Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-12

Eut now you had to ask a Democrat upon
what platform he stood If an old man
csme to him and zsid he was a Christian,
but bore in his hand a copy of the Koran.
which hr declared cont ained his articles of /
faith, he would say: you are not a Chris
ian, because you repudiale the Bible" II |
he met a man on the road who |
declared himself 10 be carpenter, but his /
teols consisted of the anvil and tongs, he |
would say: "Mv friend. you are not a car
penter, for you have not the right tools" |
During the late war, when he was wander |
ing arouud the streets OF Memphis, il he saw
flag in the damp night he knew what camp
he was in, when he found that it was the old |
Confederate hag. The Bate men were not on
the Democratic platform.
The speaker then entered into that very
thrilling question, the State debt. He gave
bis views on the railroad debt, and said the
State had never lost red cent on the rail-
road bonds The State had got $4,000, 900,
had got the sinking fund and the interest.
The railroads had added over $50, 900
10 the wealth OF the State. He stood upon
his platform because il was a settlement,
while the other platform made only propo-
sition which there wss no hope of being &C.
1 cepted. He stood upon his platform because
it was just, and he refused to stand on the
other because it was unjust.
/ The speaker went, in Imagination, to sev-
eral little log cabins where State bonds we're
| held by old women and young girls, and
| spoke of the infamy of paying them fifty
1 cents on the dollar instead of sixty cents.
| To scale their bonds forty cents was justice;
to scale il fifty cents was infamy. The
| speaker concluded his speech by criticising
/ The platform upon which Gen. Bate is run
l ming, declaring it unjust, and saying that no
l man could ever be elected governor on such
q platform, because the people of Tennessee
| were honest and just.
| Referring to the four-mile law, he said
that there was just one-balf the crime in his
district that was there before the law was
| passed. He said Gen. Bate was trying to
curry favor with the liquor dealers, but as
| for himself he would oppose the repeal OF
| the four-mile law If he was the only man In
| Tennessee who did so, as long there was
breath of life in his body. The young man
who cared not for the opinions OF the world,
when he thought he was right, would never
90 very far wrong; and the party that sacri-
iced principle in order TO curry favor with
the people was fast toltering to its ruin.
| BEAsLEYs GREENBACKs.
| Mr.. Jim Buncombe Bingham arose at the
| conclusion of Mr.. Fussell's remarks, for the
| purpose of introducing that perennial Green
bscker, Mr. Beasley. Mr.. Bingham's face
became livid with emotion and shoue like
] the full moon he announced the undylng
J principles of Greenbackism, and declared
that, BY the gods (Beasley is a pagan, the
Greenbackers would never pay the railroad
debt. Mr.. Beasley, under these engaging
auspices, came to the front. The APPEAL
, would take a grizzly delight in publishing
: his remarks if it were not for several reasons
, | to-wit: The people of Tennessee are about
D as much interested to-day in Greenbacker'
j ism as they are in the politics o.
E the moon. The APPEAL man, wher
e about to leave last night, was asked
v | TO give Beasley chance; but Beasley
d never had a chance the reporter feels III
i utter inability to supply the deficiency
>. From the high nasal tenor voice with which
d Mr.. Beasley speal s, it would seem that hi
a lungs reside in his nose. The practical re
4 suit is that his voice becomes 20 attenuate'
n at times that the exposition OF greenbackisn
,e fades upward into thin air. Dat OF courtes
if few OF the audience remained TO hear Nj
re Beasley, but it would have been hard for an
if OF them to have told what he was talkin
le about. The meeting broke up in sort c
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