Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-09-02
The GsEa! sEariVsTEa row WOW.
THEY CAME, THEY GRATED. THEY RjDf-
cULED. 6UT TIE GIBRALTAR or TRUE
DEMOCRACY STILL STANDS
FIRM IND uHSHAKEN

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cULED. 6UT TIE GiBRAL TAI or TRUE
DEMOCRACY STILL STANDS
FIRM AND MISTAKEN.
| Red, black and blue posters, gotten
out at the job office of the great Cour-
ier-Journal, the Kentucky organ Of
the Tennessee Mahones, had been
posted up all over the county and State
for weeks past announcing the APP
preaching great gathering of the gi
ants Of readjusterism in this city, on
Thursday, the 3lst inst.
Well, they came; the great quar-
tette, Senator Harris, Ex-Governor
Marks, Gen VIM B. Bate, and last but
not least, our own Jno f. House.
To secure large and enthusiastic
audience for these attractive and far
famed orators, the woods for miles
around and far away were drummed,
and the neighboring cities were asked
to send there great unterrified" hosts;
even our sister State was expected to
grace the occasion with her mounted
Kentuckians." To state the truth, all
OF these expectations were fully real
lied, and an "unterrified host" ofabout
two thousands people gathered to hear
the reasons why an honorable settle
ment OF our acknowledged debt should
be again disrupted and hurled back
into the politics of the State with all
OF its direful evils
Senator Harris and Ex-Governor
Marks arrived on "Wednesday evening,
Gen. Bate and retinue on Thursday
morning. A steamboat from Nash
vile, loaded with $50 or 200 claquers,
inspired and encouraged to the great
dignity and glory Of the occasion, by
a fine brass band and section of
Burns artillery, (not to mention plen-
ty of chips" from the four mile plank
also put III its appearance about s
o'clock. The cannon doomed with
blank discharges, the band footed,
and the clans gathered in all their
eagerness and sweltering patriotism
on the Public Square and along and
out Franklin Street 1t was indeed a
field day" for readjusterism and they
made the most of it. AS the calm.
quiet State Credit man stood aside
and looked ON, he seemed all the more
conscious of the justice of his cause
and congratulated himself at being
far from the madding crowds ignoble
strife"
Promptly at 1890 o'clock, command
was given and headed by the brass
band, followed close by the carriages
containing the distinguished orators,
the mighty cohorts wendell their mud
day way to Bradley's grove, in the
southern suburbs of the city, where
the speaking and barbecue came of.
Genl Bate spoke first, in order that
he might leave on the train to fill an
appointment in East Tennessee to-day
Gle did not say it was to meet Haw-
kins and Fussell) He made good |
speech, dressed up the record of the |
Republican party, just as you have
heard it done before, and failed to de-
fend his platform.
Ex-Governor Harris spoke next, and
orator as he is, fully justified that rep
utation He reviewed the fundamen-
tai principles of the two great parties
and made some telling points against
the iniquitous tariff system Of the
country; said the Republican party
relieved the bankers, the depositors,
the match manufacturers, the patent
medicine man, but forgot the poor
producer, az He touched lightly on
the State debt question, said he would
not have promulgated such platform
as 50-3, if it had been left to him, but
as the people. wanted it, he was with
them. He closed with grand pero-
ration, saying it would take a larger
army than Russell Bailey and Doak
to read him out of the Democratic
party.
After dinner, after the sixty barbe-
cued sheep had been destroyed, ex-
Gov. Marks grated to the crowd. We
cannot attempt to give even synopsis
OF his speech, or of any of them, for
that matter; we have not the time or
space. He is fine orator and speaks
a IDEAL of nothing" He attempted
defense of his administration and of
the present condition of his party,
with what success we leave those who
heard him to say.
AT NIGHT.
At night, at Elders Opera House,
Hon. Jno. +. House delivered to full
house, composed of ladies and gentle
men, his long looked for speech. 1t $
was grand effort from his standpoint
Of the situation, and the audience APP ,
plauded him to the echo, but if he ,
advanced any sound reason why the ;
present settlement of the State debt =
should not be sustained, we failed to ,
near it. /