The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-09-27
OUR sNEEDyILLE LETTER.
WHAT CLLNCH THINKS OF RAN
DOLPR'S SPEECH
To the Editor of the MOrristown Gazette:


DOLPH'S SPEECH.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:
SNEEDvILLE, Tenn, Sept. IS, '76.
If our talented friend "Bascum," or
s.Big Ike had been in Sneedville to-
day, either of them could have written
you an interesting letter this evening;
but, as they are both absent, yours
humbly" will drop you a few lines as
best / can.
Circuit Court convened here this morn
ing Our own punctual and favorite
Judge Jno. A. Mckinney, presiding
Several important cases being on the
docket this term, the attendance of legal
gentlemen is unusually large; among
the most notable of whom, we will men
ton Hon. John Netherland, of HaW-
kins, Judge Rose, of Hamblen, and Hon.
FL. T. Patton, of Claiborne. After the
empanneling and charging the jury,
court adjourned until Tuesday morning.
Immediately after dinner, large and
well-behaved audience gathered at the
new Baptist church to hear the financial
and political issues of the day discussed
by the opposing candidates for Congress,
Messrs. Mcfarland and Randolph. To-
day was Mr. McFarland's day to "work
in the lead" which he did in his charac-
teristic, bipartisan and dignifed man
ner. He gave lucid and forcible illus
tration of our present national financial
embarrassment, and ably explained the
causes therefor; and proved to the most
ordinary and unbiased understanding,
that the great national bonded debt has
been created, increased and continued
by Republican Congress, and admins
trations in the interest of the rich bank
ers and money brokers and money kings
of the world. He also showed the in
Justice done the laboring and tax paying
people in the class legislation of Repub-
lican Congress, allowing favored class
to possess millions OF dollars worth of
property, more valuable than coin itself,
entirely free of taxation. He then
scathingly exposed the royal extrava-
ganee and dishonest waste of the nations
treasure by President Grants admins
trations; how the lately adjourned Demo
cratic House of Representatives were
strenuously opposed in every effort tend
ing to a retrenchment of public expend-
itures, and a necessary economy, by a
united Radical majority, and President
Grant with an army of over one hun
bred thousand kid-gloved federal Office
holders. He then gave the revenue
brigade" bugle blast for their lawless
course in burning and destroying still
houses, without due process of law, and
concluded by giving synopsis of his
official actions in Washington, as our
representative the last two years. One
hour and half having expired, he po-
litely gave way for Mr.. Randolph and
,ook his seat, amid rounds of applause.
We must now confess that we are I'M
able to fully describe Mr.. Randolph's
reply, but in order to give your readers
an idea of the general style and texture
of his speech, we will compare it to
mixture of the slangs of a second-class
auctioneer; a One-hOrse circus, with
sprinkle of Parson Brownlow's vitupera-
tive blasphemy, well reasoned with an
inferior article of the ineffible bloody
shirt. He truthfully told us in his in
troductory remarks that he was Fan I'M
couth mountain boomer" knew but lit
tie about national affairs, political econ
omy, or speech-making; compared him
self to COLLINS ram cause he had a
head o his own, and would "butt" his
way to Congress this fall by main
strength and ignorance. He utterly
failed to reply to Mr.. Mcfarland upon
any of the issues now before the coun-
try, but spent his hour and half in a
terrible wind fight with jeff Davis and
the dead confederacy.
Mr. Mcfarland, in a brief rejoinder,
nailed few of Randolph's most palpa=
BILE falsehoods in his very teeth by read
ing official Documents; and took the
wind out of the great union champion
by showing, by the Senate Journal of
the State of Tennessee that Judge James
H. Randolph was once elected a mem
Der of the Legislature of this State while
it was In state of secession, and ac-
tually took the oath to support the Southern
COIJeIeracy. This quite confused the
IOl Jeclg, who sought to avoid the dilem-
ma by fatty contradicting the Senate
Journal. Amt that thing
To sum up, Randolph closed The dis
oussion ineoherently addressing empty
benches, while everybody went away
convinced that Mcfarland would gain
largely in Hancock, if lie didn't carry
the county by handsome majority.
CLINCH.