Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-07
1910.
TIInEs ANn TILE s0uTH.

I'll LDES AND THE SOUTH.
The telegraph has informed us that
the leading Democratic papers of Geor-
gia, except the always safe and conserva-
lively conducted Macon Telegraph, have
declared Tor Tilden for President, and
the Atlanta Constitution, in a sensational
and double-leaded editorial, announces
that the delegates from that State to the
National Convention will be instructed
to vote for the sage of Gramercy Park,
FIRST, last and all the time" This may do
for Georgia, perhaps it will, but it yet re-
mains to be seen if the rank and file of
the party will follow so blind lead
For blind it is, if the statement of Mr..
Hewitt, of New York, is to be believed,
that Mr.. Tilden is paralyzed in both
arms, can scarcely be heard above
whisper and is in no condition, even if
he desired it, and he says positively he
does not, to make the canvass for
the Presidency In view of these
facts and the declared purpose of
Gov. Hendricks not to allow his
vival of the old ticket this little furry
for Mr. Tilden is. we think, ill-advised,
and calculated, in Georgia at least, to do
the party great harm, to mislead its
members into the belief that it has
reached the desperate condition Of for
lorn hope, to lead which there is not one
healthy, brainy leader left; and that we
must look to the poor old paralytic of
Gramercy Park as the only one Of all our
public men fit to direct us during what
promises to be one of the hardest fought
campaigns in the history of the coun-
try. 1t need not be said that this
is not the case. 1t cannot in truth
be said of the Democratic party
so long as Mr. Thurman lives, or
Hendricks or Mcdonald, or Flower or
Cleveland, or Payne or Hancock, or Ran
dali or Morrison are to be had for the
asking. The other States of the South,
so far as we have observed the express
sions of opinion of their leading papers,
while they are not Wanting in high re-
spect for Mr.. 1ilden, are opposed to any
further consideration of him as a candi-
date for the Presidency and regard him as
out of the race. No contingency
or exigency is upon us, or is likely to
be, that makes so desperate a scheme
worthy of a moments thought. Mr..
Dana, of the Sun, urges as his reason for
the re- aspousal of the dying Mr. Tilden
that his nomination would push tariff
reform Into the obscurity proper
to theoretical distractions" This is
grave error for so well informed a man
as Mr.. Dana to make and the Georgia
Democratic press to indorse. The Dem
ocrats of the South are unalterably de
termined, as are those of the West, that
tariff reform shall not be pushed into
obscurity, and that Morrison's views
as expressed in the bill yet held
by the Committee of Ways and
Means of the House, shall, if they
are not enacted into law, be made one of
the vital issues on which the party is to
20 into the contest Besides, Mr.. Tide ,
ov, N if he was not paralyzed, it he was
in 20, I'd health, is so thoroughly com
mittcd - tariff reform, that if he ac-
cepted the nomination at Chicago he
couId only do 20 by reiterating the tariff
plank of the pla form of 1876 drawn by
himself and which IN his famous letter
of accantauce he mdo rsed. That plank
reads:
We denounce the presen tai1fl' leVled
upon near 1000 articles, as uias'eI plece
OF injustice, inequality and false pfetense'
1t Yields q dwiudling, not weary rising
revenue. 1t has impoverished ma oy N m
dus.Ties 70 subsidize few. 1t prob 'oit5
imports that might purchase the produ' 70
OF American labor 1t has degraded Amer
lean commerce from the first to an inferior
rank on the high seas. 1t mas cut down the
sales of American manufactures at home
and abroad and depleted the returns OF
American agriculture-an industry FOL
lowed by hall our people. 1t costs the
people FIVE times more than il produces 10
the Treasury, obstrUctS the process OF pro
duCtion, and wastes the fruit OF labor. II
promotes fraud, fosters smuggling, enrich
es dishonest officials, and bsnkrupts hon
est merchants. We demand that Cnstom-
house taxation shall be only for revenue.
Nothing so forcible as this as to the
iniquities of the existing tariff has ever
appeared from any other pen. 1t is a
short, sharp, incisive indictment that Is
as true to-day as it was in 1876, when ! t
was adopted by one of the most notable
conventions of the party that ever as
ssmbled. Guided by it, Mr. Morrison,
sustained by an overwhelming majority
of the Democratic members of the
House, has framed a bill that, while
it does not accomplish a hundredth part
of what free-trade Democrats desire, Is q
step in the direction tow rd the ultimate
which this plank of 1876 so plainly points
to. Mr.. Tilden cannot, therefore, for
this reason, as we'll as for the more
weighty one of his physical condition,
BE thought of for moment as
4 candidate for the Presidency, nor
can his name be successfully used
to momentarily screen the purpose
MIR. Dana has really in view, OF
helping Mr.. Randall aud his fellow
protectionists. In this section OF
the country even Mr.. Tilden's name
IS without significance. He is regarded
as icing as completetely out of politics
aud ali political consideration, as ii he
were really dead, an event We trust that
IS many Years distant, and the people
haye become used to the discussion
@f other names, to consider the
chances of success with leaders
,Q0uger in years, and Of acknowl-
} ed ability and experience, and OF
eus aud influence sufficient to help the
powei - its struggle for victory next
parry n 1t has many such men be-
N9Neuipel, ~6 have named. There are
siues 5L3 UIoSo @ lDeGocrats Of merely lo-
nT uouUt ,tinn ,i" ov, >Cy way as well fitted iof
the office of Presid, SS in iaL ngI~ "~%'
AndrewJ ohnson or Ii. Neoin .9ota OF .llCI Nnon
were found equal to exit NoTuipary :,1 i Sinei
gencies such as are happy ho on Ionsot -
possible. There are many PIPNfsi !HeI H. ~
ability, tact aud address, who, IKE .use s,.
statesman. would surpass ali eYpeetShtS! II
and prove equal to the demands Oh Ihe
time, men who would stand so uareR
on Mr.. Tilden's anti-tariH p,,'uA
of 1876 and refuse to give thel,
consent TO the pushing of the tariff
business" Into the obscurity proper to
theoretical distractions, as Mr.. Dana
declares, aud all the leading Democratic
papers of Georgia, save the Macon Tete-
graph, ar pledged to. work for until the
nomination is made at Chicago next
July.
THE soc rHERN STATHS IMHIGRA.