Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-23
THE
Senator Harris Fills HIS APP
pOintment nj Charlottesville
was Followed by Hon. ID.
l.. SnOdgrass In a TIVE
Hours speech.
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G~AIEsBoRo, Tenn, September II.
According to previous appointment
Hon. Isham O. Harris addressed
about four hundred people in the
courthouse to day in a two hours
speech. He discussed the election
laws, the tariff and other federal ques-
tions and advocated Hancock and
English, and wound up with a passing
review Of some OF Garield's record.
He deplored the present divided
state of the party in Tennessee, and
warned democrats against the danger
Of electing Hawkins governor and a
republican legislature. Said he was
for harmony, for Cancellation; that he
was throwing himself between the
factions Of the divided democracy of.
Tennessee; that both wings were pelt-
ing him, but that he would stand be-
tween them aud implore them to con-
c%iliate, to unite, and thus restore the
good old democratic party Of the state
with its majority Of sixty thousand.
Said he would not tell them to go with
the one wing or the other; that he de-
spised a party with wings. He wanted
a solid party, not a party with divis-
ions and strife, and elimination and
recrimination, but a grand, united
party, marching to victory on princi
pie, Said the state debt was a matter
of i~nsigni6cance, compared with the
great national issues at stake; hat by
a judicious revision Of the tariff and
internal revenue laws, Tennessee
would be saved enough in two years to
pay off the whole state debt. He did
not say anywhere in his speech which
wing Of the party he was with, nor
who he was for for governor.
At the conclusion of the senator's
speech, Hon. D. l.. Snodgrass, Of
White county, took the stand and
held the audience for two hours in a
discussion Of the issues of the two
wings Of the democratic party. He
first explained how he came to be on
the trail OF Governor Harris, and read
a polite note from the low tax com
mittee of the state to Mr.. Childress,
chairman of the state credit commit
tee. asking a division Of time with
Senator Harris for him, at his list Of
appointments.
This was referred by Mr.. Childress
to Governor Harris at Gallatin. where
his appointments commenced. He
followed Harris to that point and ad
dressed him a polite note, asking an
answer on the subject of a division OF
time. To this the ex-governor made
no reply, treating the application with
silent contempt. Mr.. Snodgrass said
that while he did not claim to be the
Duke Of Cordova, an ex-governor or a
United States senator, but only an
humble citizen of White county, he
did claim to be as good as Governor
Harris or any other mar that was no
better. He quoted from the Amer
lean on the subject of Col. Sheafe
following Judy e Hawkins, and showed
that in this he had an illustrious pre-
cedent. He said that there seemed
to be two NJ n equal 10 each other in
Tennessee, and too good to divide
time with those who differed from
them. These two men we're Isham G..
Harris and Alvin Hawkins. He said
that by the aid of Providence he was
going to stick as close to Harris as
the American said Sheafe would to
Hawkins, though he could not say it
would be with the same brotherly
affection that the American advised.
He then reviewed the action of the
state convention, and showed that the
stalwart, high-tax wing of the party
was responsible for the split, attempt
ed to show that there was the place to
have harmOnized, that the low-tax
wing offered everything that ought to
have been demanded, called attention
to the fact that Governor Harris,
while ~counseling Cancellation, sug
gested no place for Cancellation
Showed that he said at G~allatin he
was a state credit democrat and for
John Wright: that up here in the
mountains Of Jackson he simply plead
for unity, yet does not suggest a place
or say who he is for or what he Is for.
He her reviewed the state debt ques.
ton at some length, and claimed that
the Wilson party is the real represen
tative democracy of Tennessee. He
endorsed Hancock and English, and
wound up with an e~xhortation to the
people to stand by their standard
bearer, the one-armed Wilson, the
last private in the late war, all the
balance having become captains, colo
nelS, generals and judges.
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