Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-11-04
GEN. TURNER AT NASHVILLE.
Exhibits Extra Alvin and His
COpareeners in Their True
COlOrs.

There was a grand Bate rally 10
Nashville Thursday night. Over one
thousand persons we're present. Among
the speakers was General G. P. NJ.
Turner. The World Of yesterday
gives the following synopsis of his
remarks:
General Turner was neatly intro
duced by Mr.. Lytton Taylor. He said
he was proud to know that in the au-
dience were represented workingmen Of
all na~tionalities. He knew the trials,
hopes aud ambitions Of laboring PEG
pie. The Bate settlement would save
Sl5,0OO,0 GOO. To whom? To the
workingman, for the wholesale mer-
chants fixed their price to the retail
merchants by adding a per cent profit
to total expenses, including taxation,
and the retail merchant 10 town did
the same. The toiling man was the
one who earned the money with which
the State debt must be paid. How
important that we should consider
well whom we elect to carry out our
wishes. Should it be the man who
does not shake hands on the street,
whose pocketbook is always closed, who
sucks the pap OF the bondholders; or
for him whose hand is wei put in his
pocket at the cry Of need and distress?
General Bates platform looked to the
economic administration ef the State
government. Was Hawkins the man
to guard the household? No man
could deny the honesty () Of the Re
publican party. They sent South
Carolina a Governor who, for the good
of the country, was now in Sing Sing
He lately read a paper which gave as
an evidence Of prosperity that the
strikers had gone to work again. Yet
the poor workingman's family was
sick aud he had no money to provide
for them. Yet the railroads were
paying large dividends. No. one Of
the orators;On the other side bad said.
John, old boy. how much wages
are you gettingl" ["Nol mol NO
cried several voices in the crowd.
but they had said, "Well hear what
the bondholders ak and pay them b.
dipping our hands into the peoples
pocket aud get a chicken pie"
Had any nan ever heard of Bate
t2kiog a dollar from a poor man? On
the other hand, he had put his hand
in his pocket often. He had heard !
man say he carried the colored vot,
in his pocket. Whenever you heard
a mar say that he controlled th,
} votes Of others, he didn't even contro
his own vote. Had Hawkins don,
anything for the people? lie hat
! hired lawyers to fight them. callet
three extra sessions aud pl yea hi
generally. When he claimed that Ia,
Democrats would try to put the ne
!, groes into serYitude again, he wa
/ either q most egregious fool or an un
J mitigated liar and knave. In speak
J ing of the blind girl Of Lawrence
county Of whom Gov. Hawkins rants
Gen. Turner said heshould have callet
the attention Of the Legislature to he,
case. Now he says I'm a noble man
you're blind and a half idiot, and you
mother takes in washing, and III tax,
forty cents on the dollar of you
money. Though he talked so mucl
about the discrimination in favor o
Mrs; Polk, yet he signed the bill /,
pay her interest. If IL was unlawful
he stood as a perjured official Of Tn,
State Of Tennessee. No, he knew h,
was following in the line Of illustrioui
predecessors. Yet now he INSULT
God and Tennessee, by bringing int,
the canvass the name of that nobl,
soman. II such we're the speaker