Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-05
JOHN, JOE AND ALVIN.
Meet at Messy Greek and Again 60
Through the Performance Of
Joint Discussion,
Just as if John and Joe Did Not Know
They We're Working in the in
terest Of Alvin.
snecinl To the AnneAl1

| KNOXVILLE, TENN, september 4.-The
Hawkins RUSSELL combination had a regular
performance at Messy Creek to-day. Bess-
ley arrived Sunday evening. There was no
one one 10 meet him at the train, and he
trudged four miles into the country to find a
Greenbacker whom he had heard of, and
with whom he wished to lodge. He returned
the next morning, horse jaded and befogged,
when John found all the population sad
uling up their good horses to go over
to cambridge, nine miles distant
to hear General Bate speak. He ex-
claimed, "Ain't this hell" This denunciation
OF long proclaimed faith was genuine and
sincere no doubt, because it was impulse
| speaking 10 nature. John dWelt long and
fercely on the people, thus giving his trio
the shake, and damned The commiltes for Sc
leeting court day at cambridge Tor Bates
speakiug day, when they might have known
that all the new justices had 10 be there to
swear in and all the outgoing justices had TO
be there to turn over their affairs, and the
constables also, and all classes of people who
look hard TO zee poor John there
all alone, but presently the train
came down the road, and Alvin and
Joe got off. There was no one at the train
TO welcome them, so they trudged over to the
hotel with their bags over their arms. The
crowd in the streets seemed so slender that
they began to cast about for bouse or room,
that bigger show might be made. Bessley
proposed to speak in the church, but sturdy
deacon suggested that might do for
a man who believed in hog heaven,
but it wouldn't waeh with that COM
munity. Finally the schoolmaster was
approached and he gave up the children's
school-room for Shaw. So at II o'clock the
perform ance opened promptly, with John j
and Joe as end men, with Alvin in the I
middle. Alvin is better end minstrel than
either of the other two, but upon this occa-
sion he had TO assume a more serious role |
There were 100 men seated and about half !
that number standing. Further investiga-
ion showed that half these standing were |
students of the university.
BEAsLEY
leagued against him; that be was fighting
Hawkins with Bate on his back. Aud as
the man stood there and made that remark
he did look somewhat like hard-ridden
donkey; more so, in fact, than like states
man with the weight OF state upon his
shoulders. Beasley thought that Fussell
The Wright party, and that he
would divide that party with Fussell
and the Republican party with Hawk
ooI-n of E,,a. % |
representing and standing where the
Wright party stood, seems to be part of the
Tickle me Joe nd-Pll-lickle- you-J ohm"
business thBt suhsists between this couple of
the "bogus three" Beasley produced
bond signed by w. G. Brownlow, and
claimed that all the railroad bonds were void
according tolaw, because the State had never
received consideration fol them. At times
he was disposed to wander to attack Gen
eral Bate, who was at cambridge, ten miles
away, for leaguing with the railroads
10 pay them fifty cents on the dollar rather
Ihan altogether coDine himself TO Hawkins
who sat at his elbow and proposed to pay
the railroads sixty cents on the dollar. He
warned the people against believing any
thing the newspapers might tell upon himself
and his opponents (pointing to Hawkins and
FusselI. Why he felt this kindly interest in
MS opponents and left General Bate ou. he
Jailed to explain. However, he attacked
Hawkins vigorously Immediately after this
ior siding with corporations and railroads
instead of the people.
GOVERNOR HAWKINS
then took the floor and declared that he was
ready to vindicate every act of his admins.
tration. He said that the trio had been
tyled the Republican Mutual Aid Society.
and he was disposed to take all the aid he
could get. He claimed as usual that the
great offices of Providence had been accepted
by the Republican party. Governor Hawk
ins stated that the sixty-and-six settlement
was exactly in accord with the Wright plat
form of 1880. He touched the one-hundred-
and three act, and the way of coming there
from to si1ty-and-six, but gingerly. Gov
srnor Hawkins got little twisted once in
telling how it was that his party came to
accept forty per cent. of the creditors money,
and, in plain words, said he thought that
iorty cents was "equity" enough. It is the
irst time that an acknowledgment has been
made during this canvass that spy equity
whatever existed, and it struck those present
with some astonishment. He said, in these
words: "If there are any equities against
The State does the forty cents pay it all?"
In a few sentences before he had
claimed that the forty cents was the
lnforced concession of the bondholders,
and that the railroad debt was due in full.
He avoided any statement as 10 how The
people had been made TO consent to accept
sixty-and six, and tried to leave the impress
zion that there was no coercion, and that he
and his party had nothing to do with scaling
he debt. and never alluded to the fact that
\ msiority of the Republicans in the State
b sd once voted to accept ffty-and-four.
MR.. RUSSELL
hen took the floor. He said that be stood
Just where he stood two years ago. He held
a carpenters rule under his right thumb and
began making his appeal to the young men.
He made very forcible fight 10 begin with
1pon the Republican party. He then took
ID the State-debt proper, and alleged that
no Interest had been paid upon this debt, and
that the State-deht proper was between
&, 900 600 and S9,0O0,0OO. Neither speaker
aroused much enthusiasm, and there was not
4 man present who will vote for either Fus-
sell or Beasley.
The trio came on to Knoxville tonight
md met abou: the same reception here as at
Messy creek.
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