Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-06
NASHVILLE.
Governor Hawkins Scheming to
Prevent the State From Having
Congressional Representation.
Legislative Outlook Altogether
Certain
to Control That Body.
speslal oorrespond0noe OOurIst. JOurnal.

NASHVILLE, November lit turns
out that tho Democrat" who omitted,
in the engrossed apportionment bill,
the three counties Of Meigs, Rhea and
Cumberland, was a lady. This lady the
Governor Of the Old Hickory State
would hold up as a shield to save his
own character from the arrows of an
outraged people. For it is an outrage
on the people of Tennessee that Gov.
Hawkins refused to call an extra ses
sion TO remedy the defect Ia the ap-
po=tionment act-especially after he
received from his legal adviser due
notice that such refusal would leopard
jze Tennessee's representation in
Congress. His own personal and po-
litical friend, Judge Harrison, con-
CURED in opinion with the Attorney
General.
Look again upon this picture and
then upon the one presented in my
letter of yesterday. Governor Hawkins
shields his own official error by thrust
ing a lady between himself and dan.
ger; the Democratic nominee strikes
down the coward who dares to insult a
lady in his presence.
1t matters nothing that the Ban.
ner comes timidly to the support oil
Gov. Hawkins, for the Banner has
already declared that two years Of
Hawkins rule has been Of real value
to the State. Yet | have never. after
diligent search, found any Democrat
to agree with hat view of the mat
ter. The Banner also admits that il
would have been far safer for Gov.
ernor Hawkins to have acted in &C.
cord with his Attorney General; and
no further admission is necessary, fol
where the liberties Of the people and
their legitimate representation is in
doubt, it was the duty of the Cover.
nor to have given the people, and the
full exercise of their franchises, the
benefit Of the doubt But mark the
prediction: If at the assembling oil
the Forty eighth Congress it shall al
pear to the Republican House that to
admit the Tennessee Congressmen
will give that body to the Democrats
by a close yote-say from eight to ten
tho Clerk Of the House will refuse
60 enroll the members elect from
Tennessee. The Republican party
has committed so many other tricks
OF like character that no genuine
Democrat could get his consent to
voluntarily trust them again.
THE LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK
is altogether hopeful. The estimate
made at Democratic headquarters
gives for the regular SOB settle.
ment, nineteen in the Senate and fifty.
four in the House; joint ballot, seventy
The same estimate gives the Repub.
licans eight in the Senate and twenty.
three in the House; total, thirty-one
and to the COB settlement" six il
the Senate and twenty-five 10 tn,
House; total thirty-one. By this i
is seen that on joint ballot, the Bat,
Legislative ticket has eight majority
Herein the Democratic Committee ha
been over liberal. giving to the Re
publicans aud boilers each one count
IN which the chances are better 70.
the 1913 nominees than for the allies
though the election in each will b.
close. And why should it not result
in an overwhelming choice for tn,
Bate platform? Did not Senate
jackson draw, with his own hand, tn,
resolution that declared that the CO.,
settlement could never be carried out
Does he suppose the people of Ten
nessee are such idiots that, like
circus OF trained monkeys, they viii
jump at the crack of his whip from
one side of the string to the other
1t is true that on the 9th day Of 0c.o
Der the Banner spoke of the peopl,
Of Tennessee as an Ignorant, mis-
guided set; but at that time the Ban
ner thought the election of its frient
Hawkins was assured. 1t is trying L
sing a different song now-trying t
be passably polite, as it were, if moi
manly; but the result on the 9TH inst
will snow the allies under so deer
that they viii wish they had beer
more ciroumspect-or never been
born.
JUST HEARD OF IT.
At Culleoka, the correspondent Of
the Banner says, Colonel Dunk
Cooper, ito sustain his action on thr
four mile law, produced petition after
petition, sent him By the young men.
women and children, urging him "a
support it Did he read any petit.
tions urging him to support the Ten
Commandments The four mile law
was enacted by Democrats, and no.
body proposes TO repeal it. Colonel
Dunk is like the well known and Oft
quoted Irishman who knocked the
jew into the middle Of next week,
and being asked to explain his motive
for the assault, replied:
Because We jews cruciiied the
Savior, so yez did
But that was over 1850 years ago,
responded the jew.
II don't care III it was said Pat;
I've fist heard OF il
From the uoise the Fussellites make
pvor the icur mile law, one would
they never heard OF it till 3 few