Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-24
Echoes of the state Press.

of John j. Dupuy from the congressional
race.
Echoes of the state Press.
| REPUBLICAN REPUTATION.
The Republicans in 1865 repudiated $780,.
600 worth of bonds just because they were
signed by Isham G. Harris. They did moi
| pretend tn at these bonds were illegally OF
| fraudulently issued, but repudiated them
simply because they were signed, as they
| said, by a rebel hand.-GoUcrnor MarEs's
| Speech al Trenton.
THE FIFTY-AND FOUR INDoRsED.
| Governor Marks, in his Trenton speech, re-
he sent Enloe and Baxter to Washington and
| New York, and that the leading Democrats
| of the Union, such as Randall, Bsrnum and
| Iilden, had agreed it was the best thing for
| Democrats, and urged the bondholders to ac-
| cept it; that this was defeated, and the peo-
| pie were lnlled to sleep and were awakened
by the one hundred and-three act.
TEMPERANCE MEN CANNOT BE CAUGHT.
No genuinely earnest temperance man
will he caught by the trap set for them by
the High-tax boiling, Republican aid society
on the 18th of July. 1t is an insult to their
intelligence and patriotism 10 presume for a
moment that they can be used as a cats paw
as tails to the kite of those who would
betray their party and their people into the
ranks of the Republican party, or into the
power of the railroads and bondholders.
The trick is understood in Williamson, and
will fail miserably, as it should.-Frankiin
ReUiet0 and Journal.
HoUK A HOPELESS DRUNKARD.
John 3. Brownlow, in letter to the Knox
vile Chronicle, reviewing Houk's career, says:
81. c. Houk is the only man in Congress
whose drunkenness is SO excessive as to pre-
vent the discharge OF official duties. Houk
is the only congressman who gets drunk and
stoys drunk. He is the only one who grins
in mandlin manner behind the bars of a
prison. He is the only one who wallows like
a hog in his own filth and on the carpeted
floors OF the national capitol, bringing a
blush TO the cheeks and doing violence to
the olfactory orsans of even the bronze
female who decorates the dome OF the capt.
toll. 1t would be better for the
good name of East Tennessee, and par
ticularly the honor and good name of
the people of the Second district, had
yo1r so-called representative absented him
self from the capitol much of the time
when he was present. say this because 1
have the authority of several congressman
and of a number of journalists of the high
est character for the statement that he often
tried TO speak in Congress when he was "too
full (of liquor for utterance." And it
would have been better had he absented
himself when he often reeled over the floor
of the House lin the presence of the repre-
-entatives of 100000 of people, so drunk
hat his friends on the Fl 'or helped him to a
seat or led him off the floor and put him in
a closed carriage to be sent to his hotel. And
it would have been far better had he alb
scented himself from our magnificent capitol
on which stands the goddess of liberty, when
he emptied the contents of his stomach and
bowels on the fine government carpets of his
committee room, right under Miss Colum-
bias feet and nose.
BATE WILL NOT MEET RUSSELL ALONE.
Chairman Vertrees, in letter to General
W. H jackson, says: "This committee are
constrained to consider Governor Hawkins
Mr.. Beasley and Mr.. Fussell as a trinity
which designs TO defeat General William B.
Bate. AS Governor Hawkins is our pro-
tessed foe, and the representative of the
party which Democracy has ever combalted,
General Bale will canvass with him alone, or
pursue his lonesome way. But, will add,
he expects the Democracy of Tennessee TO
bear him company and meet him at the ap-
pointmests he shall make. If the powers in
conference will send Governor Hawkins to
prevent General Bate from becoming lone
some, they will merit and shall receive our
gratitude and esteem. We decline to make
arrangements for canvass between General
Bate and Mr.. RUSSELL alone"
NICE TRIO.
If Hawkins, Beasley and RUSSELL stump
together it will be amusing to see John skip
ping about under the combined lash of Alvin
and Joe. 1t will be like the circus masters
lash, however, and not intended to hurt.
John will understand it is not in earnest, and
so the show will move along.-KnorviHe
Tribune.
TEE REAL REGULATORS.
The Clarksville Democrat tells who it was
fret planted reputation in Tennessee thus
tersely: "The first firm foothold that repu-
diation ever obtained in Tennessee was in
the Democratic platform of 1876. At that
time not eorporal's guard in the State
dreamed of such thing as scaling the
bonded debt. Then, with the knowledge
that in order to pay the interest on our
debt and the expenses of our State govern
ment, it was necessary to levy an additional
tax of from seventy to eighty cents, certain
gentlemen, who were then among the leaders
of Democracy and are now among the lead
ers of the boilers, deliberately penued and
adopted a part of the Democratic plat
form a declaration against any taxation
above forty cents. This was open repudia-
ton and a positive refusal to take the neces-
sary steps to pay our debts"
JOHN v. WRIGHT AND THE sKY-BLUEs
John V. Wright was so mortified that he
had been the dupe of the "sky-blue" ring in
1880 that he needs must hide the fact under
some bluster. He would now be sincere
Bate man did not such position seem to be
taken by spite against the men who pitted
him against Hawkins in 1880. He would
not thus like to acknowledge that he was
their catspaw. He would rather be Hawk
ms greaser than to make the humiliating sc-
acknowledgement that he was blindiy used in
1880. None of the "Skyblues" believed that
Wright would be elected. 1t ia manifest now
that their end was attained and that they be-
trayed not only John ", but the Democracy
of the State.-Kno1viHs Tribune.
BATE THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE.
The Courier Journals Carter Greek corre-
spondent, writing OF the Democratic barbe-
cue held there last week, says: 81 inquired
of a dozen prominent gentlemen present,
citizens of the neighborhood, who assured me
that of the $500 present there was not
single Fussell man to their knowledge; that
he could not get 200 votes in Maury, and
Msury is bis (FuBell's) own county. Set
Bate down as the next governor OF Tennessee
by over 10000 majority; some say $1,000
but unless he is elected with whoop, all
signs fail 1 thought it was enough one way
here (Nsshville), but the city is nothing
compared to the country"
NO FUssELLERs IN EAST TENNESSEE.
A leading citizen in East Tennessee, in q
letter 10 friend, not intended for publica-
tiar oiva. eneh ehssrirO accnuufa from TN at