Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-24
MARKS AND REMARKS.
LOw-Tax Leaders Incubafing q
scheme That VIII Fail.

Scheme That VIII Fail.
Correspondence of the Courier j Journal.
NASHVILLE, April 20.-There arises
q question, even at this late hour, as
to the settlement of the State debt.
Old man Savage, S. f. Wilson, late
low~tax candidate for governor, and
several other prominent low-tax men
have been in the city several days,
and for purpose that threatens the
State with dire consequences. 1t is
rumored tonight that they, or some
one else, will file bill of injunction
against the controller from issuing
the new bonds with which it is pro-
posed to settle the past-due indebt-
edness of the State. Ex-Governor
Marks has also been here several
days; and, although he is attending
the Federal court, it is rumored that
he is here in the interest of repudias
ton that he is in favor of a read
justment in other words, he is to be
the Malone of Tennessee, and will be
the next lOWstaX candidate for the
| united 0CaUeS 0enaLe.
"How can such things be-" Gov
ernor Marks has recently been con-
sidered the best friend the State had,
and that he can now so completely
turn his back upon her best interests
and aid and abet in O. scheme which
will sink his state and people into
utter ruin, disgrace and ignominious
oblivion, is astounding every one.
Yet they assert that such is the pros
gramme. The word "they'' means
the low-tax men-the regulators,
the readjusters that are to be. God
save Tennessee from the fate to
which such men would consign her !.
This scheme has been Matched
since the legislature adjourned, and
probably owes it's existence to John
r. Beasley, who is the bitterest ops
ponent of the debt-paying people of
the State. He is, of course, backed
by all the members of his party.
Beasley is bachelor, and his friends
who would save him are trying to
induce him to marry, thinking wife
would have the effect to make a
State credit man of him But [
think he is hopeless case. During
the entire session of the legislature
I never saw him in the tolls of q
woman but once, and the beauty.
witchery and loneliness of the woman
effected that capture. He accompa-
MED. her Zone of the bellies of the
city, to the theater one night, and
think that must have had good in
fuence over him, for he came to
me the next morning and offered his
compliments to the Courier-J Journal
and asked me to telegraph his re-
CARDS to Mr.. Watterson. He soor
drifted back into his former state O.
being, however, and in q few days hi
ceased to speak to me. Col. Savage
is also a bachelor, and about sixty
five or seventy years old at that. HI
t won't look at woman if he can hell
Q it, no matter how attractive she ma,
be. When he travels on the cars b.
doesn't like to sit in the ladies coacl
even, and if he is forced to he vii
> get out a newspaper and completed.
hide himself behind it, so that i
i. would require all the perceptiv'
. powers of even the most curiou
female to find out whether he was
punch" the companion of Judy,
:. or shadow. He is about five fee
t four in his boots and plug hat an
i weighs about los pounds. He vii
g probably never marry, He hash
time, in the first place, and in tn
second he doesn't want to. He de
" clines all interviews except with mar
L aging editors of low>tax papers, an,
X then won't consent to it unless he
o allowed to see the proof before i
goes in the paper.
Wilson, the ex-candidate for gov
; ernor, was bachelor until last fall
Y Head is bachelor, but is youn,
q enough to be caught. r. G.