The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-09-27
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GEN. BATE At AORRLS7'O HE-A
GAIA DAY FOR DEMOORACY.
Gen. Bate arrived in town about
10 o'clock, and was met by a sub
stantial and representative commit
tee and escorted to a. suit of rooms
at the Cain House, where a Hearty
hand shaking TOOK place. The.
heavens were overcast with dark
and threatening clouds, but soon the
sun of AusteSlitz burst forth, and
the day was bright and beautiful,
and everything was cheering to the
Democratic heart. At l o'clock, the
General was conveyed to the Court
house in a carriage and introduced
to the vast crowd by Col. King, in
few but very pointed remarks.
Bate was received with rapturous
applause. He paid glowing trib-
ute to the true and staunch Democ-
racy of East Tennessee, and said it
warmed his. heart and strengthened
his nerves to meet and address such
a solid and determined Democracy.
He explained why he declined to
divide time and meet RUSSELL and
Beasley in discussion. His mission
was not to quarrel and wrangle with
Democrats, but rather to pour oil
on the troubled waters. His trib-
ute to the convention that put the
banner in his hand was grand and
sublime. 1t was composed Of the
farmer, the mechanic and the hardy
sons of toll, and the lobbyist and
politician had to take back seats.
He showed that the Democracy was
the one gallowsspeople's party. He
demonstrated by history that the
grandest and proudest nation OF the
world had done the same with their
bonded Indebtedness that the June
platform proposed to do for Tenncs-
see. In company with other States
of the Union that had Popudiated
their bonds, he cited Indiana, Min
nesota and Michigan, which had
never been disturbed by the deyas-
tation of grim yisaged war. Why
then, should not poor Tennessee;
who had so many equities-her
slave property wiped out, her farms
fenceless and devastated-be allowed
to do as the mightiest nation Of the
world had done? He showed that
the Republican party was willing to
unite with anything in order to de-
feat the Democracy, and showed
that the grand old party had given
aid and comfort to Reputation in
Virginia-and that Senator Sher-
man had enunciated in the Senate
"thdt anything ,CaS right IN morals
and lar that poULd defeat DemOc-
racy and Keep the Republican party
IN polCer. "
Our limited space will not permit
Us to give even a synopsis of Gen.
Bates mastery argument, touching
the vexed and veXatious question of
the State debt. Suffice to say that,
by the reports of the Comptrollers,
he showed that for many years past
the State debt proper had been a
fraction more than 100000; that
the bonds issued to railroads, many
of them, were fraudulent; that a
large number of those who now hold
our bonds, and are demanding their
face value, had purchased them at
seventeen cents on the dollar; that
the railroads, and not the State of
are the rightful debtors
i'm this matter that the 1908 and
60-6 enactments were the progeny
of fraud, and that in view Of the
impoverishment of our State by war,
as we'll rs the general equities which
the people bore in this matter of our
bonded indebtedness, he considered
SOB as fair and just to all concern
ed. The Closing part of Gen. Bates
splendid speech was a strong, pow
erful and persuasive eXhortation for
harmony in the Democratic party.
Every one who heard his speech, re-
CARELESS of political bias, was forced
to the conclusion that he is at home
on the hustings, that he il read up
in current and classic literature, and
that he is a patriot and not a dem
lgogue. He made a splendid i'm
preston upon his large audience at
Morristpwn. ra.r.