Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-28

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League to the genuemtn n named sufficiently
! explains itself. 1he policies therein mapped
! out are worthy the Ser Gus atteD tion no
( only OF the gentlemen named as delegates
/ hut Of every citizen OF Memphis:
MAYORS OFsICE, CITY HALL. :
MEMPHIS, TENN.1 October y, 1919. J
! Colonel A. J. Kellar, Memphis Ava'anche; J
keating, ESQ Memphis AppedI; Hon. J
II. Mathes, Public Ledger; Hon. John Over.
ton, jr.; Hon. Luke W. Finay; Hon. S B.
Robbins, President Board of Aldermen ion
John Ient, President Board ommon Coun-
Ell; ton. John Johnson, EX May or; Hon.
A j. White, Z. esident Selma, Marion and
Memphis Railroad; John Donovan, ESQ,
President Memphis and Raleigh Railroad
John I. Flynn, f. O., Super erntendent Louis
vile snd Nashville kainoad NJ. Burke
Esq Superintendent Missls ippi and FEM
nesSee Railroad NJ. 3. Pritehaid, Esq ST.
perlutenGent Memphis and Little Rock
ha lrOad; Major W. j. Ross, Super
iniendent Memphis and Charleston
railroad; Niles Meriwether, ESQ. Chief Err
gineer Memphis and Charles on Railroad:
G. &. Burke, Esq, G, ty Engineer; A. <. Liver
more, Esq; General ii. T.WuIiamson; Gen
erel Il. +. Patterson: Il G BrinkIey, ESQ: ::
Louis HaDaue', Esq ;ColOnt ". NTageyuey
ST.; Colonel I'm ,ch Ems ley; n Omss BoyIe
Esq Napoleon Hill, Esq p. G. Meath,
Esq; Henry NJ. LOewenStiue, Esq; Colonel
y. II. Doug ass; NgjOr NJ. j. Waidran: /. NJ
hiil, tSq Benjamin Eiseman, ksq; Cap
tain VIM. Miller Colonel W. II. Carroll; 4.
Naecaro, Esq:
GESTLRMEN-I am ldebted to the courtesv
of Ston. James .. Broadhead, chairman OF the
executive committee, appointed at mass.
meeting IN the city Of ST. LOuis to make ar.
rangements for calling national convention,
to meet there on the tweuty-third day of No
Vemoer next, for an invitation 10 be present.
and also authority to appoint YOU delegates
which hereby do, to consider the subject OF
the construction OF a Pacific railroad through
the states and Territories of the southwest
sincerely hope that each and all of you may
hndit convenlenttO attend. No conyen ion
has been held in the past fifteen years as i'm
portant to the people of Tennessee and the en-
O 10 ana
the success of which, in a gr at measure de-
peGus the development OF the cotton, sugar
ana r1ce-producing states of the southwest
andS6outh Bill No. 9S9 introduced on the
ninth of December. 1874, in the senate of the
United states, will PROBABLY be before the
convention for consideration and discussion;
and 1t would be idle to imagine that
the action Gf such an Intelligent
body of citizens as will assemble at St Louis
congress Of the United States; hence the peo-
pie OF this State will properly expect that
Lhelr delegates will present the grievances for
which there are Just reasons TO cOmnlain
Not long since the Union Pacific railroad
from Omaha to Ogden, and the Central Pa.
cihc, from OgIen to San Francisco, were con
structed by the government as a national
hlghway. To-day 1t is evident that the prin-
clpal interests then c0nsul' ed were those OF |
the great cities of Chicago, Boston and New |
Ork, and the section of country on their
parallel. Again in 1871 an act was passed in
cooperating the Texas Pacific railroad com
pany fIom point at or near Marshall, in the |
OF san Diego, in the State of California aIonS
or near TO the th1riy-secOnd parallel of lati9 |
tude. now another railroad is projected-the |
AIanIlc ana Pacific, from the town Of Splino-
ne!d, IN the State OF Missouri, along or |
y. aS near as practic able to the thirty |
NTH parallel Of latitude to the Pacific. |
enurely Ignoring Memphis and the vast sec
ton OF country lying east of the Mfssissinni |
river, aud between the thirty-second and |
ofty M npst parallels OF latitude, for it Will not
De pretended that this line, now contemplated
IN the thirty-fi parallel, from SpTinsfieid
Miss ouri, can be of any benefit to the terri
.ory lying south of st. Louis and north of
vicksburg and to the Atlantic OCEAN on the
east. The people of Tennessee, Mississippi.
louisiana, kentucky, Virginia, Alabama,
lad good cause for conn plant on sccOunt of
he route selected for the Union Pacific rail-
cad ana hence 1t is now essentially neces.
ary that the States named should act in con |
:; IT and be heard from at the coming conyen- |
ION, for IL is evident that the conteTn nj ated |
ice from Springfield 10 the Pacific Is for the
ole Oeneht OF our sister city of st I,ouis |
rhe two lines referred to in section two of
he bill now pending before congress are the
5e6as 5e1;so ana Pacific and Atlantic and
That both lines from the Junction east, shall
le put on an equality as to all consigned bust.
less passing either way over the main trunk |
inc; and no discrimination, as regards |
harses for freight or passengers, shall be |
ma e against either, but the same charges per
REL nj snail be made tor the haul to and from |
he junction and points on the line west there
u, u Inus see II congress should pass the |
I'LL IN us present form, that the entire busi-
less from the junctiCn on the line of the At
llLic and Pacific must necessarily mass |
hrough 81 Louis. This would not be fust,
nd, therefore, may we not properly ask that
llssouTi LABOR for equal rights and privileges
0 the en- ire neglected south. Justice demands
= nat an nendment be advocated, or, rather,
nat sectlon Two of the bill be amended to |
cad; That all lines which may be hereafter
INSTRUCTED from the junction, OF that shall |
onneet WIN either OF the two lines
FORMING tr11pl |
hall be entitled to all the rights and priviIe
es as are now proposed to be granted to the
o nam ii INES IN the transportation of passen-
ers and freight at fixed price per mile. An
ther amendment should be embodied in the |
III before its passage giving to all connecting |
mes with either of the main lines the same |
ro rata aid per mile az is to be given to the |
atlantic and Pacific railroad company, If |
Omething Of this kind is done all will have |
scttng this great enterprise. The north and |
rest have recently shown unmiStakabIe eyi. |
ence that the past is forgOi ten, and that the |
'ofK Tor The future will be to build up the en-. |
r country. Why, then may Il ot the people |
[ Memphis and Tennessee, who, by their |
wn unaided eXertions, constructed their nor |
on OF Two railro ads, upon which palace ears |
lay pass on the way from New York to Little |
o}ek' point one huGdred and nifty
4 lIes west t5 OF the Mississippi river
ne government, whioh has already expended
yer seventy million dollars in constructing |
road which is often i'm mpaSsable.
Gentlemen, having great confidence in your
ldgment and your knowledge of the wants
no wishes OF our citizens, and the necessity
procuring government aid in developing
lie vast resources Of this almost yet unknown !
)unt1y, the superior of which for fertility OF |
,il, heaithfulness of climate, aud rich in
Il kinds Of useful mineTals.Is not to be found
4 the habttable glOOe-I therefor cordially
you to the convention, and be-
'eak for you the courtesy of the executive
)mmittee through its chairman, Hon, James
. Broadhead, as also that of Hon. James III.
ritLon, mayor of st. Louis; and am truly
your obedlent servant,
JOHN LOAGUE Mayor.