The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-09-26

ANDY JOHNSON, the qitonddm Moses
of the south, has ngain revisited the
glimpscs Of the moon, On Saturday
last no delivered an address before the
agricultural and mechanical association
of Sumner county, Tennessee, which,
like the most OF the Honorable Andy's
efforts, isa curious tumble of rank
demagoguelsm aud hard common
sense, with u thinly concealed under
current Of thought that the country Is
going TO the devil because he IL not NJ
the helm OF affairs, II was, of course,
expected by those who invited him to
deliver an address on such an occasion
that he would confne himself to sub
jects german TO the object of the as
ISOLATION. And the speaker seems to
have started out with the idea that
such course would be the proper one,
for he begins on agriculture and grave
ly announces that ut Is one of the
foundation rocks OF all good society
OF all good government" Proceeding
next to show that agriculture would be
feeble and incapable Of accomplish
Ing anything without mechanics
and that the two combined are
powerless without labor, he pronounces
the three together the foundation stone
of the government itself. Referring
patronizingly to the order of patrons of
husbandry, and bewailing the fact
that the farmers Of the country do not
have a fair share of representation in
the halls of congress, he claimed to be
the original granger, and cited in proof
thereof an extract from message OF
his to congress in 1865, In which he
set forth the evils of monopolies, per-
petuities and class legislation.
He next jumped into the favorite
pasture where he had roamed so often
before, and with the old illustrations OF
Cincinnatus, Archimedes, Paul and
Adam, established the fact, which no
sane man would dispute, that man
might be farmer or mechanic and
"be d man for a. that.' The best he
could say Of st. Paul was that he was
"a very smart man, and wrote some
epistles which are referred to to this
day as models of composition" Adam
was o tailor and Eve was sealnstress /;
ergo, he wasn't ashamed of having
been tailor, and every young lady
ought to be proud to be seamstress.
He scared aloft on one Of the loftiest
flights of demagoguelsm in the follow
ing sentence:
/ an o mechanic. would rather
wear upon my garments the dinge of
the shop and the dust OF the field as
badges Of the pursuits of peace than
the tassel upon my hat, or the epaulets
upon my shoulders, or the sword dang
ing in its scabbard by my side, which
had been stained by my brothers.
blood, as the insignia of honorable
and glorious war. ..t.a.. Is.
With this furious burst Of eloquence
he bid adieu to agriculture, and me-
chanics and turned himself loose in the
field of politics. The remainder of his
speech was devoted to the discussion
of national finances, to defense of
"My Policy" to a showing of how he
had been cheated out Of the senator
ship heretofore, and to an exposition of
his perfect willingness to take 1t now,
In spite of the bad treatment.,he had
met with on former occasion. The
ex-president holds that there can be
no improvement in the material con-
dition of the country so long as the
present national Indebtedness hangs
like a milestone around the necks OF
the people. His plan for getting rid OF
this Is beautifully simple. 1t beats
straight out Reputation out of sight.
His scheme Is "that the six per cent
interest now paid by the government
should be applied to the reduction Of
the principal in semiannual Install