Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-18
An ExC,rrNa CANVASS.


The political cauldron is boiling in every
section of the State, and the canvass will be
one of unprecedented excitement and bitter
ness. Hawkins refuses to conform to the
| former usages of the two great political
parties in this and other States by declining
"a canvass with Bate, the regular nominee o.
his party, and has taken refuge by sand.
| wiching himself between RUSSELL and Beas.
ley. The Democracy of Tennessee under.
stand this subterfuge. Every intelligent
man In Tennessee knows thst the contest il
between Bate and Hawkins, and Bate is wise
in refusing to dignity and waste his time on
the leader of little faction OF boilers who
are working for the election of Hawkins.
The Democratic Executive Committee ex-
hausted all its resources to arrange, as has
been the invariable Gu tom of the two political
parties, joint discussion between the nom
inees, but Hawkins declined because he could
not be supported by his aids. Hawkins and
RUSSELL are splitting through the same quill
making common cause against the Demo-
cratic nominee-and will have no joint dis
cussion unless allowed two against one.
Panoplied in the impregnable armor of
justice and truth, General Bate has nothing
to fear from the combined hosts of the Re-
publicans and the boilers, whose cause is one
and the same, but it is unjust and unusual
for party nominee to meet two speakers on
the same side. OF course this refusal has
incensed the trio-Hawkins, Beasley and
Russell. The organs of the boilers hurl all
sorts of epithets at Bate; the Republican
papers repeat them with great gusto, and
poor Bessley, having no organ, has to rely on
his own prolific resources for abusing Bate.
According to the logic OF Governor Hawkins
aud his private secretaries-Fussell and
B4asley-if there were a dozen candi-
dales for governor, advocating every con-
ceivabIe vsgary, there shonld be no
joint discussion between the nominees of
the two great political parties which did not
admit the army of candidates. During the
present week Beaver, the Republican nomi-
nee for governor of Pennsylvania, has re-
fused a joint discussion with Stewart, his
boiling competitor. but signifies his readiness
to make the canvass with PattisoD, the
Democratic nominee. Hawkins, Russell and
Beasley are as loving as thieves in misfor-
tune, and have concentrated their war on
Bate. But the vipers will discover that they
guaw file. The strength of General Bate |
before the people and his unsullied name can |
no more be impaired by the joint abuse of |
the Republicans and the boilers than the |
strength and beauty of the granite
columns of the State Capitol can
he Jon,aoaI Shiny track |
which the snail leaves upon their sur
face. The people are at his back and they |
intend to inaugurate him as governor of the
State amid the splendors and plaudits of an
admiring and grateful people whose battle
he has fought and won. The idea of elect
ing Hawkins governor of Tennessee by the
of few boilers ia preposterous
Although Hawkins shjrks a canvass with the
regular Democratic nominee unless supported
~ his bowers, Bate will make a brilliant
canvass and expose the coalition which
hopes to ride into power on the mangled
corpse of the Democratic party and the tax
paying people of Tennessee. In every
county General Bate will be greeted by the
popular masses, the yeomanry OF the hills
md hollows, and if their sympathy
las power 10 disarm the great
loud of misrepresentation and calumny
Il lis lightning, then, standing in their
'resence and under their shelter he may
Tell feel that in the canvass and on the day
4 election this cloud can have no terrors
or him. In every part Of the State the bon
res are kindling upon the hills, and when
Sate commences his canvass he will kindle
anne OF enthusiasm which will blaze out in
very county in the State. He is the cham
ion OF the people, and they intend to elect
i'm governor OF Tennessee.