The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-10-22
c L stands for car load.
l. L stands for less than a car load.

True, the gentlemen have undertaken an
explanation but explanations won't get
rid of facts and figures t,,T -...,
They say something about carriers and
owners' risk upon furniture, etc. There is
nothing in it. The tableyas given above,
is upon the basis of "owner's risk " for the
Georgia as we'll as the Tennessee tariff.
They say, also, that neither Mr. Cherry,
nor any one representing him, ever solicited
the tariff on wagons and furniture to be
made This may be true, and yet it may
have been made for his benefit Thinking
people, and this state is full of them, know
the relations that Mr.. Cherry bears to this
railway commission scheme, and will have
to be furnished with better evidence than
yet adduced to make them believe that the
commission adopted the Georgia rates all
the way through until, they got to Mr..
Cherrys penitentiary product, and then
without any motive reduced rates upon his
furniture and wagons to about onc-half, aud
advanced rates upon the farmers product
from 10 to 20 per cent. And this leads to
the pertinent inquiry, if a commission, at
the outset whether from proper or improper
motives, makes such determinations as
these, what business interest in the state
would be safe in their hands?
oTIn any event, what is the necessity for
a. commission? Are the farmers complain
ing? No. Are the merchants or shippers
complaining? No. Are not the railroads,
farmers, manufacturers, and merchants 60
ing hand in hand in an earnest effort to
develop the resources of Tennessee, and
make her great state? Why then have
commission? The answer is plain-7-a few
politicians want it. The offices are what
they are after places must be provided for
IL a. obalu
get them out of the way of place-hunters in
other directions. And then there is another.
Mr.. Cherry also wants it. The peniten-
tiary, of which he is the recognized head,
is a large receiver and shipper of" freight.
The freight bills paid byrthat institutiOn,
both in and out, aggregate Large sum, es-
timated at $4,000 to $4,000 annually.
True, the railroads are already carrying
/, at low rate, very little above cost, but
what matters that if Mr. Cherry can get his
commission and secure areduction to one
half? 1t will put into his pocket $4,000
to $4,000 annually. This is worth striving
for, becausei it helps Mr. Cherry, even though
by the process it bankrppts every road in
the state.
With this in view, is it any wonder that
gentleman should suddenly have turned
Democrat, and, as all turn-coats, now en-
deavor to out-Herod Herod in his zeal for
the Democratic cause, and demand through
his organ that everybody who fails to SUBJ
scribe to his plans shall be read and written
outrof the party I? q And is it at all strange,
with this large sum of money in view, that
Mr. Cherry is owning one daily paper, and
by purchase of n majority of the stock,
seeking to control another? Does anybody
believe that the wild and reckless rawlings
of Mr.. Cherry's World in favor of q railroad
commission are actuated by any desire be-
yond what will serve Mr.. Cherry?
lH AS we go along we had as well reach for
the true inwardness of these matters. L
myself have no concealments. / am rail-
road man, interested to limited degree in
the securities of Tennessee roads. 1 do not
intend, if know it, to lie upon my back
while, this or that man and his followers tie
me hand and foot, and, under the guise of
party platforms and the party lash, deprive
me Of my rights. Democracy does not re-
quire this at my hands; on the contrary,
it spprns every thing which smacks of rings,
or an unholy aim to take that which be-
glengs to another. ads5 7arssy,y
But the people, intelligent and always
honest, are becoming aroused to the irnpor-
tance of this. question, They are getting
nearer the railroads and the roads are
getting nearer the people. Middle men"
: In the shape of a commission. seeking to
keep them apart are not wanted. The
plans of the clan are being rapidly devel-
oped their schemes will be upset; the
,"ismsn and "side issues sought to be
fastened upon the Democratic party by a
few men, led by an interested new convert,
will be Topped off, and the old party return
to the cardinal principles which, near
century ago, gave it birth. sAh
8 s e. b. STAHLMAN.