The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-10-07
MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE.
Republican. Greenback and Straight
Democratic Tunes, in Turn Sa-
lutte the Popular Ear.

Democratic Tunes, in Turn Sa-
Lutte the Popular Ear.
Mr.. G. NJ. Tillman, a very good
looking and affable young gentle
man, addressed the people at the
courthouse Monday from a republl
can standpoint. He Is an amiable
and highly cultivated elector for
Garfield and Hawkins, fighting, we
presume, purely out of love of the
fray. since he resides in another
district and had no special business
with the people here. He made
polite and classical speech, such
one as any college graduate would
pronounce on making his debut in
the arena of political controversy,
and it was not unpleasant to hear his
well rounded sentences and pretty
figures of speech, albeit they were
floral offerings deposited on the
shrine of a bad cause-button- hole
bouquets, fguratively speaking,
pinned for the nonce on the lapel
of the republican dress coat. Mr..
Tillman is a gentleman undoubted-
ly, and we would walk several hun
bred Yards to hear him discuss the
heroism of Leonidas at the pass OF
Thermopyl@, or speculate upon the
rise and fall of the Roman empire,
but when he employed his. classical
lore in defending the methods of j.
Madison Wells and that dirty ne
gro wench, Eliza Pinkston, we were
painfully taken aback. In fact, we
felt as if somebody were tying a
bunch of hyacinths and tube roses
to the tail of a skunk. When Mr..
Tillman shut off the faint stream of
political lemonade with which he
was shaking the thirst of the multi
tude, several persons who were not
altogether satisfied, it seems, with
the flow of calculated sweetness,
called Justify for Rankin. That
gentleman promptly apEea:ed, look
ing plump, rosy and good humOred
not at all like a man who was
crushed by taxation or bowed down
by the prosecutions of the rail-
roads and bondholders He an
nounced himself a candidate for
the legislature and said he was
moved, very reluctantly, to take this
step, by patriotic desire to see the
thousands of Giles cOuntians who
were not represented in the State
Democratic convention represented
in the General Assembly. He made
a candid avowal of his position on
the state debt-said the people
couldn't pay it and that if he went
to the legislature be would listen to
any proposition the bondholders
might make but would take no &C
ton thereon until he had returned
and submitted the same to the peo-
pie at the ballot box. 1t occurred
to US just here that the bondhold
ers, through the governor, or by
publication in the newspapers,
could inform the people of their
terms as we'll as Mr.. Rankin, and
that that direct method would save
the state the expense of one mem
Der of the legislature st least. Mr..
Rankin alluded to federal legisla-
tion as the original cause of our
woes and said at some future time
he would address the people of the
county on the issues of the day
He then read list of appointments
for public speaking and closed.
Capt. Lester, being called for, took
the stand and made a vigorous and
patriotic speech. He said he could |
not understand Mr. Rankin's dis
tress about the people not being
in a democratic con
vention. What had he { Ranking |
to do with democratic conventions. |
He was no democrat and had never |
been one. His virtuous indigna
tion it occurred to him was out of
place. He then made an earnest |
appeal TO the people to beware of
the schemes of designing men who
were trying to disrupt the demo-
cratic party. AS for the state debt,
he wanted the lowest possible terms
that could be obtained and if he |
were elected be would present to the
all the equities and the |
of the people of Ten
nessee before agreeing to settle
ment. He believed the people |
could secure a compromise that
would enable them to get rid of
this vexed question by paying tax
of % cents on the 800 Of property. |
He begged the people to consider
what they were dong when they |
to the siren voice of re-
pudiation. and pause and consider
the disastrous effects OF such a
course on the noble state to which |
they belonged. He closed by say |
ing that he would meet the people |
and discuss these questions more
fully between now and the day of
election. He was heartily applaud
ed and his speech gave general sat
isfactlon.
DIR. Cicero Buchanan, of Wayne,
nominee for state sena-
ator, then took the stand and an
his candidacy in q brief
but graceful speech. The curtain
then fell and silence like a poultice |
came to heal the blows of sound"
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