The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1886-09-02
ROUsING RECEPTION
The Next Governor Makes a
Speech.

Maxwell House in Nashville last
Wednesday night, and after being call
ed out responded in the following
speech:
Ladies and Gentleman | thank
you for this delightful serenade and
for the compliment Of your presence
here tonight. l congratulate you
upon the peace and harmony and en-
thusiasm which pervades the Demo
cratic party throughout the length
and breadth Of the Old Volunteer
State. l congratulate you, fellow-citi-
zens, upon the fact that the old ques-
tions which have distressed and dis
severed and vexed our party are dead.
| congratulate you upon the fact that
the State debt is settled, and that the
other questions are settled, and that
now the hearts of the Democracy in
Tennessee throb in unison for one
grand triumph in the year OF our
Lord 1886; [applause] but, fellow-citi-
zens, you have come here tonight to
hear a Aowery speech you will be sadly
mistaken. l propose, in the very
near future, to take the standard OF
of Democracy in my weak hand and
bear it, with all the power Of body and
mind and soul, and preach the pure
principles of Democracy wherever l
gc-to every COMMUNICATIVE the
hope that our State will come back in
this year to the good old times when
the Democratic majority was 10000.
But tonight, my fellow-citizens, I am
in the situation of an individual |
once heard of. Two men had been
on drunk together, and they got sep
arated-and they met one morning
and one said, "Good mornin'." The
other said, "Good evenin'l" Why the
other feller said, "It's mornin. that's
the sum-" "No, it's evenin" that's the
moon, replied the other. "Well, Wen
leave it to the first friend we meet"
They went on down the street and
found fellow holding a lamp-post.
"Mish'r, got ques'hion want to put to
you to decide. says'h mornin,' this
man says'h evenin'-want you to de-
eide quesh'n." "Gen'man," said the
man, you'll have to 'scuse me-hic--
hic-Pm stranger in this country"
Cheers.
Fellow citizens, great events have
transpired in the State in the last two
years. The old Republican party
that started in 1860 in triumph, and
that lived and ruled and flourished for
twenty years is 6ead and the Demo
cratic party born of the brain Of
Thomas Jefferson, like Minerva from
the brain of Jove, armed with truth
and clad with truth and shod with
truth is again the master and the con-
troller and the ruler of this Govern
ment, and has taken its place and will
be the destiny of this government not
for hundred years but for five hun
dred glorious years to come, and you
will never hear of the Republican
party again after 1883. wild ap-
plause.
You will never here again Of the
Republican party except as the par.
ty of fraud and party OF corruption
"a party that the people could not
trust. We have come up and they
have gone down. [Cheeas.] Did you
ever hear Uncle Remus' story of the
rabbit and the 'possum?-Uncle Re
mus 'possum. A rabbit went to Q
well to get drink-'twas one of these
old-fashioned wells that had bucket
on each end when one went dowr
the other went up. The rabbit got or
one end to drink, when, to his aston
ishment, the bucket went down in thC
well. While he was floundering a
the bottom an old fox came up to tn,
side and looked over. "What is tn,
matterf" said he. "Oh, nothing
Nothing at all" said the rabbit. "Jus
down here fishing" "Catch any
thing?" Catching more than / cal
use-fnest fishing I ever saw in m,
ifep "I'd like to have some myself,
said the fox. "All you got to do is t.
get on the other end of the bucket,
said the rabbit. 1t started down an
brother rabbit started up. AS he pas
sed the fox he looked around an
said:
Brother, this world goes round an round,
And some go up, and.some go down."
[Cheers.
For twenty long, weary years tn
Democratic party was at the bottol
screaming for help, and the Republ
can party, true to its instinct, heard th
voice of distress, and asked "What
; the matter?" The Democratic part
: said; "Oh, nothingl Just down hel
fishingp The Republican party, sti
J true to its instinct, said: 81 woul
like to have some of the fishp Tt
Democrat said "Get in the 9TH
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