Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-20
n FROM COLUMBIA
BY an Enthusiastic supporter
of General Bate.


(OLOhBlAs 1ENNp July a. AooA.
EDITOR LEDGER:-We appreciate
the LEDGER in this part Of the State
as much so as the Nashville World.
In fact, the LEDGER and the Demo-
cratic party are so much IL accord
with our ideas OF matters and things,
that we feel like the fellow when he
professed religion at the Methodist
camp meeting. He got SO happy and
felt so COED that on meeting his old
enemy he said, Good morning, John,
| feel so good this morning that | feel
like shaking hands with a dog"
Maury county is ablaze with enthu
siasm for General William B. Bate.
His old regiment, the Second Tennes.
see, n company (B) was made up in
Columbia, and some Of the boys are
yet lett, and you may bet your sweet
lite that they are solid for General
William B. Bate.
The scaptail boilers have got Joe
Russell (the boys always called him
4" Joe Fizzle y. Well, Joe is a good
man; everybody likes him, bat in ac-
cepting the nomination of the Repub
lican allies, he has indeed exempli6ed
the name of Joe Fizzle." That party
is indeed "a fzzle,' and trying to call
themselves by the holy and sacred
name OF Democracy, will, before the
ides of November, completely "6zzle
out"
They are willing tools of the extra
Alvin party, and while they claim
that they are for the "honor and un-
tarHished escutcheon of the proud old
Commonwealth of Tennessee" yet
their ire, venom and spleen will crop
out against the Democratic party.
They do not love the State, honor and
credit half so much as they hate
Democracy.
The William B. Bate party is the
true Democratic party, and all other
parties claimin : to be Democrats are
frst-class frauds. Our side is the
right side, and in the long run will be
the strong side. Our party is as old
as the Government, dating its paternal
head to old Thomas Jefferson, and
sustained, and perpetuated, and car
ried forward BY Old Hickory" the
noble son and Democrat of Tennessee,
and our own loved James K. Polk,
whose home was in Columbia while be
lived, but to day his soul is in the
arch dome of heaven, while his blessed
and noble spirit ever mingles with the
true aud loyal Democrats of his own
native Tennessee and his grand
mantle has fallen upon the shoulders
of that grand MAJ and noble patriot.
whose name as a citizen and a soldier
in defense of his country is as bright
and as beautiful as the sun, when it
shines at MONDAY in all of its merid-
ian splendor, the grand and glorious
William B. Bate. Blessed man
noble fellow. There is no " fzzle" in
the Democratic ranks with General
Bate as our leader. He is as certain
to carry our standard to victory as
time brings the ides of November God
bless him.
And who are his opponents? Alvin
Hawkins, the man who signed the
100 3, ninety-nine years coupons re-
ceivable for taxes, against the will and
wish of the people Of Tennessee; and
when our Supreme Court refused to
indorse his corrupt and damnable
legislation, that stinks in the nostrils
Of every honest man, with acts of
bribery, corruption and fraud, he calls
back his willing tools who had tasted
the sweets of free passes and free rides
on the railroads, and passes the
60-3-4 Sc act. He is the kind Of
a man party that the "fzzles" are try
ing to sustain and uphold. God for
bid.
Our side is the right side, and is
bound to be the strong side. Our
platform is honest. We propose to
pay every cent that we owe, and six
per cent interest, without abatement;
and that that we don't owe, in a court
of justice aud equity-well, we agree
to pay all that we 1--WE.
Our crops are fine in this section,
and General William B Bate will be
our next Governor and Whitthorne
our next representative in Congress.
May the LEDGER eyer be balanced is
the sincere wish OF II.