Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-11

has not given them Office, and who fall in
With their new allies for the hope OF salary
or promise of support. God forbid that such
reformation should ever come to my people
or the State / represent"
The interview is all the talk here, and pro-
duces distinct effect. Making a tour OF
the city, your correspondent heard dozens
of liberal Democrats who nave heretofore
been strong Ben Hill men swear that they
will never support him again. On the other
hand the ring Bourbon Democrats declare
that he is on the right line.
One Of the best informed Liberal Demo-
Gratis said: 81 have the key to Hills fiery
interview. 1t means simply this: The leg
islature which is to be elected next fall will
ELECT HILLS SUCCESSOR
to the Senate, his term being out. Hill wants
to be his own successor, but if the Liberals
carry the State OF course they will make one
of their own number senator-Dr. Miller or
IVORY Speer, perhaps. Ben Hills whole OBJ
ject, therefore, Is TO get Bourbon legislator
next fall, for otherwise his goose IS cooked
1t is plain that Hill is Thoroughly frightened,
as is proven by the vigor Of his language.
Liberalism has permeated the masses
throughout the State, and in my judgment
the new movement will control the next leg
isIature with ease. 1t will take only one
hundred and ten members 10 give US the legis-
latare."
Wasn't Ben Hill an Independent"
"Why, certainly. Ben Hill was the first
Georgia Independent before the war, and the
first Georgia Independent after the war;"
"How is thatp'
Listen. In 1913 Ben Hill supported
Zachary Taylor, the Wing candidate for
President. In 1850 Ben Hill turned Consti-
tutional Union man. In 1852 Ben Hill was
an ardent supporter of Franklin Pierce, the
II g. L.
and in the same year supported Charles j.
Jenkins, the Wing candidate for governor OF
Georgia. He could get nothing from the
Wings or Democrats, so in 1855 he came out
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
for Congress in his district as representa-
tive of the American or knownothiug party.
Hill announced himself in a quarter OF a
column letter. in which the pronoun ~ ap-
peared thirty-three times. Ex-Chief- ustice
Hiram Warner who died last summer, ran
against him as the nominee of the
Democrats, and defeated him. Judge War
ner called it Hills Ego letter on the
stump. In 1857 the American party nom
mated Ben Hill for governor, and senator
Joseph Z. Brown, the Democratic candidate,
buried him under a majority OF eighteen
thousand Hill then turned Union man
again, and in the same year made terrible
uproar in the convention at Milledgeville, in
which he went further than anybody in de-
pIcting the evils of secession. He swallowed
this speech at one gulp and became a ram
pant JEFF Davis secessionist, standing as
Davis's right bower during the whole war.
At its close he became the bitterest of all the
opponents of reconstruction, not only advis-
ing the social ostracism of Republicans in
Georgia, but advising their cwn wives 10 get
divorces from them. Finding that he could
not defeat reconstruction, he accepted the sit
uation, going over, bag and baggage, to the
camp, appearing at Bullock's
banquet, responding to a toast to the Union,
and joining with Delano and other Repub-
licans in leasing the Western and Atlantic
road, in which he owned, | think, one share.
When Bullock fled the State and the Demo-
Gratis
CAME INTO POWER,
Hill swore that he had Saved the State"
and offered himself as candidate for the
Senate, but John b. Gordon beat him terri
bly,. Hill getting about thirty votes out of
over two hundred and sixty. Hill then
offered himself for Congress in the Ninth
Speers district), but Garrett McMillsn beat
{ i'm for the nomination and was elected |
Mcmillan died, another convention was |
called, Hill was again a candidate, but Estes |
rot the nomination. Hill then declared him |
elf an independent candidate, made the race |
,efore the people as the opponent of conven- |
ion rings, and was elected to Congress as the |
irst independent candidate in Georgia since |
he war. He is. therefore, the original
ieorgia Independent"
as that all?'
"No; in 1873 Hill issued an address to the
,eople of Georgia, in which he attacked the
ing Democracy in general, and Colquitt's
in particular, and stated that
he Independents ought to sweep the State,
ut two years later when the convention
roke up, and Norwood ran against Colquitt,
I'LL violated his promises to his friends and
i'd not lift a finger in the canvass because
oe Brown told him if he did that he would
1pport Colquitt against him for the Senate.
hen Hill is anything and everything for
flee and it would not surprise me one bit if
efore this campaign is over he turns Lib
raj, and begs the new movement, if they get
ne legislature, to re-elect him to the place
hich he now holds