Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-11
MEMPHIS APPEAL
rhE AG;,HALnEEs H.

BGoGLtO
Since The election in November lssl re
APPEAL has opposed the stating OF Naming
by taking advantage Of an obvious clerical
error. Toe general sentiment cf Democrats
Gf all sections favored tn seating Of Chal-
mers, az it WAS eViden. he had received an
uumi.tskable msiority Of the votes cast in
ihe Second Mssissippi Congressional Dis
trict. In every part Of the country Demo-
rrats earnestly protested agains, the seating
OF Manning by adopting the methods Of he
Republican majority in the House of Eep.
resentatives, which made it rule to CIV,
every contested seat to the Republican coz
testant without regard to law or justice.
Immediately after the November election
The sympathy of the country was with Cbal-
mers. But the exposure Of the unscrupu-
lous methods by which he secured his cleo
ton, and his malignant persecutions OF good
citizens who bad dared to interfere with his
aspirations, have produced wonderful reac.
tion in public sentiment, and the probabili.
ties are that Manning will be seated. The
Washington Critic has carefully examined
1t viii not be many days after the Forty-eighth
Congress conveOes until that district will have
representative, and he will no doubt be Gen. Man
ming. The courts will develop great deal Of cor
Tubtion on the part of the Fed raj government in
particular, when the evidence OF some of the citi
zens of the district rs taken The part the Depart-
1neut of Justice has taken in the is infamous
and no good Repub an honest man will fail
TO denonnce It when it ia made public Just now
that congressional district is without a represent
tatIye, Gen. Manning refusing TO file his certificate
OF election until the haud practIced BY the Re-
PublicSns has Leen Investigated"
The corruptions to which the Critic refers
are no doubt as shameful as Represented.
But still the Democratic msjority cannot rid
itself OF the glariug fact constantly staring
1t in the face, that large majority of the
votes were cast for Chalmers. To refuse him
his seat under these circumstances, would be
feeble imitation Of the interruptions policy
long practiced by tbs Republican m jority in
Congress, and which Democrats and the coun-
try have uniformly condemned. Chalmers
ia anxious for marIyrdom; some excuse for
resortipg 10 the stale device of tabooed dema-
Eogues-persecution. Give him the seat to
which he was probably elected, and to which
he is entitled, and his power for further nais-
chief to the party which he has betrayed
will be destroyed. Every new revelation
only serves to sink Chalmers still lower in
the estimation of the public. When he stood
at the feet OF Hubbell, with hat in hand,
begging like hungry tramp for
his share Of the corruption fund, he pre-.
scented the most huwiiating spectacle ever
enacted in American politics. After much
hlggling, Hubbell reluctantly gave the po-
htical mendicant at his door the pitiful sum
OF $3.50 10 supply immediate personal wants.
In ordinary alms-giving we are told by high
authority that there is a double blessing-
that the giVer and receiver are blessed. But
in this case both the benefactor and benef.
ciary hung their heads in shame, cursed
themselves and were loathed by iAe puDiic.
Claiming an election to Congress, Chalmers
next applies to the govern nent for Office.
He was made assistant district attorney and
paid to investigate his own election. H. conn
menced arresting and p.rsecuting bis enemies.
The best citizens of the country we're dragged
about as culprits merely to appssse the m alice
OF the new convert, who had to be very noisy
10 inspire the party TO whom he had sold
himself with confidence. There had been so
much vague lying about fraud and conspiracy
in the election of 1882, that arrest and the
conviction of somebody was a political ne
cessity. Brewster undertook the job, and he
selected the defeated aspirants to do the
dirty work. In South Carolina the hired
prosecutors initiated the example OF Chal-
mers by Unfortunately arresting every
Democrat en- mere suspicion OF interfering
with "a free ballot and a fair count" These
arrests were 30 numerous and frivolous that
Judge Bond called halt. They became 80
tagrantand groundless that the iadge adj
dressed the following letter to the clerk Of
the United States Court:
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