The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-25
THE DECAY OF THE REPUBLIC.
AN Party.


Democracy means republics gov
eminent by the people, for the pso-
plea form of government in
which the supreme power is in the
hands OF the people, and directly OK.
ereised by ihem-s constitutional
representative government. Founded
on such principles the. Democratic
party cannot die and the republic
live. 1t has crushed out every organ
ization that has confronted IT, For
nearly century 1t has been the Sui
Ivan among political sluggers. The
issues which created the Republican
party have been settled and the people
have driited back TO their normal pc
shon as Democrats, and in few years
the Republican party will be con-
signed 10 the tomb in which hes
roited every organization that has
confronted the unconquerable De-
mocracy. In the lest Presider tial
election Blaine carried Maine by
majority OF over 10000. The official
vote OF the recent election shows
Republican majority of only
1913, and plurality OF only
1850. In 1884 the Republican
plurality for Govern in Septsm-
Der was nearly 10000, and the maiori-
ty over all was $4,000 Even in Maine
the Republican party is on the wane-
growing email by degrees and beau
tifully less" In the south the Re-
publican party has clumbled into
nothingnees. 1t has no organization
in Georgia; it is defuuct in South Car
DINA; it amounts 10 nothing in Ala
bama and Mississippi, and in North
Carolins, the State which was TO be
transferred to the Republican party,
the organ "a ion has been disbanded.
There is no Republican party in the
South, where 1t once ruled aud ruined
by DISTINGUISHING the white taxpay-
els and eniranchising the ignorant,
non-tsxpaying negroes, led by car
petbag robbers. 1t was never founded
on any fundamental principle, fave
the principle Of public plumber, psrde-
Cution and wrong. Its existence in the
South was inspired by no demand Of
the peop'e. 1t was without use
fulness. 1t conserved nothing that
was valuable and suggested
nothing new that was not
dangerous. 1t took no ho'd upon tae
popular heart ard never sought that
for which alone parties are desirable
the public good. Its reason for ex-
istence was simply that it might rob
the common treasury under the forms
OF law, and II has gone the way OF all
bodies Of plunderers 1t has been
tried and found wanting. The history
1t has made isa blot upon the annals
of the country. 1t Is record of Off.
Oihl CuIiup'iohB vi pvhpiuo' NOi'hOo
and deception that has rarely been
-equaled since the world began. 1t has
reflt cied upon the whole land, North,
South, East and West, and it is very
gratifying now to realize that 1t Is
finally being ended by the will Of the
sovereign majority. The Republican
party lie undoubtedly, 30 far as the
South lie concerned, in articulo mortis
and the death Of so peslient
an organization will not be mourned
by any one who is patriot. Here
in the Tenth Tennessee Congressional
District II is Pickering like candle in
the socket. But with the ides Of
November the fl altering light wi ] be
enuffed out. James Phelan is going
TO he elected TO the Filtieh Congress
OF the United States from this district
in November. The Democrats carried
this district in August and they will
increase their majority in November,
for the party stands as one man in
support of Pnelsp, and he will be
elected b. d c'sive majority.