Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-13
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The r sdiczi Is the most corrupt party
that ever cursed TIE State. Nos satiafed
with abuse Of power snd ~usurpstior.
Of authority, the leaders y nat orgsui-
ton have over-tsxed the people under
one pretsGse OF another, and f5~leniOusiy
inside egsy with the proceeds. Over
s. OO0, Geo Of school fund has bsen
vrenched from tie citizens Of Tennessee
and diverted from it's legitimate uss to
purposes ~personsl 20 Radical leaders, or
for the maintenance 81 theic corrupt
party. The Nashville BzTaer tells u
that the School S1cerin tzdeat o. Carer
county received $3.50 for schoot purposes,
with which be established twO schools
and a large country dry goods store.
WILCOX confesses e have traded Il
State bonds With IS mEea Of tie
School Fund - vas entrusted to him
IS Superintendent for Knox county.
Since August Ct last year the suUs thus
given BIN amounted 70 Sl4 SCI 40, drs8n
az the following Gsas: August 10, 1858,
$3.50, being his salary Angus. =, 1865,
S2966 Is for school purposes, snd Oc3ober
%, 1859, 5000 "A, snd Mssch 4, So
IA 40. TIE Nashville Union and liner
lean, commenting on these figures, con
fessss that it does not know IL Ibis is net
more money than WILCOX wss entitled
10 by virtue 0; his Office, and states
mat lie suspicious have been aroused
SINCE It hiss learned that several coun..
ties have overdrswn and their Superin-
tendeats have expended more than the
pro rata Of tie und belonging to them.
BY whose warrsnt or viii this reckless
e~xtravRgsDes mas been iadulged il or by
whoss authority these oveTcAscks were
houored does NOT sppear. We know that
such Is the fact, sRd that the STATE, il
consequence thereof, was obliged to e.
feet q loan before TIE school cheeks Of
1868 ccGId be konored. Bat, perhaps,
We should be coutsat that It Is 40 vorse,
and that the people Of the State lave rot
been literally sod ous fgT the support O.
this Radical and negro psty.
TnGt he state Of lac case is all that
We have heIesOfOre. painted it, is suscep-
tible OF proof even upon Radical tssti-
moDy. The Nashville Press and Times
says:
Il seems that Hight is breaking upoa fhs
Transactions connected with tbe mis- lag
school luad. The hidden haDds viii sOoa ap-
pear that clutehed and bore away this sacred
deposit. Il Sss piundeT, wholesale aud iniqai-
t0us II was mO1strously wicked Corruption
makes no app oaeh 10 tie definition Of thls
damuable tperslfsD. The s~ooundreLy n5auip-
ulators did not only hleh from the treasury,
lat equally As bad as highwaymen. rob5sd tie
chld-en o. tbs STATE We regard with suspi-
elOu every man connected with The sinking Of
this fund.- by report. who cannot exculpate him
seti, And ia this cOaneeifOn we wouId ask
why Col. Wilcox has been silent, beyonI as
suring the people OF KDsx county that as roe
hing Al ChattsuOoga wihnot be thslr Hnjssor-
tuner Why has not J0bn Esuon. f. The Stets
superintendent OF Eu5lfc instruction, who was
AZ Chattanooga en- 1Upaby with Col Wilcox
at tae t1ns ofJhe repJrsed robbery, furnished
the pubic a Sc tsmsntin iegrsd 10 the mat
teri We ak thsse questions with The hope
that they VII be satisfactorily answered.
NOW We desire II ~ be distinctly undeusfoad
that We design making no warfare upon any
man connected win The Ct sappearauce Of LIE
school money, but az a Journalist resp nslble 20
tire pepe, We intend ~ Work fcr their Interests
@AN IGS NhD are pluuugrluE
them
EATON has inside 10 snsver 70 this.
but = private letter to the Union and
American fEOn Chattanooga states that
the school money which Mr.. WILCOX
claims wa ssslsn from him there, "a 10
be used in "defrsyiug The expenses oil
the csrpet-bsg Cevniy superiutendents
to Nashville % the 20.h inst, to psck
the Rsdissl State Convention aud carry
their candidate through; and also to re-
nominate EATON fer state Supesintse-
Cent Of Public IDstraction.o Tbe Pcess
and Times attaches come importspes
70 this statement, fcr 10 its issue Of YES
terday it commepts on it as follows;
"Wbat docs allths mean? "a tbe Iasa dollar
ef this sacred heritage o. The cbIldren on ~
Stale 10 be takrn Tor a secret service fund TO-
eject political purposes Have men become
81 fufamously cOrrupt and eager for onies as to
pIupder tie poor and ignorant FOR The means
10 accomplish tails Object To say the least Of
"a M letter is a broad Estimation 10 that ef-
Fect. THERE'S . mystery CONNECTED with the
WGeox affair That the Peoplr, not Of Knox
couuty. but the whole State, impeTafIYeIy de-
10 be revealed. What right had Wilcox
81 the state bonds as the a-ppOrtloDment OF
Knox county, which he sold Ia the New York !