Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-10-30
OUR NEXT sENAToR.

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be settled for this state at the COM
ing election. "Who will go to the
United States senate at the expira-
ton of Col. Bailey's present term 20
1t is true that the senator is not |
elected by the people at the ballot
box, but by the incoming legislature
at the next session of the general
But then, that legisla-
ture has now to be elected, and ON
the opinions of the members elected
and on the pledges made by them
to their constituents will depend the
selection of a senator. 1t therefore
becomes one of the interesting ques-
lions connected with the present
election.
We need hardly say that our own
choice against all competitors is the
present incumbent, the Hon. JAS.
E. BAILEY. 1t is not only that
Col. Bailey is a gentleman of excep-
tional legal attainments and per-
sonal integrity; it is not only that
after a position there of five years
he has attained to degree of infu-
ence among his felIow-senators
which places him in the front rank
of our national Legislators. These
would be ample reasons for prefer
ring him to any untried man, but
Col. Bailey has other claims that
come home more nearly to our affec
ton and our gratitude than those
we have mentioned. He has recog-
nized and mantully assumed the
claims his constituents have on
him for counsel in all state emergen-
cies, and, seeing that the emergency
is at this moment perilous in the
extreme, he has come to the front
and, disregarding altogether the
effect it may have upon his personal
interests, has travelled the length
and breadth of the state to lift up
his voice against the political heresy
which threatens to bring disgrace
and calamity upon our people. He
has been no mum candidate; he
could have wrapped himself up in
his immunities as candidate for
national Office, and not therefore
occupied with state questions. He
did the reverse. Seeing that evil
advisers were hurrying the state
into an abyss of shame and ruin, he
raised at once the note of warning
from the Unaka mountains to the
Mississippi. The people have a
right to the counsels of their public
men. They raised them to high
position because they considered
them competent to give advice in
matters of public interest, and they
look TO them to receive it.
Col. Bailey has recognized and
met this demand, knowing that he
would ALLEVIATE many thereby whose
support he might otherwise have
had and it has been so. If he has
acquired for himself the approba-
ton and devotion of all who are de-
voted to the honor and true inter
ests of the state, he has also become
a conspicuous mark for vitupera-
ton from political adventures
whose selfish ambition he crosses
and discountenances. Wilson pours
the concentrated acid of his malig-
nifty on the name of Bailey. Mum
ford, even before he was the nomi-
nee of any party, commenced his
career with a virulent personal at
tack upon Bailey. Rogers gives a
list of all possible men whom he
might vote for for senator, begin
ming with Bates and ending with
Savage, but carefully excludes Bal
ley from the list; and Savage yells
"Baileyr' "Bailey!" at the heels of
our senator like a NANCY cur bark
ing at a locomotive.
Let not his friends, then, be less
Jealous than his enemies. Let them
look to it that no man goes to the
state senate or house of representa-
tives who is not true friend and
of Bailey.
We will not insult our readers
with thesupposition that any legis-
lature which could be assembled at
Nashville could be induced to send
Savage to the senate, but do they
forget that Horace Maynard is a
prominent, we will add a dangerous
candidate for that office. We do
not apprehend that anything like a
majority will go up as republicans,
but we have had experience before
of the readiness of the boiling party
to coalesce with the radicals on con-
ditiop of a division of offices, and
our safety against any such treach-
erous coalitions consists in the cleo
tlOn OF Col. BAILEY ON the t1rSt bal
lot.
We have already said that the
choice for governor rests between
Wright and Hawkins, and every
body believes that now. We now
express our belief that, for senator,
Bailey is the first name, and close
after him comes Maynard. Let
those who remember the days of
Brownlow's administration weigh
well the alternative and take warn
ing.
DEMOCRATS, your attention Do
you want to vote for a man next
Tuesday who is without doubt a
or one lCho is IN doubt /?
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