The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-09-05

As the selec ion of nominee right out
of the enemy's hand and mouth IL
would be, as We look al it, simply suici-
dal. The Republican press command
US to take Mr.. Randall, and none other.
IL we refuse, we are threatened With
the displea- ure of both wings OF The Re
publican party.
With the exception of the first
head line we copy the foregoing dis
passionate and truthful estimate of
the services of the distinguished
gentleman named from late
number of the Nashville American.
Almost a decade of years ago The
GAZETTE was he first journal in the
South TO pronounce in the favor of
Hon. Sam. J. Bandall for Speaker
Of the House of Representatives.
We were prompted to this action
from a sense of duty and gratitude
to an able, we'll tried and faithful
public servant who had gallantly
stood by our people in q dark hour
of trial anu raised his eloquent voice
in our behalf when Radical misrule
was seeking to crush and humiliate
us beneath carpet-bag sway and
negro domination. But for his bold,
resolute and sagacious actions, the
Infamous Force Bill the consum-
nation of Radical villainy-would
have passed the Ard Congress.
The success of that act would have
sounded the end Of civil liberty and
free government, and buried be-
meath its dismal train of outrage
and despotism the last hope Of the
South. With the courage of LeOni-
das, Sam. J. Randall met the
black cohorts of malignity
and hate, and nobly held
the pass. With a resolution Napole-
on never surpassed, and fired with
the patriotism equal to the peerless
standard of Washington, he stood
firm when all seemed lost and
triumphantly saved the day, rescu-
ing victory from what inevitably
appeared the very jaws of disas-
trous defeat and widespread ruin.
The Mcrtons and Chambers and
Little Logans and Beast Buffers
and Blaines and their cohorts in
malignant infamy and devilish hate,
growled in sullen disappointment
over the unexpected victory thus
achieved through the courage, hero
ism and patriotism of Sam. Randall
while the friends of good govern
ment,-of a restored Union, of
reconciliation and peace,-every-
where hailed with rapturous joy and
delight the grandest triumph ever
before gained by one man in a leg
islative contest.
Nor was this his only service for
which the good men of the whole
nation should thank him. His pub
lie career is one grand record of
mastery achievements, every act
of which points to the honor and
greatness and glory of our common
country. Since 1865 he has been
the main water break in the House
to beat back the black and surging
waves f fanatical hate and Radical
usurpations. In Congress, until
called to the speakership upon
the death of the lamented Kerr, he
was Chairman of the Appropria-
tons Committee. In that distin-
guished and most important posi-
ton, he labored day and night with
untiring energy, and his services
saved the people over s4O,O0O,O0O
per annum-m more than it required
to run the Government when Tay-
lor and Fillmore were President.
As Speaker, he presided with ability,
dignity and impartiality worthy
that high position. Amid all the
turmoil and strife of that turbulent
session-one of the most critical and
dangerous periods of our country's
history, he rose equal to any emer-
gency and always proved himself
master Of the occasion. He is the
fast friend of every great measure
looking to the advancement of the
public good and the promotion OF
the peoples welfare, and Mt the
same time the implAcable, eternal
and uncompromising enemy of
very movement in the interest OF
rings and cliques and combinations
seeking to array one section against
another, and working to rob and
plumber the people. Then he is a
selfmade man, who like Andrew
johnson, sprung from the humble
walks oflife, and by his own indom-
liable energy, perseverance and
uneonquerable will has won his
present high position. The GA
zKrEE was for him nine years ago
and is for him now against all op-
position, and hopes he may receive
tie solid vote of the Democratic
members from Tennessee and the
entire South. II is a tribute he
most richly merits at the hands OF
tha PoDrcaenfafivQe Of orr people.