Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-09
senntor FinFrIs NJ nav.
Extract from Q, +. Newell's report for the
Courier-Journal.

JeeAneANOo ~ loA tdl 10 sustain IL. Il
ventured at Erin to tell the people
that If Senator Jackson was right we
made a very narrow escape on the 10Th
of June lest, for he himself, in order
TO Democratic unity, introduced
fhaving penned it with his own hand)
the resolution rendering the creditors
50H Laughter and applause. If
Jackson could have gotten you cp one
cent higher, he would have forever
dishonored his State. If I'd been
him I'd squeezed myself down one
cent more If | had tainted. TGreat
and renewed laughter.]
Senator Jackson said at Erin he
would never vote for any man who
ibid not stand on CO.'S; and yet he
says if there were only two candidates,
Hawkins and Bate, he would vote for
the latter. Then he s~ubordinates the
COG act to the higher consideration
of electing a Democratic Governor
and maintaining Democratic principles,
as | have done for four years past.
He showed that every Governor,
every Controller, had kept up the dis
tinction between the State debt proper
and the railroad bonds. Governor
Marks made the distinction so clear
that a distinguished lawyer wrote a
letter indorslng every word of that
message. That lawyer was Howell K.
Jackson. [Great laughter and APP
plause.
But Senator jackson wished to
know the difference between the Bate
and Malone positions. Malone was
q Democrat; he wasn't on top; he
wanted to get on top; he was a little
fellow, so he allied himself with the
Republicans and a few Democrats by
agitating the State debt, so that he
might get into the Senate. Since then
he has outheroded Herod with the
Republicans subservient tool of
that party. Now there was a small
faction of boilers in Tennessee, and
a develish small faction, seeking,
by drawing off a few Tennessee
Democrats and by alliance with
Republicans, to get into Office. For
not even Mr.. jackson would claim
that Mr.. Russell could carry a single
county in the State, nor, perhaps, a
single district in any county. Loud
applause He had not the ghost Of a
chance: then what could he hope for2
His platform and Hawkins we're iden-
teal. Russell and his followers hoped,
by a union with Republicans, to elect
a Legislature in conflict with the
views Of the great Democratic ma
jority. 1t was a contest wholly and
alone between Bate and Hawkins; it
must be one or the other, and in the
name Of the grand old Democratic
party, he appealed to every Democrat
to compromise on the debt issue and
rally to the old flag.
As to the position of the national
Democracy, Senator Harris said he
had heard nine-tenths of the Demo
Gratis in the House and Senate deplore
as a fatal blunder this most inexcus.
able bolt, and he asked his colleague
to name a single Democrat in Wash
ington who was not in sympathy with
General Bate. but Senator jackson
failed to name HING. X. NJ.
He said the Democrats had fought
Malone in the South because he was
a traitor to Democracy, not because
he Favored readjustment, for it was
Democratic policy to let each State
settle its own local affairs. The
National Democracy care not one
copper how sovereign States settled
their own debts. Nor did he fear,
nor did Tennesseeans fear that the
United States Supreme Court, or a
Republican Congress, could force the
people OF Tennessee to settle at the
point Of the bayonet.
Tennesseeans l...
DIDN'T SCARE WORTH A CENT.
1t was a monstrous doctrine to
assume that the Federal government
could levy, enforce and collect taxes
to pay the debt Of a sovereign State;
it was a monstrous doctrine Of central
ization.
He knocked the very last prop from
under Senator Jackson in his rejoin-
der. Senator jackson has held all
along that when he (Jackson) rendered
on the 10th of June a basis of so A,
the creditors had not, at that time,
begun to fund the debt
Then, says Senator Harris, neither
had the creditors begun funding when
the Bate convention framed its plat.
form, rendering 80 3, for both we're
drawn up the same day. 1t is impos-
sible TO divine how Mr.. jackson can
longer hang a hope on his main and
only point, that 60 6 is a fnality.
Senator Harris drew a graphic pic
ture Of the bondholder voluntarily
settling at COG; he had seen men on
the highway stages in Texas "%volun.
tarily" surrender their pocketbooks
with equal grace. Of course, the
b%ondholders would never agree to take
less, if they could get dollar for dollar.
He appealed TO the Democrats of Obi
on, who had stood by him for forty
years, to continue faithful to the end
He had always disapproved these bat
ties within the party line Of Democrat
against Democrat. But the canvass
between him aud his colleague was not
Of his Harris )seeking. It's tendency,
instead OF conciliating, was to embitter
the two wings. He was a candidate
for the United States S~eDatorship, and
bad made out a list Of appointments.
But this was the first time in the
history Of American politics where a
colleague Of the same party had soghta
division OF time with another colleague,
and no power on earth could have
induced him 20 have acted toward
Jackson as jackson was acting toward
him. [Sensation] But he asked no
quarter from either the world, the
flesh or the devil. [Great a%pplause1.
His appeal, in closing, was magnif-
GENTLY eloquent, and drew tears from
many a manly eye.
Obion will give Bate an overwhelm-
ing majority. The Senators will meet
TO. morrow at Dyersburg, il, indeed,
Senator jackson does not retire. The
wonder is that he has held on, dis.
figured as he is, so long; for a com.
pleter triumph on the stump wal
never witnessed than that Senator
Harris daily gains v him.