Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-14
TOPICS.
Bate Standing SquareIy on the
Platform ana PreseHt'9g a
Straight Issue.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iourn /


NASHVILLE, September ia Tro
jan horsel A Trojan horsel shout the
Democrats Of Tennessee; for, when
disemboweled, out come troops of
armed men who have got inside the
walls as friends, and by means more
dangerous than an open foe employs.
That the American within the past
two days has shown its true colOrs-a
disposition to damn by faint praise the
regular nominee, General VIM. B
Bate, and oppose his platform, is a
matter of general comment in this
city. While it was in the hands Of
Messrs. Cooper, Bailey and other
~railroaders, the Bate men knew exact
ly how aud where to strike. The
American was an oDen, and not an
insidious enemy. but | now gather
from its editorials that it has fallen
back in the ranks of true Democracy
to deal more hurtiul blows than it
could have delivered under the open
management Of the railroad ringsters
and bondholders. The great question
in this canvas is the sustainment Of
the June 20 platform, and the sooner
all prOfessed Democrats wake up to
that fact the betteri it will be for them,
[ warn the good people Of this State
against the man, and the men, and the
journal protesting to support General
Bate and scratch the platform"
THE PEOPLE OF TENNESSEE
will not abide the &C 6 settlement
never. At Clarksville General Bate
warned his friends to ELECT to your
| Legislature men who will combat the
COG settlement ESQ called) face to
face, day and night, openly and can.
didly. If my election, or the election
Of legislators on the Sea platform,
one or the other must be surrendered,
for heavens sake let me 60 down in
defeat; but uphold the platform"
The night following Hon. John +.
House delivered a two hours speech,
in which he declared that the great
majority of the people OF Tennessee
were unalterably opposed Gas Hon.
Howell X, Jackson had himself ex-
pressed it) TO the COG settlement.
The people, said he, never will sus-
tain 1t. They are convinced, whether
correctly or not, that its passage was
secured through bribery and corrup-
ton. l have always been a high tax,
State credit man, but | do not believe
this night that If our last Legislature
had settled at 20-3, lido not believe in
all honesty that our people would have
accepted it.
This speech was received with great
applause, and f.om what your CORE
spondent can gather from all portions
Of the State Colonel House spoke the
truth like q prophet. The genuine
Democracy Of the State at length
thoroughly aroused stand by an over
whelming majority for General Bate,
and they stand on the June platform
beside. Why, then, should Colonel
Colyar through the agency of the
American seek to confuse the issues
at stalker
HON. HOWELL Z. JACKSON HIMSELF
has announced as his solemn and
maturely considered conviction that
an overwhelming minority Of Tennes.
seeaus are unalterably opposed to6C 6:
and that a settlement on that basis can
never be executed. Colonel House
declares that a settlement BY the last
Legislature, ever il it had been scaled
down to 2C 3, would have been
spurned. spit upon, aud rejected by
the people. Why, then, should the
American seek, by turning its batter
les around ouce more against Hawkins
and Russell Tor seeming to do SOY
why should it longer seek to beat
down the platform on which General
Bate stands2 It's puny arm will fail
to surmouut what House and Jackson
have declared to be unsurmouutable.
The people have made their tender for
once, and by this tender they propose
TO stand, and woe TO the men or com
bination Of men who, under the pre-.
tense of Bate men, shall oppose their
unalterable will. They will but wage
a useless and untimely warfare against
the influence OF that star which points