Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-05-28
ARTHUR'S CHANCES
Tor ocruFyIES tie White House for
1nssher Four Years Increasing =, =,
The s.Old Ticket.-
The Utah BIZ Discussed in the Senate
Speech by Senator Brown
-Laxity Of the
DlForce Laws In New England - Legal
izez Adultery 2s Against Illegal Nor
asaiSm-Startling Facts.


WNsHxsTox. Nay 27.-In converse
.i0n with friend to-day President Arthur
szid that he nov felt more confident than
ever a. 70 his own nomination. 81 am
sa1i6ed, I" sad he, @from the most recent
reports Of my friends that the efforts to
break my Southern support have failed,
and that the Southern delegations will
vote for me IS long as l am in the field
Though Mr. Blaine claims eighty votes
from the South ! am sure he will not get
twenty"
Mr. Arthur Is keeping a close tally of
the delegates and their preferences, and is
confident that he viii get S74 votes on the
frs bzllot, and that On the second he will
be triumphantly nominated. He has
been paying special attention to all the
Southern delegates who have dropped in
al KashingtOa- Last Sunday he gave a
fEo-hoar conference 10 W. 4. Piedger,
col0red delegate from Georgia, who, after
leaving The White House, said entbusi-
aslcally that the twenty-four delegates
oi that State would vote for Arthur to the
last Furthermore, said Pledger, 81 be-
liere he viii have every vote from the
South except Eve or six, and that his
friends VIII stick 10 him rs Grants SOC did
IN 1850"
TIKI ''oLD TICKET"
A general inquiry among Democratic
GOngressmen shows an almost unanimous
opinion that the nomination OF the "old
1icket" Is now inevitable. The declaration
q the New York S,l1a that Tilden ought to
re nominated Is taken as a positive indi-
cation that he has finally made mp his
mind 10 accept, and the late enthusiastic
meeting in TammAny Hall has produced
the feeling that the highest considerations
+ Oi party policy demand that Tilden should
T head the ticket. Since Tammsny, his in
reterSte enemy, has become reconciled,
T al si0n-bozrds point TO Hlden. 1t is clear,
alss, that the prospect OF Tilden and Hem
! dricks on the Democratic ticket produces
CONSERVATION among the Republicans.
7 With such ticket they regard the loss of
! New York as almost certain, and rely on
the forlorn hope OF capturing three or four
Southern States.
THE POWERFUL LOBBY
4 which has been here all the winter and
/ s7riug l. eXaltant over the manner in
/ which many members are advocating an
early adjournment Ii is suspected, in
iaci, that the lobby has had much to do in
working up the feeling in favor of a speedy
adjournment, as this would be an effectual
suspension OF all legislation hostile to the
railroads. The present Congress started
ON with q Wild hurrah against the rail-
road laid grants, the Holman resolution
4 declaring in favor OF the forfeiture of all
doubtful claims being almost unanimously
adopted Then the tariff intervened and
the House seemed to forget that it had
come here 10 restore q vast domain that
hRd been taken from the people by incor-
porzted robbery. The attention of mem
bers l. being called to the fact that the
railroad lobbyists are already beginning tC
Grow over a great victory won, and the
question Is being asked whether
Congress viii totally neglect to
czE-y out its expressed determination
70 reclaim the immense areas in the
Northwest now fraudulently held by the
corpOrz601s. Mr.. Payson, of Illinois,
who has given this difficult subject special
and constant attention, ssid to-day that
C5ngTess could not adjourn with honor tC
itself without restoring to the people every
acre Of Land OF which they had been un
iRstly robbed Cobb, Of Indiana, took
the sane vieW, and declared that be woulC
firmly oppose adjournment until th,
pending bis ior the forfeiture ot lanC
crzzis had been einitely acted upon.