The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-22
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL: SUNDAY. JULY %. 1885,

upon that funded debt, and all this from
a revenue which was derived
FROM AN ASSESSMENT or ONLY $225, 000, 900.
Of the prosperity in the State. Under its
fostering hand Tennessee has become the
university State of the south. Our public
school system has risen from the dead.
Our towns and cities have grown with
marvellous rapidity. Our natural wealth
has been developed with wonderful re-
suits. Agriculture, as with magician's
hands, has touched our fields and made
them blossom like the rose. Our ruined
credit has been restored and this good day
/ can sell the bonded debt OF Tennessee,
scaled as the bulk Of it is, at so cents on
the dollar with per cent. interest. l
say can sell this debt in the markets OF
the world today for more money than the
whole debt. with 6 percent. interest,
would have brought under the Republican
administration.
THE LAWS OF THE LAND
have been faithfully enforced, and peace
and good order reign supreme among the
people. And now, after all these grand
and glorious results have been worked out
under Democratic administration, after we
have cleaned up the brier fields and built
up the waste places; after We have estab-
lished our colleges and universities, and
breathed life into our public school sys-
TEN; after we have restored the credit OF
the State; after we have rebuilt and rehab-
itated the beautiful fabric of the common
wealth, which had been shattered and
ruined, this same sanity Republican seeks
to dethrone the Democracy, and by the
sulIrages OF the people, whom it has
wronged, gain possession OF the Kingdom
and Joys which Democratic hands have
built. Forbid it, my countrymen. forbid
it, God" They would have the people
believe that all the blessings which they
enjoy today are the results OF Republican
labors. Fellow citizens, they have labored
whenever they had the opportunity. But
there is only one kind Of labor for which
REPUBLICANS ARE DISTINGUISHED,
and that is TO get more milk. The Re
publican politician has been milking the
treasury every since the day he was borr
until weancd by the Democratic party
lie has now began to howl louder than
ever for more milk, and the only way L
stop the annoyance IL 10 yoke him with thu
ballot box and put him in the back field
sage grass and oblivion forever.
Fellow citizens, in the Language
of an eloquent Democratic orator
let every man become "a working
member Of the committee" and ''le
Democracy put its shoulder to the wheel.
Let the old divisions be forgot II Their
are any factions in the Democratic party
let them fuse together in the kindly hea
of a common cause. Let us marshal oul
forces. Let the battle cry be "Clevelan'
and Reform" Let the battle flag be tn
glorious old bandana. Let the Republican
hosts be put to rout on tho field Of thei
last great Armageddon.
Gov. Taylor was greeted with loud
continued applause lasting several min
utcs. The applause was of very heart
nature and showed how deeply in accor
with the speaker the crowd was. Coy
Taylor's telling points against the Reput
, leans was thoroughly appreciated by IN
entire audience except ono drunken X,
I publican who continually interrupted III
speaker. Gov. Taylor did not lose h
temper, but directed, seemingly, h
argument at this particular individual VIII
, finally subsidized. The Governor was in h
happiest vein and all who heard him agrC
! that Il was the most able, presentation
OF Democrat issues heard at Wayerly Il
many years.