Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-06
THE BOGUS THREE
Go Through the Cat aud Dried Pro
gramme Before a Small Crowd
at Knoxville.
RunOrs That They Have Fallen Out,
and That the Combination is 10 be
Disbanded.

three" opened their minstrelsy here to-day at
1 O'Clock, after trying for an hour to rally a
crowd by brass band running up and down
the streets. At length a crowd assembled
in the operahouse, not 30 large as Bates
hearing here by one-half, and was composed
of Bate Democrats, negroes and Republi-
cans. There were two Greenbackers present,
but they kept away from the stage. There
were, perhaps, dozen boilers present, and
half of them were upon the stage behind
the scenes. Hawkins's reception here has
been altogether the coolest ever received al
the hands of the people by any governor.
Three Republicans only were TO be seen upon
the stage, and no Democrats. Houk and
Rule both gave Alvin the cold shoulder
The Chronicle scarcely noticed his arrival.
He opened the show this time
FIRST END MAN,
| with RUSSELL in the middle He dwelt largely
and excitedly upon the fact of poster hav-
ing been circulated 10 Cooke county.by the
Democrats asking Democrats 10 keep away
from his speakings. He made very thin
effort to thus account for his small audi
ences, and it becomes highly probable that
Republicans, instead of Democrats, have
been the originaiors of the poster. 1t
turns out that Governor Hawkins's jeans
pants, which he has been wearing in East
Tennessee, are fraud, and that be has been
imposing upon the honest yeomanry of East
Tennessee. These historic pants are genuine
gray Cashmere store clothes. While he was
in tremor Of emotion exhorting his hear
ers to stand upon their honor and their in
tegrity and not TO repudiate the bondholders'
debt and be forever damned, a man in the |
crowd cried out, "Will sixty per cent. of it |
save us?" Hawkins LOST the whoop. Gov
ernor Hawkins was like the india-rubber |
man the drummers tell us Of. He seemed to |
be wound up for forty days, and before they |
could get him stopped he had consumed |
about ten minutes of FusselPs time.
RUSSELL TOOK THE FLOOR
while Republican cheers went up, not |
quite so loud as what Hawkins got, but no |
one else cheered BIN. He made pretty |
much the same cut and dried defamation |
he began with, and speaks the speech as his |
tutors pray him speak it. But he did not
have things all his own way this time as he |
is accustomed 10 have, in far as Hawkins
and Beaslty answer him. 1t seems to be a |
patent thing among this party that neither |
OF them Is 10 ask any. puzzling question cf |
the other two. The following interrogatory |
was put to RUSSELL: 'If this contest should |
narrow down by any circumstance TO race |
between Hawkins and Bate, which of the |
two would you ADVISE Democrats to vote for?'
Unlike Senator Jackson, we construe his |
answer to have been: Support Hawkins" |
If il meant anything at all it meant that,
for he said in substance: "When it comes |
to voting for men and voting for principles |
1 should say vote for principles always"
The Republicans here gave him vociferous
applause.
PUzzLHNG QUESTIONS.
These questions were also propounded to
him: "Don't you know that General Bate
has declared that he has no connection with
any whisky ring, ard that he has repeatedly
stated that he was in favor OF sust aiming the
existing four-miIs law?" "By what process
have the bondholders been brought TO accept
the sixty -and-six tender, il not by the me-
mace of an indignant people, and if not by
conceding an equity OF at least forty cents
upon the dollar?" These questions he did
not answer in his first speech.
BEAsLEY THEN TOOK THE FLOOR,
with no one TO introduce him, but met with
the same Republican applause. He struck
some pretty hard blows at both parties, but
took care TO wreath his bludgeon for Hawk
ins. The crowd4began to thin out toward
the middle of his speech, and in fit OF
choler he ordered all out who did not wish
to hear him. This rash utterauce left him
nearly without heare RS, and when the re-
joinders were made by Hawkins and Fussell
there were not 100 men presen:.
THE REJoINDERs.
In his rejoinder, Fussell read the questions
given above. He said the first one was un-
fair, as ii was not probable that the race could
be narrowed down 10 Bate and Hawkins. He
said he never had and never would, under
any circumstances, vote for Republican,
but would always adhere to principle, and if
il could possibly narrow down as indicated
in the question, he would repeat the action
of the convention of the 11th OF June-make
platform upon which he could stand, and
vote if he stood solitary and alone. To The
the third question he replied by referring TO
the report of the committee OF the Legisla-
ture which conferred with the bondholders.
Fussell did not make
A SINGLE VOTE TO-DAY.
OF the 5000 Democratic voters in Knox
county there ara only eighteen who are
known to be Tor F1ssell The Republicans
here are very much Depressed. Some Of
| them insist on Hawkins leaving Fussell and
Beasley and meeting Bate through the re-
mainder of the campaign. A prominent
Republican of Jefferson county, who heard
Bate at cambridge yesterday, came TO Knox
Vile to-day to insist on Hawkins meeting
Bate. 1t is rumGred here that Hawkins,
RUSSELL and Beasley have fallen out among
themselves, and that the combination will
burst up as soon as they get through East
Tennessee.
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