Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-06-28
tennessee Press Association


was the day appointed for assemb
ling at GalIatin by the representa-
tives of the Tennessee Press fol
their annual meeting in association
AS loyal member of the fraternity
we started on Wednesday evening
for the place of rendezvous, accom-
panied by Ed. Campbell, Esq, as
reporter for the CHRONICLE, and
Mr.. w. o. Brandon as representa-.
tive of our neighbor, the Tobacco
Leaf. Our companions went by the
Nashville route, sleeping at Nash
vile that.night; as for ourselves, to
avoid the wait at Guthrie We pre-
ferred to sleep at Bowling Green, SO
as to arrive at Gallatin the next
morning carly. AT Bowling Green,
by way of passing away the time
from supper till bed time, we walked
UP to the Public Square, which we
found brilliantly lighted up with
fancifully disposed gas jets, in an
ticipation of the arrival of the Ken
lucky Press Association, whose an
nual meeting had been appointed at
Bowling Green simultaneously with
ours at Gallatin. The fine Public
Hall fronting on the Square was
lighted up, and we entered to see
what was going on, nothing bet
ter than a speech from Col. Walter
Evans, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Kentucky, we
will not criticise the Colonel'sspeech;
DIR. Blackburn is well competent to
take care of him.
At five the next morning we got
on the train for Gallatin, several of
the Kentucky delegates getting off
as we got on; and at 1920 a. IN. ar
rived at Gallatin. Here we found
Col. BOyers, editor and proprietor
of the Gallatin Examiner, and sew
eral other gentlemen acting as re-
ception committee. They gave us
a most courteous reception and soon
placed us ina carriage which quick
ly conveyed us to the residence of
Jas. w. Blackmore, Esq. TO this
gentleman with his amiable lady, we
have to acknowledge our thanks for
their assiduous and refined hospital
ity during our visit to Gallatin
everything that could be done and
offered by way of making us feel at
home was lavished on us unstinting-
ly, and we parted from them as if we
had known them all our life, we
shall always look upon them as old
friends.
At about 8 a. m. the Nashville
train arrived, bringinga large num-
Der of delegates, and among them
DR.. r. L. c. White, the indefatiga-
BILE secretary of the association, who
is host in himself. And now the
neighborhood of the Gallatin Court
House began to look lively. Every
where the pink satin badges were
visible which distinguished dele
gates, and everywhere citizens
were shoWering welcome upon the
wearers of said badges. At 10
O'Clock the Court House was stormed
by the invading party, and half an
hour later the association was called
to order by the president, Col. Thos.
Boyers.
AS soon as order was established,
and that was not soon, Major W. S,
Mundy, one of the leading lawyers
of the city, took the stand and de-
Iivered the speech of welcome on
the part of the citizens. His adj
dress was delivered in a spirit of
jovial and hearty hospitality which
seconded as it was by the practical
kindness of the Gallatin people
made every delegate feel as if he
were an old citizen of thatjolly little
city, and had never lived anywhere
else in his life.
This address was responded TO by
Capt. w. J. Slater of the Winches-
ter Home Journal. No reporter can
do justice to the rich vein of wit
and humor which runs through
every thing which Col. Slater says
and does and looks, enough that
he is the life of the association, and
that whenever the goddess Dulness
threatens to settle down upon it
Slater is called up on some pretext
or on none, and the routed deity
spreads her dark wings in flight tor
more cogenial quarters, such as the
halls of Congress or the council
chambers of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
Next in order was the roll call,
which revealed the presence of the
following representatives Of the va
rious journals in communion with
the association.
Brownsyilley-Bee, ]. w, Hughes; States,
&. a. Mathes, $, NJ. Provence,
Chattanooga-COmm II. =. GriscomI
Times, A. $. OchS.
CIarizsville--C CHRONICLE, D. F. Wright, Ed,
Campbell; Tobacco Leaf, w. o. Brandon.
COlumbia--Guardian, W. j. Buchanan;
Journal, Joseph, Tucker and w. j. Andrews.
Dyesburg--GaZette, Tom Neal.
Er4n-Review, w. j. BToaddus.
Gallatin--EXaminer, ThoS. Robt. and
Thomas Royers and j. w. Brown.
JacksOn-Whig and Tribune, b. A. Enloe.
observation-disclosures, Loyeman; +. b.
Earnest.
Iawrenceburg-Free Press, Jas. Logue.
LebanOn-Herald,R r. l.. G. White.
Miian-Exchange, w. A. Wade, Il. p.
Brooks.
MorristoWp~-Gazette, ]. E. Helms
Murtreesboro-AeBs, u, i. Martin, q. II.
BaSkette.
Nashville American, Travis Winham, "a.
n. Rhodes, r. H. Watkins; Banner, Jno. c.
Cook Legal Reporter, James Brown.
observation-disclosures, r. NJ. Dickinson.
springfield Record, Archie Thomas.
SweetWater-DemocFa 10, II. Bean.
Trenton-Herald, Wilson Williams,
Manifestations journal, W. /. SLATER.
The following Journals presented appli-
cations, paid the requisite fees, and Were
unanimously elected TO membership in the
Association Cleveland Herald, Carthage
Herald, Dresden Our Country, Humboldt
Argus, JOnesboro Baptist, JonesbOro Jour
nal, JonesbOrO Times, Jouesboro Herald &
Tribune, Waverly Journal, Gallatin Ten
neSSeean.
Little besides routine business
was done at the morning session of
which it need only be stated that
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