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Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
RAILROADS Have Rights.
Our Country.

A certain Nashville paper with an
editorial capacity conforming to its
limited circulation is tearing its gar
ments again upon the subject of a
Railway Commission. It was silent
for some time. What has occurred to
produce the sudden change? The
Banner intimates that sugar is
wanted" We don't believe it. We
attribute it entirely to weakness some
where. Don't the World know that
its rawlings are pitiably foolish? Rail-
roads have rights. The courts have
said these rights cannot be ignored,
and the Democratic party in the State
Convention said they must be re-
spected. Let us have no more fool
ishness about this matter. The rail-
road people are our friends-we must
not drive them away. We want all
the help we can get in this campaign.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Plain Talk.
wayerly Times Journal.


The present Railroad Commission
ers, Messrs. Savage, Gordon and Tur-
ley, who have done nothing except
draw their salaries, are, it is said, pre-
pairing for canvass of the State. If
this be true, we advise them to pre-
pare for more thorough refutation of
the charge of discrimination against
the farmer and in favor of the peni-
Tertiary. That question has not
been met to the satisfaction OF
the people. If the Georgia tariff
rates were not high enough on
grain, -four, etc., the product of the
Tennessee farmer, the people will
want to know why they were too high
on the product of the penitentiary.
We warn the gentlemen in time to
prepare an answer, full and complete,
to these and other pertinent inquiries.
For our own part, we are opposed to
the entire commission humbug. We
want more railroads. Perry, Hick-
man, Decatur and twenty other coun-
ties want railroads. They will not get
them if it is given out that they are to
be controlled by political machine in
the shape of commission.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Roads Have Not Exceeded Their Power
Exchange.

Certain papers are constantly as
sorting that twenty States have Rail
road Commissions, and, therefore,
Tennessee must have one. They don't
state that only two or three of them
are mandatory, and that the States, in
chartering them, retained the power
to regulate their charges. Still less do
they suppress the fact that no Ten
nessee road has ever gone beyond
its chartered powers. And above all,
they don't state that none of them
have such head to it as Savage, ut
terly unfit, by training or temper, for
the discharge of its duties without pas
sion and in reason,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Not an Endorsement.

Its a notable fact that the Demo-
cratic platform adopted did not en-
dorse the fierce and rough warfare that
has been made upon the railroads,
but on the contrary the convention,
in most conservative spirit, certainly
modified the attempted action of the
Legislature at its last session; and if
this course of the convention shall be
regarded as instructions to the next
General Assembly, the people will
certainly be relieved of the heavy sal
aries of commission that is useless
to them and detrimental to railroad
building in Tennessee.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
The People of Gibson.
Trenton Globe.

The people of the State may well
congratulate themselves upon the fact
that politicians have concluded to let
further agitation of the railroad ques-
ton alone. We want no further strife
between the railroads and the people.
The question is now in the courts,
and after the courts of last
resort have said what we can
legally do it will be time enough to
act. In the meantime let US encourage
further railroad development. The
people of Gibson want the road finished
to Huntingdon and extended from
Trenton to Dyersburg. Capital will
not come here to help US if we antago-
nize the railroads we now have.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
a Useless once.


We hear of an effort being made to
stir up the Railroad Commission ques-
ton again. Obion county in its con-
vention declared IN favor of national
railway commission We want no
State Commission, we are friendly to
railroads, we are unwilling to tie our
Tennessee roads hand and foot with a
State Commission, while competing
roads outside of the State are allowed
to do as they please and rob our roads
of q legitimate share of the business.
This State Commission plan is all
wrong; it has resulted in nothing but
the creation of useless office for three
men who are thoroughly unacquainted
with that kind of service and have
shown themselves entirely unfit for
the position they occupy.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
value of New Railroads.
Columbia Herald.

Nashville is at last to have the new
railroad. The 100000 in bonds re-
quired have been subscribed, and
work is to be commenced at once. This
road will connect Nashville with the
system of roads controlled by Mr..
Huntington, leading to Newport
News, Va, and viii be of incalculable
advantage, not only to Nashville, but
to Middle Tennessee. Anew railroad
is worth a dozen Railroad Commits
sioners in regulation of tariffs. We
congratulate the capital city that she
is, in the near future, to have great
competing line to the business centers
of the North, and an outlet at the best
harbor on the Atlantic coast.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
rhe People Tired Of Them.

When the friends of the people tell
them of the other States having Rail-
road Commissions and the great good
they are doing, they forget to tell them
that only two of them all have man
datory commissions, and every one is
thoroughly tired of even what little
they have.
In speaking of the Alabama Rail-
road Commissioners, the Lafayette
Sun says: ''They were appointed to
protect the people of the State from
imposition by railroad monopo,ies,
but in all probability another set will
have to be appointed to protect the
State against the imposition of its own
commissioners
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30

mission as any other county in the State
especially SO if the proposition be true
that the law creating commission to
regulate the railroad charges on freights
is actually working detrimentally to
the highest and best interests of her
citizens; then by all means every SEN
sible citizen. would say abolish at
once the law creating the commission,
and forthwith discharge the pres
emit Commissioners, who have
been drawing fat salaries to
destroy one OF the staunchest props
and supporters of the States progress.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
The Present Commission.
Bolivar Bulletin.

OOuFdE
No thinking man in Tennessee is in
favor of making war upon the rail-
roads OF the State, or of throwing OBJ
stacles in the way of building new
ones. The present commission was
constituted by the proper authority
whether constitutional or not is to be
decided-and is entitled to respect,
but when the courts are through with
it, it will be time enough to make a
question of it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Some Scratching Expected.
Upper Cumberland.

There will likely be some scratching
in Railroad Commissioners. The line
will be drawn at Savage. There is
deep conviction in the mind of the
people that the commission, as at
present established, is an expensive
and hurtful luxury. Add to this the
disgraceful, not to say fraudulent,
favoritism and harsh Determinations
against the farmers and in favor of the
penitentiary lessees proposed by the
people. Yes, the people have
reason to be restless under this vicious
or Yiciously Offered commission.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
a sober Second Thought.
Manchester Times.

1t is clear to our mind that the SUBJ
jet of railroad regulation has not
grown any in popular favor with the
people of Tennessee since the passage
of the late deceased Railroad Commits
sion bIll-or since the adoption of the
platform of two years ago. Since then
a reaction has set up, sober second
thought has taken possession of the
popular mind, and the platform of the
late convention upon this question is
the expression of it.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
VIII Not Place Their Names at Its
Masthead.
Rhea County News.

1t would be more just in the State of
Tennessee to pension Savage, Turley
and Gordon than to pay them salary,
which is drawn out of the pockets of
the people, to act as Railroad Com
missioners. The constitutionality of
the. Commission is now in the
Supreme Court, and will proba-
bly, remain there some time, sill the
Treasury is being depleted by these
suckers who draw a large salary
for no earthly good. We have not
placed the Commissioners names
at our mast head, nor do we intend to.
1t is a robbery of the money extorted
from our people for no earthly good,
and we will not support such measures,
no matter where they originate. Ii
the railroads were inclined to Cypress
the people of the State we should be
for any Just measure to prevent the
same, but we cannot find that parti-
Gle of benefit has ever resulted in the
commission, and we predict the day
after their selection the act creating
them will be declared void, and the
only monument left to their memory
will be depletion of the State Treas
ury to the tune of several thousand
dollars.
CONTINUED OK THE SECOND PAGE.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Pointed and Conservative.
rzn1-s;, xpao1~I-

IEhuh4AH VCcAlys
The declaration in the State platform
with regard to railroads is moderate
and states the position pointedly. The
matter was only once mentioned, and
then in kindly manner, calculated to
inspire great confidence in the sound
sense and conservatism of the Demo-
cratic party in handling the interests
and conserving the rights of all classes
whatsoever.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30

the people of the country" said. Com
missioner of City Works Fleeman.
"Cleveland's letter was that of states
man." said Justice Massey.
Assemblyman Earl: 1T il q clear,
manly statement of principles and is in
itsslf q campaign document"
Deputy Commissioner of Jurors Cav
thorn thought il was the best letter of
acceptance be had ever read.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Ix-aoY. HENpRIcks, Lrrrrr.

Gentlemen: 1 have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your let.
ter or communication notifying me OF my
nomination by the Democratic Con-
Yention at Chicago as the candidate for the
office OF Vice President of the United States.
May rept as what said on another occasion
that 1T Is nomination which have neither
expected nor desired, and yet 1 recognize and
appreciate the high honor done me by the
convention"
The choice of such body, pronounced
with such unusual uuanimity and accompa-
nled with so generOas an expression of
esteem and confidence ought to outweigh all
merely personal desires Snd preferences of
nay own: Its with this feeling and trust also
from deep sense OF public duty that 1 now
accept the nomination. aud shall abide the
judgment OF my countrymen. I have ex-
amined with care the declaration OF prin-
oiPleS adopted by the convention, a copy of
Whieh you submitted 70 me, aud in
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
USELESS AND EXPENSIVE.
What the Tennessee Press
Think of the Railroad
Commission.
Burdensome to the People and
the Enemy of the States De-
velopment and Progress.
The Folly of the Warfare on the
Railroads.
Lack of wisdom.
,ownsville Democrat

The Nashville Convention showed
its lack of wisdom by incorporating in
its platform Railroad Commission
plank. Railroads must be regulated,
but the commission idea is all wrong.
General laws offer the only practical
solution of the question.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
John ri. savage, r. r. c.

The appearance of John Savage up
on the political stage is an anachro-
nism. In the days of ox-team trans
portation be might have been great
man, but there is probably not another
man living besides himself who has so
small comprehension of the elements
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
More Railroads and Less Politics.
McNairy independent.


We do not hesitate to say in en-
phatic terms that Tennessee needs no
Railway Commissioners. There is a
feeling akin to disgust with the man
ner in which some of the political
leaders are trying to ride into Office
upon this question. More railroads
and less politics in purely business
questions is what the people OF this
State want.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30

should be carefully studied by every
intelligent Democrat. Suppose for in
stance some Of these rabid regulators
bad Tennessee railroad stocks upon
which they had received no dividend
for years past, would they not, in all
probability, change their tunes? We
think they would.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Savage, Gordon s. Co.

And now come Savage, Gordon &
Co., again attempting to renew their
war upon railroads. If the people at
the ballot-box don't sit down upon
this pestiferous set We mistake the
sentiment of the hour.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
Abolish at Once the Law,

The citizens of Obion county are, or
ought to be, as much concerned about
the continuance of the Railroad Com
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30
The People Unwilling to Experiment
Further.
cha1hvvi11o Z. q 1cfta

That the attempt of one or two
papers to revive the railway COM
mission scheme viii fail, we have not
shadow of a doubt. The present
board has done nothing for the people
but draw good salary. The people
have not been benefited and the
courts so far have declared the
law constitutional and void.
The people will be unwilling to
experiment further, until the courts
of final resort say what may be legally
done. Three Offices, with good sala-
ries for three broken down politicians,
paid for doing nothing, may sound
very well to few politicians, but it
won't go down with the people, besides
the State needs more railroads, which
can never be secured with hostile leg
islation against those we now have.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30

of modern progress. Upon the mind of
this John Savage the sight of a loco
Haunting of a red rag has upon the
belligerent bull. 1t enrages him. And
in his blind fury he denounces every
body who has a good wordto say for
the growth of the railway industry
that is SO powerful a promoter of all
other industries What sin the Demo
cratic party of Tennessee has COM
mitted that it should be -saddled with
this old man of the mountain as its
chief candidate for Railroad Commits
sioner is a mystery.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30

their sum and substance 1 heartily endorse
and approve the same: ! am, gentlemen, your
obedient servant, T. A. HENDRICKS.
To the Hon. VIM. T. Villas Chairman
Nicholas NJ. Bell, Secretary, and Others of
the COMMITTEES of the National Democratic
Convention.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-08-30

that if / can screw up my pluck /
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-07

JOHN :. WISE is straining lis ing.
nuity 20 readjust his relations to the
negroes of his State, his constituency.
He was set down in his testimony be-
fore Senator SHERMAN'S committee at
first as saying that when negro legisla-
tors "eall on me at my house they go
to my kitchen and send up their mes
sage aud l go to the back yard and see
Them" We cannot perceive why Mr..
WISE should not stick to this mode of
meeting his political brethren. We can
think of no better place to meet a Vir-
ginia Readjuster statesman than in the
back yard OF wood shed, unless he
could be taken over the back yard fence
into the alley. The coal hole or COW
lot would be Objectionable ON many ac-
counts. As a place of consultation, all
things considered, the back yard in q
mild climate, if there he no coon dogs
about, could lot be objected to by such
members of the Virginia Legislature as
follow Mr.. WISE.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-07
some PROMINENT PEoPLx.


Arab Pasha dresses entirely In white.
lord Tennysons robes are still Gin
hook"
Senator Vest likes oysters on the half
she'll
Mary Anderson's fortune is estimated at
$350,OU0.
The Presidents daughter, Nellie, dresses
very simply.
Matthew Arnold may carry the dyspep-
STA home with him.
Bismarck can bite sausage in two with
skill and vigor.
Congressman Geddes, of Ohio, resembles
Abrsham Lincoln.
Mrs. John A. Logan hopes to be queen
of the White House next year.
Henry Irving will be given an elaborate
dinner by the Bostonians next month.
Sci ators Frye and Blair never drink of
the cup which cheers and also intoxicates.
Baker Pasha was wounded in the cheek.
Nature never intended him for s book
agent.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes says the best
poems he has produced are the trees which
be planted on the hillside.
Miss Susan B An thony is still In Wash
iEgton, but not quiet. Nobody can accuse
her of casting sheep's.eyes at the President.
The President gave a state dinner to fifty
Senators and Representatives, all bachelors.
1t is q cold day TO, YUncle Sammy Tilden
I'D Grover Cleveland.
Prince Napoleon has decided to postpone
the American tour of his son, Prince Vic.
tor. He has probably heard OF the doings
of bunco steerers in this city.
The petite Countessiof LeEenhamt is one
of the prettiest women in the foreign cir
Gle in Washington. She is typical Swed.
ish beauty, with golden hair, blue eyes and
fair white skin.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-07
NE Gmce Holder Need apply

AFNtlStNfg VhtfiANts
TIE uksSe issued ny the Wheeling Intel
ligeucer that Republicans holding National
appointments should keep out" of the
Chicago delegation is based on too vivid an
imagination. 1t pre- supposes that the ad-
ministration is trying or would try to cap
lure the delegation. This is not true, but
if it were, it would be best to exclude not
only present office holders but those of the
immediate past who have hopes of the
future, or sore heads over the past, and all
who expect Office in the future. Also all
Office holders State or National. The pre-
sumption that they are too much interested
is so violent that We are surprised to see it
urged by our contemporary. Bot if the rule
IS to be enforced and Office holders are de-
bsrred any participation in the delegate
question, they should be kept out of the
state convention also, because of the
honoTs'' they already have aud shoald be
-xsmptsd from any levy for csmpsign pur
nnses Either give them fair count or
shut them out altogether. We vote to give
all Republicans fair show. Why this ex
elusiYeness?
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-07
THE OHIO SHERMAN.

The reason the New York Times re-
CARDS Senator JOHN SHERMAN as the
most formidable candidate the Repub-
cans can put up for President is proba-
bly, found in the remarkably inventive
genius Of the Ohio statesman in supply
ing national issues. No one but he
would have thought of Undertaking.
the bloody shirt and making it as good
as new. The formidable obstacle in
the path of such an undertaking would
have discouraged a less resOlute and
saDguine man. But Mr.. SHERMAN was
not DISCOURAGED. The fact that the
DauvI'le riot has been proven to be no
political outrage at all, has not dis
cOuraged him. Tie clearly demon
stTatsd fact that the COpjah tragedy
was the outgrowth Of Privste feud,
aud had no connection whatever with
politics, does not weaken his determi-
patton to stand or fall upon the Sec
tiOnal issue. Tie Senator evidently
believes IN the old political axiom, that
lie well stuck to is as good as the
truth, and he proposes to stick by the
bloody shirt.
The Times evidently exsggerates
public sentiment when it asserts that
the country regards Mr.. SHERMAN as
its ablest finsncier." II any such opinion
prevails, we have been singulsrly I'M
fortunate in not encountering it. A
Senate committee during his term in
the Treasury declared that the books
of the Department "were in a condi-
ton Of hopeless and inextricsble con-
fusion" No less than three baffled at
tempts were made to penetrate his
system of Government bookkeeping.
That he is a financier, however, is
shown by the fact that in twenty years
he has accumulated q fortune of
$1,000, 900 on an annual salary Of s. 0 10.
II takes good financiering to do that.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-07
raE GOLD RESERVES.

Congress Is asked to take some action
In regard to the geld reserves In the
Treasury. The operations Of Secretary
FoLGER and the possible outflow Of
gold to Europe are creating considers
Bile uneasiness ia the business commu-
nifty. The policy Of the Treasury is
apparently to steadily initiate the cur
reney with paper without regard to the
gold which it shoald hold in reserve to
meet its maturing obligations. On
December 3lst th9re was S427, los, Sl5
In the Treasury. 80 the end ofJanuary,
1884, the amount had increased to
$444, 971, S72. On the Goth OF February
q still further increase of 81, $50, 900 was
noted, an aggregate increase since the
beginning of the year Of SlS,5SO,OOO.
Outstanding certificates have aug
mented So, 1901 600 since the 1T OF
February, and So, 100000 since d.
cember Slst. Il will therefore be seen
that the obligations are S2,9W,OOO IN
excess OF the increase. Among these
Is 1900, 900 in gold certificates, while
the gold reserve is only 100000. The
silver certificates have increased since
January 1st $4,000, and the currency
certificates, which are really charge
upon the gold reserve, have increased
S3,9O0,O00. This makes an increase Of
over 81, OOO, 900 in obligations, with an
increase of only S4,OO0,0O0 in gold to
offset it. Under these circumstances is
it surprising that the business interests
Of the country are sensitive upon the
question of the threatened export of
gold to Europe?
Another singular feature in the con-
dition of the Treasury is revealed in the
following statement made to the Senate
Finance Committee few days ago:
fThere has been an increase Of 81, 700,-
600 in silver dollars and bullion, 81 900,
600 in fractional silver and SS,000,6O0
i'm United States notes. This shows
that the gold certificates have been
issued only to pile up unavailable
money in the Treasury, which has OBJ
tanned only 4,OOO,OOO OF gold Tor It's
6,3OO,OOO gold certificates; with the
remaining Sl5,3OO.0OO it has pur-
chased $780, 900 silver dollars and bull
lion, Sl,OO0,OOO fractional coin aud
i, 100000 notes. This is periling the
gold reserve. On December 3lst the
gold reserve was S44, 900 in excess
OfCertiticates outstanding; on February
l3rh it was only S26, 100000 larger
Since July lst the gold reserve has in.
creased 81, 100000, while the gold GER
tiiicatrs increased 81, 900, 900, the silver
certificates S24,000,0O0, and currency
certificates $4,000, 0OO-a total increase
OF obligations of SO, 100000, which de-
pletes the gold reserve more than So
goo 000.n
The Inquiry very naturally arises:
How long can this condition of things
continue without serious injury to the
business interests Of the country? In
searching for the causes which lead to
the unsettled conditions of trade, it is
best to look at the fountain head.