Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-10-11
George &. GOrharn.

IL is a favorite idea with some of the lit
tie demagogues who have sloughed offfrom
the Republican and Democratic parties re-
Gently, that the mission of the Republican
party is ended, that it has accomplished
its work and should rapidly enter into dis
indignation. 1t is a little curious that these
individuals, while proposing to end the
Republican party by a breath, take good
care to instill and keep alive in their re-
cruits a special hatred to all prominent
negro leaders. One of the chiefs of the
movement to break up the Republican
party in the Southern States, and turn the
fragments over to Chalmers and company,
is a certain George G. Gorham, one OF the
writers tor the National Republican. Cor
ham is no Republican, and the paper he
writes for is no Republican paper, least of
all a national Republican paper. This
man Gorham is a sample place-hun-
ter and office-seeker, and his paper
is published at Washington Just on
the Virginia line in the special interest of
Mr.. Malone and the Readjuster party of
Virginia. His paper does not profess to be
a Republican paper, though il does say
it could be dotted down fol- President
Arthur; and for the strength of this as
sumed interest in President Arthur's re-
election and opposition to one of the fac
tons OF Virginia Democracy, the paper
sIcouillCS W Dt dAIl-btLlOCTdllc ana ell
courages the idea that Republicans should
disband and train behind his projected
independent party. The paper is a paper
after the style of the Tribune of this city,
and is OF the same uncertain shade of
politics. 1t damns Democracy to catch
one class OF votes and it damns the niger
and a mythical Niger rule to catch an
other class. The sole politics of Mr..
Gorham, like that of the Tribune, is of the
selfish, ~demagogical kind. Both coun-
terbalance their attacks upon Democracy
in general, with onslaughts on Niger
leaders, which are as delicate morsels to
tickle the palates of Yazoo county and the
Port Gibson Rereihe. Both Gorham and
his ready echo, the Tribune, damn by
name Messrs. J.. r. Lynch and James
Hill as a variety of niger Democrats
attempting to boss white men. This man
Gorham is a candidate for secretary of the
United States Senate, and is booked for
that position by Mr.. Malone. He is also
a member of that little coterie which oc-
casionally assemblies in Washington and
are spoken of as Southern politicians
Chalmers, Cash and company are the
other members, and they about as much
represent Southern Republicans or Demo.
Gratis as the three tailors OF Tooley street
did the people of England. The stomachs
of Gorham, Chalmers and heir coparcener
are too proud to walk in line with Repub-
licanism, if in earnest in opposition to De.
mocracy, but are assuming to control the
party n to force it to disband in the
South, for fear that B. X. Bruce, John r
Lynch, James Hill and a host OF other in.
telligent gentlemen will claim that rank
in the Republican party in Mississippi
which their ability deserves. The paper
Gorham writes for prints the public speech
of Mr.. j. II. Lynch, and it is the style Of
speech which all the great Republic
can leaders of. the State, and which
this paper indorses, and is teaching
us the true doctrine of Republican.
ism here. John r. Lynch and James
Hill have lately emerged from a heated
canvass in Mississippi as nominees OF the
Republican party for Congress in their re.
spectiye districts. They are not vexina
the ears of the nation with any special
complaints of their treatment by "Bour
bon Democrats" They are not posing in
the way of gentlemen with a grievance
and they do not propose to do so. What
they do propose, however, is to aid in
building up the Republican party in Mis-
sissippi with a greater strength, and t
brush Gorham and any other variety o
place-hunter out of their way, in pursuit
of that object. Gorham is not wen :
wolf in sleeps clothing; he is a very. silly
ass masquerading in the cast-off garments
of the Republican lion, and his attempted
roar is but a mere bray.