Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-25
TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN.
All the Orators Mounting the
Fiery, Untamsd Stump.
Some Pertinent Questions to Pro.
pound to Mr.. Russell.
The Boom for Bate Growing Dat
Iy aud His Election AL
ready Assured.
Correspondence Courier-Journal.

hoped that some good Democrat in
every audience to which Mr.. Fussell
speaks will PROFOUND to him the fol-
lowing questions, and press him Tor a
categorical answer. Don't let him
escape:
Rirst-As between General Bate
and Governor Hawkins, which of the
two candidates do you prefer shall be
elected2
If he answers, "General Bate as
he most hkoly will, though a number
of his leading supporters here openly
declare that they prefer Hawkins, then
ask:
Second-Would you not, then, ad.
wise the people of Tennessee to support
that Democratic candidate who has
he better chance Of defeating the
Republican,
lIs must keep mum, or he must
answer yes or no. In either event he
will be placed in that attitude in
which he really stands, and see him
self as all good Democrats outside the
State see him.
Senator Harris, who returned to his
home in Memphis last night, will soon
publish a list of appointments. He
says he has enlisted for the war"
and it Senator jackson and Colonel
Bailey or Hawkins, or any other OF
the Bailey, Cooper 4 20. crowd (as
Colonel Looney expressed III wish to
measure swords with Tennessee's
greatest statesman they will be fur
Dished an opportunity.
Senator Harris is to-day the most
powerful man on the stump since Andy
J ohuson's time; indeed, he is superior
to Johnson, for he has not one particle
of the ~demagogue in bis make up,
Besides he is a more impressive speak
er. While johnson was strongest
with the rabble, Harris enjoys the
warmest confidence and esteem Of all
classes, especially the most solid and
purest men Of the State-lawyers,
farmers, clergymen, manufacturers.
The party is most fortunate in hav-
ing as Chairman of the Executive
John j. Vertrees. His
keen Italian hand is seen in every
important move made on the political
chess board here; and no wonder
Brother Doak advises his brother
Fussellites to "let Vertrees alone.
General Bate, l honestly believe, will
owe his election to Vertrees more
than to any one man, and there is no
post of honor to which the party will
not gladly advance him after Novem
Der, though he is a lawyer and not an
aspirant for office, and says be has no
wish or intention of being. John I.
Hillsman, Secretary, and others OF the
committee are no sardines by any
means, and the fates seem in collision
with the facts to give General Bate
the largest majority any candidate for
Governor of Tennessee ever received.
THE RIGHT MAN IN BATE.
With all this, General Bate is the
very man to lead a boom He was
never in his lie defeated before the
people, though he has time and again
Withdrawn from the race for Senator
while largely in the majority, that the
success OF a Democrat might not be
jeOpardized while the others held on.
He had more Democratic votes in the
| Legislature that elected Howell Il.
Jackson than jackson and Bailey
both. Like the chivalrous knight
that he is, he sent in his peremptory
withdrawal, and Jackson was elected
elected by the aid Of Roderick Ran.
dom Butler and other Radicals-Ran
dom, for once in his life, as some SILL
Democrat afterward remarked, "sink
ingthe partisan 10 the patriot" but al
who know X. r. B. will agree that tn
only sinking Of the partisan" he viii
ever be guilty of will be when he goe
to some horse pond and browns him
self.
zen. Bate is the nan for the people
And yet he is In no sense a dema
gogue. | have lately revised my opin
ion Of demagoguery as now under
stood. a demagogue is literally $
leader Of the people," No man cal
put on and take off this art at pleas
ure. One who has to assume tn
warm hearted, broad and magnanimou
love for his kind will very 0 0 breal
down. He has to feel it in order t,
keep it up and be a successful leader
The people have a keen insight int
this peculiar endowment; they know
by instinct when a candidate brsgs Of
the good wife and kisses the babie
merely to serve a present purpose
Horace describes a man like Genera
Bate when he said: Il am human, an,
nothing that pertains to the Who'll
human race is foreign to me-" /
prominent gentleman aptly expresse,
it this morning when he remarked
There never was a man, woman 0
child but loved VIM. b. Bate afte
} they knew him. If everybody on earth
7 friend and foe alike, could do as WEI
and prosper as much as General Bat
wishes, there would be no sad heart
in all the world. lie is the very typ
, of manly chivalry, kindness, generot
t ity, and the world may never know {
: the thousands of goodand noble deed
he has done, for he never lets the lie.
j.. hand know what the right han
? doeth."
Touching on the temperance plan
! in the boilers platform Saturday, h
e remarked, what everybody know
? that he had led a temperate life. Fl
: was free to admit, however, that
did sometimes indulge the cup thi
e cheers, but when he did he a
e ways went in at the front door of Il
saloon, and in open daylight. +
0 would scorn to play the hypocrite,
I in any sense or to any faction "croC
the pregnant hinges Of the knee tn
thrift might fellow fawning."
He will lead this race by q MAORI
which no Tennesseean has eve I