The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-07-02
POLITICAL POINTERS.
From the ciArhsVille chr9rieifT
Gdnefh Frank Cheathanl tlAinl

by tires Chicago convention afiorcs
the only change Of success ot9 The
Democratic paryr1isi sldisaoq 81
For ways.that are dark and tricks
that are vain the wire,pullers who
engineered the majority report
through the Nashville convention
can give the heather Chinee points.
aaPatriOt Joha Savage is at last be-
fore the beloved people Of Tehnes-
see for an office; and itremains to be
seen if theylRill have kinder re-
membrance of tho Old Man of the
Mountain than the last legislature
had. siIJu-1o9 to hos smAha To- So
Is it not a fact that IF any oftho
candidates put forward by either
party for. railroad commissioner,
bad the requisite capacity to man.
age one railroad 9he could command
five times the salary that it is pro-
posed to pay him for managing all
i'm the Stnte?J Ill5 is5DlaA oar 81
It is believed by the knowing
ones that Patriot Frank Wilson
worked the little game that befud-
died Speaker Ledgerwood and
blocked the Whitthorne compromise.
At any rate, it issaid that the Ledg-
gerwood resolution was in the Pa
triot's hand writing. 10
The Democratic statesman who
stumps it before the dear people in
Tennessee this year must get UP
something better than an iilustra-
ton of tariff iniquity by an old hat
story. That kind ola tale don't
take with some of Democratic vo-
tiers. . "a, l4
The friends of Col, Jno, +. House
are all glad that he corrected the
impression his language used in the
speech at the OapitOlmade ON some
of them. Now how would it sound
for House to be saying to Whit
thorne:., sect into the Republican
party where you can be shot att" 81
Mr.. Henry Watterson in his glee
over the action of the Tennessee
Democracy says, "There was no
quarter shown the ipfantindustries.
He accidentally told the truth that
time; there was no quarter shown
the struggling industries of Tonnes
see, and that il why SO many
thougtful citizens deplore the &C
ton ofthe convention. s~lfl2s1oJ ~
Capt. Harvey Mathews, who is a
delegate to the Chicago Convention
from thea1oth district in this State,
says threugh the Memphis LEDGER
ofwhich paper he is the editor eff.
the wrangIing scenes at Nashville
be re-ebaetedy at Chicago
when theTDemocratsI meet in con
vention there, it will be a sorry
day for them. The Tariff is not a
good thing to trifle with in its pre-
sent shape" fs 5di ns sg9aas
Chairman Atkins of the late CON
gention drew some very fine dis
He promptly p ruled Mr..
Peters resolution out of order be-
cause its effect would have been
similar TO a resolution Just declared
Iost. But that luminous PROPOSE
lion put forward by Speaker Ledger
wood was strictly in Order-not
as motion In lieu but as substitute
It takes hair splitting mind like
that of Mr.. Atkins to tell the differ
ence between a motion In lieu and
q substitute. Z gl-L ..asrEHt~ i
Mr., Randall got the appropria-
lion for the New Orleans Exposi7
ton through the House. Potter, of
New York, attacked the item but
Mr.. Randall called attention to the !
great importance OF the Exposition
md hoped there would be no fur.
her objection. o The request, be said
was as neritoriousI as that which |
had been granted the Centennial
and it ought to be allows
ID, and there was no further objec-
ions. sumaT OH 1.ss j.. ylii 4
Speaker Le1gerwood doubtless
lad good intentions when he moved |
ais substitute to hitthorne' rosolu-
ions but British poet once said:
Good intention pave the way of |
many an honest soul to hi" and !
resolution don't seem
a
o have proved an exception to the
ule.ta.a.vHS1 !GloiisL 5af % |
4 CCIDEGr! ON TIE ~ VIRGINIA
.s, ssts, sAfDLANDz assi,9ls II
On account of the failure ofItEe
Iir brakes TO work, the Virginia
Midland nnornirfor eS1press ran M an
uncomfortable rate OF speed upon
be bridge over James river, one and
ne half miles north of Lyme hburg,
Ia, last Sunday morning, and a
orner Of the smoking car struck,
he, upright girdeys, ~ thEewing it
rom the track The trucks OF the
ar dragged the sleePers away for All
istance Of one hundred feet, and,I,
he Washington aud New York