Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-03
STATE POLITICS.

The Hon Emerson E,heridge is spoken oil
as a probable independent candidate for
governor.
A Democratic county convention was held
at Trenton Monday for the purpose of select
ing delegates to attend the State convention
at Nashville.
A call has been issued by the chairman, J
w. james, for State convention of the Ma
ti3nal Greenback party of Tennessee, to be
held in Nashville on the 9th instant, to NOM
mate candidate for governor and for ether
purposes.
We now have a splendid opportunity to
test the sincerity of those Democrats who
have all the time said they were in favor of
no settlement in which the creditors of Ten
nessee had no voice. Now they have before
them a proposition which not even an idiot
will contend was made by more than one
fifth of the creditors.-NashUiRe World.
Some of our exchanges, in speaking of the
object and aim of the Democratic party, say
they are for any thing to beat the Republi-
cans. Have they no higher ambition or aim
Has all feeling, and principle, and honesty,
and free government, and love of liberty and
prosperity vanished, and been suppIanted by
party prejudice and hatred? Verify, it seems
so.-BelLoiHe Progress.
Is it any matter whether individuals or
of such journals, mostly small politicians
believe that the Legislature ought TO be de-
barred from considering the debt question?
Probably not. Most likely these scribblers
and minor curbstone, crossroads and village
politicians have no warrant to speak for the
bulk of the people-the taxpayers.-ChaHa-
nOoga Times.
The Clarksville T0bac;o-Lcaf speaking of
the go and 4. and proposition, suggests
whether "the Legislature had better settle
noD at go, 4, 5 and g. and get the disturbing
dividing element out of the way of the
union of the Democratic party, or pass it
over, leaving a fre-brand in our ranks
under the pretext of the demsgogue and
the office-seeker, that the people should
settle it,"
No matter what we may say about a peo-
pie being bound by Legislature without
regard to party, nevertheless, we are dealing
with this as practical question, and act
Element which would only last until the first
of Janusry-eight months-as settlement
would be farce, and bring cumulative dis
honor on a State which would do right if
not manipulated for party or private ends
Nashville American
A settlement OF the State debt by party
platform will be the work of railroad men
and office-seeking politicians, and will neither
bind nor satisfy the people. legislative
settlement will be discussed and perhaps re-
pealed every two years. No settl ment will
be permanent which is not in accord with the
will of a majority of the people. A resolu-
ton or ordinance submitting the question to
a popular vote of the people for ratification
is the best and cheapest method TO ascertain
the popular will, and will cost but little and
is the only way likely to be satisfactory and
permanent.-Nep Era.
The GslIatin EEaminer, discussing the
bondholders' proposition, says it 1.-THE En-
dnfner) has always held that the debt "a a
Just debt, and that the State is abundantly
able to pay it; that 1t is not properly a
party question, and has only been made one
by many designing and some dishonest men
to serve their own personal ends; that the
power to settle it lay, not with the people
en- HaGsse, but in the legislative department.,
and that the submission-to the-people idea
was a snare and 6elusion and wholly I'M
constitutional; that the failure of the State
to provide for its settlement and extinguish-
ment has worked and is working iDcalculable
injury, both morally and financially, to the
best interests of her citiz Ems, aud finally,
that any settlement that might be made
should meet with the approval OF the bond
holders, and that ns forciole adjustment
should be attempted. We are, therefore, in
favor of the acceptance of this last PROPOSE
ton Of The bondholderz, and we sincerely
trust that the Legislature will have the
stamina to take the matter in hand and set
tie the debt on the basis proposed, and for-
ever put the question out Of the arena OF
politics, where it never properly belonged.
TO fail to do so would be long step toward