The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-09
At KYLEiS FORD.
KYLE's FORD, Tenn.
Sept. 2Sth, 1878.

KYLE's FORD, Tenn,
Sept. 28th, 1878.
To the Editor Of The Morristown Gazette:
Although "Beech Grove" was not in
cluded IN the list of appointments of
liant yankee major clandestinely Motif
ed the people of that vicinity, that he
would speak there on the 9th, suppos-
ing that Mr.. Taylor knew nothing about
it, and that he would remain in Rogers
vile to hear Judge Marks, the foxy
Kindergarten thought he would slip across
the mountain and have good old time
with the venerable bloody shirt all to
himself but it leaked out by some
means, and Taylor followed him. and
was laid down in the bill. The major
was evidently much confused by this
specimen of Roberts industry, and in
fact got mad about it, and has been
showing SYMPTOMS of hydrOphObia ever
since. The major is good at lodging
the main issue, but Bob holds him to
it every time. 1t is better than circus
to see his eyes pop out, and watch his
gymnastics, when Taylor stirs him up
to make the boys laugh.
Old Father Cox, Major P. 8 side show,
followed them to Beech Grove, and un-
dertook to make a greenback speech,
but the people told him that Bob Tay
lor was as good a greenbacker as they
wanted, and sent the old man back
home this morning, "a sadder, if not a
wiser candidate.
Major PettibOne opened the discus
sion here, at Kyle's Ford to-day, a large,
but rather bOistrous crowd being pres
ent. Pettibone need never deny wav-
ing the bloody shirt any more, for he
actually made the poor old thing rattle !;
he told about jeff Davis dragons He
wouldn't come TO the scratch at all, on
the repeal of the resumption act, paying
the $50 bonds off in currency, accord
ing to the original contract, and tried
to impose on the people, presuming
them to be fools, by telling them that
the late lnn1ented silver bill was nothing
but a law directing the minis to stop
coming silver dollars and coin half dollars
insteBd. The remainder of his speech
was made up of wind, grimaces, light
gymnastic, and mauling the stand with
his fists.
Mr.. Taylor, in his reply, came square
ly to the main questions, and handled
them in clear, statesman-like manner.
He arraigned the party in power for the
mismanagement of our national finan-
ces, which is bringing ruin upon the
laboring masses and mildewing every
industry of the country. He proved
Pettibone to be the advocate of the
bondholders and money kings inter-
ests, and scored him a few on his con-
nection with the Knoxville Revenue
ring.
Mr.. Taylor then gave has platform, adj
-, .E Al.
act" the national bank act," paying
the $50 bonds off in greenbacks, unlim-
tied coinage of silver, and paying inter-
est on the national debt with it, revising
the tariff and q. s. Internal Revenue
laws, and conducting the expenditures
of government with a more rigid econ
omy.
He told but few anecdotes, but those
few We're sharp pointed ones, made the
major squirm on his seat as though it
had tacks in it with the heads up.
Taylor is improving and gaining votes
every speech, and mark you, that little
epStaph on , e-t-t-i-b-o-n-e, win be APP
propriate on the 9Th of next November
Hon. Henry Patton, of Claiborne,
candidate for the Senate in the 2d dis
trict, is swinging around among the
people, and his popularity seems to have
scared off all opposition, no competitor
having yet confronted him. Senator |
Patton is in favor of an early aud hon !
orable adjustment of the State debt |
question, and that suits the people over |
here.
Old John Robinson's clown gave
Kyle's Ford hard name, and few /
roughs who gather here on public occa- ;
sions seem determined to keep it up; al /
though the moon wasn't visible to day. |
AOOnshihs was plentiful, and that's
what's the matter with Kyle's Ford.
CLINCH.