Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-13
a oAnPAIeN OF HYPooRIsr

CAMPAIGN OF HX POCklSI.
Hard pressed for something to sustain
their sinking cause, the boilers are forced to
resort to the most pitiable hypocrisy. Their
advocacy of temperance is on par with
Satan rebuking sin. They insist that the
four-mIle law must not be repealed, knowing
that General Bate has publicly announced
his opposition to q repeal, and that there is
not q newspaper in the State or a sup
porter of Bate that favors repeal. This
being so, all the fuss of Russell against
the repeal of the four-mile law is disin-
genious and hypocritical, because it suggests
the falsehood that Bate and his sup
porters are committed to a repeal. Ii
Bate and his friends were to express from
day TO day their opposition to repeal
of the mechanics lien law, thereby suggest
ing that RUSSELL and his supporters we're in
favor of a repeal, they would be denounced
as hypocrites and slanderers. Yet the bolt
ers have resorted to such hypocrisy to de-
ceive the public. They practice the
same hypocrisy = in discussing the
State debt question. Like Shakespeare
despicable character, who, while in
Weighing dRdlArL Luu1uCA, 10 otCoihhAy
ing his sword into the heart of PROSTATE
victim, the boilers swear by everything sa-
cred and profane that they intend to protect
State "honah" in all its purity, and practice
what they preach by smirchiug the escutch-
con OF the State by rspudiatiDg forty cents
on the dollarl Immaculate champions OF
State credit State "honah" is the boilers
rosary, composed of one bead, which he is
constantly counting. Whenever he wishes
to prove his honesty, he holds up in pride
and triumph this resolution in the boilers
platform:
First-That We are unalterably opposed TO the
ITepudistion OF any Of our State or national OBJ,
the public faith.
This is pretty talk, but it is nothing but
hypocritical cant, for the boilers tell US in
one breath that they +" are unntterably OPP
posed TO the repudia;ion of any of our state
obligations" and in the next advocate the
Reputation of forty cents on the dollar
They are for maintaining inviolate the
public faith, J" but the people cannot under
stand how this pledge is TO be redeemed by
repudiating forty cents on the dollar. Said
the darkY to his partner in theft, Chicken
stealing is a very low and dishonest business,
but hand US down another" The boilers
regard Republication as disgraceful business;
and while denouncing those who repudiate
" any of our state obligations" they propose
TO maintsin "inviolate the public faith by
handing down only forty chickens of the one
hundred on the roost. All parties are re-
uudiators IN TapneSSaa apd The diffsranna 10
only in degree, the amount TO be repudiated.
Some Of the most Jealous friends of state
credit, men who regard reputation as
crime-support the election of Bate and the
platform on which he stands as the only
means TO prevent, not the repudia-
tion of forty cents on the dol
lar, but a downright, fragrant palpa-
BILE reputation of the entire debt. They see
that a continued agitation of the State-debt
question and procrastination increases the
danger of Reputation, and they favor the
fifty-and-three proposition because it carries
with ii the popular consent. The sixty-and-
six settlement must go. The people pro-
nounced against it before its passage, and
after the ignominious defeat of the enc hun
oIeu-nHu-luicc AAAquity INC cSAeiatOiS eAOulu
have been convinced that they were not
success as sdjusters of the State debt, and
should have referred the whole question back
10 the people. But the popular protest was
treated with contempt and the people will
never submit TO the sixty-and-six settlement.
The question will not down even if Hawkins
should triumph in this canvass. Two years
from now it would be made an issue in the
election, and if the advocates OF low taxes
md the opponents of the si1ty-and-six bill
should triumph, it would be difficult to secure
a settlement even as favorable as that now
proposed by the Bate platform. The boilers do
not propose to pay the State debt in full, and
il is rank hypocrisy for them to talk about
State honor. Nobody proposes to repeal
the four-mils law, and it is dishonest and
hypocritical 10 make scare-crow out of |
this question. The boilers are funny set |
Of fellows. They insist on maintaining |
inViolate" the four-mile law while nobody |
fsvors ils repeal. They are for "maintaining
inviolste the public faith, /" Considerably OPP
osed to the repHdistion Of any Of our State