Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-26
SAN CARLOS, A. T., April 25, 1888.
POLITICAL NOTES.

THE tendency Of State legislatures is to-
ward overproduction in the manufacture OF laws.
Gov. Ben BUTLER is, TO say the lsast,
making 1t interesting for his political enemies in
Massachusetts,. By placing them apparently on
the side OF the defense OF Tewksbury he has them
at q great disadvantage.
TaERE is LIS miles of Geographic lines
in Mexico all Of which belongs to the government.
our sister republic could be inflated with profit
by the United StRtos in regard " both her rail-
road and telegraph system.
UNDER the new postal law salaries OF
postmasters in the small Offices will be greatly
changed The government getting less and the post
masters more. The receipts from sale of stamps
will be reduced twenty per cent.
SPEAKING of the selection Of Mr.. Roscoe
Conkling as Decoration day orator in New York,
the Truth OF that city says: "Of aikers the Union
has million, and of speakers ten thousand, but
It's thorough orators can be counted on the fingers.
And Mr.. Conkling is one"
Ex-senator DAVID DAVIS says he doesn't
intend to spend next winter in Washington be-
cause he neither wants his vile TO be gazed at and
talked and written about nor himself 10 be ranked
with some ex-officeholders who spend their lives
hanging about the Hobbies.
OK the LIST of January last there were 49,.
900 dead laws on the statute books of the United
States This number has been largely increased
since. LAWS are broken so often by oticeholders,
twisted by lawyers, and sat down upon by Judges,
that 1t is no wonder they die.
SUNSET Cox says: "Tbe farming capital
is over sl2 900 600 eco; the manufacturing capital
not IS, coo 600 co.,, and yet, through the vllainy
of our robber tariff through the imposition of I'M
equal burdens the manufacturers make 82z wnere
the farmers make s.. The West and South must
have their say IN legislation"
The Shreveport STANDARD sees a prospect
for vacancy in tee congressional delegation
Congress. Kellogg is in the tolls and is threaten
ed with a permanent retirement 70 the classic
shades OF peniteHtiary. Judge Taylor Beatlie
may yet have chance to take seat in The House
OF Representatives.
IT is reported that an ofice-seeker swan
TO the Florida island retreat of President Arthur
disguised in alligator skin. A rife ball from a
Watchlul sentinel penetrated tse elligslor hide
but harmle'sly hattened against the skin of the
man Cincinnati Morning Iour1,& Inc sews of
his home in Ohio.-NeI0 Orleans PteayaEs. hayes
denies that he was the man. but thinks it was John
Sherman-ArtzoRd Ddily star.
CoNG RE>sMAN Cox Is born paragr apher.
To interviewer recently he hattened out the
prot elton Democrats thus: IN the next House
where we shall show say seventy I'VE majority,
there will be perhaps fifteen twenty protection
ISIS, so you see they amount to nothing, because
there are not enough OF them. They must either
cave iu or quit Tney viii be swept away-wiped
protective element in our party is small that
it cannot make itself felt as disturber."
EDWARDS COUNTY, Ill, was settled in 1918
mostly by Englishmen accustomed to drink. Now
no wiEe or beer Is used there beverage on an
occasion. 1--WE haye,' says writer, very little
litigation. We were for thirty years without
lawyer living in the county, and have known
three terms of our Circuit Court where there was
no jury trial At hrst. we were troubled BY ad-
Joining counties which sold liquors. but they have
fallen into line, so that eight out of the eleven
| eoUnty-seats give no license to sell liquors."
| The Cincinnati NeUS saws that Mr. Dana
II we understand him, attaches more Importance
the protection interests in the Southern States
| than they are entitled to- Louisiana is he only
Southern state in which the election would be AT.
fseted in the slightest degree by the interests OF
| the proteelionisLs. There the margin is small
| enough and the influence OF the sugar interests
| large enough TO be of some consequences. The
iron interests OF Alabama to which he refers are
confined for the present TO area too small and
TO the control OF too few voters TO amount any
thing in the election,
TIE Cincinnati Nsi0s, spesking OF Hayes
4 and the Republican party, says the party still
ternal mark set upon him by which he may be
known one whom fortune has deserted. There
is no brand of Cain upon his brow. So far as the
| naked eye can see over the usual places of the
brand there is marx st sll. Lgh thing is Just
likely 10 strike him again as it ever strke
| him. His party does seem to indicate q slight
hesitation if 1t feared the great fraud had been
the death of his good luck, but destiny is just as
likely to be preparing to link the party with Hayes
| as in the past."
The Wsshiugton Critic, OF Thursday, gives
its ides of what the opposition will DO in Missis
| sippi. 1t has news from Mississippi which indi
| Gates the commencement of = com plete reorgzni-
| cation of the Republican party in the tate. The
| tendency is 10 support Gen W. T. Fitzgerald for
| This will be excellent selection and will In.
| sure gOad work and much Roadway for the party u
| To this the VieksbuTg Herald says: Gen. Fitz.
gerald Is our districtattorney and all will admit
4 that his prosecutions Of criminals have been sbls
and effective. He is man OF talent, and while