Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-23
TENNESSEE POLITICS.

"Waal, now 1 don't b'iieve any of THU
! darned debt should be paid" is about tn,
way the less cautious and more outspoker
| low-taxers express it.-Dresden Democrat.
There is not a man in Tennessee who i,
now clamoring for negotiation with our
creditors" who believes that it is possible
ever to secure proposiSsn from all of the
men who hold the States paper-NashriLl.
World
/. 1t is folly for Democrats longer to fight
each other. They should unite their forces
and turn their guns upon the enemy. We
have had enough OF discord, let unite and
capture the State from our enemies.-Nasl-
vile World.
Whatever disposition the people make of
the State debt it is a fact that they should
make some provision for the PRINCIPAL as
-fz-<
forting in the idea that we are to go on pay
ing interest, aud yet never get to the end and
cancel this debt.-NdshViHe World.
Colonel II. Melville Doak has his spinal
column elevated because we suggested that
he might have congressional aspirations,
and says he is a candidate for nothing below
heaven" If he is candidate for anything
that high, he will pardon us for saying that
he ought to organize for a more vigorous
campaign. His relations with his adversary
are too harmonious.-KaoruitteC Chronicle.
An enthusiastic low-taxer was recently
overheard TO remark to vo;ce Of alarm and
excitement, "If the Republicans get in power
they'll pay the last cent of the State debt"
This remark is significant. 1t shows the
bent OF the low-tax mind. 1t is going to
repudiate the State debt if it possibly can.
Alone it hasn't the power to do so; hence
this continual bawling OF harmony. If it
can only bamboozle the other wing into an
alliance on its repudi alton platform, its long
cherished purpose will be accomplished
Dresden Democrat.
Ii the Democratic party, when it meets in
convention, will be honest and independent
enough TO announce just what it is for, with
reference TO a settlement of the State debt,
may be harmonious, and may defeat the Re-
publicans. We fear that when the party
meets that there will be so many great men
there from both factious, wanting office, and
that the factions will be Jealous of each
others great men, and that some man, noted
Tor being nothing aud knowing nothing,
without capacity, will be nominated as the
Democratic candidate for governor. This
would be as great calamity as to see the
party split again. The people of Tennessee
at this time want, need and must have man
of honesty and capacity for governor. He
should be a man of firnness and with some
definite plan in his head by which the State
debt question can be settled. He must be
able to make the people understand him.
The day for thick neads, war horses and
dead-beats has passed. "-Blount Couafy Dem
oerdt.
In an editorial under the head 'sThe Debt
of This Generation to the Past" discussing
the debt question, the Nashville Banner
says: democracy is face to face with the
last struggle for the settlement of this Issue.
1t is now time that Democracy bent every
energy to settle it in accordance with truth
and right; 10 retire its Bourbon elements, to
put forward its progressive men, 10 send to
the party convention, and 10 the legislature,
and to place in the executive place the very
best men in the State. Let but the best men
in every county, the most intelligent, the
men OF highest business capacity, the honest
and thinking men of the State, assemble, and
we have not the slightest doubt but that this
era of condemnipg a noble past will come TO
a speedy end. The Democracy of every
county should see to it that such men, and
no others, are sent. Let the people be
warned that there are great many in this
State with axes to grind-rnen with no great
amount of Democracy, but an exaggerated
expression of affection for Democracy-Who
will be snxiously seeking for delegates. Let
them be rebuked. What Democracy needs
is its honest, common-sense, plain intelli-
gence, its best business capacity, lis progress
siye men, its live men. imbued with a deter
mination to make of Democracy a live party
aud to send all fossil leadership and Bourbon
Thought to the rear"