Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-05

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The boilers are trying to reconcile the
paradox that their reputation of forty
cents on the dollar is orthodox Republication,
while the Reputation OF greater or smaller
sum is s. rank heresy which ought to subjecr
its advocates to the tortures of the inquisi-
ton. Indeed, the boilers are loud in pro-
Tossing honesty, while practicing Reputation.
That maynard genius, Thomas F. MARSHALL,
was never 80 eloquent in depicting the evils
of intemperance as when he wss about half
drunk, and the self-constituted champions of
Stale "honah" never knew how to portray
the infamy of reputation until they had
drunk deep from the fountain head. In
1879 they advocated the ffty-and-four COM
Promise-Proposed TO repudiate fifty cents on
the dollsr-and when their attention is called
to this feet they Indignantly retort, Look at
our platform; don't we say that
we are unalterably opposed 10 the
republication of any of our State
or national obligations, and are in
favor of maintaining inviolate the public
faith." Call their attention to the fact that
the sixty-and-six bill repudiates forty cents
va 800 NSAA~A1 SAN shSJ iCACA yOd
to this resolution in their platform. They
resolve not to repudiate "any" of the ''obli-
cations" of the State; TO maintain inviolate
the public faith" and then repudiates forty
or fifty cents on the dollar when it subserves
their interest or suits their whims. Their
devotion TO State credit is as variable
as the shade of the aspen leaf. They alter
nafalv advoaafa ranuAiotf0, ~ and
fifty cents on the dollar, and then insist that
the debt is "inviolate" and The scaling OF
"any" of our obligations is rank repu-
diation. Honest IagoI The people will
no longer be deceived by such bra
zen hypocrisy. They have taken this
State-debt question into their own
hands, and, ignoring the one-hundred- and
three, the ffty-and-four and the sixty and
six settlements, have resolved on. the basis
of fifty and-three. The convention which
adopted this basis for final settlement OF |
the State debt was a convention of the peo-
ple-the voting masses and the taxpaying |
yeomanry. Every step of the convention |
was trinmph OF the people. 1t was unin-
fuenced by railroads, bondholders or monop-
olists of any kind. It selected as its candi- |
date William B. Bate, patriot and states
man, who did not seek the Office, but whom
the Office sought. The Democratic party has
entered the campaign, already grandly
opened, with the highest courage and in
SEPARATION. 1t appeals to the people, because
1t embodies their thoughts, aspirations and
patriotic desires, and quickened to new
activity and inspired with new hope
II will carry its banner forward TO victory.
General Bate is preeminently man OF
the people, and in full sympathy with their
worthiest impulses. Conscientious, warm
hearted, pure-minded, an able speaker and
a man OF business affairs, he represents the
best type of our popular leaders-the best
purposes of the people. Through his long
and splendid career he has repealed faction,
scorned the arts of the demagogue, repudi-
ated all political chicanery and always
upheld the highest standards of principle.
And having narshaled the battle for the
rights of the people they will show their
appreciation of him as the embodiment of
heir cause by electing him chief magistrate 4
II the Stale.