The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-01-09
MEMPHIS LETTER
NEW YEAR RRCEPTIOFS-SER-
RRAGK SYSTEK-HANCOCK
AND HENDRICKS.
MKMPHIs, JanuarY /, IS8l

MEMPHIS, January i, 1884.
To the Editor Of The MOrristOwn Gazette:
The city is all alive to-day. In
spite of the clouds and gloom and
snow aud cold breezes, all society
dom is receiving" and all dude
dom is calling" The white kid
glove and the inevitable swallow
tail coat may be seen at the tinkle
of every door bell. The coaches are
are rafting over the bouldsrs and
everything in business quarters looks
like a holiday. Il wonder" asks
some one, If the poor of Memphis
have been receiving to-day?" Yes,
the poor have been receiving too.
The town is full of philanthropy.
There are charitable men and wom-
en- In every quarter of it who see to
it that the poor are not forgotten.
Indeed, IN appeal for charity from
any part of the world comes to the
Memphis man in double trust. II
comes not only as a duty: but ii
comes as a trust. Oh, yes the poor
as well as the rich have been receiv-
ing in Memphis to-day, and it is
hard to tell which of the twain is
the happiest class for the new years
receptions.
We have heard much in East Ten
nessee of the new system of santa
ton in this town. Thirty-fve miles
of sewerage, with the facility OF
flushing out every particle Of filth
as many times a day as may be ne
eessary, has gwen the town three
years of unprecedented health, and
sense of security also, that tells its
own story in the wonderful influx OF
population, the multiplication of all
sorts of factories. the concentration
of active capital and the building
and stocking of some of the most
magnificent business houses on our
1t seems now unfortun-
ate that the excellent system Of city
government, now in force here, was
so slow to be tried among all the
schemes of municipal government.
If it.has q single fault it is that its
artifcers were guilty of the misera-
BILE taste of calling it taxing dis
triet" instead of a town or city, when
there was no sort of reason for such
a departure from the graces of NOM
enclature. 1t is certainly, however,
the best system ever devised for city
and seems to afford o
perfect protection against just such
obs and populations as brought il to
he ragged edge of ruin under the
I'D system. 1t was slanderously said
hat the change meant reputation.
But il meant ne such thing. The
iebt of the old city is now being
unded and settled under an honor
Ible compromise, and will in q few
years be wiped out. ~
The politicians are building their
Iir castles on the probabilities of the
outlook. The scarcity
# first-class timber makes the ques-
ion embarrassing. Tilden was rob
led in 1877, after a clear and un-
doubted election in 1876. The peo-
lie want this great national sin re-
'nked, and some think it can only
'e done by renominSting the old re-
Orm Governor. His popular ma
ority was more than a quarter of a
million. Hancock, who had a larg-
r popular following than either Til
on or Hayes, was beaten by Gar
cid about seven thousand on the
'opular vote. He was the victim OF
be disgraceful Star Route and Gar
ED combination, and by the assess
lent gold sxtorted from government
ficials. So here are two great ma
onal sins to be rebuked, and how
AN it best be done ? We must have
be benefit of the sentiment that was
hrystalized in the politics of the
ounIry by the great crime of 1877.
tut Gov. Tilden is absolutely mex
rable in his determination to de-
Inc the candidacy, even if tender
! him by the convention. The
rand old man is in earnest about it.
hen what shall be done? Would
ot the name of Hendricks on the
cket of 1884 stir up all the fires of
s772 Then let it be Hancock, OF
ew York, for President, and Hen
-icks, of Indiana, for Vice Presi-
int. These two men have an i'm
ense following as the elections of
'76 and 1880 have shown. Their
Iaracters have been thoroughly
nvassed before the people. Not a
OF was found upon either. The
Ie was beaten for President, by the
Q of the corruption fund, about Sc
n thousand on the popular vote,
s other was elected Vice President
: two hundred and fifty thousand {
ljority. They are the two central +,
.ures in American politics to-day. /
EAST TENNESSEE.