The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-10-25
THE SILVER roNGuED ORATOR.
A BRILLIANT SPEECH BY GEN TURNER,
OF SHELBY, AT THE OLYMPIC.
The announcement that Gen.

OF SHELBY, AT THE OLYMPIC.
The announcement that Gen. g.
p. NJ. Turner, the Silver-tongued
Orator of Shelby county, would
! speak at the Olympic Theater, at
Nashville last Saturday night, the
21st, filed the house to repletion.
The american says:
Gen. Turner arose amidst storm
of applause. He said LIE felt that
the present moment was one of the
proudest he had experienced since
being resident of Tennessee. The
enthusiasm which glowed in the
great Democratic heart, presaged
the most glorious success the De-
mocracy had ever seen in Tennes-
see.
Unfortunately for our State, the
Democracy had dissensions for years
On the Goth of last June our party
met in convention and resolved to
heal our differences. / was not in
that convention, but when / saw
that convention assembled [ saw
that the party had gone back to
Democratic principles, and that
brought me. He saw the men who
with apostolic faces with resolutions,
who glided through the rotunda of
the Maxwell House, and he thought
if there was to be a love-feast, and
the fatted calf was to be killed, he
would act the prodigal The apos-
ties thought the Democratic party
was to be guided by them. That
was before taking. After the great
Democratic heart had spoken, CATER
taking they skunk off and said
"You are not Democrats. Because
the party would not be controlled
by few, they were to be cursed by
Melville Doak, Eb. James and How
ell E. Jackson, and they were get
ting part of that curse tonight
Eb. was down there on Church
street talking, with his sky-blue
suit on Qaughter). Did anyone see
them march out of the Convention ?
They had no brass band, but they
ought to have had brass hand or
gan and a monkey.
Hawkins said the Republican
party freed the niggers. That was
lie. The records of the army
showed that nearly every promi-
nent military officer and three-ffths
of the privates were Democrats.
Gen. Slocum made that statement
in a speech in New York. While
the war was going on Hawkins was
in an Indiana town, thirteen miles
from a post-office getting his mail
by tramp. Hawkins was not in
the war and he had no right to say,
1--WE freed the niggers, we saved the
country" He referred in powerful
terms to Hawkins Acknowledgement
of Tennesseans by his decision in
the Ridley case. He would not dis
honor Jeffrey by comparison. He
would not disgrace Caligula by
comparing him to Alvin Hawkins.
He represented the misrule of the
Republican party for years And
this was the man whom Russell was
trying to re-elect. What object did
the leaders and managers of RUSSELL
have in view? These men were not
crazy and they must have had some
object in view. Hawkins was the
representative of a Government
which proposed to centralize the
Government and to make the peo-
pie indeed hewers of wood and
drawers of water to the pampered
scoundrelism of stalwart republican
ism. He offered the poisoned cup
of Republicanism or the sicken;ng
emctic which the boilers offered.
Rather than yield to the people,
they march out of the ranks into
the ranks of the enemy. 1t matter
ed not that these men forget the
debt of gratitude they owed the
people. Whom the peoples voice
was heard, and when the solid pha-
lanx swept by with measured tread,
they would trample down the foe. |
Now was the time for them to re-
turn if they ever expected to have
the confidence of the people of Ten
nessee again. They said the Bate
men were demagogues; that they
were not honest, and did not pro-
pose to do what they said. of
course not. Beasley was vagrant
under the laws of Tennessee, for he
had nowhere in the State any visi-
ole support. Prolonged applause.
He had seen a letter in the Banner
about RUSSELL which had evidently
been written by lineal descendant
of Munchausen. He wa. willing to
bet the Scimitar office land he own
ed it, that Fuss / would not carry
a single civil district in the State.
Down in West Tennessee a RUSSELL
man was regarded as a curiosity,
ana Shelby county would roll up q
glorious vote for Bate in November.
The negro vote was divided. The
few RUSSELL men in Memphis were
eursing Ed. Shaw. Shaw had as
much sense and more discretion
han they did. The temperance
plank in the Democratic platform
was ridiculed at length. 1t was a
He had q respect for any
nan who abstained from that which
sent his soul to hell, but he had a
contempt for any man who dragged
. question like this into political
in all insincerity. The
our-mile plank was a subterfuge.
RUSSELL was probably honest in his
ideas, but that plank
vas fraud, and was placed there
md was being advocated by men
Who were no better than we were.
Gen. Turner then eulogized Gen.
Bate in glowing terms. He urged
are in the selection of the Legiela- !
ure, by putting In men who would
ot betray them, who were not
lkewarm.
In conclusion, he said united ac-
on would insure a glorious victory.
At Portland, Maine, on the 18th 9
! the United States Circuit Court, :
Judge Deadly called the attention OF q
10 grand jury to the law in regard