Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-20
ONE ELECTION AT A TINE.

The canvass for governor and members OF
Congress will not be vigorously made until
after the August election. In every county
in the State the people are deeply concerned
about the election of their county officials
Alter the first Thursday in Augustine
weeks from to-dsy-the gubernatorial con-
test will grow in interest until the November
elections. While Democrats are engaged in
their county elections they may rest assured
that General w. 3. Bate will certainly be
elected governors The issue will be made
between Bate and Hawkins, the Democrats
Aud the Republicans, and in such a contest
the result cannot be doubtful. Tennessee
cannot be permanently transferred to the
Republican party. The boilers two years ago
were backed by the people. The present feeble
imitation is inspired by the railroads; it is
opposed by the people, as the small vote cast
for RUSSELL and the triumphant election of
Bate will demonstrate. The vital fact is
that Tennessee ever since her people were
enfranchised and freed from the mani
fold prosecutions, the diabolism and
the almost universal scoundrelism of
the politics OF reconstruction which
labored 10 choke the life out OF the
South, has been essentially and overwhelm-
ingly Democratic. There nas not been
time in seventeen yeais when the heart and
COINCIDENCE, the moral, political and physical
forces OF the State have not been cordially
given to the Democratic party. There has
not been 4 time since the close of the war
when, on a full and fair test, the Demo-
cratic majority was not overwhelming 1t
will be SO in this contest. For the first time
ia years the people have platform maze by
themselves, and in opposition to the monop-
olies that rule the country. And never did
they have a candidate more worthy OF their
enthusiastic support. General William B.
Bate, in the Mexican war and in the sirug-
gle for independence, WAS the incarnation,
the embodiment of the patriotic hopes OF
the people of Tennessee. In troublous Pc
RODS, when the soil OF the State quivered
beneath the tread Of those whose ravages so
impoverished our people as to render them
incapable of paying in full, either per-
sonal or public obligations-we say when
the fsirest towns In our State had fallen a
prey to the incendiary raider, and the richest
fields had been ruthlessly ravaged, General
Bate was true to the land of his birth and
his own people, and they intend to show
lat their gratitude for him rises superior
10 their desire to appease the avarice OF !
those who after impoverishing the State
would connscare WIFI II feft-by cnerors tax
alton. Such man as w. B. Bate cannot be
defeated unless the people have become
insrales ready TO turn their backs upon
those who have suffered for their sake. To |
such creature as Hawkins who oppressed |
the people during the war, and robbed the |
poor Confederate soldier after its close, per- |
sonal ambitions should be abandoned, pri- |
vafe grief stifed, party factions re-
united, and even the memory OF public |
wrongs be postponed until the great danger
of Tennessee's becoming Republican State
sh all have been averted. After the election
in November the result will show that the
unsubstantial fabric of the vision which |
sees the defeat of Bate and the triumph of
Hawkins by the connivance of the boilers will
fade even from the plastic intellects of those
who believe the people capable of commit
ting such grievous wrong. 1t is conceded |
that General Bate is a strong man-stronger |
even than his party or his platform. He is
known in every part of the State as inner
emily and resolutely honest, and as governor
would reflect honor u pom the commonwealth.