The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-06-25
Nashville Correspondence.
TIE STATE COYTEETTON-HOW
ET WAS BOSSED AND now
HARNONIZED.
ERANK RKLL.s ELRsr SPEECH.

Ts the Editor 81 The MOrrists~u Gazette:
The convention Is over and it
needs but to say that tho leaders of
two years ago ran it in order to
convey the intelligence that it made
some fearful plumbers. Its action
on the tariff issue will certainly lose
two Congressman TO tbe-Democracy
unless Chicago corrects the misera-
bic folly of Nashville. The Tenth
aud the Third districts are very
strongly for tho protection OF Amer
lean labor and in neither of these
/ districts can free trade DcmOcra-
CIV hope TO win. Davidson county
is so overwhelmingly in favor of
protection that, combined with the
same sentiment in the adjoining
counties, protection may elect Re-
publican even from the grand old
Hermitage district The cry OH ev-
cry hand now is for wise action at
Chicago.
For the past several days the or
gan of the Cherry ring had been
claiming that the convention was
nearly solid for its pet crankiness
tariff for revenue only. Your cor
respondent became satisfied how
ever before the convention opened
that there would be considerable
fight on this issue. the whole State
not baving gone wOol-gathering at
ter Cherry, the owl of the World,
who mods and blinks at his crea-
lures, Bullock and Merrill, when
they proceed forthwith to evolve
something cut of nothing-I mean
their cranial contents. Free trade
has triumphed, but it was only by
the application of the party lash in
the hands of the sinister chairman
of the executive committee, John J.
Ncrtrees, who expects as an early
reward from his bosom COMPANIONS
Cherry, Champion, Head 4 Co. a
seat in the United States Senate 1t
can be shown beyond a doubt that
the minority of the party has again
adopted n platform over the head
of the majority. 1t could never
have been done but by the aid, of
the chair. JnO. F. House was de-
cided on before the convention met
for permanent chairman, but it was
concluded that J. ID. c. Atkins was
better parliam0ntarian and there
fore manager, and House was simp-
ly allowed to get sick. His speech
on the night before the convention
met was enough TO make him sick,
for he certainly read out of the par
ty a large majority of it as he may
discover IN November. He came
back the second day of the conven-
ton to deny his former utterances,
having recovered SO entirely as To
seem two pounds heavier in the
face From the very start Gen.
chairman Atkins ruled as a parti-
san. Several delegations asked
him on roll call whether they should
vote their instructions or their sen
timents and he replied 10 vote their
instructions, but it Is noticeable that /
the instructions were generally on |
free trade line But when i. ID. |
Cardwell, an Obion delegate, pro- |
tested to the chair that Obion coun> |
~ had instructed her delegates by /
to vote for protection and 1
that 10 out of the 20 were violating 4
these instructions by voting against |
the motion TO table the majority re-
port (the report which was finally
the chair said Obion must
settle that for herself. The county
Of Obion was called again after the
rOll-call had been completed and
her vote was then recorded, not
having been put down before. Del
egates protested against the above
ance OF this violation ofinstrucGons,
saying that the result of the ballot,
and therefore the action of the con
Tentien, depended upon Obion's
vote. But that seemed all the more
reason why she should not be dis
.urbed, according to the chairman.
The vote was announced and it was
ound that the report was not tabled. |
Ii was thought errors might have
been made and a delegate demands
ii the reading Of the vote by coun~
les for corrections. This was grant
ID and one minor error corrected.
Lincoln county with 81 votes had
low discovered that she had entire
y misunderstood the question and
lad voted against tabling the res
,ort, when, according u her in 4,
tructions she should have voted /
he other way. But the chairman
Ieclined to allow her to change her I
ote, and did not even ask unani- q
nous consent, which could not be Z