Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-08-24
OUR NASHVILLE TRIP.

OUR NASHVILLE TRIP.
We thought it our duty to be pres
ent at the great Gubernatorial pow
WOW, so started on Wednesday
morning by the Bowling Green
route. AT Cherry Station we were
joined by our friend, the Hon. r.
F. Ferguson, and thus secured at
least good company for the journey.
The rest of the Montgomery delega-
ton went by the Guthrie route and
were not seen by us till our arrival
in Nashville. Corn was looking
splendidly along the track, tobacco
not so well, which surprised our
companion, as in his neighborhOod
tobacco was never so promising
but then R. F. lives in a favored
spot.
At Bowling Green, where we had
to stay over two hours and a half,
we received kind attention and
courtesy from Mr.. Montgomery, r.
r. Superintendent, and his assist
ant, Mr.. Geo. Willis, known to all
people in GAINESVILLE. These gentle
men have our grateful acknowledge
ments.
A few miles beyond Bowling
Green we came upon a belt of cOun-
try which, to our surprise, exhibited
unmistakabIe symptoms of having
passed through a season of drought
while we were drenched with rain.
The lower leaves of the corn stalks
were burnt off, the ears were hope
lessly shriveled and the tassels were
scattering their clouds of pollen to
all the winds of heaven, in short,
everywhere except where it was
wanted pastures also were burnt to
dingy yellow, which the stock
were munching and wondering
what had become of the nutritious
juices.
AT Gallatin we took up several
Sumner county delegates, intelli-
gent, well bred gentlemen, whose
conversation did much to beguile
the tediousness of the journey.
We arrived in Nashville about 6
p. NJ, where pleasant quarters had
been engaged for us by the kind in
tervention of our friend and quon-
dam colleague, DIR. Thos. l.. Mad
din, whose office was our head
quarters whenever we got tired of
the presence chamber of King eau
Gus.
Our first visit was to the office of
the American, where we transacted
little business and had some pleas
ant conversation with Messrs. HeisS
and Burch; DOak had retired to the
privacy of his domestic vine and
fig-tree. We also met here the
everywhere popular DIR. R. l.. c..
White, editor of. the Lebanon Her
aid and permanent Secretary of the
| State Press Association.
Thursday morning, Aug. 10. We
proceeded first to the Maxwell
House to recOnnOitre and thence to
1 the Capital. AT the former place
we were sorry to find Col. House
and Judge Smith both PROSTATE
with sickness. Wesoon discovered
that the Montgomery delegation
was to be a slender one; LurtOn and
Polk Johnson were at their respect
i've springs, the one lodging hay
fever and the other taking care of
! his liver. d. n. Kennedy arrived
during the morning from Hurricane
Springs, looked in for a few min
utes and continued his route to
| GAINESVILLE. This reduced the dele
cation to r. f. Ferguson, as afOre-
said, Arthur Munford, J. G. Good
| pasture, r. II. Burney, X. n.
Rhodes, S. Wilcox, C. II. Warfield,
C. Wenzler, and O. NJ. Blackman.
Cheek by jOwl with the Montgom-
cry men sat the Stewart delegation,
ably headed by DIR. Steger, and, a
little in advance, the Robertson
people, very conspicuously directed
| by Gen. Garner.
For ourselves, we held a proxy
which would have entitled us to a
seat in the Montgomery delegation,
but kept it in our pocket, preferring
to represent the press.
Conversation both at the hotel
and in the Capital ELECTED two i'm
pOrtant facts: the low tax men were
eager for the fray, avOwing their
resolution to make no compromises,
while the State credit men were
earnestly entreating for peace, unity
and harmony. This state OF things
prefigured in our judgment one out
of two results-either a disruption
of the convention or complete sur
render of it to the low tax section.
We will pass over the preliminary
technical arrangements, only record
ing that Mr.. John w. Childress as
Chairman of the Executive Com
mittee called the convention to
order at II NJ; that Colonel Burch
Cooke, of Hamilton, as temporary
Chairman, and r. l.. C. White, of
Wilson, and j. Duffey, of Shelby,
as Secretaries, kept things in shape
until the election of the Hon. Holmes
Cummins, of Upton, permanent
Chairman, and of Mr.. +. b. Wade,
of Rutherford, permanentSecretary,
with c. II. Eastman, of Davidson,
and j. ]. Duffy, ofShelby, Assistant
Secretaries.
ThemOrning's business was chiefly
occupied with the district caucuses
to select men to serve on the COM
mittees of permanent organization,
credentials and resolutions. AS is
always the case, the Committee on