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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
The Crisis has Come.

Next Tuesday the most important
election of any of the thirty
eight in the United States takes place
in Tennessee, 1t not only decides who
is to be President, 9United States Sona-
tor, and the majority in both Houses Of
Congress, but also who is to be Gov
ernor of Tennessee and the financial
standing of this 7great State for all
time to come. Tennesseans to the
manor born, at once to your standards,
and in your party lines! This is no
time for visionary speculations, or po-
,jti:al experimetr-. Notime forbreak-
ing old parties and forming new ones.
No time for changing party allegiance,
The possibilities before you are four, the
probabilities are tco The possibilities
are:
l, The election of Edwards, attend
ed with the lossE State credit and the
destructionsof a Aund currency.
2, The eleciiol Of Wilson, attended
with the destruction of the Democratic
party, the total ~ Of State credit, the
insubordinatioa y courts, law and Or.
der, and ~ ~ to destroy ourrep
ressntU'fv.s '.9sr Government, uut
the substitution therefor the commun
iStic doctrine of anarchy.
3. The election Of Hawkins, attend
ed with the restoration Of the disgrace
tul Radical rule inaugurated by Brown
low and broken up by Gov. Senter, as
sisted by the ballots of freemen.
4. The election of Wright, attended
with the established credit of the State,
the preservation of the Democratic
party, and its power to preserve oul
rights as freem6h, and the National
triumph, followed by an era of unpre
cedented peace and prosperity to the
whole country.
The probable occurrence of these is
inversely as the order here stated, the
first being least probable, the second
next, and so on, provided Democrat.
do their duty. .
The two probabilities are
l. The election of Wright.
2. The election of Hawkins, in the
order here stated, if Democrats are as
true to their party as they have been
for ten years p@t.
While the crisis is at hand and fore
bodies much evil to the country, it never
theless may bd ayorted in precisely tn,
same way that we hurled the yoke o
bondage from our necks in 1869 whel
Brownlow and' Hawkins were over
thrown in Tennessee. And that way
is by a united Democratic ballot at tn,
polls, Omitted we stand, divided w
iallP
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
ToOld line Wings and Democrats.

Do you believe it is constitutional to
deprive the masses of the voters in
Tennessee of the right to vote for their
,Own rulers? Judge Hawkins said in
the courthouse here last Monday that
it lOds once constitutional. Judge
Wright said he believed that Hawkins
was honest in his belief, but that it was
exceedingly dangerous to trust man
with power who did believe it. Now,
old line Wings and Democrats, what
do you say on the subject? Please con.
slider this question at the ballot box
next Tuesday.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
&But one Coarse Left.

Tennessee must either pay all her
honest debt, compromise it, or repudi.
ate it She cannot pay it all without
embarrassment, neither can she afford
taAepudiate it without ruin. There
fore, shhhould compromise it at a fair
rate. In order to do this vote for
Judge Wright.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
What are the Issues Before Usl

On next Tuesday, the I'd of Novem-
Der, 1880, the voters of Tennessee are
called upon to settle at the ballot.box
the following quostions:N
l Is our representative system Of
government failure?
2 Shall we change from the repre-
sentative system of government as
practiced by Our fathers of all parties
for 81 years past, to the Democratic
system of Legislation at the ballot-box
on the one hand, or substitute the bay
onet for the ballot on the other hand :
Washington, Adams, Jefferson,
jackson, Polk and johnson believed
the representative system was best and
therefore they adopted it, and practiced
it through their day and generation;
and John V. Wright is now for its
perpetuation. John Savage, Frank
Wilson, Judge Williams and Dave
Snodgrass think we should now aban-
don the representative system of gov
eminent and adopt a new one in its
place, and thus inaugurate the Demo-
cratic system Of every man, woman and
child becoming a legislator at the bal
lotbox, for that is exactly what unlimi-
ted Democracy means, and 10 honest
man will deny it, and every man who
has sense enough to go to mill knows
that such a system is an absurdity.
The Republican party with Jas. A.
Garfield and Alvin Hawkins as its
leaders believe that the ballot should
be controlled by the bayonet, or as Mr.
Garfield says, 81 belieoe, sir, the time
has come when lce must lay the heruy
hand Of military authority upon these
communities, Che means Southern
States, and hold them IN It's grasp.
give my support to this military bill.
Il is Sorere. 1t was written with a steel
pen made out Of Jayoaei, and bayo-
nets have done us good service. All
ask is that Congress shall place civil
government before these people Of the
rebel States and Gordon Of Jayoaets
behind them"
This is what James A, Garfield says
should be our form of government,
and Alvin Aawkius says it is cunstitu-
tional to prevent evey rebel "oId line
Wings aud alP' from voting for all time
to come.
Briefly, .hen the issues are these
John Y, Wright and W. S. Hancock
are for the government Of our iathersi;
Frank Wilson and John Savage are
for the absurdity Of making laws at the
ballot.soX by making every man a
legislator; Garfield aud Haw-
kins are for military government by
the bayonet, and all rqsels dislran-
chised.
Fellow citizens of Tennessee, these
are the issues before you to-day, the is.
sues that these three parties have made
themselves in the past We know of
no way to judge the future but by
the past. This is the last time We
will be permitted to call your attention
to these NATTER for next Tuesday you
must choose which you will at the bal
lot-boX.
The Democratic party which is for
the old government of Washington aud
our fathers, is to-day headed by Han
cock and Wright. Yau never did
abandon this party without bringing
ruin upon you, as the division of 1860
between Douglass and Breckenridge,
and of 1872 between johnson and
Chatham will sadly testify, the one
III the civil war and the other in the
loss Of Tennessee to the Democracy.
Will you repeat the same folly next
Tuesday? May the God OF our fathers
forbid it!
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
IN WARREN COUNTY COURT.
NOn-ReSident Notice.
A. Fletcher, admir-, VS.. Whaley Bethels
luire

A. Fletcher, admir- VS.. Whaley Betheps
heirs.
this cause it appearing 10 the court from
the BILL which is sworn to- that Lucy
Bird and husband, - Bird, and Bette, or
Elizabeth, Fire, and perhaps other non.resi.
dents, names and residence unknown, are
non-residents Of the State Of Tennessee. so
the ordinary process Of law cannot be served
upon them. 1t is therefore ordered by the
court that the said nonresident defendants
be required to appear before the Warren
County Court, at the court house thereof, on
the lSt Monday of November 1850, and
make defense to said bin, or the same will
he taken for confessed and the cause set for
hearing eN partc as to them. II is further
ordered that this notice be published in the
Southern Standard for four consecutive
weeks. This 9TH Oct. 1850
SAM HENDERSON, Clerk.
By J. II. Robertson, d. c.
Octgt4
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
Dissolution Notice.

fNliE firm of SMART Bros, doing a general
L merchandise business in McMinnviIle.
has been dissolved by mutual consent of
parties, Frank Smart retiring from the same.
All parties indebted to the late firm will
please come forward aud settle their iudebt
ednesS at once, as the business must be
closed up. The books will be found at the
old stand occupied BY the firm. O23tf
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30

upon the citizens ut Tennessee-old
line Wings and abby a semblance OF
judicial authority, is now a candidate
for the highest Office in Tennessee, and
that man is Alvin Hawkins, once ty-
rannical Judge to sanction and seal the
infamous oppression of the Brownlow
rule in Tennessee. The very name of
Alvin Hawkins is a terror to Tennessee
.freemen, whose rights to the ballot
were signed array forever by one stroke
of his tyrannical pen, moved by his
tyrannical mind. And if it had not
been for the succession of d. c. Senter
to the Office of Governor, that decree
of Alvin Hawkins would have been
in force to-day, backed rs it was, by the
bayonets of the Federal government.
Tennesseans, are you willing to trust
that same man with the ensignia of
higher authority over you now, when
he is the minister of party that be-
lieves it necessary in this free country
to collect your ballots with the bayo-
metz If so, vote next Tuesday to d.
vide the Democratic party. That's all
you need do. Hawkins and his party
will do the balance.
If you wish to avert this fearfully
impending calamity, all you need do is
to vote with your party, as you have
done for ten years past, next Tuesday,
for John V. Wright, the nominee of
your party and the true standard-bearer
of our representative system of govern.
ment, which has protected us in the
use of the ballot FOR near a century
past. What man has done he may do
again. Alvin Hawkins once denied
you the use of the ballot and forever.
If you give him the power, he may do
it again; for he told YOU last Monday
that his decision depriving you of the
ballot was constitutional decision.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
Judge John V. Wright.

In the last issue of the STANDARD
we promised our citizens much in adj
vance from the speech of this gentle
man last Monday, assuring them that
they would hear no slang, no commu-
nistic doctrines advanced, but, on the
other hand, that they might expect p
hear one Of the best orators and most
m6gnanimous speakers OF the State
a true type of the honored names of
the pasE We feel now that our prom
ises have all been fully met and our
predictions adequately fulfilled.
We took notes and could report his
speech substantially q delivered, but
from the shortness Of The time to elaPse
before the election, we deem it unnec-
essary, as it would not reach our dis
tant readers before that day, and many
Others heard the speech fer them
selves. wAol now thu We
hazard nOthi'Sk saying that for abi!-
ity,a,sii,rness, statosgsaHlip~ patriotism
e pity qada IA literality
TentAent,' the sPh0f Judge
Wright, here lasi Mondg 4 not been
equaled since the days~ James c..
Jones, Meridethl P3 Gersry, Gusta-
II
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
OUR LAST APPEAL.

Before another issue of the STAND
ARD, the destinies of Tennessee and of
Tennessee and of the whole Union will
have been cast for veal or woe. Each
citizen who votes or refuses to vote will
share alike the responsibility, as we'll
as the veal or woe tllt his vote MY
entail upon the country.
The ,nHst sacred of all political
rights is that of'the ballot 1t is en-
phatically "the rigbtpresessSiye Of all
rights" He who neglccts~tA cast his
ballot, or casts it unwisely, may lose,
not only this his privilege, but all the
rights and blessings which it secures.
Thq v candidate nor party before
the y now that proposes to de-
priva Feh T this highest boon Of
Amer teemen, busSSs should look
to the tendenceNf parties and their
candidatRand ge' the future by the
4; = 4 i; =
.themseiv eS,sIothel wi A.ths 'owss
deprive y Fo$g2t, tA@is
i with q q rod of oppression. And
Hhe man WN6esoled Ala infamous 40,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
The Logic of Hawkins.

OWhatever was once constitutional
\ may be so again. >
Hawkins SAYS the Acknowledgement
'slag of the Browplow Legislature was
once constitutional.
Therefore, the Acknowledgement law
Slti9pal agdin, according
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-10-30
Garfeld-s329.
Wilson-S1,000. \

4 0dIutlu-S OZJ.
Wilson-s1,0O0. \
Hawkins-7s1, 900, extra.
Gar6eld-free trade and no tariff, a
Gordon of bayonets.
Wilson-against the Democratic
party, against the courts and the rulers
Of the, people, for repudiationl
Observation-Disclosures of Ten.
Reeseans, and a little more salary if
you please. Raise it from $4,000 to
$4,000
Hancock, Wright and Dibrell with
out a blemish
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

DR.. Ell. J. Klein, who years ago an
nounced a new crater in that world of
extinct volcanoes, the moon, has brief
article in La Nature, in which he gives
reasons for believing that the moon is
not dead. He has recently examined
drawings Of the neighborhood of the new
crater by Gruithuisen, which strongly
confirm the theory of recent changes on
the lunar surface, and cites also the
drawings of Messrs. Nelson and Green
in further proof thereof. Prof. Klein
adds that he announced the new depress-
ion near Hyginus as a crater from anal
ogy. It is crater funnel, and even one
OF the largest. Toward the south there
is shallow spoon-shaped hollow, which
terminates in a second small crater. In
full sunlight, when the interior of the
large hollow of the crater is no longer in
shadow, the spoon-shaped hollow may
still be seen as gray spot. By the use
OF high powers it is remarked that the
environs of the new crater appear to be
fissured in bewildering manner. Two
fine burrows, like clefts in the soil, which
extend from n toward the Snail mount
ain, are the finest objects on the moon.
1t lis impossible as yet to decide whether
this formation is really volcanic. There
is one curious fact, however, which
would seem to indicate that a mountain
of smoke has at one time been seen on
the moon. On July 2, 1897, Schroter
and ORDERS examined a mountain stu
ated in the Sea of Vapors This mount
ain, which was ascertained to be 3,450
feet high, has been seen neither before
nor since, and was probably merely a
mass of vapor. The formation measured
by Schroter has disappeared from the
moon, and nearly in the same spot there
is now a crater. There sometimes occur,
too, on the surface of the moon, nebulous
strata of very long duration, which have
no analogues on the earth. He who ex-
amines carefully the materials furnished
by the numerous observations made on
lunar formations from the time of
Gruithuisen up to our own day, says Prof
Klein, will arrive at the conclusion that
things are going on upon the surface OF
this neighboring world which we as yet
can know nothing about.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

Koragou, " added the Marquis, with
equal glee. So the Versailles TROOPS
have arrived already"
A gray but hale peasant, in rustic at
tire, but with scarlet band on his
left arm and in military cap, appeared
on the boudoir threshold, Remington
rife in hand.
You see, father, I have kept my
word, " cried the girl, ranging herself by
the newcomers and drawing a revolver.
Betrayed /" exclaimed Madranc
What, a Breton, who believes in the
saints, on the side of these atheists and
dlsrespecters of property and family :"
My Lord, reioined the old peasant,
by force of habit, "you are Breton,
but you forgot the saints when you dis
placed my. son from his humble curacy;
and where was your respect for prop
erty when you stole away the affections
of Lady Montfort ?"
And where was yours for family
when You murdered the poor lady here
here in the night q" cried AISLE
Koragou, furiously. Brothers! this is
the murderer of the Countess of Mont
fort. He came In by this secret way and
slew her because she rejected him. I
say Stay him, or | myself will do it I"
Hector reflected on the singular haz-
ard that had brought him to the scene
OF his crime. But he took his course
manfully. He went and planted him
self where he remembered the lady to
have fallen. and said:
g, ackals may hedge in lion. Take
the like of you for my peers, to Judge
me? Nonsense Wreak your Will on
my body; the rest flies above your
level!"
"Fire" cried Koragou. "Fire on a
hater of the people!"
A dozen bullets shattered his breast.
But the yolley was drowned by the tu-
multi in the street. The regulars had
taken the chapel and were clearing the
streets as the Communists fell back.
Half an hour afterward Count Mont
fort, Colonel of the Second Battalion.
Coteville Nord Mabiles. entered his
house, where he understood there
had been fighting; but he marked little
damage. In the ebony chamber, on the
site of which his orderly halted, hud-
dled-up figure was plotting the floor.
" A man shot!" cried the soldier, I'M
concernedly.
Gonthan stopped over the body; pa
per was pinned as only woman pins
papers, to his battered breast:
The Marquis de Medranc-snot for firing on
the people, and for murder of the Countess of
Montford.
Witness: AISLE KoRAGoU.
" AISLE! Ny wife's foster sister.
Medranc here, the murderer of my poor
wife. This is the hand Of retribution!"
The panel had flown open at the ex-
plosion of the guns. The secret of the
ebony chamber was laid bare.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
Puck's Estimate Of Edison.

There is Edison, for instance. Edison
is not humbug Far from it. He is
simply man OF type common enough
in this count1y-a smart, persevering,
sanguine, ignorant, show-off American
He can do a great deal, and he thinks he
can do everything. AS matter of fact,
he is so smart that he is the tool of the
first scamp that comes along. He would
invent tomorrow, in perfect good faith,
a three-legged stool. He would let spec
ulators organize stock company to float
that three-legged stool. Then, when he
found that three-legged stools were in
common use before he was born, he
would cheerfully go to work to invent
something else, honestly unconscious OF
having done any mischief. That is just
his position to-day. He has fused and
fumed over his electric light until he has
made for himself every variety Of failure
that other men had made before him.
Meanwhile, his Wall street friends have
put stock on the market, sold it at high
figure, and are now slowing away the
difference between said figure and the
present, which is somewhere along in the
latitude Of the Keely motor quotations.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
Democratic Bad Faith.

In one way the Democratic party can
help the Republican party materially.
It hates Senator Kellogg. It wants to
make the South absolutely solid i'll the
Senate, and cares not for justice or de-
cency, or the established rules of the
Senate, if it can satisfy it's vindictive
feeling. There was q pledge, it is true,
that Republican and Democratic
Senator should be admitted on the same
ground, and not disturbed in their seats,
and the Republicans Loyalty and honor
ably kept the agreement on their part.
If the Democrats see fit to break it, if
they please to establish a precedent I'M
der which, when the Senate becomes
Republican, the right of any Democratic
member to his seat can be questioned,
the Republicans may well thank them
heartily for their folly. It will seem to
the people of the North that Mr.. Kellogg
is illegally ousted, not because he was not:
duly chosen, but because he was an eff
Gent loyalist and is an active Republi-
can. It will seem to them that Demo
cratic vindictiveness and partisan greed
have once more trampled upon legal and
honorable obligations. In the Presiden-
tial campaign this bit of indecency on
the part Of the Democrats will be men
toned often, and we leave the sensible
Democrats themselves to say whether it
will help them.-NclO York Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
Political Assessments.

The report Of the minority Of the Sen
ate committee charged with the inyesti-
cation Of the practice of making
political assessments is an interesting
and entertaining document. It is very
clearly shown that the report Of the ma
jority is partisan and disingenuous in
character For example, the report of
the majority cited the case Of clerk in
one of the departments who refused to
contribute to a Republican election fund,
and whose salary was subsequently cut
down. The impression sought to be
conveyed is that this was done in order
to punish the refractory employee, where
as the fact is that the whole business was
managed by Democratic House Of Rep
resentatives. The report Of the minority
Of the committee effectually disposes of
the hypocritical pretensions Of the Demo
cratic majority. But the whole case
could have been dismissed in a single
sentence, showing that the main reli-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28

spent the early part of the night,
brought her to her door. L went to ny
club, but | was too tired to play, lost {
few napoleons, and came home
Did you see the lady to this door 2
inquired the detective.
This? No, no! She would not
even let me leave the carriage. I may
say-whatever value the information
possesses, that the windows were lighted
up when | came home a second time. "
Can you form any opinion about
this crime?'
Really I know so little of the Mont
fort family
f" Excuse me, my Lord, said Lecoq,
with pretended bluntness, "but we
know your Lordship to be quite in the
world of fashion. Who has been ac-
cused of being this poor ladys cicisbeo %
The Count of Montfort," answered
he, testify, turning red after paling, sis
splendid fellow. She idolized him.
Why, this will break his heart when he
learns it. But who will impart the
news ?"
That's been done, answered the Of
fetal.
An hour after, the body having been
placed on the bed, magnificent mass
of rare flowers came from the Marquis,
which Betsy, released as guiltless, ar
ranged with taste.
By the midnight train and cab driv-
en- at tearing speed the Count arrived.
His wife, surrounded by the blossoms,
and upon black velvet, in that gloomy
room seemed only sleeping. Betsy had
plated her long faxen tresses. Con
tran de Montfort strobe up to the bed,
having kept his countenance up to that
moment, but then, nature having been
oyerstrained, he fell on his knees, en-
bracing the clay-cold idol, and sobbed
her name. The servants repeated
through the mansion, in a tone which
testified to the rarity of the event, "My
Lord had tears in his eyes,"
In the morning Mr.. Lecoq called to
say that he had been specially trusted
with the case.
II am sorry to tell your Lordship,
though, % he remarked, "that the case
is inexplicable so far. But we are bound
to pierce the mystery"
The nobleman looked at him sadly,
and answered:
cit is useless for you to look after the
murderer Of my loved one. He is no
common criminal [ have no other aim
in life now. And when I meet him, be-
heve me, shall not call in the law to
execute him. "
This speech seemed out Of place OH
the lips Of Breton gentleman, race
noted for religious aud law-abiding traits.