Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-07
STATE POLITICS.
The True and the False Friends
of General Bate.

c. L. Merrill writes to the Courier.
Journal from Nashville as follows:
DR.. Lindon and Colonel Claiborne
say if the rate had been put up to 30 4
they would have remained. Colonel
Bailey wants COG; while others of the
so-called State debt Democrats cry
out for 1908. A beautiful squad they
are to ask ninety-nine Democrats to
follow one.
NOMINATE W. B. BATE
A few days before the convention
met, Colonel Tom Boyers, Of the Gal
latin Examiner. who is now drilling
with the Bailedoaks, wrote:
And now. what shall we do with it?
Nominate General w. B. Bate Why?
Because we can trust him to do right!
He has the common sense to know
that there is not bit of sense in two
great parties quarreling over 60.3 and
50-4l 1t is the difference between
tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee! The
partyis a fool that can settle on these
points, One may cipher out this as
the best; and another that, but com
mon people cannot see enough differ
ence to justify anybody kicking the fat
in the fire for spite!
The proceedings of the convention
which nominated General Bate reveal
degree of honor, candor, manhood
and patriotism very rarely equaled
and never exceeded. Said the gallant
young General George w. Gordon:
MY position is that 5O-3 is as much
as we can or ought to pay. But l am
going to abide the action of your con-
gention tomorrow. Ifit shall favor
60-6, | shall abide it; if25-3, | am
going to stand to that. Great ap-
plause. | came here to harmonic.
Let me remind you, that in my judg
ment there are questions higher than
that Of the State debt-questions
which involve the welfare, the happi
oess, the liberties of the people. 4"
[Great cheering.
Senator | q. Harris, that noblest
Roman Of them all, said:
IL have been a member ofthe Demo
cratic party for over forty, three years.
| believed in 1877, as l believe now,
that it would have been wise and we'll
to have settled the debt at sixty cents
on the dollar. Acting on my own
convictions. | should not hesitate to
abide by the 60-6 settlement; but,
while / say that recognize the fact
that am but one in a million and a
half OF the people of Tennessee, and l
recognize their right to a voice iu this
matter, | shall accept the will of the
Democracy as expressed by this great
representative convention. Cheers. !
There is but one organization that can
relieve the country OF the onerous
burden of taxation now heaped upon
it by the rule of the dominant party,
and that organization is the National
Democratic party [Great cheering. !
You know as we'll as the inevitable
result of the defeat of the Democracy
and the triumph of the Republican
party in Tennessee. 1t absolutely
rObs you of every power, and it en-
dangers your power in the councils OF
the Federal government"
Col. John II. Savage, (who favored
a scale Of thirty three and third per
cent Judge r, j. Morgan, Col. Hay
wood, Gen. Quarles and others, all
spoke in the same patriotic strain
each willing to surrender somewhat of
his individual opinion for the good of
the whole and the welfare of the
Democratic party. Senator Harris
speech cannot be read too often-it
should be published in every paper in
the State.
SOME SPECIMEN KICKS.
What a different spirit did the
Bailey removers manifest Others.
differing all the way from 25-3 to 6O-6.
in noble spirit of compromise and
patriotism, met on a common platform
to fight the common enemy. But the
captious, querulous boilers, with them
it was rule or ruin; with them it was
6O-6 or nothing. Like Miss Killman.
segg and her golden leg, they
shouldn't, they couldn't, they
wouldn't have woOd" Though it
leave all the State in a hail of a fix,
we'll go to the RAIDS on our Sixty aud
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