Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-08-21
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Speech OF Judge John ". Wright
on Accepting the Nomination
for En0KRrmAr

!
on Accepting the Nomination
for Governor.
/ Gentlemen of the convention anC
and fellow-citizens I appear be
fore you for the purpose of correct
ing mistake which I find in thu
papers of this morning, which state
that / would not accept the nOmi
nation of this body if rendered me
/ come to accept the nomination
unanimously rendered me by this
great convention, and to express
my hearty appreciation of the noble
resolutions which you have adopt,
ed. They are truly democratic in
every sense, and / can lay my hand
on my heart and say truly that ]
never accepted q trust from the
my party with more pleasure and
with stronger faith in success than
/ do this one.
On account of some dissatisfac-
tion with q portion of your action
here some have withdrawn and
predicted the death of the demo-
cratic party. During my life the
same prediction has been made
more than once. Standing here in
the presence of this large assem-
blage of democrats from every por-
ton of this state, and witnessing
the courage and enthusiasm display
ed on all sides, it would be difficult
to pronounce this corpse. The
democratic party carried this coun-
try safely through peace and war
from colonies to union of great
and prosperous states. 1t admins
tered the government with econo-
my and wisdom, and under it the
people were prosperous and happy.
Even amid the fire and perSecutiO ions
of cruel civil war it stin lived, and
at the end, though weakened and
powerless, 1t still lived as separate
political organization. Its trusted
leaders, in the great north, called
its broken columns together, and
district after district, and state after
state fell into line, until it got con-
troll of the two houses of congress,
and in 1876 succeeded in electing a
noble son of New York to the presi-
dency, who would be there to-day
but for the most gigantic fraud that
ever startled the American people.
The people submitted to this with
a degree of patience and forbearance
almost unknown in history. Four
years have again rolled around, and
to-day it is safe to declare that Win
field Scott Hancock and William
III. English are the president and
vice president of our country, in
the hearts and minds of the people.
The great struggle is going on, and
the eyes of the people of the Union
are upon you in Tennessee. Wehave
a solid south, it is said. It is so,
and thank God for the solid south.
Solid for the constitution, solid for
honest government, solid against
frauds and monopolies, solid for the
great leader of the Union army,
Winfield Scott Hancock, and last
but not least, solid for a strict main
tenance of the public faith, state
and national.
With those great democratic prin-
eiples inscribed on your banner, /
take it and I will convey it to the
and green valleys of the
east 1.-THE home of my vener-
able friend, who has just addressed
you (Col. Byrd, and present it to
the pure and patriotic democracy
there. / will bring it across the
to the plains and valleys
of Middle Tennessee, and bear it to
the west, the home of my honored
friend, Gen. Campbell, who was
the companion of my bOyhOod, the
friend of my manhood, and who
has my friendship and affection like
that of a brother. My friend asked
me the other day if did not want to
vote for him. / told him that, to
speak the plain truth, ! did not, but
rs to which of us should be nOmi-
mated / was the worst hung jury he
ever saw. iA. 9
With these principles I feel that |
can go forward and look honest |
men in the face and ask for their |
= For years the unhappy spectacle |
has been presented of democrats |
Iuarreling among themselves about |
our state obligations, whilst our |
opponents have been chuckling |
over the divisions, and seeking to |
profit by our dissensiOns. But we |
are no longer divided, we are to-day |
united, and we all stand together |
ioing battle under the same flag. |
Some, it is true, have gone away |
from us and to them, / say, erring |
brother, depart in peace. When,
In November next, you hear the
shouts of victories without, and be-
hold the country returned to its
principles how your hearts
will long to come again to the old
ship. After long and lonesome
for some place to rest, you
shall find your limbs torn with
Driers, and your new allies faithless
md helpless, you shall cast longing
glances at the columns moving to
she music of the old lines, bugle,
ife and drum, you will come back
igain.
When you get weary, and your feet be-
temember tho pathway which leads to our
door," tH..
We have at length presented the
sSue to the people, the sovereign
,uIers of the land, and by them it
will be settled and put forever at
est, and that, too, without OPP
or burdensome taxation
lpon any one.
/ have read somewhere of a tabled
sland in the sea, on which the sur
tribes from adjacent
stands meet year after year to en-
rage in deadly strife for the posses
ion. At length, when the usual
easOn for bloodshed arrived,
IN old man, with long, white
urls and trembling limbs, calls
lpon his tribe to kneel and pray to
Neptune that he would stike the
unhappy island with his trident
md remove forever the cause of
trife and contention from the earth.
Let US trust, gentlemen. and pray
hat the democracy of Tennessee
nay, in the coming election, with
heir mighty trident, the ballot-bOx,
emove from our midst this Vexa-
ious question of the state debt,
md bring peace and victory to our
)arty.
Gentleman, thanking you in my
leart with feelings which no words
Il mine can express for the high
lonor which you have conferred
mon me, and with the promise on
nv part to leave no stone unturned
o render myself worthy OF your
/ am prepared to go
Orth In defense of your principles.
shall go forth and appeal alone to
he Judgment and conscience and
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