Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-11
THE nANNEE pfsGRUNrLEp.

The Democratic meeting held in this city
on Tuesday night last has sorely exercised
that self-constituted champion of State credit,
the Nashville Bonner. This Immaculate
defender of State "honah" grows acrimoni-
Gus in denounciDg the Memphis meeting, and
the way it boils over with outbreaks is a
caution to tempests in teapOts 1t fires off
two frothy leaders at the Democrats of
Shelby county, and not content with the use
OF eolumbiads it fires of several popguus.
The APPEAL can afford to be calm under
these denunciations, and we feel confident
that the Democracy OF Shelby county is
above the reach of any shafts hurled at it
from such a source. Napoleon once said of
General Nandamme-a very eccentric and
very ilI-tempered officer OF the French
army-that he did not know how he could
get along without him, but that ii he had
two like him he would be obliged to shoot
one Of them. The bondholders and the adj
vocates of State credit may be able TO sur
vive the odium of the Banner's good will, but
another Nandamme would be a burden too
heavy to carry. Indeed, the tone and policy
of the Banner, so extreme and absurd, is
well calculated to create the impression that
this assaIlant of the APPEAL and the Shelby
county Democracy is a repudiator in dis
guise and has resorted to artful cunning 10
accomplish its hidden purposes. The Ban
ner, which seems TO have formed determi-
nation to exist hereafter for no other pur-
pose than to keep up a feud in the bowels of
the Democratic organization and which now
holds up it's dirty hands in holy horror at
the Democracy Of this county, was Jealous
advocate Of the 5O-4 proposition to settle
the State debt in 1878. The bondholders
were anxious to accept these terms-they
spent money to carry the 5O-4 proposition.
The Banner urged this compromise, and now
1t is absolutely shocked that the APPEAL
and the Democrats Of this county are guilty
of the shameful dishonesty OF advocating the
compromise which it Unsupported less than four
years ago! With an air of mock-heroism
the Banner says to the Democracy OF Shelby:
"They have sadly enough disfgured Mem
phis. They must not lay their hands upon
Tennessee. Her virtue must be preserved
This is fine writing; it is tlorid and meta
phorical, but it comes with bad grace
from a paper which, in 1878, tried to rob Ten
nesse OF her virtue by supporting the COM
promise which it now denounces the people
OF Shelby for advocating. Ii the bondhold-
ers and the Stste-credit advocates are wise,
they will either muzzle the Banner or repu-
diate its utterances The patriotic, sensible
and practical policy adopted by the Nash
willie Aalsricaa and World has driven the Ban
ne, to desperation, and it is plainly notice
able that it has resolved TO be a thorn in the
side OF the Democratic party for the future.
The Banner seeks to create the impression
that in the meeting on Tuesday night
there was no compromise OF opinion, but
complete surrender 10 the low-tax Demo-
Gratis. This is dishonest. There are but few
Democrats in Shelby county that favor
higher compromise than 50-4, and the sup
porters of Wilson in the last canvass in
sisted that the State debt proper did not ex-
coed s., 900 900 and opposed the levying of any
tax beyond ten cents on the 500. No low
tax Democrat favored a settlement beyond
thirty and third per cent. OF the State
Indebtedness This being so it will be seen
that the low-tax Democrats made the most
liberal concessions. Mr.. Minor Merriwether
said he was one of the very Iow-tax men