Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-11-21
TILE NORTHERN EXCLUSION
Arrives In GAINESVILLE, and the ExcursiOnists
Spend Day in Looking at the Town
and COuntrv


!. Messrs. III. V. Ingram and R.
r Yancey met the party at Erin and Q
i signed them homes in the city. O
/ the arrival of the train at the dep
;, citizens were in waiting with vehicle
e and carried the excursionists to the
: residences.
: The party that arrived in Clarksvil
] numbered forty, including Col. Gate
a 1t was made up mostly of farmers, VIII
s came from Minnesota, Nebraska, Wi
e consin, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois, tn
e two last mentioned States being mo:
t largely represented. There were SCI
4 eral newspaper men and three ladie
l with the excursion. The personnel {
the party was of the substantial typt
and eminently respectable.
AT THE COURT HOUSE.
The excursionists assembled at tn
, Court House after supper, and severa
speeches we're made by the entertain
ers and the entertained.
DIR. J. b. Shearer was called to The
chair on motion of Mr.. NJ. V. Ingram
and the local newspaper reporters re
quested to act as secretaries.
4 Capt. J. ]. Crusman said that accord
ing to the program agreed upon and
the fitness of things, the first address
should be made by Commissioner Nc
Whittier, but while awaiting the arri-
val of that gentleman, he proposed that
Hon. C. P. Warield be heard from.
In response to loud calls Mr.. War
field took the stand and said he well
coined the excursionists on behalf Of
the farmers of Montgomery county.
He proceeded to make a very sensible
and practical talk, giving information
concerning the products of the soil in
this section, the capabilities of the
country for stock raising, the climate,
etc.
COMMISSIONER MCWHIRTER.
When Mr.. Warfeld had concluded,
Commissioner A. J. McWhirter ap-
peared in the room and was called to
the stand He began by saying: "My
eountrymen from the Northwest, our
invitations to you to visit us, have not
been lip service. They came from the
heart and we are glad to welcome you.
We want 100000 of you to come and
make your homes amongst us and will
then have room for more. We want
your pluck, your enterprise and your
capital" The Commissioner then pro-
ceeded to mark out the route it is pro-
posed to take the excursionists.
HON. D. N. KENNEDY
Was the next speaker. He began by
saying he was booked to represent the
Board of Trade, and proceeded to show
what interests the Board of Trade rep
resents. He spoke in detail OF each
interest and said the way was open in
GAINESVILLE to any of the excursionists
who wished to engage in any of them.
He spoke of the high commercial
character the business men of Clarks-
vile had always maintained, fand the
thrift and good standing of the town.
The manufacturing interest here, he
said, is in its infancy, but, he believed,
GAINESVILLE the best pointin Tennessee
for all kind OF manufacturing" We
need brains to start us in manufacture
ing We have money ready to invest in
factories, if men of experience can be
found to conduct them. In referring
to some illusions Col. McWhirter had
made to the products of Robertson
county, he said the temperance senti-
ment was strong in Tennessee and
that the State would vote prohibition
if the question should be put. He in
vited all the excursiOnists to come and
locate in and about GAINESVILLE; didn't
think there was any necessity for them
to, go further. All of them could find
homes and employment to suit and if
any of them were so unfortunate as
to be unmarried eve can give you the
prettieSt and best wives in the world"
DIR. Crawford of Nebraska was the
next speaker. He spoke in warm APP
probation Of the kindly welcome that
had been given the excursionists. He |
had once heard speaker in Nebraska
say that State had more sunshine to
thesquare inch, than any other portion
of the world had to the square mile.
He now believed that there was more |
of the sunshine of hospitality i'll one
Southern heart than in a thousand |
hearts among other people.
Col. Robert Gates made very pleas
ing talk. He spoke of how kindly he
had been treated in the Northwest and |
of the good fruit that was coming
from these excursions. He said that |
Tennessee was exciting great interest |
in the Northwest and that there was a
prospect of Il large immigration from |
that section into this State. 1t had !
been a difficult work to turn their at
tention this way on account of preju
dices and crude ides of the Southern
people that had to be overcome, but
the tide had set in, and would continue
to flow
Mr.. Paris Henderson, OF Kansas,
made very interesting talk. He said
Kansas had a fine soil, but lacked eli
mate. lie had come here looking for
a home where soil and climate were
He confessed himself dis I
appointed, greatly disappointed in the
Southern people. He had made up |
his impression of them from newspa-
pers, but being a newspaper cores
pendent himself, he could say newspa
pers were not as reliable as they should (
be, and in this instance they had been |
far from correct. The Southern pao-
pie were vastly more intelligent and I
OF a superior type every way to what
no had nvpaotaJ 70 find tbpp, Ia