Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-18
SICKENING HYPOCRISY
OF the State-Credit Howl of Hawkins,
Bessley and Russell.
louisville courier-Journal.

| Notwithstanding the persistent objections
| of the alleged "State-credit" organs in Ten
| nessee to any comments of ours upon the Pc
| culiar condition of Tennessee politics, we
are moved TO say that we have never seen
! Democrats PIT themselves in such an absurd
| position as those occupy who are supporting
| Mr.. Russell. The Beasley boom is playing
out very rapidly, for no good Democrats can
possibly vote for a man to hold responsible
position who declares that he is responsible
to nobody, and that there is no Eternal God
10 the Universe. The adherents of Mr.. Fus-
sell at first thought that they were actually
voting for estate credit" and an accomplished
settlement of the public debt. They are now
beginning to realize the extent of the game
played by the Republicans, who are laugh
ing in their sleeves at the partial success OF
their "State-credit" expedient.
We are satisfied that little further con-
sideration of the absnrdity of afhliatiug
with the Republicans, who will repudiate
the whole debt of Tennessee just as soon as
they can control tine State, will bring the
majority of Fussells supporters with whoop
over to Bate.
The Tennessee Democrats can take two
courses. They can vote the Republican
ticket, of which the RUSSELL arrangement is
a segment, and hand the State over to the
Republicans, wholesale reputation and
plumber, and have their State affairs man
aged by a corrupt cabal at Washington,
have negro and white children sandwiched
together in the public school, VIruy Can
vote for the regular Democratic ticket,
headed by Bate, and keep the State in Dem
ocratIc control and have the only real "set-
Element" of the public debt approved by the
people OF the State actualized; free the State
from the intrigues of the Republican admin
istration, and remove the debt question from
State politics.
"But you advise the Reputation OF fifty
cents on the dollar" buster the alleged
"StaIe. credit" organs; buster the hypocriti-
upon swindling the creditors out of all their
money. We advise nothing of the kind. We
say there is not party in Tennessee to-day |
which proposes anything but reputation. |
They are all in tine same box, but the regular |
Democracy expresses the will of the people |
OF the State in proposing to settle at fifty
and-three, and the man who says it is wrong |
to propose settlement at that figure, and a |
supreme virtue to settle at sixty -and-six, Is |
evidently troubled with left spiral move |
meat of the molecules of his brain. We say |
that there is no justification for Democrat |
who prefers to repudiate with Republicans |
rather than repudiate with his own party. |
The position of such Democrat is indefen- |
sible, and the alleged Democratic State
credit" organs are to-day houndering about |
helplessly in the mud of their own sophisti-
cal exploitation, bowling about "insincerity."
Sickening hypocrisy that, to talk of estate
credit" and Democracy" and at the same
time range themselves in the Republican re-
pudiators' ranksl We would like 10 see one
argument to show that such position is