Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-07-26

CAMPAIGN POINTERS.
Jim Blaine is crafty politician but
he can't dodge his very vulnerable
record by getting behind the tariff
issue. The tattooed spots will show.
If Cleveland were as obscure and
untried as the Republicans say he is,
he wsuld be preferable to a man who
has been weighed in the balances and
found wanting.
M0ncurc ID. Conway, the celebrated
divine and newspaper correspondent,
has announced himself Il Democrat,
and is coming home from abroad to
support Cleveland. .saH
With New York, Indiana and the
Solid South, the Democrats will win.
1t cannot he denied that their pros
poets for carrying these states are bet
ter than those OF the Republicans.
The Democrats have always been
successful when they run IL bachelor
for the Presidency. Buchanan and
nlden were both elected, and that au
gers well for Cleveland.
THE Prohibition convention at
Pittsburg has nominated ex-Gov. John
2. st. John of Kansas, for President
A number of ladies participated in
the convention.
The dear people of Tennessee want
to hear a "jint" debate between the
two candidates for Governor It's
more interesting than when each fell
low comes round and says his little
speech by himself.
Bob Taylor tells the natives up in
East Tennessee, "When the Demo
Gratis met in convention at Nashville
they put their banner in the hands of
bald-headed mountain boy, and by
the grace of God he will carry it tri-
umphantly from Carter to Shelby"
Was the editor of our esteemed con-
temporary across the way deaf to tho
thunder of Frech's battery that he
growls about reports of cannOnading
having been sent from this city to the
daily press. Never mind, we will
wake him up when the good news
comes in November. -..-..s
While our esteemed contemporary,
the Nashville Banner, is dilating upon
the multifarious meanings of the tariff
plank in the National Democratic
platform, will it please explain to an
inquiring mind exactly what the Re
publican utterance on that subject
means? .
One of the best signs in favor of
Clevelands election is the delight with
which his nomination has been hailed
by the leading business men of the coun-
try. They dread Blaine with his sensa-
tional and coruscating qualities and
pin their faith to the candidate who
promises quiet and business-like adj
ministratiOn. .... E..
Bob Write makes the following sug-
gestion in the last number of the Leb- |
anon Herald: "Clevelands front |
name is Stephen. AS Brother Beecher
has announced himself a Cleveland |
man, we suggest to him this text for
sermon: "And Stephen, full of |
faith and power, did great wonders
and miracles among the people,
and they chose Stephen"
One of the ten points in Clevelands |
favor enumerated by the New York |
Witness is the following: John Kel
ly is vehcmentIy opposed to him. So
is Ben Butler The New York Sun |
antagonizcd him, and now swallows |
his nomination with an ugly grimacc.
Whenever Kelley, Butler and the Sun
unite in disIiking man. it is pretty |
safe to infer that he is 10 an unusual |
extent worthy oG PUBLIC confidence
The New York Weekly Witness is
hard TO please. 1t declares that 'fthe |
planks of the Democratic platform
may be divided into three tlasscs-
good, bad and buncombc. In this
particular it is very much like the
Republican platform, both being in
tended not SO much to assert just
principles rs to catch votes
and we fail to see how christian men
can endorse either" .4..
Since all the New York papers Of
any note have deserted the RepubIi-
can party except the Tribune, that
paper is fighting its battle all alone.
In a recent caricature Puck represents
Whitelaw Reid, the editor of the Tri-
bune, rs a boot-black. When a big
tattooed arm pulls back "A curtain and
hands out a terribly dirty pair of boots
Reid drops his box and falling back
aghast exclaims "Goshl have | got to
do all this by myself"
The big tent of the political circus
is now open to the public. The band
has begun to play and the elephant is
round. The statesmen who
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