Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-20
MEMPHIS APPEAL
APRIL 20, 1888.
DEsERIING THEReNEGADEs.

FRIDAY, :: APRIL 20, 1883.
DESRRIING THE RENEGABEs.
The Republican administration at Wash |
iugton has several huge elephants on ils
hands which it would glsdly presept to any
psrtv or faction willing to accept an e1pen- |
siye luxury. One Of these elephants is the |
Greeuosck party Of South Carolina. Arthur |
gave the entire Republican party Of that |
State for a little squad of malcontents, and |
a. Old Ben Franklin would say, he has given |
tao much for his whistle. The President hss |
discovered that he has received in exchange |
meas Of pottage at the cost Of his oWn p'riy, |
and he is now anxious 10 wash his han's Of !
a corrupt bargain and an improbable al |
lance. The most expensive elephant lie |
Gen. jones Z. Chalmers. He lie the Old
Man Of the Sea, who climbed upon the |
shoulders of the Republican psriy, and the |
President is evidently weary Of carrying the
load and is anxious to get rid Of it. The |
dispatches from Washington, published in |
the APPEAL yesterday, announce that
POSTMASTER General Gresham TO- day dir, cted |
that in making postofice appointments in |
Mississippi the recommendations of ex
Congressman ChslmeTs shall be given DO |
greater weight than may be properly at |
tached TO them ss the recommendations of
private citiz,n This is an official notice |
served on the public that ex-Congressman |
Chalmers is repudiated by the sdministrs-
ton. Only few days since Chalmers was |
high priest mini.tering at the Republican |
altar. lie Eat up and Knocked down gov
eminent officials like 30 many tenpins. In |
his malignity and revenge he did not even |
spare dtfenseless widow struggling TO pro- |
vide for a dependent family. Mar
shas and election supervisors were ap-
pointed by the wave of his hand. |
His pocket change was supplied by |
Hubbell's corruption fund. He had himself |
appointed as an official, and was paid by the |
government 10 investigate his own election |
ami to prosecute his opponents. In a word,
the Guiteau administration seemed 10 be |
under the exclusive management OF Ma
hone and Chalmers. But alas for the mu- |
liability Of human grandsur and the uncer- |
tainty Of all earthly expectations! In the
midst Of his power Chalmers is rudely struck
down. The Temorseless Gresham comes
along and snatches him from his pedestal OF
power ss uncsremoniously as the struttng
turkey gobbler yanks the uususpectiug grass
hopper singing in his rose-bower. L; is said
the most pitiable sight on earth is a mon
arch in exile. He ia scofsd by an occa-
sional victim OF bis wrongs and per.
secutious, and deserted by the toad
les who were obsequious so long
as thrift followed fawning. But Gen. Chal-
mers, repudiated by the republicans and
mistrusled by the friends he betrayed, pre-
sents still sadder spectacle. 1t is evident
that the course adopted by Gresham, the new
Postmaster General, has the sanction of Ar
thur and his Cabinet. The administration
and the Republican party have discovered
that the whole scheme to purchase Demo.
cratic and Greenback renegades with govern
msnt patronage is blunder and crime-a
blunder because no party can prosper which
purchases aposLates By sacrificing the perse-
cuted, manned and bruised veterans who
fought The party battles when the rewarded
converts were pursuing them with beastly
ruffiapism. We uuderstand that the cleo
ton prosecutions which have been instituted
10 South Carolina and Mississippi, have had
much to do with inducing the adminis.ra-
ton 10 wash its hands of the filth Of a cor
rupt alliance, which, if continued, would
sink the Republican party in infsmy. The
election cases ia South Carolina have col.
lapsed. Attorney General Brewster has no.
tilted the United States Court Of South Caro-
lima that the money appropriation for prose-
cutiDg the election cases has been exhausted,
and suggests a poslponement OF these
trials, which ia regarded as a convenient
preIext for abandoning these prosecutions,
which everybody comedies have been iniqui-
tous, fimsy and shockingly uojust to the
best citizens of the State. The examination
has shown that the charges were without a
semblance Of truth. The partisan motives
actuating the government officials are fur
Their shown by the fact that instead of ar
resting all the men-Democrats, Green.
hackers aud epublicans-who voted
in the wrong box, they arrested the
Democrats only, and produced the
Greenbackers as witnesses against them. All
were equally guilty, all committed precisely
the same crime, if crime it were; but the
Democrats alone were prosecuted and the
Greenbackers were used az witnesses under
a promise Of Immunity from prosecution.
1, is true that the prosecuting attorney when
he discovered that the weakness OF the evil
dence washed his hands of the affair in dis
gust, and that the commissioner has dis
missed the cases and thus prevented further
annoyance of the defendants, but the harm
already done, the Inconvenience and loss al
ready suffered cannot be redressed. 1t is
disgrace to the government that proceedings
50 inexcusable should ever have been insti-
tuted. So fragrant was the injustice OF these
arrests aud prosecutions that Judge Bond
issued an order preventing arrests, which it
was evident were inspired. either by malice
or the ayarice OF officials who proposed 10
make money by fabricstiug chsrges against
the best men of the State.