The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-10-12
c. =. N. On Ebsnazsr James.

Hon. +. A. James is being com
plimented by the Boilers very much.
They pretend to believe that helis
almost great. Whether that opin-
ion has been absorbed from him,
or whether it is but the fiattery of a
diplomatic and desperate cause it
is superfuous to discuss. 1t is not
to be doubted that Mr.. James en-
tertains a nauseously gigantic opin-
ion of himself, and that vain and in
substantial as that opinion is, it is
marked by one quality which his
opinions seldom possess-it is sim
sere. A grasshopper which makes
the field ring with his importunate
ehink is not more impressed with
the notion that he is monarch of
the woods than is Mr.. James with
the conceit that he is the statesman
of Tennessee. That such as he are
able to obtain even partisan recog-
milton and applause is attributable
to the fact that it is only in the
struggle of discordant powers that
monstrosities-polItieal monstrosi-
ties-are tolerated when they APP
pear. Doubtless the English were
shocked in the Colonial wars at the
atrocities which their savage allies
committed, even as many Boilers
are disguested at the cant an
tics and grimaces of Mr.. James but
desperate cause can not select it's
allies.
The face of Mr.. James has long
been familiar at the capitol. For
years he has been representative,
but his constituency were unknown
to the constitution. He is lobby
ist. Mr.. James is not lawyer, as
every one of common sagacity will
discover who has an opportunity
to be inflicted with his puerile ex-
position of constitutional law.
He is a lobbyist. He lobbed for
1908. He lobbied for the railroads,
and his pockets swelled with the
free passes which his employers put
at their servants command. Final
ly he lobbied against the Poston
Prohibition Bill. In one respect he
is more fortunate than Mr.. Child
he has never yet been animadverted
upon by the courts. OF the lobby
ist, Mr.. Justice Swayno has said:
eff any of the great corporations of
the country were to hire adventur-
ers who make market of themselves
in this way to procure the passage
Of general law with view to the
promotion of their private interests,
the moral sense of every right
minded man would instinetively, de
nounce the employment as infa-
NOUS"
Mr.. James is not lobbyist of
the ordinary kind. He can be pro-
cured to defeat what he approves.
Whose voice so loud as his in the
cause of temperance? Who so
jealous to defend the little log
house and the four-mile law?
And yet the Poston Prohibition Bill
was defeated by no other than this
same Mr.. James. In his speeches
he objecte that his plea for temper
ance is met by the charge that "the
Boilers take drink" If the walls |
of that saloon in Memphis, to which
Mr.. Russell is accustomed to refer,
could reveal what they have wit
messed, the imputation as to Mr..
James would be painfully true. The
objection is not that he stakes a
drink" nor that the whisky "ring"
is assaulted, nor that the cause of
is not deserving of adj
and friends. But when
hands which received the lobbyists
hire uphold the banner of the tenn
perance cause, when tongues which
have been parched in its defama-
ton presume to chant in its dispa
sons, and when that cause itself is
prostituted to political ends we can
but exclaim:
"Oh, what a goodly outside false
hood hath"