Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-03-29

liz w OAA~ sOhAy ASDNAa
by its attempted defense. It says il
knew the, report to be false, and
points to these two little editorial
>squibs to prove its assertion. AS
the World, according to its own ad-
mission, knewsit to be false, then
why did it. seriously publish the ar
ticle as a fact? Why did it give it
such a prominent position in the
paper? Why did it publish such
an article at all? Mr.. Polk what
ever, of disgrace that may attach to
his memory, leaves behind him a
family, every member of which is
deserving of our respect and COM
passion. atsf
Z A MEAN THING.
Union City Our Country.
There is but one paper in Tennes-
see defamatory and indelicate
enough to have published that mon
strous sensational lie In regard to
the late Marshall Il. Polk, and that
paper is the Nashville World. The
excuses and apologies which have
followed do not make. the first de-
spicable and sIander0us publication
any the less unbecoming a journal
of the nineteenth century which
purports to be conducted upon that
high, clean, and refined basis which
the World aspires to-but has never
in the least attained. The asper-
sion upon a large class of honorable
men and bereaved and humbled
family ill-became paper of the
least pretention to decency.
THE POLITICAL CHAMELEON.
Brownsville Democrat.
Henry Watterson is bowling
about the Randall clique" as he is
pleased to call the followers of that
eminent Democratic Statesman.
Did 1t ever occur to Mr.. Watterson
that New Jersey, Maryland, Ala-
bana and the great States of Ohio
and New York are practically solid
in their adhesion to the principles
and politics that compose Mr.. Ran
dall's creed, and that he has a
strong following i'm every Democrat
ic or debatable State in the Union ?
1t is sheer nonsense to. characterize
the Randall element asa "clique,"
but such Characterization we'll com.
ports with the whole course of Mr..
Watterson in relation to those who
have not seen fit to accept his politi-
cal vagaries or follow him through
all his protean metamorphoses. TO
keep abreast of the Kaleidoscope
creed of Mr.. Watterson a man
would have to change his opinions
as often as the chameleon changes
its color, and then he would be lia-
BILE to get left.
YOU ARE ENTIRELY CORRECT.
Memphis Ledger.
The special was dated Springfield I,
Tenn, and the sender of the dis
patch closed by saying that he had
riden 26 miles from the scene of the
awful tragedy in order to be able to
send off the news. The ac-
count was well written and put to-
gether, and was either sent by a
newspaper man or was well dress
ed up in the Courier Journal Office.
It seems almost incredible that any
man capable of writing up such a
report would be guilty of concocting
and sending out such cruel hoax.
There is enough of real crime in the
world without resorting to the use
of fiction. If there is deception in
this case, the guilty party should be
held up to the execrations of man
kind, whom it would be fiattery to
call a brute. The Courier
Journal now owes it to its readers
to hunt down the scoundrel and see
that he gets his just deserts. The
telegraph operator at Springfield
knows who gave him the dispatch,
and an example should be made.
HEAR WHAT THAT OLD VETERAN
DEMOCRAT, SAM p. EVANS, SAYS.
Athens Post.
Some of the Democratic papers
are again reading the Hon. Samuel
J. Randall out of the party. The
Democratic party may be increas-
ing IN numerical strength, if not in
the knowledge and grace of the
Lord; still, there are some things
it cannot well afford to do yet
awhile. 1t cannot afford the lux
ury of family quarrel about pro-
lection and free trade while there is
ground upon which all may rally
and harmoniZe. No tariff system
ever has been, or ever will be, in
augurated capable of doing equal
ana exact justice to all portions of
the country and their varied indus
tries; and what the Democracy
want, at least the sensible portion
of them, is to approximate the i'm
possible as near as may be. From
the tenor of our Washington advi-
ces, in a week or two more the
band will begin to play and the
elephant to tramp round. We have
much faith in the ability of the
majority of the House to wrestle
with the animal without seriously
damaging the party outlook.
Meanwhile, let the nonsense about
s'reading out" stop, and common
sense prevail.
YES, THEY HAD BETTER THINK OF
THE EFFECT FIRST.
Fayetteville Observer.
The farming interests of the coun-
try were never IN more prosper
GUS condition, and we fear that
great changes in the policy of the
government which would retard
the manufacturing interests, would
have the effect of giving back-set
to the agricultural interests. With
improved! machinery ard farming
implements and the immense farm
products OF the country we do not,
as farmers and laborers on farms,
need any great addition to the num-
ber engaged in producing bread and
meat. The more consumers and
the fewer producers OF corn and
wheat, the higher will be the pri-
ces. We are not In favor OF levying
tariff duties merely to enable some
body to manufacture that which can
be bought much cheaper from a for
eign, country but If it is true, as is
contended, that there are hundreds
of thousands, millions, OF people en-
gagged in manufacturing who would
be forced into farming or poverty or
iClIeness by a sudden and marked
reduction of tariff duties, then IT
will be well for the agricultural
representatives to consider the effect