Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-09-09
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mac, our genial, clever photogra-
pher. knows him to be as mild a
hammered, quiet, conservative man
as one could wish to meet, but with
al possessing keen sense of the
humorous and enjoying a good joke
more than anybody.
1t was during the recent meeting
of the National Photographers AS
sociation at Indianapolis, when
Mac, who was present as delegate
from Tennessee, saw good oppor-
tunity, during long and earnest,
but rather dull discussion upon the
subject of the excessive tariff now
charged by Uncle Sam on all i'm
ported photographers instruments
and materials, to get in some fun,
liven the convention up a little and
at the same time get in good lick
for the Democratic party, (for. be it
known, Mac is solid Democrat
and never loses an opportunity to
advance his party's interests). Ac-
cordingly he introduced resolu-
ton to the effect that the Associa-
ton pledge itself to hereafter sup
port the Democratic party as being
the only party to which they could
look for tariff reform and a remedy
for the grievances under which
they suffered. 1t was a solid shot,
though jokingly intended, and no
sooner had the echo of Macs voice
died away, before the whole con-
vention was stirred from center to
circumference. The bomb had
done its work and every man was
on his feet, either for or against the
resolution. A tall gaunt fellow from
the Lone Star State, whose eye was
no less accurate in looking down
the shining Darrell of navy-siX,
than through the pleasing camera,
was first on his feet and with stem
torian voice got the attention of the
chairman. He proceeded in
speech more remarkable for force
and fire than the elegance of his
diction, to second the resolution
and belabOr the Republican party
for its record on the tariff. He
closed amidst yells and clamoIs for
points of order, and was followed
by q shrewd clear-cut, eloquent
speaker from the hills of Vermont,
who handled the resolution without
gloves, and ably defended the rec
ord of his party on the tariff, closing
with the point of order tina: the res
olution was clearly in violation of
the laws of the organization which
was intended to be National and
non partisan. He was replied to
by Democrat from another section
of the country, and the discussion
went on pro and con, until the con-
vention was fairly boiling and
grand disruption was imminent.
There were nearly five thousand
delegates from all parts of the coun-
try present, Democrats, Republi-
cans, Greenbackers, high-tariff, free
traders and all other political creeds
represented, and the feeling and
confusion stirred up can more east
ly be imagined than described. 1t
was red hot hullahaloo and no
mistake.
Ali this while Mac, who knew he
was clearly out of order and had
only introduced the resolution for q
joke, sat back i'll his seat, in COM
pany with few friends who were
into the fun, anu heartily enjoyed !
the whole affair. Just about the |
time the angry passions OF the boys |
were beginning torise in dead earn
est, Mac quietly arose from his seat |
and "poured oil on the troubled
waters" by Withdrawing the reso-
luton. The joke Of the thing is,
the Democrats were largely in the
majority and were about to pass it
with Whoop.