Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-08-29
THE STATE PRESS.

The American is making desperate
efforts to explain, but the more it ex-
| plains, the worse is its predicament--
| Sparta Exposition.
The Nashville American wants nc
Wing or independent" votes, but does
want all the negroes and whisky
Smith County Watchnaan and Critic
The Nashville American has got
itself into a beautiful muddle, and II
will either have to do some mighty
nice craw-fishing or be left without a
respectable hearing.-1rentou Recorder
aFor goodness sake keep liquor out
OF politcsl" exclaimed an exchange
in a lobored editorial on prohibition.
Better keep it out OF polilcians.-Mc-
MinaviiIe Standard.
The Democratic warriors who are
industriously engaged in shooting
each other would do well to save their
ammunition for the common enemy.
They will need it.-Iribune and Sun
Col. Savage is Mt home looking after
his farm and attending to the interest
OF his clients He says he has paid his
half of the State debt-let others pay
the balance.-McAfinnuille New Era.
A commonwealth that will sacrifice
a great industry like sheep raising to
fear of the wrath of the owners OF
worthless dogs must have timid states
men or thick-skulled voters. Chris
i tidn Advocate.
The American shows itself lacking
in the prime element OF demagogy-i.
e., finding out (which way the wind
blows" 1t can't tell cyclone from a
zephyr 1t needs bit Of experience
in political weather service.-Ldwre'ace
Democrat.
The American is still keeping up
the fight for the down-trodden negro,
but its flashes of patriotism in this
line are growing less bright, its
thunder fainter and its editorials
beautifully less. So sinks the gale
when storms are o'er.-MurtreesborO
Nea0s.
What is the use of agitating the ne
gro question at this time or at any
other time? The Americans agitation
of the subject was most unfortunate
and we believe that seeing the stink
it has stirred up" it regrets that it ever
mentioned the matter. Let the negro
question alone.-West Tennessee Wing.
The Knoxville Daily-Journal is i'm
measurably enthused over the Repub-
lican outlook in Tennessee. 1t has
probably got an idea that the Demo
Gratis are going to act the tool worse
than ever. Hoping it will turn out
otherwise, though the symptoms are
not altogether favorable at present.
Athens RJSt.
Thinking democrats are receiving
new epithets most every day. They
are fools, rascals, for selfish idlers, or
they are ounces, ambitious amatures,
or they do not belong to the better
class if they dare think or themselves.
The dictionary must soon be resorted
to for new names Still they survive.
WaUerIy 7imes-Jour1adL
The indications are strong that the
leadership that wrought this amazing
reduction is us good rs decapitated. 1t
is now only a question of short time
when this reckless leadership will be
displaced by the old one that gave re-
spectability to Democracy and held it
overwhelmingly in the ascendency.-
Dresden Enterprise.
The suggestion of Senator Jackson
made in an interview with a report
er last week-that the Democratic par
ty of Tennessee endorse the Chicago
platform and keep silence as to the
disturbing local questions, which en-
body no fundamental party principle,
is good one and ought to be needed
by the platform Tallah0naG
Guardian.
Is not the American trying to cut
off too large slice of the Democratic
party IN Tennessee, when it seeks to
drive away the fifty or sixty editors
who oppose railroad regulation and
negro equality in the state If-as
that paper Classics them-they are
Republicans, where is it going to get
Democratic majority next year ?-TM-
idhOmd Guardian.
So far as the Americans agitation of
the negro question is concerned, every
| body with an ounce of sense knows that
it is the most gigantic, high-handed
1
be perpetrated upon a people. What
does the American care for negrO's
right on the cars The American has
superseded the carpet-bagger-it has
| broken up their stock in trade, and
they had as we'll return with their
grip" to northern chimes. = Winchester
Home JoEr4sr.
The Nashville American claims to
be a Democratic organ; to advocate
that which would do the greatest good
to the greatest number. 1t favOrs free
trade, railroad commission, whiskyisn,
negro equality. These four things
would ruin the State and Democracy
quicker than any four things under
the sun. And it charges the ffty-six
Democratic newspapers that disagree
with it of being guilty of "the most
disgusting exhibition Of false pretense
that ever disgraced journalism. y
Franklin Comfy NeaOs.
Through a typographical error, we
suppose, the Franklin Review and
| Journal is made to say, ait is general
ly conceded by the press that there
will be only one convention next
year." This won't do, Brother Haynes.
| OF course there will be two conven-
tons, one to nominate candidates for
Supreme Judges, and one to nominate
a candidate for Governor, which makes
two. Please correct this in your next
issue, and read your proof little better
next time, or you will get us all into
pretty pickle, now won't you ?-MIr-
| freesbOro Meas.
In an article headed "Sumptuary
Legislation" the Nashville American,
of the Sth inst, gives over the sigma
ture of wv. III. Williamson" what it
calls jurist's opinion on that subject.
This seems to be one link in the chain
of steadily directed efforts of that pa
per, through its correspondents, to
make the Democracy of Tennessee a
whisky party. Against that course
we desire to enter our feeble protest,
and call upon all having the interest
of the country at heart to join in the
/ protest. Such a course carries the
question into politics, and against the
wishes of the temperance element of
the state.-Smith County Record
Ii we understand the American it
means to say that the Citizen has been
hired by the railroads to oppose the
, commission and that the recent attack
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