Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-12-06
Popular Rebuke Of the Commission.
Nashville Banner.


Nashville Banner.
There has been much said about
the Determinations made by rail-
roads against local stations in Ten
nessee, and great noise has been
heard from certain quarters about
the need of railroad regulation.
II complaint were justly entered
against railway corporations, aud Is
not the deInagOgy OF sell seeking
political hucksiers, would not the
people who suffer by discrimination
know Of the injustice done them,
and by popular voice would they
not condemn the policy OF the rail-
road companies when opportunity
offered ?
Certainly they would not encour-
age these corporations la wrong
doing by endorsing them and by
rebukiGg those who sought their
regulation.
No one will venture to say that
the 2OO, 200 voters, or the majority
OF them, who 1--we along tho rail-
way liues in Tennessee, can be
bought, or that they have not sense
enough To know their own interests,
or that they are unable to care for
those interests.
Let US, therefore, take the official
figures aud see what the voters, the
democratic voters, thought OF the
railway regulation question, as de-
terInined by their popular express
ion at che ballot box.
IL Is all over the State the same,
and hence to save space, we give
the democratic vote in the counties
through which run the two main
lines OF railroad in the state, the
Nashville x Chattanooga and the
Louisville Il Nashville.
The following figures are Official,
and show the number OF votes that
Gov. Bate and Col. Savage ran be-
hind the Cleveland tickee:
Hamilton, Bate 70, Savage 57i:
Marion, Bate I6, Savage 52; Frank
lin, Bate AZ, Savage 535 CufIee,
u, Savage 5l5; Lincoln, Bate 259,
Savage l,l35; Warren, Bate IA, Saw
age his own county, 1853; White,
Bate ahead, Savage 567 behinds
Rutherford, Bate 81, Savage 5il,
(although Rutherford democrats
were adnonished to vbte the Ticket
from "eend 10 eendO; Davidson,
Bate 39S, Savage 1884, (where the
Banner circulated most largely;)
Cheatham, Bate IL, Savage 254
Dickson, Bate 4, Savage $40 Hiek-
man, Bate IL, Savage 083s kkanA--
phreys, Bate nothing, Savage 246;
Carroll, Bate s, Savage 1873; Benton,
Bate 10, Savage 20l; Weakiey, Bate
l3, Savage 100; ObiOn Bate -. Say.
age 3S2 Wilson, Bate IL, Savage
75I. The total falling of from the
regular ticket along the Nashville
Il Chattanooga road was, Bate 1910
Savage IO,25S.
The decreased vote from the regu-
lar ticket for Bate and Savage in the
counties through which pass the
Louisville 4 Nashville road, Is:
Sumner, Bate, a.; Savage, 500;
Davidson, Bate, 39S; Savage 1884;
Williamson, Bate, As; Savage 25ls
Maury, Bate, "a; Savage, 42l; Giles
Bate, %; Savage, 693; Robertson,
Bate, IA; Savage, 37O; Montgom-
sry, Bate, laa; Savage, 72Si Stew
art, Bate, l5; Savage, 1872; Houston,
Bate, II; Savage, 1888; Benton, bate
o; Savage, POI; Henry, Rate, a
Savage, 800; Carroll, Bate, @, saw
age, 1888; Gibson, Bate ahead 4;
Savage, behind ia; Crockett. Bate
8, Savage AZ; Haywood. Bate, 4;
Savage. 19S; TiptOn, Bate ahead of
ticket 43, Savage aheai Of tickei 81
Fayette, Bate ahead of ticket 426s
Savage, behind (estiInAted) 607;
Bate. behind 252; Savage,
964. Total Cleveland over Bate. 9s7s
over Savage, 9,33i.
The total democratic vote OF the
regular ticket over Bate and Saw
age along these two lines OF railway
was respectively 2,l04 and 16, ,705.
Along the two lines the fight was
most bitterly waged, and In the
named the regulators put
forth their most strenuous efforts
Here was circulated the literature
gotten up TO aid the commission,
and here did the commissioners
and their friends enCAeavor 10 show
the people how they were beiSg
and down-irOdden by tho
gfasping monOpOlies.
Yet here did The democratic voters
by a majority Of l6,700. refuse t0
the ulterances and policy of
the regulators, and declared them
selves the friends OF railroads.
When this majority Of 10, 7Qa
voters Is added Ia the
vote given the republican cAndl-
dates tor railroad commissioners.
who also declared themselves
friends 10 railroads and opposed 20
the regulating policy, we have the
grand majority Of more than 100000
over the Savage policy, and that,
too, alone In those counties where IL
Is claimed that such outrageous dis
exists,
Any further advocacy Of rail-
way commission Is not only Fidlcu-
lous and absurd, but AN open disre-
gard Of public opinion.
The next legislature dare not for
get Its duty TO the people by flying
In the face of this vast nnj0rity,
which has so uuequivocaliy com
demned railroad regulation by "A
The people have, In the only way
given them, expressed theiy popn-
lar disapprOval Of such a policy.
and the general assembly must
heed their desire by "A repeal Of the
commission law