Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-25
THE ROLL OF HONOR.
The Men Who Erected Themselves n
BuIWark Between
Fraad and the BOndholders, the People
and the Constftuiten.


Nashville World.
The following are the men who smashed
the one-hundred-and-three Force bill:
w. Fl. Cherry, of Davidson; Henry j
Lynn, E. M. APperson, M. G. Pearce, g.
Mansfield, II. Furstenheim, W. F. Taylor
Tom Gale, L. Hanauer, A. J. Kellar, j. T.
Hillsman, j. j. Busby and John w. billiard
citizens of Shelby county; Lewis A. Green
and o. B. Jenkins, citizens of Sumner county
w. P. Overall, citizen of Rutherford county
G. H. Taylor, Fl. 6. Miller, A. v. War;, ].
L. Wexford, n. T. Lemon, w. J. Cole, n. J.
Shaw, w. w. School6eld. w. N. Wilkerson,
Thomas II. Chiffon, John s. MILAN, E. r.
county; James Bomar, H. P. Howard, w.
L. Pryor, citizens of Henry county; and
w. Ransom, citizen of Franklin county,
compliments.
We guarantee none of the above gentlemen
will vote against Bate or in any way assist
the Republican aid society. We commend
the above list to the careful attention of our
readers. They are private citizens. None
OF them are oficeholders; they never were.
it is not probable any of them will ever ask
Office.
In the defeat of the one-hundred- and
three Force act these men performed an
eminent patriotic duty. When they COM
menced their work the opposition was great
and the prospects disheartening. The prees
which now supports the sixty and-six were
then rampant in their defense of the one
Observation-Disclosures. The press in this city
denounced them as disappointed specul.tors;
called them the shorts" and "short ring" etc.
Lesser organs caught the echo, and these
private gentlemen, some of whom had never
seen bond, and none OF whom owned any,
found themselves unstintingly denounced
and ridiculed as the short ring"
Before they brought suit they determined
that they and theirs should keep out of such
speculations during the pending of the suit.
With view to this they drew up and signed
the owner of bond or in any way interested
in one, and further binding themselves under
suitable penalties that they would not buy
or sell bonds, or in any way become interest
ed in them during the tendency of the suit.
They then went before q notary and swore to
that obligation and then commenced suit at
their own private expense. They expected
that the Funding Board would rely upon the
attorney general as their legal adviser. But
the board employed a six-horse team of able
lawyers to sustain the act, and in violation
of law paid them out of the public treasury.
4 he battle was fierce. 1t was the old battle
of popular right on one hand and bloated
privilege on the other. In the courts right
prevailed, the people were emancipated and
the sovereignty OF the people vindicated.
The sixty and-six rose out of the ruins of
the Observation-Disclosures. The same men
and the same influence which originated the
former are bending all their energies to sus-
tain the latter. They are all assisting
the chief of the funders, either by
an open personal support, or by giving aid,
comfort, counsel and encouragement to dis
affection amosg the Democracy. Birds of
feather will flock together, and the friends of
Hawkins will be found generally giving en-
courage disafscted Democrats to oppose the
regular ticket. Hawkins and Bcasley will lock
shields in the attack upon Bate, while Fus-
'ell will bring the rear of the same grand
lrrnee. Some of the leaders, through per-
onal spite, or urged by desperate ann
,ition, may continue futile opposition
through the canvass. But their following 10
llready very small, and will be still less in
November