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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
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Hardly a month has yet passed
and ths republican party has
already begun to experience a few
of the many unpleasant and unfor-
tunate consequences that must fol-
low from their dishonorable and
unhOly alliance with the arch-repu-
diator Malone. Strange il il that
a party, which heretofore has had
such thoughtful and judicious lead
ers, and has been 80 singularly
blessed in all its political plans,
should so heedlessly fall into such a
suicidal mistake. One of their most
potent arguments in the last CAM
paign, and the one which they
urged with most effect against the
democratic party, was the alleged
tendency of that party to foster and
encourage the ruinOus doctrine of
reputation. This was the great
point in all the campaign speeches
OF Conkling, Logan, and all their
great leaders. And now we see
them, after all their boosted purity
and financial honesty, for the sake
of a few offices, cast aside all their
high principles and make an open
and corrupt bargain with a man
who reached his present position
by advocating the doctrine which,
ABOVE all Others, they affected most
TO despise.
This act may benefit them for the
present, but in the future they will
meet with the just reward which
such treachery and inconsistency
will always bring. They have
charged upon the democratic party
reputation as the basest of all
crimes, and now they present to the
world, and to those who were credu-
lous enough to believe them sincere
in their denunciation of the hideOus
principle, the sad spectacle of an
open and base combination with
the leading advocate of reputation.
For years and years the press, the
pulpit and the whole North have
filed the land with shouts and cries
that the whole country was in
danger of ruination because of re-
pudiation and the reign of Confeder-
ate brigadiers. What will they
say, now that they have fondly
taken one of these same vipers into
their own bosom and caressed and
warmed him into new life and en-
ergy? We hope it will be the same
old story, that the viper will turn
and sting the hand that gave it life.
This would be a fitting reward for
their base bargain with Malone.
The indications are that dissensions
have already begun to spring up in
the republican camp at Washing
ton, and that Malone bids fair to be
no slight thorn in the side of that
INSCRIPTIONS political body. In Il
partisan sense we may rejoice that
they have entered into this corrupt
support of Malone, for it will de-
prive them of much of their pOliti-
cal thunder. No more can they
urge the care and support of repudi-
alton upon the democratic party.
Their utilization and alliance with
Malone means encouragement and
a union with the advocates of repu-
diation everywhere.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

QUITE an exciting scene took
place in the United States senate on
last Saturday between Messrs. Hoar
and Brown, growing out of the fill
clustering and dilatory motions en-
gagged in by the democrats to pre-
vent the republicans from proceed
ing to elect the officers of the senate.
Mr. Hoar accused Senator Brown of
treason in clogging the wheels of
the government. Mr.. Brown re-
piled that then he would convict
Hoar and all the other republicans
of treason in preventing the last
senate from going into executive
session a few days before its close.
This seemed to silence the cheeky
apOlogist of Malone. They seem
already to have forgotten the
aphorism of Garfield himself, that
"when fraud is law filibusterIng is
patriotism"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
LEGIsLArrvE RnLL1NGsGArE

In viewing the present aspect of
American politics perhaps nothing
is to be more regretted D, discount
enanced than the unfortunate and
alarming increase of personalities
and unparliamentary language in
the halls of congress and the legisla-
tive bodies of the country. We can
hardly believe that the language
we hear used every day among gem
tlemen in the highest councils oil
our nation could be used or tolerat-
ed in any other country under the
sun, unless they were a lot of semi
barbarians. Gentlemen who are
honOred by the people among
whom they live for their high ed
ucation, culture and refinement, as
we'll as the probity and uprightness
of their lives, when they are sent to
represent these people In the legis-
lative bodies of the country no
sooner reach these high places than
they seem to forget that they are
still looked up to as examples and
censors for the people, and straight
way commence to handy ungentle-
manly epithets and to hurl blasphe-
nous anathemas upon any of their
colleagues and fellow-members who
may chance to differ with them on
almost any subject. One has but to
step into the halls of ourIegislatures
almost any day to hear some hon
orable gentleman arise and loudly
exclaim: "If the gentleman says or
intimates so and so, he is a liar and
a scoundrel," and many other like
approbious epithets that no gentle
man would dare to 5 to his fell
bowman outside the protecting pre-
cinets of the legislative halls with
out expecting to be summarily and
strictly held personally responsible
for the language he has used. And
yet when the gentleman goes out
into the cool air and has time to re-
fleet and cool of an apology dnd re-
traction almost always invariably
follows, and he is left to chew the
bitter eud of lowered s~elf-respect,
which a calm reflection on his hasty
and unparliamentaFy language al
ways brings. This may be all
there Is of il to them, but it has a
far more parnicious and degrading
influence upon the younger and
rising statesmen of the country
than they perhaps imagine. Do
they expect to maintain and raise
higher the standard of statesman
ship and political morality by such
conduct as this? Do they think
the masses will have that high re-
gard and respect for the laws they
enact, which Is so necessary for a
good government and society, when
the very laws themselves are con-
eeived in anger and personal abuse?
1t is high time this growing
disgrace was checked and elm
mated from American poll
ties. 1t is no evidence of the per-
sonaI bravery or courage of the man
who resorts to it, and reflects great
disgrace and dishOnOr upon Ameri-
can legislation.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
Character in Newspapers.

Every newspaper in America, or
in the world, has a character cxclu-
sively its own. 1t is as different
from all other papers as one man is
different from another. Some news
papers, like some individuals, have
stronger characteristics than others,
but each has a distinct entity of its
own. Even an attempt to make two
newspapers alike fails, and this is
one Of the mysteries Of the business,
which even the oldest craftsman is
unable to solve. Passing by the
type and make up-the dress of a
newspaper-there is a certain tone
about each individual journal which
no other possesses. This tone is not
the expression Of one individual, but
the voices Of many nodded into
one,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

suppose from the order in which
the protest is signed, that in the
farce these five actors intend to play
on the stage of Tennessee politics,
to try to reproduce the tragedies of
ancient times, Mr.. Beasley will rep
resent Christ. And there is really
one point of similarity between
them from Johns standpoint-and
only one-he does not believe in
Christ, and very few people believe
in John, politically.
Now, while [ admit that / can
see how John Beasley might sus-
tain the character he has chosen, /
am free to say that | believe Col.
Thompson will be a failure as Soc
rates. And [ furthermore think
that the Colonel does himself very
great injustice when he compares
himself to such a man as Socra-
ties.
/ don't honestly believe that Soc
rates could have made the speech
Col. Thompson made last Friday
when he ,alled a brother member
of the Legislature "a id liar and
scoundrel"-if he had thought over
it Tor one hundred years, Socrates
was not much poet and this came
from a CLINE where the roses are,
and Floats in the valley of
dreans.R
[ never could understand why it
was that a man who has confidence
in his ability, faith in his position,
and reliance in being sustained in
it by his people could content him
self with quietly placing himself on
the record by his vote, while other
men feel call upon to get up on top
of a desk and give their mouths a
holiday, with protest after protest,
and even then seem to be some
what dissatisfied with themselves.
They appear to enjoy airing their
intellects, as some people do their
linen-the less they have and the
more unsightly it is, the more at
tractive the front yard becomes to
them.
But if these gentlemen are really
going to get up this play, / want to
suggest that we don't have any
scene where n of them is s'cruci-
fed in JeruseIam." or murdered in
Athens or Rome" This would be
repnlsive to the civilization of the
nineteenth century. If they will
adopt the modern style, and have
an Old-fashioned hanging, Jeruse-
lem! / would Rome one hundred
miles to see it. If they conclude to
do this, let me know; | want to bid
for the privilege of selling cider
and ginger-cakes on the ground
that day.
(ODNTRYMAN
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
ELS

Little Billy Malone made an at
tempt in the senate last Monday to
defend his course and to bolster up
his defenceless alliance with the re-
publican party. The senate cham
Der and galleries were crowded
with those anxious to hear what he
had to say in his defence. He spoke
mostly from manuscript, and long
before he was through his diatribe
became tiresome, and many people
left the chamber. He made an eff
fort to whitewash his friend Riddle
berger, and said he (Riddleberger)
was made of sterner stuff than DEM
Ocrats. He INDUCED in much high
strung gush about independence OF
action and speech, dubbed over
with bombast about the glorious
sold dominion" and the "mother OF
presidents" etc., etc.
Going further and touching upon
subjects entirely Irrelevant to the
subject, he reiterated the hackneyed
cant of Northern demagogues about
the poor negro, etc. Take his
speech all in all, it was stale, flat
and Improbable, and disappointed
even his friends. He did nothing
to remove the suspicion of a bargain
with the republicans.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

IT is said that MI. Adam Fore.
paugh has at last secured the young
lady of all Others in the United
States who possesses the nearest ap.
proach to ideal perfection in form
and feature in the person of Miss
Annie Pauline Scott, of MOnonga-
hela City, Penn, who he agrees to
pay $4,000 per year TO travel with
his circus. a correspondent, in de-
scribing her, winds up a gushing
description of her surprising beauty
by remarking that she ''seems SUI
perlativeIy hIggable."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

How long! Oh, how long! we
ask, are those laughable, but expen-
sive, farces-the examination into
the scratching of Whittaker's ears,
and the legislative investigating
committee at Nashville-to be con
tinued? If there is anything the
average American delights in more
than another it is an investigation
of some kind.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

THE day of miracles is not yet en-
tirely passed. One happened in
Cincinnati the other day. Good
Deacon Richard Smith, of the Gin
cinnati Gazette, the most blatant,
wicked, red-hOt, uncOmpromising,
unauthorized, dOuble-distilied, gilt
edged, diamond-hilted, republican
In Ohio, has decided to support the
regularly nominated democratic
municipal ticket and 1t now floats
in triumph at the masthead of the
Gazette. HOOp-la
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

THE Memphis papers got up on
their hind legs and hOwled for joy
when they heard of HIPS speech
against the 1908 proposition. Not
a word was said, all as silent as the
tomb when they read the eloquent
and mastery argument of Senator
Smith in its favor. Such is preju-
dice,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
JOHN Il. BEASLEY.
r. f. THOMPSON.
JOHN w. STEELE.
W. :. GASS.
7 A n A NOON


Now, if there is any truth in the
protest, it's a serious matter. 1t
does not matter so much about sus-
tanning "Our charitable institu-
TONS" because if they were fewer
in number it might operate as a Ia
Dor stimulant. Nor about "provid-
ing for the administration of jus
tice." Judge Lynch does that,
and his court cost him nothing.
But not to be cable to pay the sala-
| ries of legislators" is simply too alb
solutely awful for the average pol
itician to keep his fearful sympa-
thies from shopping over" Just
think of it! Here is a clean, clear
loss Of $3.50, per year sustained by
these gentlemen with no correspon-
ding benefit.
The bondholder only loaned his
money 10 the State, and under this
bill gets back half of it. While
these gentlemen have contributed
the ''uSufruct" of their intellectS to
the State, and for the hire of the
same will only get State warrants
worth somewhat less than par.
It's a gloomy outlook for the devel-
Opment of the STATESMEN" re-
sources of our state.
Here is an amount Of intellect
which, if employed in any useful
industry, might have been valuable
but (if the present bill becomes a
law has been scalingly sacrificed
on the altar of this Unsuitable god
of the lawmakers. 1t is true that
the State might have contracted for
better material at less cost, but this
does not justify the effort to scale
the wages of its law-carpentefs. 1t
seems to me that if the newspapers
will take this view of the situation
they will have more charity aud
sympathy for these gentlemen.
The mistake you make is in con-
demning the whole protest, because
about a yard of it consists of scan
Gal, impertinent matter and nom
sense, and oVerlooks that which is
really TO the point and has pith in
it, to-wit "there will be no money
10 pay legislators" The rest of the
protest was merely included as in
troductory TO this startling state
ment. While l cannot condemn
these gentlemen for being indig-
nant and alarmed, if they believe
this will turn out To be true, still, |
can't help but differ with them
about the fact.
My private opinion is that gen
tleman in the Legislature will fad
a way to pay themselves a small
amount due them from the State,
even if the bondholders should get
hold of every dollar that found its
way to the Treasury-except what
was coming to members of the
Legislature. If the bondholders
should gobble up the taxes derived
from all sources, we could still paw
u law maker~ by re-enacting the
''dOg law" for that special purpose.
We could do this and still use the
old title, "For the protection of
sheep )" it wouldn't be unconstitu-
tionaI.
l knew that John Beasley wrote
that protest as soon as | saw it. be-
cause it speaks of Christ, Socrates ct
ais, as ''these great men," John
doesn't believe in God.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

DANIEL STURGEON JOUBERT, the
commander-in-chief of the BOer
armies, in South Africa, is said to
be a Pennsylvania Dutchman, hav-
ing been born at UniOntOwn, in
that state, in 1841. The story of his
life, and how he came to drift to
South Africa, is very interesting.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

"THE British troops will remain
at Candahar until autumn" says an
exchange. We are not exactly adj
vised as to the whereabouts of
Candahar, but if it is any nearer
the torrid zone than these precincts
have been for the last FIVE solid
months, we would like to swap
places with the British.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

1T is now reported that three
American Irishmen named Mooney,
O'Donnell and COlman, yer the in
stigators in the second plot to blow
up the Mansion House in England
and kill the Queen. Detectives are
now upon their track and it is ex-
pected they will soon be captured.
Good people the world over, admire
and respect Victoria, and no at
tempt upon her life will find SYM
pathy in any good heart.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

EX-PREsIDENT GRANT has re-
signed the presidency of the worlds
fair, and Mr.. Jewett is hesitating
about accepting the proffered posi-
ton. 1t seems hard TO get any dis
tInguished man to accept the place,
We give notice right here that it
would be utterly impossible for US
to accept 1t.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

Young Kalloch, the cold blOOded
assassin of Charles DeYoung, the
proprietor of the San Francisco
Chronicle has been acquitted of his
foul crime, by a purjured jury and
subOrned witnesses. After his re-
lease, he was made a hero of, by
the low vulgar partisans OF his faith
er, and the sand-lot crowd of Kear-
nyites. This is another foul blot
upon the good name of justice and
law, only equaled by the Buford
travesty.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
Plan 10 pay the Debt in Forty
seven Years.

a correspondent of the Memphis
Appeal offers this suggestion:
The proposition of the creditors
of the State is to accept ninety
nine-year bonds bearing three per
cent. interest. If this is accepted
and the state will levy a tax annu-
ally sufficient to pay interest at the
rate of four per cent. on the present
Indebtedness of $27 900, 900, and af-
ter paying the three per cent. inter-
est, use the other one per cent. as
a sinking fund, the entire debt and
interest will be paid in forty-seven
years. This proposition is equiva-
lent to the creditors proposing to
reduce the interest from six to four
per cent, and at the end of forty
sever years to surrender the debt.
w.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

CAPT. JNO. S. WISE, o of ex-
Governor Henry A. Wise, has pub
lished a long letter, stating his in
tention to join the Malone party.
Now what paragraphist will say
this is a Wise step? q
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

IT Is said that Mr.. Ashmead Bart
lett BurdetE Coutts, has determined
to take to politics. The man who
could take such q wife as he did,
and now enter the uncertain field OF
politics, must indeed be endowed
with an iron nerve.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
southern Methodist Missionaries
sailed.

The Rev. J. J. Ransom, the Rev.
Mr.. Kennedy, late of East Tennes-
see, the Rev. MI. Roger and wife,
late of South Carolina, and Miss
Matte II. Watts, late of Louisville
KY. left New York for Brazil on
the Germanic Saturday. They go
as missionaries to the empire of the
liberal minded Don Pedro, under
the auspices Of the Mission Board of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
SOpth,-AmericGn,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

If that Memorable Canadian
cuss will only come this way We'll
knock the representations out of
him. What's the use of cooling off
the spring poets in this %unfeeling
manner,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

BULLY for Blainei He is credit
ed with saying that he did not de-
sire to be connectedin any way with
the alliance of Malone with the
republican party.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

In speaking of growing forest
trees, the Manhattan Industrialist
says:
1t pays, and pays well. 1t is
well known that the price of good
timber land is from two to three
times that of raw prairie. An arti-
fetal grove of forest trees, contain
ing from FIVE to ten acres, enhances
the value of an improved farm
from twenty to thirty per cent.
Let two farms in the same neigh
borhood, of equal size and equal
improvements in other respects, be
offered for sale; the one with a
small grove of forest trees upon it,
judiciously located, will be sold
first, and for twenty-five per cent
more than the other. A twenty
acre grove of black walnut trees,
twenty years OF age, on a quarter
section, would be more valuable
than the rest of the section.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
Executors Notice.

Having been qualified as Executor under
the viii offhe Iafe samuel A. Bunneil, decd,
notice is hereby given toali who hold claims
against said estate, 10 present them 10 me,
duly authenticated, within tue time pre-
scribed by law for payment All who are In
debtad f0 said estate must settle a. once.
J.s. NEBLETT, Executor.
Feb 96. lR8I-fw.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

COMPILING has had some expert
ence in knowing how effective a
shotgun is in soaring a fellow.
Why don't he get and intimi-
date Garfield and Blaine?
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

BENJAMIN DISRAELI, the Earl OF
Beaconsfeld, is seriously i'll in Lon
don. Owing to his old age, his re-
covery is thought improbable.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
OriOinaI Attachment.
State Of Tennessee Montgomery Co.
W. II. spalding va. Isaic sales.

In this cause Il appearing by andnvlt that
nc d~eiendantl Isaac sales Is Justly In
the state or tennessee 50 that the ordinary
process Of law cannot be served on him. aud
an original attachment having been l4elrd
ON his property
AZ. r. therefore ordcred that publication be-
made IN the C~larksvllle CHRoNrcIr. news
paper p~uDslshed IA thtfdty l1f C~iarksville, lor
-four successive weeks. c-omrrnpdin fnrt nIf
Isaac sales 20 appear before me, or some
other Justice of Peace for snid county, nl MY
IN the lst civil district 81 sid
make defense TO the pid suit against him,
or IL Will be proceed#h with tx lnrfa.
April Z. 81.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
THE y
COuntryman's Symp athies for I'm
SaIaried SOlOns.

l see that the following protest
has been made in the House of Rep
resentatives against the passage of
the bill to settle the Indebtedness of
the State:
Because it will leave in the Treasury no
money to sustain our charitable institu-
tons, to provide for the administration of
Justice, or even to pay the salaries of legis-
lators who may hereafter assemble in this
Capitol. The fight will go on and the bat
tie will rage more fiercely than ever. Je-
sus Christ was crucified in Jerusalem; So
crates and PhOcian were put to death in
Athens, and Tiberius and Caius Gracious
were murdered in Rome. These great men
were remembered with gratitude because
they were the friends of the people, and We
are determined to follow their example
and emulate their deeds, let the conse-
quences be what they may. We cannot,
therefore, behOld the commission of what
we consider to be a stupendous crime
against the public welfare without enter
ing our earnest and solemn pOtest against
it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
McCORMAC'S GALLERY.


LIVERY style of picture made here and
h finished ia the most artistic manner at
prices as
Low as the Cheapest
Gallery. 4. share Of public patronage re-
specially solicited.
on 22-tf W j. McCORMAC.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02
COUNTRYMAN
The state medicalsociety

AT the request of Il large proper
ton of the members of the Medical
Society of the state of Tennessee, the
general meeting will not be held on
the fifth day of April, as required
by law, but the Society will hold a
formal meeting at that time, appoint
deIagates 10 the American Medical
Association, and attend to such 9TH
er business as is absolutely necessa-
ry, and adjourn to some time in
May for the general meeting, of
which meeting due notice will be
given. This change is for the pur-
pose of allowing members to attend
the exposition and secure more ia
vorable terms of transportation.
Members having papers to read will
take notice and govern themselves
accordingly.
b. b. LENOIR, M. D.,
President,
w. NJ. CLARK, NJ. d.
Vice-Pre5ident,
w. A. ATCHIsoN, NJ. D.,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-04-02

' LNN-L IVo1NNItg
w. A. ATCHISoN, NJ. d.,
Committee OF Arrangements.