Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-23
JOURNALISTON THE STUMP
G. f. Merrill, of the Louisville
COurier-JOurnal, Dressing
Up the Sky Blues.
Murfrs..boro &c Zoo.

Judge F. R. Burrus and Major Jas.
d. Richardson addressed the Rnther-
ford county Bate club last Saturday,
and made strong arguments in favor
Of supporting the platform. We may
publish an outline Of their remarks
next week.
At the conclusion of Major Rich
ardson's remarks c. L. Merrill, ESQ
correspondent Of the Louisville Couri-
er-Journsl, being called upon, spoke
as follows:
Fellow eitizens:-This unexpected
call finds your correspondent, your
speaker, your friend truly, the more
embarrassed because a number of 60-6.
have intimated that a Kentuekian has
no right to come into Tennessee and
be anything but a Fussellite. Brother
Doak, Of the Banner, very kindly
dubbed me a foreign element" very
likely meaning an elephant, but with
all bis faults | love him still, and the
more be keeps still the better | like
him. Il love him for his beauty, but
not for that alone" If | am not a
regular born Tennesseean-and it is
10Y misfortune rather than my fault;
a misfortune that | fully intend shall
never be repeated. Uproarious ap
nlsuse.) However, | was born in
sumner county, by proxy as it were.
As General Palmer can assure you, |
an . native Of Tennessee By construe
ton as well as reconstruction. /
lived in Sumner before | was born.
Ny parents went on a visit to Ken.
lucky, and while there, and having
nothing else to do, | thoughtlessly
concluded 70 be born. But Blackstone
says it all lies in the intention, and
that one born at sea is held in law to
be born at home. Am | not then a
nativei Am l not, at all events as
good a Tennesseean as a bolter is a
Democrat lCries Of yes, yes, and at
this point the reporter stood on his
head
But foreign element or no foreign
element, brother Doak is always
turning up his nose at some Bate
man for scratching the platform"
He would be happy indeed to scratch
. platform or anything else he can
reach, II he could but once more get
back into the old Democratic fold.
But he has the Radical gafs on his
heels and can't scratch worth a cent.
4 Yankee genius has recently in
vented pair Of steel spurs which he
puts o On each heel OF a flying hen,
directly behind, and when she flies
over into the garden she reaches out
one foot 10 scratch, but the spur
catches in the ground, and she then
fhr0ws the other foot forward, which
likewise catches; and 20 on alternately.
I'LL much against her will she is
walked straight out Of the garden. 1t
is called the patent hen conductor"
Our good brother Doak is GATED in
exactly tie same way. For some time
he has had on each heel, "the soft shell
Democrat Radical conductor" and In
trying 70 scratch he puts out one foot
(sO) and the next (sO) and Is being
walked straight out Of the genuine
Democratic garden into the waste and
gilderdess Of Rsdiealism. Here the
roof was lifted off,.
Fellow-eitizens let US give him the
benefit Of our prayers, else he will
soon be lost 10 sight 70 memory dear.
Fellow Citizens: | heard the Hon.
EbeneZer Jameg AZ Nashville the
other night. la bis en%tettainine
speech he took a walk through the
graveyard Of the past, and came upon
iull many a swelling mound marked
each by a tombstone on which was
%ilfchbej. Died on the field Of hon
Or aud on the ether. debt settled
at SOB" But Ebineezer neglected
10 perambulste around quite far
enough II he had gone of into one
obscure corner Of that Metropolis. he
would have seen one solitary m0pu.
ment marked on n side: 'slain I'm
the house Of his friends," and on the
other Sacred 70 the memory Of Poor
Fellow Citizens You may ask what
III ths, was Why Il was tie poston
Bill of course who else could Il be2
lat this point Major 3 and Judge b
turned a handspring apiece, while al
he Russell men went out aud vert
Ore Of them kicked himself clean
over the courthouse fence aud out Of
sight q very difficult Job when It is