The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-03-28
Speeches Monday.

Although we were suffering consid
cradle physical pain last Monday, W
heard with pleasure the speeches Q
Messrs. Tolley, Colyar and Arledge, i
our Courthouse. Capt, Tollcy led o.
in a speech of about two hours. and h
made Il ere itable effort. Being Grip
pied by wounds received in HONORABLE
warfare, he was forced to assume phys
ical positions which, otherwise, woult
not he becoming in al orator, but hi
language was good and his array o
facts and figures potent. We wer'
surprised to see how much advance.
ment Capt. Tolley has made in the ar
Of public speaking. He has a fin,
memory, IS, no doubt, n close student
and is certainly a nan Of ability. II,
was followed by Col, Jesse Arledge
who made a short talk, thanking the
people for the confidence they had re.
posed in him whenever he had asked
for Office, and most judiciously and
commercially urged that there should
he no ill.teeling between men in regard
to the discussion Of this question OF
paving our State debt-that there was
very little difference between the par
ties, anyway, and he hoped the qnes
ton would be settled, as it must be
without one impugnirg the action or
motive Of the other. Mr. Colyar was
called tor, and responded III his wells
known 70: chile style. Some one want.
ed n day set apart for Mr.. c. because
there are so many who love to hear
him talk. But he said enough in the
halt. hour he spoke to put men of sense
to thinking. In our paper to day will
lie found an abstract of his speech at
II units Station last Saturday. 1t occu-
pies 80 much of our space that We
have none left for making an abstract
or syllabus of the speeches made last
Monday. We would simply say that
we were pleased with the speeches, and
even please,! with the moral lecture
Capt. Tolley gave US as a newspaper
cd,ter. But we would reply that be-
cause The Home Journal favored Il set.
Element of he debt at rel 60 cents
in the dollar it does not follow that we
are a ~high-tax man. AS Col. Arlcdge
said 80 we say that after hearing SO
much upon the question we find more
equities in the matter ON the side OF
the State than we supposed. Aud there
is very little difference between ns at
Hast W. all admit that the question
has to be settled, and if in our anxiety
to sec it settled We were willing to
compromise at so or evep GO cents in
the dollar, it was because of our earn
est desire to see our State out OF debt.
AMI we dissent IN toto from the asser
ton that the IeSspal efs have not
done their duty in keeping the people
posted. Be .ause bondhollers may
have Thought the voice Of the Now
York papers, it does not follow that
Tennessee newspapers have been
bought, because they do not fall at
once into the plan laid down by the
low,tax men. Representatives Savage
Colyar, ToIley and others, have had a
better chance of informing themselves
than most of we country editors, and
it is bad grace for them to jmpugn the
motives of the press because the press
may not he in accord with them
all the time. AS for the Home Jour.
nal, we will say that it has been un
~finchingly all the while for more cur
rency of the G%reenhack kind; has been
opposed to contraction in all its forms,
and was not Thought up" because it
favored a settlement Of OUT State debt
at thc..lOwest rate %cOnsOnant with fair
dealing between man and man. And
we say now that since the matter has
gone this far, we are inclined to the
position of Mr.. Colyar-to make no
settlement until we can get relief from
Congress, ~ d until oul people get in.
to u condition to pay the debt against
our State.
One thing, however, We cannot TAIL
to hear in mind that a large number
OF those who talk 70 loudly about low
tax do 80 to tickle the masses whose
votes they want in order to ride them
selves into power.