Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1880-09-25
ooUNTRYmAN on THE CANVASS.
A Few Liveay Suggestions for the
HenefiG of Wilson, Savage,
and EE0Iters Generally.
From the American

From the American.
They tell me that Edwards
! about toquit the canvass and thro
his entire (?) strength for Wilson
| am so glad, for you don't kno
J how much Wilson needs it. If Et
wards will let me know when he
ready to move his party over /
Wilson's tent, / will lend him m
! wheel-barrOw. It's a tolerably larg
one, and he won't have to make bT
one trip. He can put up the side
boards so as to be certain not
spill any of it. He need not tax
any principles with him; he ca
just leave his where he did those h
had when he left the democrati
party after running a Tilden club
Or he might pile them away wit
those he bundled up on the stat
debt question after the canvass Q
1878. Wilson's party don't nee'
any more just now nO-way. Wha
| they need is voters. OF course Ed
wards principles mixed into vii
| sons platform wouldn't max
things any worse, but it would ex
tend the platform to such a length
as to befuddle the intellect of tn.
average leader.
The principles of the party a
| present, when condensed, are as fol
lows: 1. We want an Office. 2
| Wen repudiate the state debt L
/ get it. 8. IF we can't get it by re
/ pudiatfon, we'll try something else
Well, now, if this won't satisfy Mr.
Edwards, he is a curious modern
politician. But if he don't like
them, he can just get himself new
pair; he's got job office of his
own.
Principles amt worth much, nc
way, in these times, unless they Sc
cure fellow an Office.
Mr.. g., of Lebanon, when a young
man, was engaged with the Hon.
Sam. Turney in the trial of a law
suit, and Mr.. G.. made what he
thought was very howery, elo-
quent, forcible speech. After he
finished, Mr.. Turney requested him
to take walk with him, and they
left the town and went some dis
tance into the country without eth
er of them speaking. At last Mr..
Turney said to him: Mr.. G., that
was mighty pretty speech you
made; very pretty, indeed: but,
Mr.. G., a speech that don't win a
lawsuit amt worth a dam"
Well, principles in this age of the
world that don't win an Office, amt
worth any more than that sort of
speech.
/ see it stated that Mr.. Edwards
and Col. Savage held a caucus, but
you don't reckon that they did any
thing which will bind the people
without submitting it to a vote, do
you ?
Don't you think that Col. Savage
has most too many irons in the fire ?
He is running Wilson, holding eau
cuses with Edwards, and telling
round that Hawkins will be elected!
1t seems to me like Savage is pull
ing allthree of these strings to beat
Wright. If it's so, Savage has a
dead thing on the senatorShip. l
of course, all their follow
ers in the legislature will vote for
him.
Can you tell me just why it is alb
necessary for Col. Savage
to go to the u. S. senate to advocate
the reputation of the debt of Ten
nessee? / notice that all the other
southern senators there deny that
their people are for repudiation, but
/ suppose they do it just in order to
injure the southern people.
think see one very great adj
vantage in having the colonel in
the senate. If he gets there and
makes profert of his peculiar no
tions and satisfies the people of the |
whole country that he truly repre-
sents southern sentiment, it will |
stop the waving of the bloody shirt,
for the radicals will have no further |
use for it in carrying elections. If |
they are really going to draw Ed
off, / have troublesome |
question | want decided, either by |
you or Col. Savage, and it is this
If Mr.. Radical, Mr.. Democrat and
Mr.. Repudiator were playing a
game of draw poker, and Mr.. Rad
cal ''stood pat" on a straight"
Mr.. Democrat sat behind "full,"
would there be any sense in Mr..
splitting" a pair of
acks and drawing to a "bob-tail
lush ?" Does not his only chance
20 win consist in keeping the jacks
md drawing for another pair?
We have had the saddest accident
lOwn in our section that / almost
,ver knew of. Our whole people
ire in deep mourning and my heart
eeIs as heavy and dull as an aver
lge repudiator's mind. The Hon.
Wm. p. Tolley had been waiting
lround for some time, undecided as
which train he should take, so as to
each his Office as early as possible,
md it was very. essential for him to
ret into it at once. While he slipped
ntO the convention ticket office at
to inquire if he could
ide ON an electoral ticket-and
Dund out he eluidn't-the demo-
rattle Train left he went over to
h. repqdiatim train and found that |
VERY sCan l0rtah!e official seat had
'oen Taken ia his absence. ] don't ,
hink / IeYeTSaW Waman so distressed (;
nd no scene can be So affecting as
D see a strong, healthy man give
way 10 his emotions and his get |
ing left was not the worst Of it; no
rain will come along this road
gain for two years, 80 that he Will
Ist have to lay around the station
nd runlinate on the uncertainties
f life until the next train time.
MoRAL-A man ought never to
e undecided about which train
ell take. |
Poor Tolley! If he will come up /
ere / will have him appointed /
equity school commissioner, and I
1t him read law with me until the
Tovember election !; then he can / /
IN for chiefjustice of the supreme II
Ourt on the Wilson ticket. OF /
purse there is no election for that {
flee at that time, but what differ s
nee does 1t make? If a majority IL
{ the people vote for him then, he {
ught to have the certificate, and of t
purse the supreme judges would {
ave respect enough for the will of t
ne people to remove Judge Dead /
rick and put Tolley in his place. !
But j understand that T0lley says !
nat the little convention over at
helhYYille did not respect the will d
the people when it said that BUR- 1
am would make a better electOr r
ian he would. If that's so, and / !
ere him, would set up an Oppo-
tlon post-ofiice in Lynchburg, and
IN for elector on my own hook.
hen he could hold an electoral
)llege by himself, vote for Tolley &
,r rorpSi1ant anil RaagIQy for yioa