The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-26
GEN. GEORGE DIBRELL.
SKETCH OF THAT DISTIN.
GUISHRD EAST TENNESSEAN.
Other Candidates for GoTerhOr-A
Bad Man From Bitter Creek
on shelby.
ESPECIAL TO TIE ArrEAL.l

Allt hdlAlilk-iOOAAA VI NAAN hNANA
morning | met a leading planter from
the famous Sweetwater Valley who
became at once bad man from Bitter
creek when the names OF Bate and
Bob TAYLOR were mentioned. "Bob's
best yarn" he said, sis the one about
the hollow log. / heard that when !
was a boy, and lean tell it better than
he can. And it wasn't hollow log
either; it was a hollow rail. They
threw ont sort OF sop to Bob, you
know. thinking that in that way they
would get him of the Gubernatorial
track, but it worked the other way.
Bob thought if he could get so much
he could get more. Butas a matter OF
fact, Bob is keeping very quiet He
knows, or ought TO know, that East
Tennessee won't be solid for him.
Dibrell is one of these quiet, easy
going old fellows, but he will get
there all the same. Ii Bob will let up
on his darned anecdotes Dibrell can
wipe him up on the stump with all
the ease in the world. | expect you
fellows in West Tennessee will try to
play the devil as usual. Nobody looks
for anything else. The TACT is we are
afraid to say which OF the two we
want most for fear you will
get up, just for pure cussedness,
and give us an East Tennessee
man, but the one We don't want
And nearly all the rows in the State
spring out of Shelby. | never saw
such 4 mule-headed set OF men. They
must rule or ruin. Maybe il they had
it all their own way they would
straighten up and do something
brilliant, but don't know"
The gentleman from Bitter creek
then gave Middle Tennessee q mild dose
and wound up by saying that there
was only one thing on which the three
grand divisions OF the State vert
united--a belief in the statesman
Howell L. Jackson.
And, while / think OF it, the name
of Mai. McWhirter is being mentioned
good deal in connection with the
Gubernatoral chair. He has not ye
expressed himself, but it is generally
believed that he will be prominently
before the public in little while. /
is said that every prominent man il
Knox county is q candidate for Gov
ernor, among others, Thomas l.
Williams, Ledgerwood, Anderson anC
Henderson, and from other localities
in East Tennessee, T. NJ. Mcconnell o
Chattanooga, and o. G. King OF Morris
town. The Hon. Benton McMillin o
Middle Tennessee has been spoken OF
but says he will not allow his name Il
be used. As | have alluded to Gen
Dibrell so often, might as well tel
all can learn about his career
as it is more than probable III
will be heard of a great deal between
this and next November. He wa
born in White county in 1922, wa
raised on farm and is still engaged il
that pursuit. Before his seventeenth
year he was elected clerk OF the Stat
Bank, which position he held for sil
years, when he resigned and begal
farming, stock raising and mer
chandising. For twelve years he wa
County Clerk OF White county. Ii
1861 he was elected to the Legislatur
without opposition. When the wa
broke out he volunteered in the Tween
ty-fifth Tennessee Infantry and wa
| promoted to the rank OF lieutenant
colonel in August of the same year
In the reorganization he was defeat
ed for lieutenant-colonel, and, goini
home, raised the Eighth Tennessee,
Cavalry inside of the enemy's lin,
and was assigned to Gen. Forrest
brigade, commanding the brigade ate
the death of Col. Starns, receiving
his commission as brigadier general il
March, 1854. He was detailed an,
ordered to report TO jefferson Dayi
and escorted him and his Cabine
from Greensboro, n. c., TO Washing
ton, Ga. In May he was paroled an,
marched his command home, foun,
his farm desolated and his family DIES
titute, and put his hand to the pillow
In December, 1869, he was elected to tn
convention which framed our presen
constitution, receiving the nomination
at a mass convention without solicita
ton on his part. He continued +
farm and raise stock until he was elect
ed to the Forty-fourth Congress. Ii
was re-nominated by reclamation t.
the Forty-fifth and Forty-seventh Con
crosses, and was reelected to tn
Forty-eighth, voluntarily declinin
election to the Forty-ninth. While il
Congress, Gen. Dibbrell served eigh
years on the Committee on Agricul
ture, six years on the Military Com
mittee, two years on Public Expendi
lures and Manufactures and Pensions
The last bill of public nature he 60
through was one making all publ
roads post roads, so that mail nigh
be carried on them without a specif
act of Congress. He introduced bi
in the Forty-fourth Congress provid
ing that any employe of the govern
ment who should demand, receive @
contribute money for election or can
paign purposes should be guilty OF
misdemeanor, punishable by fine an
imprisonment. II was passed by th
| House and went to the Senate, wher
Blaine and others fought it bitterly
and the present law was passed. /
the Forty-fifth a bill, under susper
sion of the rules, to assess income
was introduced by him land passed In
House by a ma;1rityof II, but faile
for want OF a two-thirds vote, In III
Forty-sixth he introduced a bill
suspend the internal revenue ia
on all articles subject to it j
the hands of producers, which faile
for want OF twO-thirds majority, bl
by his efforts bill was passed ALLOW
ing producers to sell 500 worth at IL
place where produced. He was q
the Burnside committee to reorganii
the United States army, in the Fort,
fifth Congress, the only junketing e;
perience he ever had during ten yea
of faithful and laborious work at tn
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