The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-02-25
Temperance Alliance.

the formation OF con ,mlLLee on
credentials. Mai. T. Nj. N. Jones Of
Pulaski was appointed a member
Of this committee. The following
officers were unanimously elected
for the ensuing year:
Hon. j. H. RUSSELL fer president
for the ensuing year; first vice pres
ident, j. II. Mcdonnell, Union City;
second president, Hon. I. A.
Sykes, Middle Tennessee; third
vice president; Col. Lewis Tillman,
| jr., East Tennessee; treasurer, j.
Hill Aiken, Nashville; secretary,
DIR. A. B. Warterfield, Union City.
An appeal for contributions to
the general fund met with liberal
response, over $500 being contribu-
ted in a few minutes. At the night
session a platform was adopted, of
which the following is the most i'm
portant section:
awe further resolve and declare
that our objects and purposes can
be best subserved and maintained
by holding our organization aleof
from all organizations of political
character; that is to say our organ
izatien neither expects nor desires
the utilization Of any existing party
organization. that has objects and
| purposes in view antagonistic TO
the principles Of our organization.
but we do desire and most re-
specially and earnestly ask the 1n-
divided cooperation of each indi-
vidual who may or may net belong
to said organizations whose judg-
ment, sympathy and reason are in
harmony with our objects and pur-
poses, to unite with US on a broad
non-partisan and non-sectarian basis
in an incorporating effort to com
bine all the available forces of NOR
al suasion, legal suasion and good
citizenship to the evils contemplat-
ed by the pleading constitutional
amendment"
Among the complimentary reso-
buttons adopted was one quite fat
tering to Mrs. Rose H. Wilson, who
is well known in Giles asa Jealous
worker for the cause.
UNION EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
Sherman evidently didn't know
his mouth was loaded.
The devil has gone in training
for his mill with the Samists in
Chicago.
Oscar Wilde is coming to Amerl-
ca again. Hurry up that West
Tennessee asylum.
No sooner was Henry Watterson
unconscious than BlantoD Duncan
opened his mouth to bleat.
Blanton Duncan has written 3
letter which reveals little else be-
sides the sorrowful news that he
hasn't dropped deRd yet.
The governor should order at
once an investigation at the Hermit
tage to see If Cleveland has stolen
! Old Hickory's backbone.
WANTED-Twenty-seven columns
space in some great newspaper for
some Tennessean to bark at Sena-
tor Jackson's new speech.
The bell-clappers keep up their
tintinnabulous CHATTER and stridu-
lous wheezlDg, hoping to drive off
attention from their own cussed-
ness.
A headless pig was born in the
vicinity of Molino.-Fayetteville
Express.
That pig will be a caadidate for
governor before the lists close.
If the great men who died the
past year knew how the newspaper
had Worried "that remorseless rea-
per, DEATH" they would be sorry
they died.
When we think Of our gallant ma
Wy lying bottom up in the dry dock
having a hole patched in the seat
of it's keel, the Monroe doctrine
loses all its fuency.
The telegraph announces Ex-
President Arthur's election to the
presidency of the Pal Epsilon asso-
citation of New York. 1t doesn't
state who gave him his stock.
Since Will Hayes made such hit
on the Minstrel stage, Sam Small re-
grets that he changed his business
so quick.
The Cincinnati Enquirer calls
Chattanooga "The Gateway of the
South" Knoxville thinks she's 8
mere crack in the fence.
Upon a rumor that Queen Victo-
ria would abdicate upon the fiftieth
year of her age, thIrty-seven Ohio
men applied for the place.
The people demand that Vice
President Sherman shall either dis
pose of the several hundred thous-
and dollars he made on a salary of
$4,000 year or resign.
If the war hadn't brought Logan
into notice he would probably be
head clerk in tan yard somewhere
now. That is the reason he loves
to keep up the fight now.
Ben Butler gives an opinion that
a loyal map can recover of the gov
eminent the value of his slaves set
free. Ben's opinion is too fluent to
be worth much.
The old bandana patriot, Ex-Sen-
tor Thurman, is retained by the
overnment to investigate the Bell
patent. When ne gets ready and
yells hello" you'd better listen.
Amazing cheek! The Cincinnati
Enquirer reprints the Dayton Jour
naPs structures on the Commercial
for its confessed selling of
a column to the detamers of Blaine
during the campaig4.
Sam Jones association With Sam
Small bore fruit the other day in a
uonstreus joke. He said Cincinna-
I'll is not the wickedest city in Amer
lea, Stand up, Sam, and answer:
Where is that other city?
What a furious fqsilade Editor
Halstead keeps up, and how fortq-
nate for the rebels that he didn't |