Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-10-07
SPEAKING or THE SENATORIAL cAHOi-
DATES.

cratic and Readjuster candidates
for the State Senate from this dis
trict spoke here last Monday, at the
Court House, to an audience of 10
or 100 substantial citizens of the
city and county.
Hon. VIM. M. Daniel spoke first
and made the usual arguments
urged by the Readjuster candidates
all over the State. Said he was the
regular Democratic nominee and
was proud to be such. He accepted
ii similar position in 1880 and they
hsd hOnored him with an election
by a large majority; he thanked
them for that evidence of their con-
fidence and hoped to still receive it.
He spoke at length of the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties and
contrasteG the principles ofthe two.
He spoke Of the record of the Re
publican party in Tennessee and
said that the same men who ran the
machine soon after the war, were
the same leaders of this party in
Tennessee to-day. He then discuss
ed the State debt, said the whole
question was whether the present
settlement should be sustained
against the will of the people. He
did not think it ought or could be
done, he maintained that the Dem.
Ocratic canvass OF 1880 was made on
the 50-4 idea of a settlement, that
the 50-4 proposition had once been
made by the bondhnideFs them.
selves and was bona fide PROPOSE
ton, this was understood to be the
platform upon which the Demo-
cratic candidates ran in 1880 and
upon which nearly all the Demo-
cratic Legislators were elected. 1t
was State-credit at that time, now
any such basis Of settlement was
characterized as Reputation, Such
a charge was silly. The argument
used by the sO-called State-credit
party was that the debt was settled,
they cried let it stay settled, this he
denied, it was no settlement, the
creditors had not funded under it
and never would, it was impracti-
cable and had been 30 declared by
some of the distinguished leaders of
the boilers. He reviewed the his
tory of the 1908 and 6O-6, and de-
clared they were passed in the face
of the protest of the people. He
spoke of his record in the Senate
and told how he came to introduce
the bill of 50-4-5-6, with half the
coupons receivable for taxes. 1t
was compromise measure, an
effort TO heal the differences be-
tween tho warning factions. He
had said I'm his canvass that he
would never go higher than so per
cent. of the principle, he had said
nothing about the interest, etc. &.
He closed by warning them of the
great danger Of the ascendency of
the Republican party in Tennessee
and the great Importance of the
election OF 9 Democratic United
States Senator. He implorod them
to stand by the organization and
victory was theirs.
DIR. J. G. Steger, the State-credit
candidate followed. He said he
was no public speaker, no politician,
no lawyer and unused to public
spanking, but had his convictions
on the great question and asked
patient hearing. He would pre-
mise his remarks by referring to Il
statement in u paper called the
Democrat, which insinuated that
he was about, or had intended to
remove to Alabama. lie did not
know the author OF this charge, the
sheet had no known responsible
editor like other organs OF that par
ty, but he would like for the writer
to make himself known, so that he
might tell him goodbye, and tell
him also few other things.
The intimation was false, he had
been resident and engaged in
business i'm Stewart county for near
ly forty years and so long as he
had friends there and the good peO-
pie 0Pthat county permitted him to
live among them and he could find
there, he proposed to
remain.
1t had been said he came before
them as a boiler from his party, |
this he denied, he was a Democrat,
and had always stood by and advo>
Gated trne Democratic principles.
He was doing this to-day and would
continue to do 50 so long as I've be-
IIeved In lis principles and the just
ness of its cause. Such charges had
no terror for a true Democrat. He