Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-07
GuBERNATORIAL.
The Canvass Between Governor Brown
and Mr.. Freeman, the Radical
Candidate.
Joint Discussion at Chattanooga on Sat
urday Night Last.
Governor Brown Sustalns the COnYen'
tiOn System and His Adminlstra-
tiOn-Grant and the Banner.
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1 of the Burns House.
The discussion was opened by Cover
4 nor Brown, who said that he was before
! the people seeking their Endorsement of
4 his administration. If he had done
right, he should be supported. II he
had brought to the discharge Of his
! duties neither intellect, nor patriotism,
nor honesty, it was right that he should
be branded. After paying handsome
I compliment to his competitor, he dis
cussed the State policy briefly. He re-
viewed the Democratic policy in redue-
ing the State debt, by authorizing rail-
roads to buy up the bonds of the
State to pay their liabilities to
the State, and the sale of delinquent
railroads. All the roads but four
had been sold before his inaugura-
ton, and these have now been sold.
This has reduced the State debt from
/ S43. 600. 900 to 500, ,000,O 900. The question
is before you still, shall this debt be paid
/ OF repudiated? He had always recon-
mended the payment Of the debt, and
now repeated it. He was in favor OF
funding the whole debt, principal
and interest, in. six per cent. bonds, pay
able, principal and interest, in Nashville,
and taxable for State purposes, and de-
4 duet from the coupon the tax to which
!
cratic administration the expenses of the
State government have been reduced by
/ 500, 900 a year. Under Senter's admin
istration the expenses were S700, 600; last
wear they were less than S600,0O0 We
have paid no interest, because We have
had to paw 81 ,560, 600 of the old issue Of
the Bank of Tennessee, and S297, 900 of
outstanding warrants, and S172,O0O OF
warrants to the school fund, which ought
to have been paid by the Brownlow adj
ministration. We have paid thus over
s.. .OOO, 900 of liabilities since 1863, and
only had the revenue Of 1870 and ISL.
Governor Brown showed cOnvinciDgly
the necessity for getting what they would
fetch for the ins0lyent railroads, and al
luded to the Mineral Home railroad
swindle as a specimen of Radical rail-
road legislation. The Radical party
spett Sl4, 600 in bonds and built only
1870 miles of railroad. Before the war,
the Wings and Democrats spent Sl5,
| OOO. 900 in bonds and built $50 miles of
railroad and 200 miles of turnpike.
Governor Brown then reviewed his
action in the matter of the Penitentia
nv, which had been a drain upon the
Treasury every year since it was founded.
( From 1855 to 1861 it cost an average of
/ 900 per year. From 1866 to 1870 it
cost the State STA, 900 per annum. In
1871 ii cost SI7, 900. He did not think
he could make it self-sustaining under
the management Of State officials, when
all the Governors for 40 years had failed,
and when responsible parties offered to
nav all expenses and give the State
S33. .OOO he thought he would take it.
TCries, "You did right."] He would do
Il again. Yet he had been assailed by
the Radicals because he had saved the
/ SII4,OO0 year and put into the Treasury
S33, 900. The claim that the Pen1ten-
tiary made S60, 900 was based on the
fact that the Inspectors had failed
TO charge themselves with 1900
y Of warrants issued to them and
, sl4. 600 appropriated. He had ordered the
report overhauled and the Legislative
Committee reported that insteadOf max
ing money in those two years it had lost
So, 600. No enterprise managed by any
z State has ever been self-sustaining, while
when leased ii became profitable. This
he illustrated by the canals of Pennsyl-
: vania, the State road of Georgia, and
? the Ohio penitentiary. The Ohio peni-
= tentiarv with eight hundred convicts is
only leased for $4,000 year, that OF In
{ diana for S3O00a year.
: Governor Brown spoke briefly upon
! the public school system, favoring the
j county system with a State Superinten-
a dent. He favored distribution of pub
lie lands as a school fund among the
5 States. If that cannot be done he IA
= vored a State tax as soon as the State
finances are reduced to a system.
s He favored immigration and the es-
i tablishment of a Bureau Of Statistics tC
! disseminate abrsad information ab0u
> our resources.
3 The Governor made few humorous
Z remarks at the expense of his eOmpeti-
tors political record, and strong finan
, cial argument against the Grant admin
~ istration, in which he made no persona
> charge against Grant, but compliment
IS ed him very highly as soldier. Afte
II this he made a few remarks upon th'
a necessity for conventions so long pol
D. itics exist, in order to consolidate the
n strength of parties. The convention
q system is superior TO caucuses. He CAV,
n a history of political conventions, an,
~ said that opponents of conventions ha,
J. always been defeated in national poll
el ties. II the convention system is goo
ID for the whole people of the Unitet
m States, why not for the people of Ten
q nessee2 How can party perpetuate it
IS ascendancy, unless its vote is cOncentra
ne ted upon a single candidate for each OF
iss fee? If conventions are not sat
a isfactory, it Is the fault of the peOpl
us themselves. As the Governu
IS, was closing, some man in tn
IS, crowd wanted to know about his eneoui
Is aging q mob in Nashville. He reptile
or that whoever said be had encouraged
ur mob told a wilful and deliberate false
n hood. He had been informed there wa
ut a mob forming, and the Mayor Of Mash
ne vile and the editor of the Banner cam
ic- to him at his room. He went wit
re them and found that the mob had take
u a negro out Of the Jail and hung him I
M a lamp-post, but that he had been rel
II cued. The mob was still anxious [
IN take him again, and he had addresse
as the mob and told them to 90 home an
OF obey the law, and let the law take i
g course, and they had done so. He Ia
cd never been blamed for his course bJ
Is had been praised for it by his polite,
lg enemies, one Of whom told him he ha
No done what no other Governor Of Il
On State ever dared to do.
ut The Governors speech was listened
ne with close attention, and at the close
es was heartily eheered.
nea Governor Brown introduced Mr.. Ere
ed man as his personal friend and compe
en- ifor. Mr.. Freeman spoke for about q
e. hour, acting chiefly on the defensiv
AT We should be glad to give synopsis
e, his speech, but our time and space WI
as not permit. The only point he made b
m yond the usual Endorsement of Gran
We was that a part of the Browniow issl
n OF bonds was TO repair solvent railroad
ed He claimed that Che Democratic par
ID was opposed to free schools, in the ia
ey OF Governor Browns advocacy Of theI
II Governor Browns reioinder was We
ect happy, and although he was frequent
NJ interrupted, he kept the attention Of q
'ur audience, now composed almost e
a tirely Of negroes, in a manner that
te, other Democratic speaker has ever be.
sl able to do. They listened to him as
he tentively as they did to their own ca
SIS didate, and after the speaker was ov'
for several Of them came up and sho'
ne hands with him.
'ue Mr.. Freeman's rejoinder was brief a.
ed contained no new points.
ne The discussion on both sides was
N; model for all canvasses. 1t was mark
en by courtesy and dignity, while p
ne wanting in spice and anecdote. II
no people Of Tennessee have reason to
N proud Of their candidates for Goyerns
ey and while the gallant Brown win
aat elected by an overwhelming majorlf
ast the Republican friends Of Freeman c,
Ut have the consolation Of knowing that
es- the canvass he has shown himself eve
re- inch gentleman.
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by New York aud New England, falli
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