The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-10-07
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same everywhere. Its traditions, wheth-
! er federal or state, are written in blood. &.
The line of its march is everywhere
strewn with the fragments of PROSTATE
! governments, decaying commerce, :
Tuined homes and bankrupt peoples
at is law unto itself" It's methods
are not found in our VIZ oSustitu-
zion. 1t not only DISTINGUISHES freemen
| for partisan purposes where 1t has the
power, but elsewhere surrounds the /:
polls with hired emissaries, not, as they !
| declare, to protect the ballot from m
| timidation, but to defraud and intimi-
date ethe insolent wretches" who would
dare vote the democratic ticket.
Now, gentlemen, let us look dispas-
! siOnately at the anomalous campaign in
| Tennessee. Why is the democracy of
this proud old state divided in this great
! contest?
The convention composed of the rep
resentative men of almost every county
in the state, assembled at Nashville &C
cording to the time hOnored party
usages, and with singular unanimity
! adopted patriotic platform, and by ac-
clamation nominated John%&. Wright,
man of political experience, a soldier
and a statesman, as its candidate Tor
governor.
Out of the unprecedently large vote
of 1881, the platform received S2o12
votes-within fraction of two-thlrds or
the entire convention.
The Wilson men withdrew, and Judge
Wright, on the third ballot, received
1857 notes.-the whole vote of the entire
convention.
The boilers assembled, about 100
strong, and nominated Mr.. Wilson as
their candidate for governor. They
adopted a platform, the cardinal feature
of which is the reputation of the en-
tire debt of the state, except the follow
ing bonds:
Capitol Bonds =. .....-. $493,OUO
Union Bank Bonds ....... 100000
Bank of Tennessee Bonds. 2l4,OO0
Hermitage Bonds 49,. -. $4,000
Agricultural Bureau Bonds -. $4,000
Bonds for Stock in Turnpilles, 72S,0 900
Bonds for Stock in Railroads. $4,000
The platform of the boilers does not
make this enunciation of the items of
the debit only declares, 1--WE favor
the adjustment and speedy payment of
the state debt proper" The items l
, have given are universally understood
to comprise "the state debt proper as
it is called, and the utterances of the
Wilson faction have given this enumer-
alton OF it as declaratOry of their inter-
probation of their purposes. All the
, other liabilities of the state are repudia-
: ted.
What are they? The largest item is
one of S., 5S3 600, the face of bonds is
sued during the conservative admins
tration of Andrew johnson and lsham
, G.. Harris. Every one of these SIS, $685.
600 of bonds bears either the signature
of johnson or Harris as governor, and
the issuance of all of them was author
y lied by acts of legislatures who were
= never even suspected of bribery or COZ
o ruption. None of these bonds were is
: sued by railroads. The name of rail-
, road does not appear.upon one of them,
n neither upon their fOces nor upon their
r backs. They are straight State bonds.
Each one of them is an unqualified OBJ
= legation by the state to pay one thous-
a and dollars to bearer, with interest from
date. They contain no direct or condi-
= tional promise by any railroad to pay
If any part of the principal or interest, or
: to furnish either money or property TO
q nav anv part of either. These bonds of
n the state were loaned to railroads, who
:. took them from the state, sold them i'll
&c the markets and purchased iron to i'm
" ish their roads, and equipments to run
= them. The state, the holder of the
II bond, and the railroad company occupy
the precise relation to one OF THESE
(. bonds to-day that Mr.. Witt, Mr.. Chill
= ders and myself would to my note of
one thousand dollars, if Mr.. Witt had
% borrowed that note, signed by me and
e made payable to bearer and sold it to
=, Mr.. Childers. The note natures. Mr..
Childers applies to Mr.. Witt for pay
+ ment. witt replies, 81 am neither the
i maker nor the endorser of the note !;
re- nor does it contain any obligation or
ID promise of mine to pay it. 1 borrowed
n ir from Brown and sold it to you. L
re have delivered Brown one of his own
a. a.,.as :JI SICC0 A.G i.e alone is 4i.-oIo 10