Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-30
DEmoCkArIo STATE CONVENTION.


TUESDAY, /: /: J: MAY 30, 1882
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
The Democrats are holding county con-
ventions in every section of the State, for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the State
Convention. The passage of the sixty-and-
six BILL through the lead of Governor Haw-
kins, has partly accomplished the object in
tended-that of dividing the Democratic
party. A few Democratic leaders and news
papers are urging the approaching Demo-
cratic State Convention to accept the sixty
and-six bill, as the most effeetusl policy for
uniting the party and defeating the re-
election of Hawkins. But it seems the DEM
ocratic masses, the honest yeomanry of the
hills and wales, have set their faces like
flint against measure passed in contemptu
GUS defiance of the popular protest. We
publish in another column an article from
the Nashville american, of Sunday last, TO
which the attention of the reader is called,
as it contains information not heretofore
known, and besides it takes proper view Of
the situation. 1t will be seen that the American
predicts shat not one county in the State
will send delegates to the convention who,
by majority vote, will be in favor of rail-
flying the settlement proposed to the credit
ors by the sixty and-six bill" 1t seems the
prediction of the American is likely TO be
verified, as the people are speaking out in
condemnation of the scheme concocted for
the purpose of dividing the Democratic
party. On Saturday last the Democracy of
Knox county held harmonious convention,
and adopted the following resolution by
unanimous vote }:
Resolved, That we favor the early settlement of
the indebtedness Of the state upon basis Just
that regard the DILL passed at the last special
Of the debt effort on the part OF the Repub-s
can party in the State TO continue itself in power
by Democratic disruption, and that we will not
lend our aid to this purpose thus to perpetuate by
our State affairs; that the Democracy of Knox
county regards. as first in Importance, harmony
We recognize the right OF individual opinion on
all matters affecting the general welfare and
Ing q settlement of the States debt we deem it
OF the utmost importance that it be made
people in becoming creditors Of the State andato
this end favor the Issuance of bonds of small de-
SlO0; that we opposed to the imposition of any
fees. to the comptroller other State officer, for
shall go unistrueted to the Safe convention ssTs
that they shall consider the unity and harmony
OF the Democratic party as the controlling guide
In their actions.
The following dispatch from Franklin
shows that Williamson county is solid for
harmony and against tine recent bill:
The primary election passed off finely, and the
spirit of com promise Is prevalent The returns
and for harmony. old Williamson is solid for
harmony There viii not be single sixty-andsix
The following resolutions, already pub |
lished in the APPEAL, were adopted by the
Democracy of Henry:
We believe that the act of the Legislature just
passed, authorizing the funding of the State debt
at sixty cents on the dollar, was plan concocted
tion of the Democratic party and secure TO them
selves the control of the State government. We |
leaders Of the Republican party, not with the
hope or even the desire to settle the State debt
That the settlement itself is unwise and unjust as
it does not recognize the equities the extent to
by the bondholders in their fifty -four propo-
dtion. That we cannot indorse the sixty three |
gently passed, not only because it was a Republi
IAN measure to divide the Democratic party, aud
ilon OF our form OF representative democracy.
Revolutions never go backward, and most ,
Of the counties that are yet to hold their con- !
Ventions will echo back the same voice in ,
condemnation of the crafty device for per-
Republican rule in Tennessee. 1t /,
3 plain to be seen that the the issues in the
,ext canvass will be ffty-and- four, sixty
lnd-six. When it is shown that the PROPOSE
ion TO settle the State debt at tifty-and-four :
8 saving of over S15,000,000 there can be =
10 doubt as to the result. The advocates of
he sixty-and-six bill cannot Justly charge :
he Democrats with disposition to ignore
he bondholders, as it is notorious that the
reditors of the State spent money in 1878
o secure the adoption of the fifty-and-four
Proposition by the people, and that they n
Fould have gladly accepted that basis t
or final compromise of the State t
ebt. A few Democrats will support {
Hawkins as the champion of the sixty and f
TX bill, but still more Republicans will a
'ote with the Democrats in support of the i
proposition, thus enabling the r
democrats to sweep the State by a majority I
4 10000 or 10000. Avarice always inhu- ]
noes the vote of men, and thousands will e
rate about State honor and afterward cast {
heir vote for the party whose triumph re- v
ounds to their pecuniary gain. The contest \
indicates one good resnlt-t that the triumph of q
be Democrats will take the State debt ques- !
ion finally and forever out of the politics I
4 Tennessee, as the people are tired of the |
question, and the Democratic Convention. {
which meets on the Goth of June, will not |
mother their resolutions with eyasiye gem .
ralities, but will march up to the issue
Oddly and without equivocation. From
resent indications the approaching conver-
on will be made up of representative ,
len with no axes to grind, no selfish eur
oses to serve, and out of the wise and har- ,
lonious counselling of such men there
ught to result fit nomination
the candidate for governor. There is
o scramble for delegates, because there is
o gubernatorial aspirants. Never in the
istory of Tennessee has politics presented J
1ch an anomaly as now. 1t is less than a /
lonth before the convention conyenes. and | :
lere are no aspirants before the people.
he contest in electing delegates wiU not be
n the interest of men, but with the sole !
lew of harmonizing the party and promot- ,
1g the prosperity of the State, by uniting on
platform which will consult the ability of
he people to pay in liquidating the State
ebt, and which ought to be as accept
BILE to the bondholdsrs in 1882 as in 1873,
hen they favored the ffty-and-four propo-
tion, and all of them would gladly have :
ccepsed it as FINAL and satisfactory settle {
leRt.
THE WEATHER AND TEE CROPS.