The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-15

l Caldwell and yunn Here Last Frids y
Num- Completely Cornered.

Caldwell and Num- Here Last Frid y
Num- Completely Cornered.
Messrs Caldwell and Num-, Demo
cratic and Republican candidates foI
Congress in this district, addressed the
people here last Friday. There wa.
not a very large crowd in attendance
but the best attention was given them.
Both speakers we're calm and earnest
during the greater part of the time,
and the discussion passed off, as il
should, without resort to personalitie;
and rough expressions calculated to
excite partisanship.
When we arrived at the hall, Num-
was scolding the Democracy for sup
porting Greely, who, he sid, was in
favor of the civil rights bill and inter
marriage of the races. He then de-
Tended his course in Congress with re.
gard to the civil rights bai. saying
;hlt he voted merely to take it up in
the House in order that il might 90
before the committee; but was careful
not t. say whether he was for or
sgainst the bill, although be admitted
that he was opposed to mixed schools.
lie said he st cd on the Chattanooga
platfor n, and referred to that as has
views on the question. He defended
Grants course in the Louisiana affair,
and said he was not only for Grant
fJr the third term, but for the forty
third, if he continued in his present
course.
Caldwell then took thestand. He said
ne had never been able to get Num-
ut squareiy on civil rights. He told
him and the people that the negrD now
had the same righaRbefore the law that
the white m m hld. He could sue Il ho-
lei keeper for damages if he rufused
10 entert lin him, and would he emit
tied to the amount Of damage he sus-
tained. But the Republican party
wanted TO m Ike the negro better than
the white nun. Under the civil rights
bill, he could sue in the Federal
Court and get $500 damage and have
The nun fined $1,000 and imprisoned
one year. He said the Artful Dodg-
cr was not circumstance TO Num-,
vho generally failed to vote in Con-
-rcss on nearly every important pro-
position that came up-such as the
.reedmgn's Bureau bill, the Tenure of
Office bill, etc. He announced HIM
self in favor of doing away with the
banks and issuing green!acks,
saving in interest from $751;
900, 900 to S24, 900, 600 annually. He
was also in favor of taxing U. S.
bonds; said it was not right for a nun
who owned 100000 in bonds to send
his children to free school, for which
ne was not taxed cent, at the ex-
pense of others, while he WAS drawing
$4,000 interest on his bonds. His
whole speech was full of sound argu-
ment and his delivery was very
smooth and elegant.
He was also opposed to the present
-uinous tariff laws, which give TO New |
New York, New jersey and
Pennsylvania $500, 000,000 annually /
three million people supported by
thi.ty-seven million.
Mum, in his rcjoinder, showed some |
and harped little on the
lnreconstructed "rebel sentiment" Of
the South, intimlting that the mi it;,
~ might lie kept in this State if his |
party w-s defeated here. In answer
% the question, "Will you vote for
he civil rights bill as it now stands"
ne said, IL don't know how that bill |
stands" and took his seat.
Caldwell, on taking the stand for his
tGla him he would give up |
lis time if he would reply to the ques-
ion in plin, straightforward man.
her, al d pressed him to the VIII Sc
loosely that he finally admitted he
would not vote for it in its present
hape, even if recommended by the