Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-11-30

THE contest for the Speakership will
uon be closed. BY Sunday morning
next the public will know whether the
present boasts OF the Carlisle men or the
Randall men are correct. At present it
fcoks to the APPEAL as il the Kentuckian
IS destined TO be the successful candidate.
Aud he ought TO be if the Democratic
party is not to be farther manipulated by
the faction anxious to subserve the in
teresis of the monopolists, who have
grown rich by means of the most infa-
nous tariff ever devised by the servants
OF an insolent ring If there is one prin-
ciple above another 10 which the Demo-
cratic party is solemnly pledged and COM
pittod it is that of a tariff for revenue
only. Repeated in every platform, both
State and national, since and before
the war, as cardinal doctrine,
the enforcement of which in the
conduct of the government is believed
TO he essential to the greatest good
uf the greatest number, it would be fatal
to our success to begin now in the face of
multiplied facts and the experiences of the
country TO turn our backs upon it and so
lend the strength Of a majority of the
people to their own further enslavcmcnt.
To elect Mr.. Randall, Of Pennsylvania,
Speaker OF the House, would be the first
step to so suicidal an act, to an act of stul-
tiication that would be ruinous and for
ever prevent what the world is waiting for
with something like great interest, the
election OF Democratic President on n
platform of free trade and hard money"
The question OF the tariff is the only
essential one that now separates
the two great parties. To surrender
our views upon it would be to give up to
the enemy we have been fighting so long
and so earnestly, and confess that from
.Ietierson's day to the present the leaders
and the rank and file of the party have
been wrong. We cannot do this in truth
we cannot do it in honor. The wealth of
the manufacturing districts, where few
unconscionable monopolists have ad-
Nmced their fortunes to the proper
tions of fabulous millions, was wrung
by means OF the tariff that has ex-
have grown poorer until the contrast be-
tween them and their cormorant masters
is rs painful and heartrending as anything
London or Berlin can afford. The pictures
of distress and of the strikes of the work
ing classes SO often repeated at the North
have not yet been duplicated at the South,
and we hope they never will be. We have
only recently been relieved of one form of
slavery, and we do not want worse
The devil of gain which inspires
mon with covetousness and all
uncharitableness, and leads them in brutal
ways to override the rights of their fellow
men, has not yet seized the people of the
South. To prevent so great an evil we
must guard against the perpetuation of the
system by which this fiend has had a loose
rein at the North. We are entering upon
career of manufacturing prosperity that
bids fair to end only in the supremacy o
the South. That supremacy can be at
tanned without the aid of discriminating
tariff; there is therefore no necessity fol
the Democrats of the South, even though
they were inclined to, to lend themselve,
TO its perpetuation, lend themselves to the
enslavcment OF the masses and the in
crease OF wealth in the hands of favored
few, and thds endanger the existence Of
the government itself. We repeat trhat ir,
hare eftcn said, and we defy Sic
crsSftd contradiction, that The South can
manufacture cotton and iron at a
Price that ercR England cannot compete trith
and IN doing so she can pay her employees bet.
ter ,rdgcs and more reasonable GriHg than
Er,rops or hs NORTH can afford Any
Southern Democrat, therefore. who puts
himself in autagonism to the national
and State platforms on the tariff Ques-
tion plants himself on false issue,
endangers the stability and success
of the party aud threatens its very exist
ence. The Democratic Representative
who votes for Randall for Speaker of the
House does this. The whole record of
that gentleman on the tariff question is
one OF antagonism to the expressed will of
the party, and if he is elected he will so
shape the committees of the House,
wherein all legislation is pre-arranged, as
to forestall the judgment of the Demo-
cratic party and continue the tariff
10y which the people have been robbed
ever since the Republican party entered
upon power. The APPEAL hopes that
Southern Democrats will not be turned
from the duty laid upon them by their
constituents and lend themselves to the
election of MIR. Randall. They cannot do
it and expect promotion, they cannot do
il and expect to be countenanced by those
whom they would thus betray into the
hands of the monopolists. This is not a
matter of sentiment, but plain, practical
business. The North seeks TO continue
its supremacy over the South and West
whose business is mainly that of agricul
ture, through the perpetuation of the
present iniquitously conceived and unjus
tariff by means of Randall's election
That is what is involved in the Speaker
ship contest. Every Democrat ought I,
be on the side of the people every Repre-
sentative should therefore, vote for tn,
peoples choice for Speaker, Mr.. Carlisle