Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-08
WASHINGTON.
The Tennessee Delegation In
Congress, with One Exeep-
tiOn, IndOrse Bates Nomi-
nation.
The Outside Democratic View Of
Colonel Bailey's Expert
ment.
Representative House Not a
Candidate for Reelection.
Hawkins, Butler and 1.-THE Alliance"
at Work.
spcciaI Lection 70 the American.

w WASHINGTON, July 4.-Ot course
there are great anxiety and grave
fears in all Democratic minds about
affairs in Tennessee The first in.
quiry that greets the new visitor is,
How are things at homer
The stranger says: well, whatare
you going to do about it?"
| have seen each Democratic mem
Der OF the Congressional delegation of
the State Of Tennessee since / have
been here, and with but one excep-
ton they warmly indorse the nomina-
ton of General Bate. The exception
is the Hon. Howell K. Jackson, who
said: II think it absolutely DeCes
sary to the salvation of the Demo
cratic party in Tennessee that there
should be an unqualified and instant
lcquiescence in the COG settlement Of
the late Legislature. | cannot and
will not support General Bate on the
platform adopted. If the gentlemen
on the other side shall adopt a sound
platform on the 1lth inst, and put
good uan on it. | shall heartily sup
port both"
l was told by two Of the leading
spirits of the delegation that they had
taken the pains to sound every Demo
crat in both Houses of Congress, and
found that the junior Senator from
Tennessee is solitary and alone" in
sunnort of the bolters in Tennessee,
In fact, the leaders of the Demo.
cratic party, from the North and
South, East and West, outside of
Tennessee, are deeply chagrined at
the action taken by ex Senator Bailey
aud his followers in the late Demo.
cratic convention. They understand
that it was the largest and most intel.
Iigent convention that ever assembled
in our State, and they cannot under
stand why there is any man so DISCUS
ted with its action that he is willing
to turn the State over. bag and baggage,
| to Hawkins and the Republican party.
They say that it looks hard and
foreboding for Tennessee Democrats
| to cut up in such an inexcusable man :
uer after the party has near about
Strengthened up matters in New York,
Pennsylvania, and gone a great way
on the journey to an overwhelming
victory in the next quadrennial con-
test.
On all the great issues of the hour
the party is unifying and about settling
down upon a policy which will unit
mately result in securing the control
of both Houses of Congress in very
| short time. The best political think
srs here honestly believe that ouI
party will soon get the Presidency and
that when once again in power, there
is long career Of usefulness and glory
in store for it.
1t is horrible to have this brilliant
and hopeful sky overcast by the dark
clouds of dissension aud personal am
I bitions, in the land OF Jackson, Polk
and johnson. This is the way the
truest and best Democrats all over the
Union talk about Tennessee.
HON. ]. E. BAILEY.
There are many surmises here as tC
the labors of the meeting on the llth
| inst. Among the many eOnjeoturos at
to the saerifcial candidate, the dis
tinguished ex-senator whose name
heads this paragraph looms up ahead
of all others in the popular mind
They say that he cannoG, for any
reaeon. farm out the execution of hi'
programme 10 any other person. The
crisis demands that he assume the
position Of leader aad get at the heaC
Of the column. His voice must rally
| Che fsint.heartod and frighten the
souls of the timorous and fearful ad
versary. He cannot remain in the real
if he would, and shogld not it he
could.
THE HON. IsHAM @. HARRIS
lis thoroughly alive to the needs of the
coming campaign. Right here upon
the threshold, before a single soldier
| has fallen into line, / predict that he
| will make the most vigorously aggres
sive campaign for Bate and the righl
of Tennessee to rule her own destiny
that has ever been witnessed in oul
| State.
THE HON. JOHN r. HOUSE.
The friends Of this true and vel
trained statesman will be sorry tC
learn that he will not be candidate
| for re election. l have Just talked
with him, and he requests me to say
to his Congressional district that ht
will not be candidate. He has mo-
the words to express his deep anC
lasting gratitude for the confidence re
posed in him by as noble a constituen
cy as a man ever had. He hopes tina
peace and harmony may come to {
party that he loves with all the powel
of an exalted nature. 1t is a matte
overpowering regret that such mel
should decline, but his determination
to retire is sincere and irreyosable
! He has won 0 national reputation a
an orator and al honest and laborinI
statesman.
lie regards the right Of tbs Tepues
see Democracy to control the Stat
and al the interests OF the same as 0
far higher and nobieF value than 81
the dollars locked up in all the Stat
debt controversies on this continent
This contest will call into force all tn,
rare powers Of this able man.
NOTES.
A. NJ. Hughes, Jr., of Columbia, i
very sanguine that he will be confirm
I'D ~..o,,,,n Nollaoknr To -dau h,