Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-31
YHELey.EG TRIO,

Joe, John and ALVIN, nave commenced
Bpouting in East Tennessee. These three
candidates for governor have opened
their bung-holee. and the mountains are
reverberating with their excruciating elo-
quence, and no man dares to thumb the
vent. Their oratory is said to be horid, torrid
and fumid, swelling, lofty and grand. When
three candidates start out on a canvass for
govern or, they generally tackle each other
with great ferceneEs. But Beasley, Fus-
sell and Hawkins seem 10 have organized a
mutual admiration society, and they are can
wasting the State for the sole purpose of
showing how pleasantly three candidates for
governor can dwell together in peace and
perfect concord. The tableau which this cara
van of orators presents is like Barnum's
happy family. Out in the West it is said
that the prairie dog, the owl and the rattle
snake occupy the same hole in the ground,
and here in Tennessee we have similar ad-
mixture of anti gonsms by the loving asso-
Citations of Republican, Greenback and
boiling Democrat. Seriously, the canvass
which Beasley, Hawkins and RUSSELL have
inaugurated is faree-the more stupendous
farce ever enacted in American politics. The
trio opened the canvass for governor at Bris-
toll on Monday, and dispatch to the Knox
vile Tribune says:
The gubernatoriel campaign opened here to-day
Hawkins, Russell and Beasley speaking. Each
OF them spoke one hour, with fifteen minutes re-
joinder.
Beasley claimed to be the true leader of the
Democratic party in Tennessee; but said Tennes-
see would never have another Democratic gov
ernOr would there be another Democratic
president OF the United States. Hawkins said he
and Beasley agreed on many important points and
made alluson to Russell.
Russell said he was the only true exponent of
the Democratic principles on the trsss De went
for Bate, but let Hawkins and Beasley severely
alone
He paid but little attention to the debt question,
but devoted the most OF his time to the temper
ance question: lhe impression here Is that they
they are trying to beat
The Democracy of Tennessee understand
the object Of this loving trio, and it will not
lend Itself to the scheme. 1t is plain enough
to be seen that all three are hostile to the
election of Bate and are cooperating for his
defeat. II General Bate had made his APP
pearance on he rostrum at Bristol on Mon
day last, the trio would have bounced down
on him like 50 many euraged hornets. Each
would have claimed the luxury of giving
him at least one kick. 1t will be seen that
Beasley predicts the election of Hawkins.
The wish is father TO the thought. The pre-
dictiou that we would never have another
Democratic governor or Democratic president
is the stale device OF Democratic renegsdes.
The Democrats will elect Bate governor,
president in 1884, and maintain their
strength in Congress. The people of the
South and the whole country will cling to
the Democratic party because the Office
seekers, tired of waiting for the election of
Democratic president, Offer them nothing
better. With the Democratic party defeated
and destroyed, what guarantee do they offer
for the preservation of the institutions that
were snatched from the chaos and confusion
of reconstruction? With the Democratic
party defeated, who is to stand between the
taxpaying people and the new era OF Re-
publican plumber that would be inau-
gurated? The Southern people have no pro-
lection outside of the Democratic party, aud
influenced by this belief the Democrats
of Tennessee will elect Bate in November.
A few weeks ago the organs of the boilers
announced that Russell would vigorously at
tack Hawkins, the Republican nominee. But
it seems that RUSSELL is nothing but a bob to
the tail of the Hawkins kite. Instead of a
vigorous war on Hawkins, Russell answers
him with lecture on temperance. Was
there ever such farce? Polk and Jones,
Hatton and Harris, johnson and Henry,
Brown and Troustsle, used to canvass the
State and wrestle with the great political
questions of the day. They were political
giants, and the honest yeomanry of the val
leys and mountains met them at the hust-
ings and applauded their eloquent utter
ances. But how contemplate the changed
Hawkins, the regular nominee of his party,
declines canvass with Bate, the regular
nominee of the Democracy, but makes a
joint list of appointments with boiler and
Greenbacker, and after emptyipg his TRADE
OF abuse upon the Democratic party, FusselI
prsnces out 10 answer him with a speech
on temperance. Shsmel Shamel What
a burlesuue upon politics. Such a mock
cry OF political debate is enough to
cause Polk, and Jones, and Gentry, aud
Henry and Johnson to turn over in their
graves. Every true Democrat looks with
scorn upon the contemplate attitude in
"hicn russell mas Placeo nlmseiI and the
true friends of temperance know that they
cannot elect him, and justly deprecate the
perversion OF the temperance cause to SUBJ
serve the election of Hawkins. The battle
for temperance should not be battle for
any party; a battle for good cause,
is weakened and degraded whea dragged
iuto the political slums TO aid in
the election of Hawkins as governor of Ten
nessee. The canvass, now conducted by
Hawkins, RUSSELL and Bessley is certainly in
tended as burlesque upon the former Gus
toms when giants used to engage in grand
debate. But the people are not fools. They
have fathoned the object Of The loving trio,
who are as mueh alike in their aims to de-
feat Bate as three sausages upon the same
string, and they will elect him over Hawkins
and his tools.