Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-15
SENATOR JACKSON'S
Statement that Democrats in Washing.
ton Are in Sympathy with
the Boilers
Flatly Denied, and the Facts in the Case
Shown Up as They Really
Exist.
To the Editors of the Appeal ::

| To the Editors of the Appeal:
WASHINGTON, August 10.-A second, and
L take it for granted a revised edition of Sen
ator Howell E. Jackson's speech to the bolt
ers' meeting at OrksvilIe on Tuesday last
appears in Mondays Nashville American,
which received yesterday. To say thstthe
speech has not been well received by Demo-
Gratis here is to put The case mildly. The
senator's attempt to impress his hearers with
the idea that leading and prominent members
OF the Democratic party in Washington rec
ognize the boilers from the June convention
as the true Democracy, and that he went to
Tennessee commissioned by them TO raise his
voice for the defeat of the regular nominee
| OF the party, is commented upon in terms
anything but complimentary to the
SENATOR'S REPUTATION FOR SINCERITY AND
FAIR DEALING.
The facts are exactly the reverse. Since
the unfortunate and uniustifable split in the
convention, have seen and conversed with
hundreds OF the most prominent Democrats
| in Washington, in and out of Congress, and
l have yet to meet the first one who does not
dep!ore and condemn the attempt of Ex-
Senator Bailey and his associates to distract
and divide the party. 1t Id known and I'M
derstood here, just as we'll as we'll as you
know it in Tennessee, that the boilers have
respectable vote-to say nothing of electing
him. The most they can hope for is TO
draw off from Bate sufficient strength to
INSURE THE ELECTION OF HAWKINS.
1t is doubted here if the bolt has enough
vitality to effect even that result. / have
seen 1t intlmated in one or more Tennessee
papers that have fallen under my eye that
the boilers have the sympathy, if not the
open support, of Senator Bayard. On the
occasion of Senator Bayard's visit to Nash
vile, last spring, he rather surprised his
friends here by departing from the strict line
OF senatorial etiquette, if not ordinary pro-
prlety, in SO far as to undertake in a speech,
accepting the tender of the city's hospitali-
ties, to refer TO a purely locsl question, upon
which he knew the Democracy of the State
were divided. That however, may have been
merely the result of thoughtleas departure,
upon a social and convivial occasion, from
the usually courteous and cautious methods
OF the Delaware senator. But l should hesi-
tate to believe,
EXCEPT UPON THE MOST EXPLICIT EVIDENCE,
that Senator Bayard is engaged in covert
effort TO influence an election in Tennessee
against the regular ticket, when he knows
that the result of the success of that effort
may be to prevent the return to the Senate
OF one to whom he owes the honor of having
Tor short time occupied the coveted posi-
ton of president pro tempore of the United
States Senate-one toward whom, therefore,
take 1t Tor granted he can entertain only
feelings of gratitude-and friendship. Senator
Bayard knows that but for the generous
courtesy of Senator Harris in declining the
position rendered him by the unanimous
voice of the Republicans and majority OF |
the Democrats of the Senate he (Bayard)
never could have reached the place he SO |
much coveted, and to which he urged, but |
in vain, he was entitled by virtue of seniority |
in service. No, no! 1t cannot be that
BAYARD Is WORKING AGAINST HARRIS.
The boilers seem to me to make a great |
mistake when they undertake to ignore the /
people entirely as party to the settlement /
OF the State debt. No settlement the people /
do not approve can possibly stand-none /
other is worth talking about. For the first /
time since the war there is now a chance to /
settle the debt; before, there never has been
one. The people will not sustain the So
called settlement made by the last General
Assembly. 1t is not worth while to under
take to disguise the fact-and it would be
well for the boilers not to overlook it-that |
there is, wide spread among the people of
every section of Tennessee belief that the
adjustment reached by the last Legislature
was reached through improper methods. /
do not 80 charge; l will not say L think
there was corruption; for the sake of the
good name of Tennessee L hope there was
not. But no power on earth will disabuse
the public mind in Tennessee of the idea
that
MONEY WAS USED coRRUPLY AND Law
ISHLY,
10 consummate that adjustment. For that
reason, and because they believe the settle
ment above what is right-above what the
bondholders had given out they were willing
10 take-the people will never sustain it,
aever. A Nashville lawyer of note, former
passed through Washington some
weeks ago on his return from New York
In conversation with parties here he gave 1T | 4
As his opinion, l am informed, that the bolt
FRS and Republicans would form a coalition
and carry the State. "The bondholders,"
aid the judge, "have determined to sustain
he settlement, and for that purpose will put |
INTO the canvass $500, 1000" Let the people
hey are called upon to confront.
RICHOCHFT 1