The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-10-26
Eb. James Speecb.

Hon. Eb. James spoke in Pulaski |
Monday to a good audience, mostly |
of Bate men, who enjoyed his antics
and minstrel gags. He made some |
excellent points and put them wei
and forcibly, and they wou d have |
been effective if his premises had !
not been so fallacious. His first
Grgament knocked his own props
from under him. The burden of
his spe CHI was that it was sinful to
repudiate, and the first thing he did
was to prove by actual figures that
his own dearly-ioved 60-6 repudiates
more than the 50-3 does He never
by one single word or hint attacked
the republican party and there was
not a syllable to show that he OPP
poses the party of corruption. He
spent all Of two hours abusing the
democratic platform and ridiculing
and gouping democrats. He is a
poor democrat, in our opinion, who
finds nothing to say against our
common enemy, but uses all his
powers of ridicule and abuse against
men whose lives have been offered
as sacrifice to their convictions
and our defense. If the Young man
under the marble shaft died for
honor, as he correctly stated, what
did Mr.. James fight for? He was
on the other side. We do not ar
raign him nor abuse him for being
Tennessee Federal soldier, as we
learn he was, but since he made a
direct issue of this point in so many
words and tried to convince this
people that a mans war record is
not to be considered as a reason
Why you should vote for him, we
think we are justified in saying that
he stands in a poor attitude to teach
this people what honor is, and upon
that question we'd rather take the
testimony of such men as Bate and
Harris. We are heartily tired of
hearing these self-appointed saints
smite upon their breasts and thank
God that no one else is as honest as
they are. We repel, in the name of
the people of Giles county, the
scurTilous insinuation that they are
regulators and dishonest, and that
too by a man who proves by his
own figures that his platform re-
pudiates more than the other does.
The Bate platform says 1--WE hereby
tender" fifty cents. The Bolter plat
form fixes the figure at sixty, gives
them to January LIST to take it, and
then if they have not funded they
are cut off forever. Was there ever
a more oppressive, despotic act OF
Reputation than to say to a man:
Your bond is worth 81 900 on De
cember 31st, but the next day it is
not worth a cent,-nOt because there
is any statute of limitations, nor
defect nor fraud in your bond, but
simply because we say that you
have got TO fund by January 1st"?
When the Gear OF Russia attempts
any such high handed spoliation as
that he sends out his mailed soldiers
to buck and gag and rob. And yet
these men smite their breasts and
call others repudiators. We had
hoped that Giles would be spared
such an argument as this, but Mr..
James brought it here.
Mr.. James afforded much amuse-
ment and there were many who
hadn't laughed as heartily since the
last minstrel show. He said he'd
rather belong to Hawkins Aid So
ciety than to Ed. ShaW's MINISTRIES.
He evidently lows some of the
hardships to be endured by knights
of tie scorched cork and is ready
to rush into anything to escape
them.
And yet, Mr.. James is a nice gen
tleman and they are all honorable
gen tleman but we stand here to
maintain that they have not alb
sorbed all the honor, and the demo
cratic party will rise in its wrath to
rebuke their silly Yaporings two
weeks hence.