The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-06
lie Eve pIsrRIcT.
30. skinner Takes a Tramp
Around to Feel the POpu-
lar Pulse.

lar Pulse.
Our friend 10. Skinner rode his dad
Us mule from Lawrence last Monday
70 swap him OF and While here treated
rs to valuable information concerning
The feeling of the people Of this distriot
in the coming Congressional heat. He
has been around over the entire district
selling coon skins, and being a man el
clear head and sound judgment, he took
in the whole situation; and in fact
1nows so well how the race viii resuIt
tilat it would save trouble and expense
i the people would just let him name
ihe man. The first question We put to
him was right to the point, thus
''From your observation, ar. skinner.
who DO you think IS the coming mau p
sWeH, maybe it is and maybe It aint.
lou see, the fact is, the ticks kept g
kinder troublin' me, and the folks 10 the
lower country are exercised over the
failure Of the blackberry crop, but
kinder judge from the way they talked
5iIat it was powerful oneersain " neither
lhey care much how the darned thing
earns up
Perhaps you could form some esti-
mate OF the prevailing sentiment by the
manner IN which they discussed tile can
didates. Who seems TO be the most pop
ular?"
'sWelI, sir, the feeiin-s mighty differ
emit in the counties. Now, in Lawrene
and Wayne they Look more cheerful like
when you mention Matthews or Rose.
but they amt got much hope for 'em
cause they amt from Maury. They
5hink Cox would make good doorkeep-
CT for the side show of circus to talk
about the animals and things, and Per
l,ins would make a good tavern keeper
but they amt from Maury either. It's
done got holt OF the people down thar
that all the smart men live in Columb
!n Hickman and Lewis and Dickson
they've done clear give up to Maury,
and Williamson amt got much more
grit either. The people don't care muck
for Whitthorne and amt got much agin
him, but he's from Marry. 1 think
Whit would make US good Congress
man if he could be elected without Cd
position, but the fact is he has 10 work
so hard to be elected that when he gets
20 Washington he's so tired that he don't
git able to say anything before the thing
busts up and every man grabs all he
can git and comes back to be elected for
more. The whole truth of the bizness
is, when they have that convention they
are going to put ia a man nobody but
he men who. runs conventions knows
anything about, but if you've got any
money to bet you just lay up the last
dollar of it that he'll be from Maury.
You see, they are going to have the
thing so split up that no man who is
a0w running for candidate will show
any strength, and then they are goiR' to
bamboOzle the delegates by proposin' to
compromise. You know compromise is |
a mighty soothin' sort of word, and
everybody will go for it, so the smart
men from Maury as soon as they Git the
balance to agree TO compromise viii slip
out and take drink and they'll sugar
some feller from away down in HEX
man or Lewis to propose John V.
Wright as a compromise. Well, they'll
al think they amt no use in holdin' out,
and so they'll just compromise on him
and nominate him. But that Amt all
Somebody's bound to bolt, and they'll
have an Independent, and he'll scratch
around among the chigers and things
down thar and git up enough darned
fools TO beat Wright, and Hughes viii
slipin on the home stretch. But Hughes
is from Maury, and my experience is
that Maury county people win have
their man elected no matter how many
or what kind O. politics he's got. They'll
vote for the devil, if he's from Maury.
/ think we just as we'll have no election,
and Just let a few of the ring leaders
meet and pick out some good man and
let him go and draw his salary, A deal
and dumb man will do, but he's got to be
from Maury, shoreP"
''Has the Johnson Cheatham question
got any thing to do with this canvass p
'"That and every other question is
dead, boxed, cremated and delivered over
70 the all-absorbing, one, grand, central,
colIosal, memorable idea that the man
has got to be from Maury county
That's all and everything"
A man came along just here and ban
tered Mr.. Skinner for a swap and he lett
rs mumbling ''Maury county and the
thing has been running in our head ever
since.
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