The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-07-19

two districts and enable the Democrats
to elect, by hook or crook, five or six OF
the seven Congressmen.-De Post.
Tennessee Reputation.
Two years ago a minority of the
Democratic Convention in Tennessee
were "low taxi Democrats who with
drew and put up a boilers ticket when
they found they were too weak to con-
troll the action of the regular organiza-
ton. Both of the Democratic factions
were beaten and Alvin Hawkins, Re-
publican, was elected Governor. The
other day it was the "debt paying"
Democrats who went out of the Conven-
ton and took measures for nominating
a boilers ticket, leaving the slow tax"
men, repudiators and readjusters in
possession of the party machine. Such
is the progress made by the Democrats
of Tennessee on the road of dishonesty
since 1880.
The State debt amounts in round
numbers, with interest, to $50, 600, 600.
The Legislature elected in 1880 passed
a bill, chiefly by Republican votes,
which was approved by the Republican
Governor, called the 1908 bill, for the
settlement of the debt by the issue of
bonds for the full amount of 100 cents
on the dollar with interest at three per
cent. The Democrats procured an in
junction against the issuing of the bonds
and the case went to the Supreme
Court of Tennessee which gave a parti-
san decision last winter declaring the
law unconstitutional because it made
the interest coupons receivable for taxes.
Two of the five Judges dissented. The
creditors then made a proposition to
settle by taking new bonds for sixty per
cent. of the amount due, with interest
for the first five years at three per cent.
and afterward increasing to four, five
and six per cent. An extra session of
the Legislature was called and the
60-S-45-6 bill was passed as an ac-
ceptance of the bondholders' offer, and
this bill in turn was approved by Gov
ernor Hawkins.
1t was earnestly hoped that this ac-
ton would be accepted as final, and the
most anxious men about it, unless it
might be the bondholders themselves,
were the intelligent Democrats outside
of Tennessee. They saw clearly enough
that their party could not afford to make
an issue on the settlement as agreed
upon or keep up any further agitation
in favor of repudiating the debt. The
outside leading Democratic newspapers,
too, notably the Louisville Courier
Journal, took the same view and urged
the brethren to drop the bond quarrel
and go to work in harmony to whip the
Republicans.
But physicians were in vain for the
Democrats of Tennessee, and good ad-
vice was thrown away. The call for a
Sfafn GNnpUantinn nNnE oA hxr tho
wise old nurses of the party aad signed
by the Chairman of the "low-tax'' Com
mittee and also by the Chairman OF the
stdebt-paying'' Committee. A full Con-
vention assembled at Nashville with the
expressed purpose above all things else
of curing the breach in the party ana
working together in the campaign. But
the repudiators would not subside.
They made platform in condemnation
of the 60-3-4-5-6 settlement, which they
will manage to keep from going into eff
feet until after election, and fell back
upon a compromise among themselves
in favor of paving fifty per cent. of the
debt in new bonds bearing three per
cent. interest.
OF course the Democrats who re-
tanned some sense of the obligation to
keep agreements, to the extent, at any
rate, of respecting n compromise that
had already received legislative sane
ton, could not countenance this breach
of faith, and so they withdrew and in
conference resolved to call nominating
convention of their own.
The Republicans will undoubtedly
nominate Governor Hawkins, and his
reelection in November is tolerably GER
tain. In 1880 he received 102, ,969 VOTES
to 79,191 for Wright, the regular or
" debt-paying' Democratic candidate,
and 81, 424 for Wilson, the "low-tax''
Democratic candidate, the plurality for
Hawkins being 23.77S
Bate, the regular or "low-taX" Dem
ocrat, and his debt-paying" fellow
Democratic candidate will hardly poll
more votes this year than the two DEM
ocratic candidates received in 1880. and
there is good prospect that the people
of Tennessee will enjoy the advantage
of a full Republican Administration for
another term.
The first Napoleon had an amazing
memory for figures. He remembered
the respective produce of all taxes
through every year of his administra-
ton, and could repeat them even to the
centimes. Running over an account of
expenditures, he noted the rations of a
battalion charged on a certain day at
Besancon. THAT battalion was not
there" said he. The Minister. know
ing that the Emperor had been out OF
France at the time, submitted that he
thought it must have been there. 1t
turned out that Napoleon was right,
and that fraud had been committed.
The peculator was dismissed, and the
anecdote went through the army, in
spring wholesome alarm.-N. Y. Sun.
dead drunk is described by sa-
wants of the Paris Biological Society to
be a condition in which there is pro-
portion of one part of alcohol to 195
parts of blood in the circulation. Should
the proportion ever come to be one part
of alcohol to 100 of blood, death would
ensue. This might happen and, in
fact, has happened repeatedly, where a
very large quantity of alcoholic liquor
is swallowed at one time and quickly.
In ordinary drinking consciousness is
lost, and with it the power to drink
more, before the proportion of alcohol
in the circulation becomes fatal