The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17

State, regardless OF party predllec
tiOns, meet at their respective court
houses at as early day as convent
ent, aad select delegates. These
representatives should be men o.
ripe age, large experience in bust
ness, incorruptible integrity and IN
blemished honor. 1t should be com.
posed Of gentlemen from both po
litical parties and of characters
weighty enough to command the re.
spect of the entire people Of the
State. Then if that body Of patri
otto citizens in their good judgment
should see fit to nominate a Stat 6
credit candidate for Governor every
honest paper in the State and every
patriotic voter should join in his
| support and elect him. As to the
members OF the general assembly
of course that matter will, from ne
cessiLy. have to be left to the Peep lie
Of the different counties and districts
A united party, running one candi-
date for Governor, would Of course
give strength and courage to the
State credit candidates to the legis-
lature and would greatly aid in se-
curing majority in that body favor
able to the honest payment Of our
debts.
All this can be done without in
anywise prejudicing the Presidential
campaign. Tennessee is a Demo.
cratic State by forty or fifty thous-
and majority. The State is certain
to cast her vote for the Democratic
nominee. The State debt is strictly
local question-one to be settled
by the people OF the State without:
any reference TO national politics.
The Democrats who favor the pay.
ment Of 60 cents, those in favor of
80 cents, or 40 cents. or 335, or 25
or nothing can all alike meet at the
ballot box and vote for Tilden, or
Seymour or Bayard or whoever the
Democrats may nominate at Cincin-
natl.
We hope the Times will not stop
in the good work. That cOusulta-
ton of State credit men ought by
all means to be called to meet in
Nashville in May or June, and we
are depending a good deal upon the
pluck, energy and spirit Of our con-
temporary to work up sufficient in
terest in the matter to put the con
vention through to success. There
is too much at stake in this matter
to delay or to daily. The good name
of our grand old State ID trembling
in the balance. The SRvages are on
the war path. We can hear their
whoops OF defiance across the noun
tains. They boast that they have
the debt payers down and that they
intend to hold them down. Ever !
since the result of the election in |
August last we have been afraid !
hey have ground for the boast they |
are making. If there should be three
for Governor we look
lpon it as almost certain that the
savage Regulators will elect their
by plurality. and the
act of having three candidates for
Governor will 30 demoralize and
scatter the people that the Saw
ages will also secure a majority in
10Th branches of the Legislature.
The conference suggested by the
Times may avert these misfortunes,
md thus save US and our children
rom the odium which will surely
ONE upon US If we permit the State
government and the legislature to be
aptured by the Savages. Keep the
ag. fly ing, brother MACEDONIAN. Do
II you can to arouse the honest peo- ]
lie Of Tennessee to a sense Of the ]
reat danger menacing them. Call
pom them to preserve aud protect
le good name Of Tennessee, and to :
and the flag of the glorious State $
own TO our children as we received Z
from our fathers-unstained by '
untarnished by shame. Let
have the Convention.
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