The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-06-06
THE SPEAKERSHEP.

II
Owe years ago THE GAZETTE was
the FIRST journal in the South TO pro-
nounce in favor o: Hon. Sam. J.
Randall for Speaker Of the House
Of Representatives. We were prompt
ed to this action from a sense OF
duty and gratitude to All able, well
tried and faithful public servant
who had calamity stood by our peo-
pie in a dark hour Of trial and raised
his eloquent voice in our behalf
when Radical misrule was seeking
10 crush and humiliate US beneath
carpet-bag sway and negro domina-
ton. But for his bold. resolute and
sagacious actions, the Infamous
Force Bill-the contamination of
Radical villiany would have passed
the 43rd Congress. The success Of
that act would have sounded the
end of civil liberty and free govern
ment, and buried beneath its dismal
train Of outrage and despotism the
last hope Of the South. With the
courage of Leonidas, he met the
black cohorts of malignity and hate,
and nobly held the pass. With a
resolution Napoleon never surpassed,
and fired with a patriotism equal to
the peerless standard of Washing
ton, he stood firm when all seemed
lost, and triumphantly saved the
day. rescuiDg victory from what
inevitably appeared the very jaws
of disastrous defeat and widespread
ruin. The Mortons and Chambers
and little Logans and Beast Buffers
and Blaines and their cohorts in
malignant infamy and devilish hate,
growIed in sullen disappointment
over the unexpected victory thus
achieved through tbs courage, hero
ism and patriotism of Sam. Ran
dali, while the friends of good
governmeDt,-of 8 restored Union
of reconciliation and peace.-eyery-
where hailed with rapturous joy and
delight the grandest triumph ever
before gained by one man in
legislative contest.
Nor was this his only service for
which the good men of the whole
nation should thank him. His pub
lie career is one grand record Of
mastery achievements, every act Of
which points to the honor and great
ness and glory of our common coun-
try. Since 1865 he has been the
main break-water in the House TO
beat back the black and surging
waves of fanatical hate and Radical
usurpations. In the last Congress,
until call to the Speakership upon
the death OF the lamented Kerr, he
was Chairman of the Appropriations
Committee. In that distinguished
and most important position. he
labored day and night with untiring
energy, and his services saved the
people over $4O,000.000 per aunum
more than it required to run the
Government when Taylor and Fill
more were President. AS Speaker,
he presided with ability, dignity and
impartiality worthy that high posi-
ton. Amid all the turmoil and
strife of that turbulent session-one
Of the most critical and dangerous
periods of our country1s history. lac
rose equal to every emergency and
always proved himself master Of
the occasion, He is the fast friend
of every great measure looking to
the advancement of the public good
and the promotion of the people,
welfare, aUd at the same time the
eternal and un0ompro-
missing enemy of every movement in
the interest of rings and cliques and
combinations seeking to array one
section against another. and work
ing to roo and plumber the people.
Then he is a self-made man, who
like Andrew Johnson, sprung from
the humber walks OF life, and by
his own indomitable energy, per-
severance and uneonquerable will
has won his present high position.
The GAZETTE was for him sVVs years
ago and is for him now against all
and hopes he may receive
the solid vote of the Democratic
members from Tennessee and the
entire South. It is tribute he most
richly merits at the hands of the
Representatives of our people, and
if their voice is reflected, which we
have no occa sion to doubt, he will
be triumphantly reelected.
Mr.. J. w. Miller, of the firm of Dew
& Miller, proprietors for East Tennessee
Of Bonham's Arabic Soap, is in our town