the
nation is not Il good representative of the
masses of brave men who saved the gov
eminent in time of peril. The real sol
der, brave and true, does not ask to be
supported at government expense, either
by securing a pension or an office for his
political influence Every sensible, patri.
otto man North and South will say "amen'i
to these timely words of the Pioneer Press
shaming as they do the utterances of the
Southern papers who say that no Southern
man living in 1865 can ever hope to fill a
place ON q Democratic national ticket.