Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-03-14

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1t is very humiliating fact, breih-
rem, but nevertheless true; Senator
Riddleberger was once a country ed
itor.
The penitentiary should have moth
ing to do with politics; it is not the
duty of the Democratic party to white
wash it.
There is no use in trying to cover
the Penitentiary outrage with the
popularity of.the lease system. That is
pure matter of humanity.
Fifty-three convicts died in one
year from consumption, brought on
by sleeping in wet clothes, exposure
and general bad treatment.
President CIeyeland's first official
act after commissioning his cabinet
was to sign the bill making General
Grant retired army officer.
1t would be a graceful healing of all
the animosities arising out of the last
campaign if the President should wed
Gail Hamilton.
Cincinnati Post: There are symp-
toms that Watterson is not running
the entire government, after all. He
might console himself by taking the
star-eyed goddess and starting a skat-
ing rink.
The three men who now fill the Of
fees of railroad commissioners in this
State were set up like ten-pins-to be
knocked down. The Senate has rolled
its ball for that purpose and the House
should do likewise.
President Cleveland was very con-
siderate of the country weeklies in
preparing his inaugural address. 1t is
the first document of the kind the ru-
raj press ever had the space to publish
in toto.
The Warden's report states that
Caesar White, the man who was shot
by the guards, died OF Uulnsus septice
mia. In the same report a woman
killed by fellow convict is set down
as murdered"
The Arkansas Legislature has set
the 18th of this month to elect Uni
ted States Senator to fill the vacancy
caused by Mr.. Garland's appointment
to the Cabinet Poindexter Dunn, ex-
Gov Berry and half dozen others are
candidates r.,
The first official act of Secretary
Lamar was to appoint Gen. John G..
Black, OF Danville, Ill, Commissioner
of Pensions. Gen. Black was gallant
Federal soldier. He has the indorse-
ment OF President Cleveland and has
accepted the place.
fed, so far, with the President they
helped to make. Beecher expresses
himself highly pleased with the cabi-
net, and the Boston Herald says the
inaugural address ais one of the most
admirable recorded in our history"
The prose poet and very vivid word
painter who accompanied the investi-
eating committee to the branch prs
ons on behalf of the Nashville Amerl-
can, is the same genius who wrote up
Bellamy's cave and the Morrow muir
ders in that paper. He has an elastic
Imagination and high merit as writer
of fiction
The Washington correspondent OF
the Memphis Avalanche says, "A
marked feature of the situation, how
ever, is the ill-concealed chagrin of the
extreme tariff men, who see in Cleve-
lands inaugural and in the selection
of his cabinet the hand of that prince
of politicians, Samuel J. Randall.
A large majority of the tax-paying
citizens of this State no doubt favor
the penitentiary lease system because
it has proved the most economic way
of managing the convicts, but no good
citizen will, on that account, sanction
the barbarities proven to have been
perpetrated at Tracy City, Inman and
Coal Greek.
The Banner, in it's efforts to expose
the Penitentidry outrages, has
fought single-handed and alone against
capital amounting to at least two mil
lion dollars, some of the shrewdest
lawyers and most influential men in
the State, two daily journals and a
senseless prejudice against the paper
because it followed the fortunes of
RUSSELL in 1882.
The April Century will contain a
reply to Mr.. George w. Cables recent
ly published and much discussed arti-
Gle on "The Freedman's Case in Equi-
tv." 1t is entitled ain Plain Black
and White" and is written by Mr..
Henry w. Grady, one Of the editors of
the Atlanta Constitution. Mr.. Grady
claims that Mr.. Cable does not truly
represent the South.
Murfreesboro News: No difference
between a protection Democrat and
Republican, no difference between an
anti-railroad commission Democrat
and Republican, no difference be-
tween an anti-lease Democrat and a
Republican, This is the Nashville
Worlds style OF putting it, and argu-
ing by its standard Democracy is
dinged skace in this State Perhaps it
is well for the State"
Col. COlyar's man who accompanied
the Investigating Committee to the
branch prisons, completely overdid
the thing in his report in the Ameri=
can. He represents the convicts as
having SO much to eat that they throw
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