Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-03
Helena, Montana, Thursday, July 3, 1878,
Davy Crockett the Second and his
Parting Speech.

The special correspondent of the Washing
ton Star. who accompanied the excursion of
the late St. Louis Congressional Convention
to Texas, furnishes the following:
At Grand junction we left the rough
diamond of the congressional pa,ty-thc Hon
William Crutchteu, the newly elected men,
Der from the Chattanooga district Since the
days of Dayy Crockett, Tennessee has al
ways managed to have at least one noun
field, the latest, is said to resemble Crockett
more in originality and style than any of the
intervening line !c is sunburnt wiry,
li'1le man, with foxy hair and whiskers, and
though, by report, OF considerable means
wears the cheapest OF hOmespun SUITS good
deal frayed at the ell :,es, and with pair of
heavy, we'll creased coWhidc brogans that
were the perpetual despair OF the Pullman
boot-blacks. He is not only mighty hunter,
like Crockett, but is moreover u shrewd busi-
ness man. he built the ''Crutchfield House" :"
at Chattanooga, which was sold during the
war for SG5, 900 in Confederate money, and
the proceeds prudently turned ut once into
real estate in the shape of valuable farming
land. In the same prudent way Crutchheld
invested Confederate money as fast as it came
into his hands in tobacco, which, ON the ad-
vance OF the Union troops, he sold at 81 so
per pound in greenbacks. knowing the
country and the people thoroughly, he was Of
great service to General Sherman rs q scout.
When Crutchtield was put up for Congress
nobody supposed lie stood any chance Of
being elected, as the district went Democratic
at the previous election by some 5000 ma
jority, but his neighbOrs took hold of him
and elected him by about l 800 majority.
Crutchfeld, by his quaint remarks and spicy
had made himself vastly popular with the
whole party, and, when he took the train at
Grand Junction, it was conceded that we
could have ''bctter spared better man." So
there was = general demand that he should
make Il parting speech while the train waited,
and he mounted u platform barrow and pro-
ccedcd about rs follows
"GEN-TEL-MEN:-We air about to part,
after having travelled about good deal hyar
and thar; but hope to meet you next winter
over thar at Washington. My friend, Hyne,
OF Arkansas, give me some good advice how
to keep from Dein' sea-sick when we war
down thar on the gulf. 1t war to lay head
back and loek up. l think, my friends, that
in these moIbi ler times that will be q good
thing to DO when get to Washington fire
mendous app.svh] Gen-tcl mel--We have
been through asreat country. Napoleon
bOnny-paTt tiulylald, when he threw down
the pen after deedng Louisiana to the Amer
leans, 'rhar's hayiest blow Great Britain
ever got. Applaus. Gcn-tel-mcn-Iw wish you
could have gone uEhome with me- am the
little dog in the biyryc up thar. l have got
the smartest old woman and the finest brats
you ever sot eyes on. We've got the tallest
mountains and the best whisky you ever
sampled. [App!ause] Thar is Lookout
Mountain, from which you can see four
States-Tenncssec, Alabama, Georgia, and
the drunken state. n-tel-men-If ever
you"-here the engine gave snort, and the
train moved off, amid loud cheers for Crutch-
field.