The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-11-01
Col. James D. TiIiman and
Hon. Richard Warner.


III baVor vi INC PLATFORM. III the w rich
men had then met in convention to &c
lect candidate for Congress and 10
nored National Politics, and compelle
. the nominee to stand on the Wrieb
platform, | would have voted for som
one else, if there had been any one els
for me to vote for.
The Tullahoma convention whic
nominated Mr.. Warner seemed to thin
they were about to select candidat
for the Legislature, and, leaving out o
view all questions of national politics, i
made only one test of Democracy an,
that was that the nominee should sun
port Gen: Bate and his PLATFORM.
could not have accepted the nomination
for while | will vote for Gen. Bate
could not endorse the pIatform-Grst
because | do not think it right to pa,
Mrs. Polk more than other widows,
second, because | would not pay any o.
the railroad debt. And, since | have
thought more about it, ], do not see any
good sense in paying the men who hold
the State debt proper 100 cents in the
dollar, when all, or many of them, have
agreed to take so cents in the dollar. II
Mr.. Warner is not sincerely in favor Of
all these things, he ought not 10 have
accepted the nomination on such terms.
Col. Tillman said to the people, in all
his speeches between the first and sec.
ond convention, that if Il man was
urged to vote for Bate and scratch his
platform, he ought to be allowed to run
for Congress without endorsing or pre-.
tending to endorse it.
In voting for candidate | do not
endorse his platform, but candidate
ought to stand squarcly on it.
l think, then, that anybody, whether
nc was a Wilson man or Wright man,
had right to run against the nominee
OF such Il convention.
The nominee is not acceptable to the
people Of this district. Differences
about our State debt ought not, any
more than differences about religion,
have been made the only test Of the
candidates fitness.
If Wilson himself were a candidate,
and did not think him suitable man
to represent this district in Congress,
either from considerations of moral or
intellectual character, / would vote for
The man who ran against him--if he was
a Democrat, if he was Il gentleman Of
integrity, of ability and good business
habits.
Col. Tilman went into the army
when boy ; he commanded regiment
in which there were two Franklin coun-
ty companies. | never heard man
say word in disparagcment of him as
a kind-hearted man and good officer and
soldier. He served Lincoln county in
the Legislature, and voted on all public
questions to the satisfaction of his con-
stitucnts. He was in the Senate from
this Senatorial district in 1878, and
voted against the Funding Bill Of that
year. lie made us n good Attorney
General, and proved himselfa courteous
gentleman. When Judge. Williams ran
foi Judge he supported him earnestly
and worked hard for him in Lincoln
county, though there was candidate
for the place in Lincoln county, and
though Judge Williams was as well
known to him then as an extreme low
tax man as he is now. He SAID that he
cared no more about Judge Williams
views on the State debt than he did !
about his opinion on n literal Holl, or
Brutus was justifablc in doing |
the stabbing. While he has decided !
opinions, he comedies to others the right
to hold decided opinions, and he does
not go outside of the matter in issue to
find an excuse in voting for good
man. Men of all shades of opinion in
Lincoln county are for him, because
they believe he is the right man for the
place, would reflect credit upon the dis
trict; and if he was in Washington, and
| should happen to be there with my
wife or daughter, the sights of that great
city would be shown us by gentleman
md his wife, who are the same whether
in an humble cottage, n board shanty, |
Or Il brown stone front
Some of TIE poor of Fayetteville have
quit their work and gone to neighboring
counties to tell what they know of him,
and Others have written as best they
could to their relatives and friends their
heartfelt cncomiums. Nearly every |
worker in the cause of popular or col
legiatc education, who knows him, is a
friend to him.
shall waive little differences and
vote for him.
asked Col. Tillman how his tickets
were made out, and he said that ne had
ordered all his tickets printed with the
name of Bate for Governor, but that he
desired Russell, Republican and Bcasley
votes as well as Bate men, and that it
was natural and legitimate for candi-
dates orpartiesto make any combination
they saw proper to make. If candi-
date is popular in a particular county
or section, other candidates have Alright
to use and will use his name on their
tickets.
"SCRATCHEI FOR BATE"
Lynchburg, Tenn, Oct %, 1882.